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Open Source, Intellectual Property and Licensing

SoftwareFrom a software cancer to Disruptive Technology

Microsoft: we were wrong about open source:
"Former Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer famously branded Linux “a cancer that attaches itself in an intellectual property sense to everything it touches” back in 2001." 
https://www.theverge.com/2020/5/18/21262103/microsoft-open-source-linux-history-wrong-statement 

"Economics of Open Source" by Mirko Böhm
https://academic.oup.com/book/44727/chapter/378967711 

“The Cathedral and the Bazaar” by Eric Steven Raymond
http://www.catb.org/~esr/writings/cathedral-bazaar/