Alex Hudson schrieb: > On Fri, 2006-12-29 at 14:55 +0000, Ciaran O'Riordan wrote: [...] >> 4. Open Source Licensing: Software Freedom and Intellectual Property Law, by >> Larry Rosen >> >> I don't know if any of them are any good. I've heard the 2nd one is good, >> but I can't read German. I have a suspicion that the 4th is quite bad. [...] > On what basis do you suspect the Rosen book is bad, btw? > > (Aside from the coverage of 'controversies', eg. SCO, I was of the > impression it was basically a factual hand-in-hand walk through basic IP > law?)
As there is nothing common in patents, copyright and trademark laws and as they have very different histories, putting them together into one pot called "Intellectual Property" is very bad. Thus I would suspect this book to be bad and guess that's the reason of Ciaran to do so, too. Best wishes Michael -- Nobody can save your freedom but YOU - Become a fellow of the FSFE! http://www.fsfe.org/en
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