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Development by Davis: “How open source shaped our world in 2012” plus 1 more

Development by Davis: “How open source shaped our world in 2012” plus 1 more


How open source shaped our world in 2012

Posted: 26 Dec 2012 02:00 AM PST

Year in review

It's been a great year for the opensource.com Life channel. We've seen tremendous growth of the open source community, and it's been a pleasure to help record and publicize all the exciting projects all of you are working on. Here are some articles that represent the gamut of topics and stories that came through the Life channel in 2012:

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Software patents: The talk of 2012

Posted: 26 Dec 2012 01:00 AM PST

Open law year in review

Looking back over the law channel posts of 2012, I was not surprised to see that software patents were a major concern. The high volume of significant patent lawsuits of competitors and rising levels of NPE (aka patent trolls or patent assertion entities) suits has been the subject of both open source community and mainstream media interest.

There were new ideas on patent reform, and an increasing recognition by the public at large that software patents can hinder innovation. We also saw interesting developments in the areas of internet privacy and freedom and copyright law. I'll go out on a limb and make a prediction:

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