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Open Source Software - The Case For And Against.
Mondaq Business Briefing, November, 2004
Open source software seems to have attracted significant press coverage in recent months. On the one hand, the media interest has focussed on SCO's claim against IBM for approximately US$3 billion on the basis of allegations that SCO's intellectual property rights have been infringed by the inclusion of its proprietary Unix product in IBM's development of Linux. As against this, there has been favourable press coverage about key organisations moving away from established software providers, such as Microsoft, to use open source software.
For instance, Munich council and, just last month, Bergen council in Norway, announced a move to open source software. Also, some UK councils, such as Newham Council, are also piloting open source software. Given that use of open...
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