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Intellectual Property and Open SourceA Practical Guide to Protecting Code
This book is a guide to the legal system-without the legalese. From trade secrets to open source, this book offers a clear and understandable approach to intellectual property issues from a developer's point of view. Browse the book.
Clear, correct, and deep, this is a welcome addition to discussions of law and computing for anyone -- even lawyers!
-- Lawrence Lessig, law professor at Stanford Law School, founder of the Stanford Center for Internet and Society
Books
Bestselling
Learning Python, Third Edition
By Mark Lutz
[October 2007]
Python for Unix and Linux System Administration
By Noah Gift
, Jeremy Jones
[August 2008]
Python in a Nutshell, Second Edition
By Alex Martelli
[July 2006]
Python Pocket Reference, Third Edition
By Mark Lutz
[February 2005]
Python Cookbook, Second Edition
By Alex Martelli
, Anna Martelli Ravenscroft
, David Ascher
[March 2005]
New
Python for Unix and Linux System Administration
By Noah Gift
, Jeremy Jones
[August 2008]
Essential SQLAlchemy
By Rick Copeland
[June 2008]
Learning Python, Third Edition
By Mark Lutz
[October 2007]
Getting Started with Pyparsing
By Paul McGuire
[October 2007]
Next-Generation Web Frameworks in Python
By Liza Daly
[April 2007]
Upcoming
Head First Programming
By Vernon L. Ceder
[October 2008]
The Book Of Python
By John Goebel
, Adil Hasan
, Francesco Safai Tehrani
[December 2008]
Authors
Jeremy Jones
Jeremy Jones is a software engineer who works for The Weather Channel. His weapon of choice is Python.
Rick Copeland
Rick Copeland is a senior software engineer with retail analytics firm Predictix, LLC, where he uses SQLAlchemy extensively, primarily for web application development. He has been using Python full-time for development since 2005, in projects as diverse...
Doug Hellmann
Doug Hellmann is a Senior Software Engineer at Racemi and Technical Editor for Python Magazine. He has been programming in Python since version 1.4, and prior to Python worked mostly with C on a variety of Unix and non-Unix platforms. He has worked on...
Anthony Baxter
Anthony Baxter has been involved in the open source community for more than a decade, largely working in Python and, in the last few years, on Python. Anthony is currently also the release manager for Python. This is much less glamorous than you might...
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Jeremy Allison From Samba Talks About Mentors - O'Reilly Broadcast
By Noah Gift
[September 11, 2008]
Dancing with Many Languages - O'Reilly Broadcast
By Eric Larson
[September 04, 2008]
Fedora Authentication Server Breached: Do People Run Production Servers ...
By Todd Ogasawara
[August 25, 2008]
Python for Unix and Linux System Administration Book Arrives At Door - ...
By Noah Gift
[August 24, 2008]
Conference News
Python in 3 Hours: OSCON 2008 - O'Reilly Conferences, July 21 - 25, 2008, ...
[July 21, 2008]
Software Delivery & Continuous Integration in Python Using Eggs and ...
[July 21, 2008]
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[July 21, 2008]
Effective Software Development with Python, C++, and SWIG: OSCON 2008 - ...
[July 21, 2008]


