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Doghouse – FOSS Training

maddog examines what today's engineers and product managers need to know about Free and Open Software.
At the Linaro Conference in Bangkok, one of the keynotes was dedicated to "License Compliance." The speakers were two people I have known for a long time: Shane Coughlan, from the Free Software Foundation, Europe, and Harald Welte, who has been associated with Free Software since his teenage years and who (as Harald himself pointed out) "is no longer a teenager … ."
The topic of license compliance has been discussed many times. After Harald explained why he personally started spending his own time and money pursuing companies who did not follow the GPL licensing, he was asked what could be done to make this less of an issue, but he had no real answer.
I stood up and volunteered an answer: "It will stop when the business people of tomorrow are taught the issues of Free and Open Source Software [FOSS] in the universities of today."
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