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Stephen Walli
Technical Director, CodePlex Foundation

Website | @stephenrwalli

Stephen has worked in the IT industry since 1980 as both customer and vendor. He currently consults on software development business and open source strategy, and is the open-source-strategist-in-residence for Open Tuesday out of Finland. He has an essay in O’Reilly’s “Open Sources 2.0: The Continuing Evolution” and blogs at http://stephesblog.blogs.com.

Sessions

4:30pm Wednesday, 07/23/2008

Open Source Software Economics, Standards, and IP in One Lesson

Fundamentals
Location: D138

Stephen Walli (CodePlex Foundation)

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Free and open source software use has grown tremendously both in IT and in software businesses. There is still confusion around what this means for software intellectual property, or how it relates to industry standards. The talk provides context and history to show how the subjects relate to support better business decisions. Read more.