Essential Questions For Software Startups MIT Enterprise Forum – Blockchain: Patents And Open Source Featured In Video: Tom Serres, Founder of Animal Ventures Sam […]
Are auditability and transparency exclusive to open-source software? Our expert panel discusses blockchain patents and the “Silcone Valley mindset" at our recent MIT Enterprise Forum event.
According to IP experts, outside of technical limitations of blockchain technology, the greatest challenge to becoming mainstream is a lack of trust (no pun intended) that prevents many companies from adopting blockchain into their structure.
Tom Serres is a massively successful startup entrepreneur, and our client. He dispels the myth that open-source and proprietary software are at odds with each other, he sees them as two sides of the same coin.
Sam Abassi owns a firm specializing in research, development, and implementation of software support to meet specific needs, mostly utilizing open-source solutions. He offers his perspective on some of the dangers and challenges with finding the right software solutions.
The MIT-License is the most commonly used free (open-source) software license, which allows for the code to be used and even altered freely, and also allows developers to build IP protected software on top of the underlying MIT-Licensed software.