UPDATE: In a March 22 press release , the PSF announced that the parties have reached an amicable resolution. According to the PSF, "Veber has withdrawn its trademark filing…
It bothers many of us everytime we hear about yet another non-obvious, overreaching, and abusive patent—particularly a software patent that is getting in the way of innovation…
Modern copyright law grants copyright automatically to any creative work, including simple things like blog posts – and small pieces of code on github. This default copyright…
Great things for open government happened last year on November 15-16 at the 4th annual Capitol Camp event, organized and hosted by the New York State Senate and the New York…
Observing the open source public policy landscape over the past several months, one couldn’t be blamed for feeling optimistic. Government after government, it seemed, was…
I recently blogged about making open source software , and the high level steps for how to think about the process. We started with the need for software to seed the…
