Articles tagged ‘piracy’

There is concern that GPL-covered software may be unworkable in up-and-coming developing countries where rampant piracy may ultimately compromise IPR protections inherent in copyright law.

Like it or not open source license complexity will not disappear. OSS must develop survival strategies to navigate the minefield of new IP issues without tripping over itself.

Scott Handy shares details about IBM’s goals and his insights about a collaborative economic development model for India and South Asia.

“Price-slashing” by monopolistic proprietary software companies masks the high costs customers still unwittingly pay. And when this rip-off is endorsed by governments and industry leaders, the digital divide can only widen.

Malaysia jumps to the forefront of the world’s growing official support for the Penguin by making OSS a procurement preference for government purchases.

My enemy’s enemy is not my friend! The shadow world created to exploit proprietary software hurts both the proprietary vendor and open source software.

The path to the Information Society is paved by the advantages provided by Open Source Software.

In this article, the author tracks the progress of adoption of open source software across the world. In search of technologies best suited for their countries, governments around the world are looking into Linux and open source software technologies.