SCO has just filed Amended Rule 26(a)(3) Pretrial Disclosures [PDF] in SCO v. Novell, their witnesses, exhibits, and deposition testimony. It amends what SCO filed last Thursday. I doubt it's the last amendment on either side.
Read more »Google search service reborn as a RESTful web service...
"...As usual, they put severe restrictions on use—most notably you can't use it at all unless you're an academic researcher."
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Official Google Blog: Joining OIN
"...we became a licensee of the Open Invention Network (OIN), an innovative patent-sharing organization founded to create a legally protected environment for anyone who works with Linux..."
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A Standards Game for a Summer's Day
Those on both sides of the ODF vs. OOXML competition are always accusing each other of spinning and misrepresenting each other's actions and statements. It's fair, and even important, for both sides to call each other out on actual misrepresentations, since the public is rarely, if ever, going to have first-hand knowledge to rely on.
Read more »Shuttleworth: Microsoft Fracturing the Open-Source Community
"Microsoft has succeeded in fracturing the Linux and open-source community with the patent indemnity agreements it has entered into with several prominent vendors, Ubuntu leader and Canonical CEO Mark Shuttleworth told eWEEK."
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More Crazy DRM Laws To Control Videos You Paid For
What would you say if we told you that there are people out there that want to make sharing your media between devices over a home network illegal?
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Open Source Licensing: Can it Burn You?
"Open source licenses come in all shapes and flavors, none of which are inherently evil or devious. Rightfully so, the licensing varieties are selected by the creators/owners of software code, and reflect their own desires for the projects that are being open sourced."
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Massachusetts remains lightning rod on open documents
Massachusetts has been a lightning rod and a leader in the movement for governments to embrace open document formats and neither of those roles change with Wednesday’s announcement that it will adopt Open XML.
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Novell's Rule 26 Pretrial Disclosures - Update: SCO's too
"Novell has filed its Rule 26 Pretrial Disclosures [PDF]. What's that? It's required by Federal Rule of Civil Procedure Rule 26 that the parties tell in advance what witnesses, depositions, and exhibits or documents they expect to use at trial."
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Massachusetts adopts Open XML
The Commonwealth of Massachusetts Wednesday added Open XML to its list of approved open documents formats.
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RealNetworks Case Highlights Sea-Change In Patent Law
"Discerning what's obvious and what isn't when it comes to technology patents became a bit less gray last week when a federal judge in San Francisco reversed himself and abruptly dismissed a case brought against RealNetworks."
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An open document standard for China
In China the issue about the document format standard is even more complicated, because there's also the national standard UOF. Consequently, Chinese standardization organizations have to think what they need to do to proceed. Should they support a third standard, or not? How about unifying UOF with one or both of these standards?
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Uh Oh. Another Smooth Move from Microsoft: Watch out, Ruby. Watch out OSI.
"I guess you saw the news about Microsoft submitting some licenses to OSI hoping for approval as "open source" licenses. You can watch Bill Hilf of Microsoft giving his talk at OSCON, which is where the stories emanated from."
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dotSUB.com ou le meilleur du pire web 2.0 - Framablog
"...you assign to dotSUB LLC exclusively and irrevocably, forever and anywhere in the Universe, all rights (including, without limitation, all copyrights and renewals and extensions of such copyrights) that you may have in and to your translation..."
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Can You Change a Service Contract Only on a Website?
"...The question the appeals court was asked to answer, in its own words, was: 'We consider whether a service provider may change the terms of its service contract by merely posting a revised contract on its website.' ..."
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