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Bravo Christopher!
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Many companies with a clause not to sue clearly state that the clause is void against anyone suing them. It's a protective measure.
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Let's be careful not to get caught by the oldest trick in the book to inadvertently help the opponents of open source.
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Anyone can write an article.
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But how well do you know them?
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Are they open with the public or ultimately transparent?
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It may help us to gauge an article's believability against a spectrum of trust. On one end of the scale we have companies like Mozilla who operate and innovate in the open, and totally closed-door companies with everything to hide.
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Marino Hernandez
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just a founder of Marketply
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<br/>> On March 29, 2013 at 8:33 AM Christopher Covington <cov@vt.edu> wrote:
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<br/>> Shame on you for spreading Microsoft-funded FUD*. TurboHercules struck first.
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<br/>> http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20100408153953613
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