I've given up on predicting when the zombie movie series staring the undead SCO monster is finally going to stay quietly in its grave Still, this week a jury is deciding whether SCO or Novell owns Unix's intellectual property rights.
Read more »Novell vs. SCO and the fate of Unix is in a jury's hands.
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Europeans Asked to Stop MS’s Subversion of EIFv2 (European Interoperability Framework Version 2)
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Microsoft's continued attempts to remove Free software and standards from Europe's agenda sure call for action
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Internet's not special, says communications minister
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Web experts recoiled today at communications minister Stephen Conroy's assertion that the internet is not "special" and should be censored like books, films and newspapers.
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SCO Wants to Sell Java Patent and (Mostly) Pay the Professionals
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SCO Chapter 11 Trustee Edward Cahn has now reported to the bankruptcy court that he's closed on the loan from Ralph Yarro and his friends, and now Cahn wants to pay most of the bills in the bankruptcy from SCO's numerous professionals. And he wants to sell the Java patent, since SCO's never used it and has no use for it going forward.
Read more »Another Linux Lawsuit Storm Brewing?
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Now that Microsoft's big operating systems, Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008, are on store shelves, is it time again for them to pick up the legal sledgehammer and go after Linux? I think the evidence for it is mounting.
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Open Source and Open Standards under Threat in Europe
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Open source is under attack in Europe. Not openly or obviously, but in the background, behind closed doors. The battleground is the imminent Digital Agenda for Europe, due to be unveiled by the European Commission in a month's time, and which defines the overall framework for Europe's digital policy.
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No Verdict Today, the Final Day, in SCO v. Novell - Deliberations Begin Again Tuesday
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SCO v. Novell went to the jury today. Judge Ted Stewart said, after the jury left to begin to deliberate, that in all his years on the bench, he's never seen such fine lawyering as in this case. Chris Brown reports that the jury says they will not reach a verdict by today:I've just received word that the jury does not expect to be done by 5pm (it was 4:30 when I got the call, it's 4:45 now).
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Court Grants SCO's Oral Motion for Judgment on Novell's Slander of Title Claim
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Yesterday, SCO made an oral motion after Novell rested, asking for judgment as a matter of law on Novell's slander of title counterclaim, and Stewart has ruled that Novell did not carry the burden of proof with respect to special damages, except for copyright registration costs, which he doesn't think can be viewed as specials, so Novell's slander of title claim fails as a matter of law...
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Novell Moves for Judgment on Slander; SCO Moves to Limit Closing Argument
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Novell moves for judgment on slander of title and damages:
Defendant Novell, Inc. ("Novell") respectfully moves the Court to grant judgment as a matter of law in favor of Novell because plaintiff The SCO Group, Inc. ("SCO") has failed to introduce legally sufficient evidence upon which a reasonable jury could find for SCO on its claim for slander of title....
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License change leaves Sun Solaris users at a crossroads
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Recent changes to Solaris licensing could further encourage Solaris 10 users to consider Linux -- and result in fewer new users considering Solaris at all. If you're a Solaris customer, don't overlook this license change.
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How open is open core and is that open enough
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The idea is that you make the center of your product open source, but put the rest under a paid license. This is supposed to make your venture capital backers happy. You gain the benefits of open source but customers aren't "stealing" the software.
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Week 3, Day 14 SCO v. Novell Trial - Braham, Bradford, Musika, and Judge: "the End is Nigh"
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Today, Tor Braham took the stand again in the SCO v. Novell trial in Utah, and SCO had a chance to cross examine him. He said something interesting, that he remembers a lot about the APA, because it was a very significant deal, one that he knew at the time was important, because it would affect the future of Unix. It explains why after all these years he still has the drafts, don't you think?
Read more »Novell Files Motion for Judgment and Motion to Strike
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Novell has filed two motions today, one for a judgment on SCO's slander of title claim -- the promised Rule 50(a) motion -- and one to strike testimony inconsistent with the unambiguous contract language. ...
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Why I Am Against Software Patents
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The surprise to most people isn’t that I do not believe that software should be patentable. Given my long term interest in and coverage of free and open source software, I’m supposed to be at least mildly anti-establishment. It is also statistically unlikely that I would be in favor of patents, because industry sentiment is overwhelmingly against them at the present time.
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Week 3, Day 13 in SCO v. Novell - Jones, Messman, DeFazio
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Today at the SCO v. Novell trial, Novell called Gregory Jones, and then SCO called Jack Messman as a hostile witness. His deposition was played in part earlier, but this was Mr. Messman testifying live. Finally the Michael DeFazio deposition video was played. Only two more days, and then it goes to the jury.
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