The CPATH Briefing Documents

The Foundations of Open Source Software

Intellectual Property

Industrial Organization

Public Policy & Licensing

 

Bagby, John W., The Intellectual Property Foundations of Open Source Software, CPATH briefing document No.I, June, 2008. (PPT

            Bagby, John W., IP Visual: Comparison of Intellectual Property Rights

Bagby, John W., The Industrial Organization Foundations of Open Source Software, CPATH briefing document No.II Feb.2008 (PPT)

            Microsoft case

            OSS Chain of Title Visual: Unix-Linux Genealogy 

            “Microsoft Makes Strategic Changes in Technology and Business Practices to Expand Interoperability,”  (press release announcing Microsoft’s web publication of documentation for all application programming interfaces (APIs) and communications protocols in its high-volume products).

Bagby, John W., The Public Policy Foundations of Open Source Software,  CPATH briefing document No. III, Feb.2008. (PPT

            GNU General Public License (explanation)

            GPLv.3  Free Software Foundation

Bagby, John W. (presenter), The Public Policy of Open Source, class visitation in IST 411- “Distributed Object Computing,” Joshua Gross (instructor), March 28, 2007. (PPT)

Bagby, John W., Panel Moderator, Business Value Creation and Open Source, opening panel at The Future of Open Source Peer Production Models, a workshop in conjunction with the World Conference on Information Technologies (WCIT), sponsored by Center for Business, Technology, and Law of the McCombs School of Business, Univ. of Texas-Austin and the Center for Law, Technology and Economics, School of Law, Univ. of Texas-Austin; May 2, 2006, Austin TX streaming video 

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©2008 by John W. Bagby