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Risk of Third Party Claims Clouds Open Source

The use of open source software carries the risk that third parties may claim that the open source code incorporates their intellectual property. The SCO claim that Linux contains copyrighted SCO code is a well-known example. Mechanisms incorporated in open source code also may infringe on patents. See Pet Loshin, "The Linux Liability Problem." Making patents of a few companies free for open source does not solve the problem. Large corporations that use open source software are particularly at risk because the open source software can become a critical element of their business operations, and third party claims could be substantial.

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Posted Wednesday, March 26, 2008 6:45 PM by Fred Cummins | 0 Comments

Sun Open Sources Niagara-2 Chip

Sun Microsystems showed that it is taking the open sourcing of its technologies seriously. A while back, it took open source into the hardware domain through the OpenSparc project only three months after the Niagara chips appeared in products. Sun did it again with the SPARC T2 the next generation of the highly parallel-enable architecture.

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Posted Thursday, December 13, 2007 2:51 PM by Charlie Bess | 0 Comments

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