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That's Not Relicensing!
Using open source elsewhere is not relicensing, it’s overlaying a second license.
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Simon Phipps
An End To API Gaslighting?
The Supreme Court decision in Oracle vs Google ends a decade-long nightmare for open source developers.
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A Rights Ratchet Score Card
A draft scorecard for determining if a software project is open as bait for a business pivot or genuinely keeping your freedoms protected.
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Simon Phipps
What Did Sun’s OSPO Do?
Started in 1999, established as an official corporate function in 2005, Sun’s Open Source Program Office (OSPO) was among the first in the industry and…
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Simon Phipps
Accommodating Open Source In Standards Processes
Holders of zero-tolerance positions on both sides of the SEP divide need to realise that accommodating open source productively inside standards bodies…
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Simon Phipps
Growing Blueberries
Why accommodating open source at a standards body is like growing blueberries.
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Simon Phipps
Software Freedom For Business Value
Software freedom is important to as an idea, but it also creates all the value of open source for business and should be jealously guarded by OSPOs.
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The Meshed Matrix
The Meshed Matrix
Open source, free culture and the digital rights behind them in the emerging meshed society, by Simon Phipps.

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