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Caldera: OpenServer Users Licensed to Use Headers and Libraries Required by GCC for OpenServer

http://www.groklaw.net

Caldera had a Skunkware page for developers, last updated in 2001, which SCO never pulled down, so you can still view it.

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Microsoft embraces GPL, opens Hyper-V to Linux with LinuxIC

http://news.cnet.com

Old dogs may struggle with new tricks, but they seem to be able to figure out new licenses. In a shocking move, Microsoft announced Monday the release of Hyper-V Linux Integration Components (LinuxIC).

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Created by balugani 15 years 10 weeks ago
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Do we actually own anything anymore?

http://www.randomreviews.placeboism.com

Do we actually own anything any more? Every we time buy, download or use software we have to agree to licenses that means that even though we may pay for them, we are only paying for their use not their ownership.

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Created by sockpuppet 15 years 10 weeks ago
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eBook Burning?

http://www.linuxjournal.com

Book burning, at least in modern democracies, is supposed to be something of the past. Indeed, with books taking to devices like the Kindle, burning would seem an unlikely, if possible, exercise. That may or may not be quite so, however, depending on how you read last week's news

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Created by beckham 15 years 10 weeks ago
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Microsoft Shares Virtualization Code With Linux

http://www.internetnews.com

Is this a thawing in the tensions between the two camps? New GPLv2 licensed code will enable Linux to run better on Microsoft's Hyper-V.

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Created by GiTS 15 years 10 weeks ago
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Wikipedia's controversial video player coming soon

http://www.zdnetasia.com

Wikipedia users will be getting new tools for uploading, editing, and viewing video very soon. According to a Beet.TV interview with Erik Moller, who is the deputy director of the Wikimedia Foundation, these features will be made available shortly. What's interesting, however, is the Web encyclopedia's choice of video formats and how it fits into a fracas in the browser world.

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Created by goofy 15 years 10 weeks ago
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Think you own your Kindle books?

http://blogs.computerworld.com

During the night of July 16th, while Amazon Kindle owners slept, Amazon was quietly deleting their copies of George Orwell's 1984 and Animal Farm.

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Created by sonysuxx 15 years 10 weeks ago
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Amazon Shows Need for Open eBook Standards

http://www.daniweb.com

When Amazon deleted content from Kindle Readers last week without warning or permission, they released a firestorm of criticism. Although they backed down, the same day it showed the power the proprietary format has over Kindle owners and crystallized the need for open eBook standards.

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Created by zarkovic 15 years 10 weeks ago
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Reports on the Death of the GPL …

http://blogs.opennms.org

It’s funny, from my small corner of the world it seems like the GPL is under attack of late.

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Created by gumbi lives 15 years 10 weeks ago
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Every License has its Time and Place

http://dirkriehle.com

The classic choice for the community license has been the GPL. The GPL supports building a community of users and customers while stalling competitors through its reciprocal nature.

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Created by Sun 15 years 10 weeks ago
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Some E-Books Are More Equal Than Others

http://pogue.blogs.nytimes.com

This morning, hundreds of Amazon Kindle owners awoke to discover that books by a certain famous author had mysteriously disappeared from their e-book readers. These were books that they had bought and paid for - thought they owned.

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Created by viubuntu 15 years 10 weeks ago
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Free Software Foundation Discourages Dependence on Mono, Dismisses Microsoft Community Promises

http://boycottnovell.com

Last week, Microsoft extended the terms of their Community Promise to implementations of the ECMA 334 and 335 standards. You might think this means it's safe to write your software in C#. However, this promise is full of loopholes, and it's nowhere near enough to make C# safe.

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Created by komrad 15 years 10 weeks ago
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SCO's 8K, Transfer Rights, and Two New Cravath Litigators Join the IBM Team

http://www.groklaw.net

IBM is adding two Cravath litigators to its bankruptcy team, Benjamin H. Diessel and Michael T. Reynolds, and SCO has filed an 8K with the SEC, describing the proposed sale and attaching the proposed agreement. I noticed something peculiar about transfer rights.

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Created by paul.g.hunter 15 years 10 weeks ago
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Peer-To-Patent Has NOT Shut Down

http://www.techdirt.com

While I'm certainly a big fan of involving more people in the process of reviewing patents, I've been a huge skeptic of the "Peer-to-Patent" program that the USPTO tested over the past few years. As I noted earlier, there's very little incentive for most people to actually get involved in peer reviewing a patent that early on.

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Created by sunny 15 years 11 weeks ago
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Don't confuse Microsoft's IP with Linux

http://blogs.the451group.com

Microsoft's latest intellectual property (IP) licensing agreement is once again raising eyebrows among Linux and open source software fans, prompting some to wonder what Microsoft may be doing with regard to Linux and open source software.

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