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le vs franklin decision internetlegal com archived from the original on sep 8 2023 1 2 landley rob 2009 05 23 may 23 2009 landley net retrieved 2024 06 22 so if open source used to be the norm back in the 1960s and 70s how did this _change_ where did proprietary software come from and when and how how did richard stallman s little utopia at the mit ai lab crumble and force him out into the wilderness to try to rebuild it two things changed in the early 80 s the exponentially growing installed base of microcomputer hardware reached critical mass around 1980 and a legal decision altered copyright law to cover binaries in 1983 increasing volume the microprocessor creates millions of identical computers difference between open source software and proprietary software 10 october 2020 terasaki 2013 p 469 terasaki 2013 pp 469 470 boyle 2003 p 45 1 2 clohessy et al 2020 pp 40 41 watt 2023 p 4 dempsey kelliher 2018 p 48 dempsey kelliher 2018 pp 48 57 dempsey kelliher 2018 pp 61 63 dempsey kelliher 2018 p 2 engelfriet arnoud august september 2006 the best of both worlds intellectual asset management 19 gavin stewart archived from the original on 2013 09 14 retrieved 2008 05 19 loftus jack 2007 02 19 managing mixed source software stacks linuxworld archived from the original on 2010 06 03 tan aaron 2006 12 28 novell we re a mixed source company cnet networks inc rosenberg donald 2000 open source the unauthorized white papers foster city idg p 109 isbn 0 7645 4660 0 categories of free and non free software gnu project free software foundation 2009 05 05 frequently asked questions about the gnu licenses retrieved 2017 05 01 richard stallman 2004 04 12 free but shackled the java trap retrieved 2017 05 01 liberman michael 1995 overreaching provisions in software license agreements richmond journal of law and technology 1 4 retrieved november 29 2011 limitations and exceptions to copyright and neighbouring rights in the digital environment an international library perspective 2004 ifla 2013 01 22 retrieved on 2013 06 16 daniel a tysver 2008 11 23 why protect software through patents bitlaw retrieved 2009 06 03 in connection with the software an issued patent may prevent others from utilizing a certain algorithm such as the gif image compression algorithm without permission or may prevent others from creating software programs that perform a function in a certain way in connection with computer software copyright law can be used to prevent the total duplication of a software program as well as the copying of a portion of software code donovan s 1994 patent copyright and trade secret protection for software ieee potentials 13 3 20 bibcode 1994ipot 13c 20d doi 10 1109 45 310923 s2cid 19873766 essentially there are only three ways to protect computer software under the law patent it register a copyright for it or keep it as a trade secret eben moglen 2005 02 12 why the fsf gets copyright assignments from contributors retrieved 2017 05 01 under us copyright law which is the law under which most free software programs have historically been first published only the copyright holder or someone having assignment of the copyright can enforce the license white aoife 2012 07 03 oracle can t stop software license resales eu court says bloomberg microsoft corporation 2005 04 01 end user license agreement for microsoft software microsoft windows xp professional edition service pack 2 pdf microsoft p page 3 retrieved 2009 04 29 microsoft corporation 2005 04 01 end user license agreement for microsoft software microsoft windows xp professional edition service pack 2 pdf microsoft p page 1 retrieved 2009 04 29 you may install use access display and run one copy of the software on a single computer such as a workstation terminal or another device workstation computer the software may not be used by more than two 2 processors at any one time on any single workstation computer you may permit a maximum of ten 10 computers or other electronic devices each a device to connect to the workstation computer to utilize one or more of the following services of the software file services print services internet information services internet connection sharing and telephony services adobe systems adobe software license agreement pdf retrieved 2010 06 09 parker jason january 27 2009 apple iwork 09 review apple iwork 09 cnet retrieved may 2 2022 heffan ira v 1997 copyleft licensing collaborative works in the digital age pdf stanford law review 49 6 1490 doi 10 2307 1229351 jstor 1229351 archived from the original pdf on 2013 05 14 retrieved 2009 07 27 under the proprietary software model most software developers withhold their source code from users david a wheeler 2009 02 03 free libre open source software floss is commercial software retrieved 2009 06 03 distribution of ibm licensed programs and licensed program materials and modified agreement for ibm licensed programs announcement letters ibm february 8 1983 283 016 greg mushial july 20 1983 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retrieved 12 january 2024 via internet archive tony patton 2008 11 21 protect your javascript with obfuscation techrepublic retrieved may 2 2022 while the web promotes the sharing of such code there are times when you or a client may not want to share their javascript code this may be due to the sensitive nature of data within the code proprietary calculations or any other scenario cite web cs1 maint deprecated archival service link 1 2 orenstein david january 10 2000 application programming interface computerworld retrieved may 2 2022 commission decision of 24 03 2004 relating to a proceeding under article 82 of the ec treaty case comp c 3 37 792 microsoft pdf european commission march 24 2004 archived from the original pdf on october 28 2008 retrieved june 17 2009 wilson ben 2008 10 01 apple drops nda for released iphone software cnet archived from the original on 2013 03 08 retrieved 2022 05 02 the linux information project 2006 04 29 vendor lock in definition retrieved 2009 06 11 vendor lock in or just lock in is the situation in which customers are dependent on a single manufacturer or supplier for some product this dependency is typically a result of standards that are controlled by the vendor it can grant the vendor some extent of monopoly power the best way for an organization to avoid becoming a victim of vendor lock in is to use products that conform to free industry wide standards free standards are those that can be used by anyone and are not controlled by a single company in the case of computers this can usually be accomplished by using free software rather than proprietary software i e commercial software don reisinger 2011 09 29 apple wins key battle against psystar over mac clones retrieved 2022 05 02 what happens when a proprietary software company dies linux october 24 2003 retrieved may 2 2022 livingston brian december 15 2006 microsoft turns up the heat on windows 2000 users crn archived from the original on may 3 2022 retrieved may 2 2022 cassia fernando march 28 2007 open source the only weapon against planned obsolescence the inquirer archived from the original on november 22 2012 retrieved august 2 2012 bell john october 1 2009 opening the source of art technology innovation management review archived from the original on march 30 2014 retrieved may 2 2022 that no further patches to the title would be forthcoming the community was predictably upset instead of giving up on the game users decided that if activision wasn t going to fix the bugs they would they wanted to save the game by getting activision to open the source so it could be kept alive beyond the point where activision lost interest with some help from members of the development team that were active on fan forums they were eventually able to convince activision to release call to power ii s source code in october of 2003 wen howard june 10 2004 keeping the myths alive linux dev center archived from the original on april 6 2013 retrieved december 22 2012 fans of the myth trilogy have taken this idea a step further they have official access to the source code for the myth games organized under the name mythdevelopers this all volunteer group of programmers artists and other talented people devote their time to improving and supporting further development of the myth game series largent andy october 8 2003 homeworld source code released inside mac games archived from the original on october 12 2013 retrieved november 24 2012 with the release of homeworld 2 for the pc relic entertainment has decided to give back to their impressive fan community by releasing the source code to the original homeworld rosen lawrence 2004 open source licensing upper saddle river prentice hall pp 52 255 259 isbn 978 0 13 148787 1 havoc pennington 2008 03 02 debian tutorial archived from the original on 2018 01 29 retrieved 2009 06 04 it is important to distinguish commercial software from proprietary software proprietary software is non free software while 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