The court proceedings concerning the bankruptcy of the SCO Group were finalised on Monday with a 12-hour marathon hearing. The judge's ruling is expected in about a week. A surprising aspect of the hearing was a controversy that developed around the role of SCO's Vice President Hans Bayer, the former CEO of SCO Germany.
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SFLC: Microsoft violated the GPL
Microsoft violated the General Public License v2 (GPLv2) when it distributed its Hyper-V Linux Integration Components (LinuxIC) without providing source code, says the Software Freedom Law Center (SFLC).
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Microsoft Releases GPL'd Software (Again): Does This Change Anything?
Microsoft has received much undeserved press about their recent release of Linux drivers for their virtualization technology under GPLv2. I say “undeserved” because I don't particularly see why Microsoft should be lauded merely for doing something that is in their own interest that they've done before.
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About Hans Bayer
Groklaw's reporters who attended the SCO bankruptcy hearing on the 27th reported that SCO portrayed Hans Bayer as not an officer of the company and not authorized to speak for SCO about the unXis deal. As a result, some emails by Bayer about the proposed sale to unXis were stricken from the record. I'll show you in a minute why SCO was so eager to have the emails stricken.
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Microsoft Did Violate the GPLv2
A red-handed Microsoft did after all violate the GNU GPL, according to the SFLC
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Wiki founder hopes win over Apple bodes well for online freedom and Linux
The founder of a wiki site that attracted the force of Apple's legal team hopes that his stand against Apple will create a precedent that will encourage online freedom in the future.
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AT&T's 4chan Block Raises Issue of Net Neutrality
It appears some of AT&T's broadband customers across the United States were intentionally blocked from accessing the infamous forum 4chan over the weekend.
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First Reports From the SCO Bankruptcy Hearing
Here's our first taste of what is happening in the SCO bankruptcy hearing. Mr. Spector is dancing up a storm. IBM and Novell are just trying to kill SCO off, he says. This is a great deal and the sale should go forward. Everyone will get paid.
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Wait a Minute. What Was That Darl Said About New Deals in 2003?
Something clicked in my brain when I was slogging through the list of contracts SCO says it would like to transfer to unXis and its list of licensees going back to the '70s, which you can find as Exhibit A here and as Exhibit A continued here.
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Link Found Between Potential SCO Rescuers and Microsoft
Microsoft hooks up with LNS, which is related to York Capital
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SCO and Darl McBride Paid $100,000 to Steven Norris
Wild, wild SCO is doing more wild things. THE NOTORIOUS SCO case will resume in a couple of days and for those who missed the fascinating developments from the past couple of weeks...
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FAS makes an indirect move against monopoly
On 15th July 2009, the Commission of the Federal Antimonopoly Service (FAS Russia) began proceedings in a case against «Acer Inc.», «ASUSTeK Computer Inc.», «Toshiba Corporation», «Hewlett-Packard Company», « Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.» and «Dell Inc.» for the elements of violating the anti-monopoly legislation.
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Richard Stallman wants more laws limiting software
Stallman published a post on the GNU website entitled “How the Swedish Pirate Party Platform Backfires on Free Software“. And, oh boy, I just have to comment.
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Editor's Note: Microsoft is Now Our Friend
Now that Microsoft has submitted 20,000 lines of code for inclusion in the kernel, they are either Super Cool or Watch Your Back!, depending on who you listen to. So what's the real story?
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Microsoft Claims GPL Compliance Came Before Any Violation Claims
Microsoft's loadable module had to be GPL licensed, but Microsoft asserts that it was compliant from the get-go
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