One of the motions argued on May 31st, is fascinatingly blunt. "After three years of litigation, SCO seeks more than $100 million in 'special damages' based on nothing but some hearsay accounts of what mostly unidentified third parties supposedly said about unspecified potential licenses." Oof.
Read more »Novell's Redacted Reply Memo re SCO's Lack of Slander of Title Special Damages
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SCO to be deleted from Russell Microcap Index June 22
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The Russell family of U.S. indexes is designed to be a comprehensive representation of the investable U.S. equity market. These indexes are value-weighted and include only common stocks belonging to corporations incorporated in the United States and its territories.
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"Strengths of Open Source opposing Microsoft patent threats"
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"I have the impression that open source to challenge it in a justice court is exactly what Microsoft desires, so we should not get into this dangerous and expensive game. Therefore, I propose another game, in which the open source is strong where Microsoft is weak."
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Downing St ambivalent on open standards
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The UK government has made a statement offering cautious and qualified support for the adoption of open standards for government documents, but warns that there is no such thing as a document storage panacea.
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Microsoft & Linux Vendors Trading in Patent Fool's Gold
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"Well what do you know? Microsoft seems to be gaining ground with their "patent protection" scheme. But what if they discover they've only bought a few bricks of fool's gold?"
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The Death Of A Software License
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"Version 3 is going to distance Richard Stallman and the Free Software Foundation from the developers that make the organization so influential to begin."
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FSF Releases "Last Call" Draft of GPLv3
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The Free Software Foundation (FSF) today released the fourth and “last call” draft for version 3 of the GNU General Public License (GNU GPL), the world's most widely used free software license. The Foundation will hear comments on the latest draft for 29 days, and expects to officially publish the license on Friday, June 29, 2007.
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Germany adopts "anti-hacker" law; critics say it breeds insecurity
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Germany has just passed a new law that adds more "anti-hacker" provisions to the German criminal code. Although the new rules are meant to apply narrowly to hacking, critics are already complaining that they may prevent necessary security and network research.
Read more »MS Sees No Conflict with Its Patent/Open Source Initiatives
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Microsoft does not believe there is an inherent contradiction between its recent statements that free and open-source software infringes on 235 of its patents, and the veiled legal threats that go along with that, and its attempts to reach out and build bridges with the open-source community.
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Novell signs on to EFF patent busting project
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Novell and the Electronic Frontier Foundation have announced that the owners of SUSE Linux will help bankroll the EFF's fight against bogus patents and work towards meaningful patent reform on a global level.
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Microsoft, Sue Me First
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Supporters of free software solutions have thrown down the gauntlet at Microsoft's feet. Christian Einfeldt of Digital Tipping Point says 'Sue Me First,' and he's not alone. More and more people are signing up and challenging Microsoft to put their lawyers where their mouth is. The free software community is far from running scared.
Read more »Microsoft Too Busy To Name Linux Patents?
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Microsoft's Patent Attorney Jim Markwith told the Open Source Business Conference that the reason they hadn't named the supposedly infringing patents was that it would be 'administratively impossible to keep up' with the list.
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