The policy concerns intersecting patent law and cryptographic technology relate to the technology’s beneficial uses in securing information in a commercial and social fabric that increasingly relies on computing and electronic communications for its makeup. The presence of patenting in a...

Free and open source software (FOSS) is a movement continually gathering accolades as a non-market based system of knowledge production and distribution. This continues even while commercial influences overtake the movement, resulting in many hybrid approaches to software development and...