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  • April 19, 2023

    Things I Didn’t Know About IP Protection

    Just because it’s patentable doesn’t mean it works.


  • February 15, 2023

    Just Because You Wrote It Doesn’t Mean You Own It

    The value Microsoft captures by selling access to Copilot, is made on the back of thousands of unpaid volunteer coder’s contributions to open source projects.


  • May 10, 2022

    The Trend Towards Open Core : Evolving Strategies for Open Source Monetisation

    2018 was the watershed year for the open core model, where you create value through hosted services and closed source add-ons.


  • May 4, 2022

    The Best of Both Worlds : How to Build a Company While Sticking to Open Source

    The professor’s privilege and means that researchers can do what they want with whatever they create. Which if you’re in software usually just means you publish your code on GitHub and move on to the next research project.


  • April 28, 2021

    At the Crossroads of Intellectual Property and Software Engineering

    The ins- and outs of open hardware; the power and perils of building your products on top of FOSS-stacks; the dos and don’ts with design patenting, and so much more.

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