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Inside the open-source development model (News.com)
News.com is running
this article from HBS Working Knowledge which looks into the
open-source development model. "Many people have wondered why these
people give their work away. The truth is that many projects have become
incorporated in order to protect themselves from individual
liability. Since the founding of the Free Software Foundation in 1985, a
number of new nonprofit foundations have formed, often around specific
technologies, to serve the interests of programmers."
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Also to protect my work Posted Jul 14, 2003 20:51 UTC (Mon) by sandy_pond (guest, #9734) [Link] If I come up with an algorithm that is somewhat unique (in my experience) it's easy to publish it as a suggestion to some mailing list of some well know project. Then, if later, someone comes after me with some IP claim then I have on-line documentation as to when I developed the idea. This protects my IP from being stolen by some company.
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