Category Archives: FUD

File sharing and such.

Posted on April 23, 2006 by Kalle

Interesting article (found at boingboing). It does make you wonder, though. Personally, I’m doing surprisingly little piracy compared to most of my friends, and their friends, and theirs, and so on. This has more to do with me using linux … Continue reading →

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Contributor License Agreements, and the “effects of the devil” aka. SCO

Posted on March 24, 2006 by Kalle

What? Contributor License Agreements — or CLA’s — are a fairly new phenomenon in the Open Source world. IANAL, but I am going to make an attempt to explain what a CLA is, and why it is necessary today, where … Continue reading →

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New Zeeland.

Posted on March 2, 2006 by Kalle

“A law firm in New Zeeland advises the NZ State Services Commission that the government should be wary of using ‘infectious’ open source software. ‘While the use of open source software has many benefits, it brings with it a number … Continue reading →

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