Companies looking to get an edge through open-source codes and software may be setting themselves up for quite a fall if they are not up to speed on the legality of using other people’s work. Business owners in every field may be exposing themselves to a legal mess and compromising their own intellectual property rights.
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An analysis of its enterprise customers by OpenLogic found that for 2007 as a whole, the use of open source among enterprise customers was up 26%.
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jammag writes “If the marriage of Microsoft and Yahoo were to be consummated, GNU/Linux would be hindered, argues Roy Schestowitz. Yahoo’s funding of open source initiatives would dry up. Yahoo, which acquired Zimbra, would lose its love for the open source competitor of Microsoft Outlook. The list goes on…” Read more of this story at Slashdot.
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Like eating fruits and vegetables or building lighter cars, open-source technology seemed like the sort of good idea that would always go ignored. But according to Gartner, elements of open-source technology will be present in 80 percent of all commercial software by the year 2012. read more
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This is what the future looks like. Heavy adoption of open source at the core of commercial software so that developers can focus on pushing the envelope on innovation, not reinventing wheels that provide no discernible differentiation.
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