The Rise of Open Source Licensing: A Challenge to the Use of IP in the Software Industry
Open source software - from Linux to Firefox and MySQL database - has changed software business as we knew it. New start-ups have challenged industry heavyweights from Microsoft to Oracle with innovative copyright licensing strategies and courageous anti-patent policies.
Almost every major software company has been forced to react to the commodification trend.
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