Mark Bohannon

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Mark Bohannon | Mark Bohannon is Vice President of Global Public Policy and Government Affairs at Red Hat. Previously, he served as Senior Vice President, Public Policy and General Counsel at the Software & Information Industry Association (SIIA), the principal U.S. trade association for the software and digital content industry. Prior to his work at SIIA, he was a senior official at the U.S. Department of Commerce.

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Authored Content

Improve your DevOps security game with Ansible Vault

The state of encryption: How the debate has shifted

Long-term leader in the encryption fight, Susan Landau, shares her insights.

An introduction to Mozilla's Secure Open Source Fund

A new effort to support security audits and remediation for open source software projects.

U.S. government seeks reduced use of custom software, releases new policy to 'free the code'

With the presidential election season upon us, I'm often asked whether the U.S. government efforts to encourage use of open source software (OSS) will continue when a new…

Preventing the next Heartbleed and making FOSS more secure

David Wheeler is a long-time leader in advising and working with the U.S. government on issues related to open source software. His personal webpage is a frequently cited…

A fresh look at the U.S. draft policy on 'federal sourcing'

In a recent article in Government Computer News, I looked at the challenge of reshaping federal IT with open source without go-it-alone government-off-the-shelf approaches to…

U.S. report highlights positive elements of government open source adoption

I think we've all read our fair share of reports about lessons learned and the challenges and opportunities for governments taking up open source software. Frankly, many of…

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markbohannon

17 Jun 2015

The encryption 'access' debate heats up

Thanks for sharing, David. Good letter !

markbohannon

13 Jun 2014

Patent reform legislation takes a pause (for the moment)

Dan's comment captures it pretty well. The FTC, as well as others, see PAEs (which I sometimes slip and say 'Patent Aggression Entity") as a subset of NPE's. Here's a link to the FTC discussion: http://www.ftc.gov/news-events/press-releases/2013/09/ftc-seeks-examine….