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Copyright/left at the centre of open source business strategies
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| I have recently come to the realisation
| that copyright control is not just a part
| of each of the four elements, and not just
| a fifth additional element, but should
| perhaps be considered the central element
| which profoundly influences the other four.
|
| Copyright control has a symbiotic
| relationship with both the open source
| software license (Iâll leave the
| copyright/left discussion for another day)
| and the development strategy, and is
| influential in determining both the end
| user license strategy and therefore the
| choice of revenue trigger.
|
| This has become abundantly clear thanks to
| the discussion surrounding Oracleâs
| acquisition of Sun and MySQL.
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http://blogs.the451group.com/opensource/2009/11/11/copyrightleft-at-the-centre-of-open-source-business-strategies/
Community contributions and copyright assignment
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| This time around, your editor heard
| grumbles from a surprising number of
| people, all about the same topic: copyright
| assignment policies.
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http://lwn.net/Articles/359013/
Recent:
Copyright and Confirmation Bias
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| Copyright costs the community. That cost
| is never factored into any copyright policy
| â at least, so far as I have been able to
| tell. Most recently, the prohibition on
| parallel importing of books is an obvious
| example. The Productivity Commission put
| out a report which set out, in bare,
| incontrovertible terms, the damage that
| this particular aspect of copyright does to
| the community. After a long period of
| merciless lobbying the proposals to remove
| the anti-consumer restrictions on parallel
| importing have been defeated (ironically,
| the report was criticised for being
| considered analysis, it was even expanded
| to cover some of the criticisms of it).
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http://brendanscott.wordpress.com/2009/11/11/copyright-and-confirmation-bias/
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