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Donald Smith
Director of Ecosystem Development, The Eclipse Foundation

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Donald Smith, MBA, MSc, is Director of Ecosystem Development for the Eclipse Foundation, an independent not-for-profit foundation supporting the Eclipse open source community. Prior to joining Eclipse, Donald was Director of Technology Evangelism at Oracle and has also worked for startups WebGain and The Object People. He brings over a decade of worldwide industry experience, from small “dot-com” through Fortune 50 companies. Donald speaks regularly about community development, persistence, business integration and politics at conferences and events world wide, including Java One, Oracle World, Sun Tech Days, Evans Developer Relations Conference, OOPSLA, JAOO, Server Side Symposium, Colorado Software Summit and others.

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4:30pm Wednesday, 07/22/2009

Stand Up to the Lawyers -- Open Source Licensing and Intellectual Property Law 101 for Developers

Business, Fundamentals
Location: Ballroom A4/A5

Donald Smith (The Eclipse Foundation)

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Have you ever had a manager or legal department slow down your project why they try to figure out software licensing issues? This session will arm you with all the key information you need to join the conversation and recognize when your lawyer is trying to pull a fast one, versus when you’re facing a legitimate challenge. Read more.

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Donald Smith Director of Ecosystem Development, The Eclipse Foundation