Baseline Magazine lists seven “grand challenges” facing IT in 2008, at least one of which is handily covered by greater adoption of open source. With universities churning out fewer programmers and development timelines shortening, there’s only one solution: Reuse code. In other words, turn to open source if you …

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The music industry seems to be taking one step forward, and then promptly taking one thousand steps backward. In Universal Music Group v. Augusto, Universal Music Group (UMG) is suing someone for putting its promotional CDs for sale on eBay, seriously altering the standard view of what First Sale doctrine means.

At issue here’s who owns the promo CDs. Universal argues strenuously that it never transferred ownership when it sent them out and that the discs are merely “licensed” to those who receive them. Each disc includes text that makes clear that “this CD is the property of the record company and is licensed to the intended recipient for personal use only.” According to Universal…

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(Credit: Jon Williams)

A few weeks ago Steve Pearson (CBS) and Jon Williams (Kaplan Test) keynoted the Open Source Business Conference. In the past week, both have opted to leave their employers to join other companies.

There must have been something in the water at OSBC.

Steve hasn’t …

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