Johansen defines commons as a shared asset that benefits multiple players, as in shared wealth.

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An associate of his says Johansen is hoping to make some cash out of this discovery.

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And Johansen is an advocate of the open-source philosophy of sharing software code for free.

NPR: Marketplace Report: Hacking Apple's iCode

Although, Apple's copy-protection system has been facing some legal challenges of its own back in Johansen's native Norway.

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The whole affair began when teenager Jon Johansen wrote DeCSS in order to view DVDs on a Linux machine.

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Mr Johansen said current workers had been repairing vehicles after faults had been found with steering boxes, which led to about 400 taxis being recalled last year.

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In today's climate of volatility, uncertainty, complexity and ambiguity (the "VUCA world" that the futurist Bob Johansen explores in Leaders Make the Future), they matter even more.

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Led by our guide, Tom Frode Johansen, we passed through valleys and over hills, along the border between Norway and Finland, and then across frozen lakes and uplands of unblemished white.

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Bob Johansen is a fellow at the Institute for the Future and author of the book, Leaders Make the Future: Ten New Leadership Skills for an Uncertain Future.

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Johansen's associate told Reuters that an unnamed client will soon use this technology so its copy-protected content will be playable on iPods, but she declined to give any details on who that might be.

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They believe Johansen is on good legal ground.

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Johansen testified on Thursday that he announced the successful reverse engineering of a DVD on the mailing list of the Linux Video and DVD Project (LiViD), a user resource center for video- and DVD-related work for Linux.

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Peter Johansen, vice president of Geely UK's black cab operation, said that the Coventry factory would be supplying vehicles for the UK while others will be made in the sister factory in Shanghai for the left-hand drive market.

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His name is Jon Lech Johansen.

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In fact, some analysts say that Johansen is going to have a tough time marketing this technology without potential clients worrying that they might be sued by Apple if they try to use it, so it may come down to who has the deeper pockets here.

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