It may only be a matter of time before ODF acceptance is widespread in east Asia
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Linux DRM Warning
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Former Xandros Director Charged with Third-Degree Conspiracy, End is Near for SCO
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Criminal charges pressed against William Roseman; SCO hearing canceled and Chapter 7 possibly imminent
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XML Patents, Microsoft Aggression, and ODF Hostility
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Microsoft's threat to XML, hostility towards ODF, and other news of interest
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Tomorrow's SCO Bankruptcy Hearing Cancelled
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Tomorrow's bankruptcy hearing has been cancelled. This is the one that was about signing off on some fees billed to SCO, the one I told you probably was worth skipping. I gather the court agreed. Why pay lawyers to show up for a hearing on something that isn't opposed by anyone?
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Help rewrite Canada's copyright law
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"The Globe and Mail has put C-61, a bill to reform Canadian copyright law, on a wiki for editing..."
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The technology patents issue and innovation.
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In the old "pre 2000" day, the objective of most technology companies when they applied for patent protection was to ensure that their products and technologies were not copied by their competitors. The idea was that thanks to the patents you enjoyed about 20 years of exclusive use of your technology, after which everyone was free to use it because by then it was considered obvious.
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Is the United Kingdom Immune to Software Patents? Continental Europe is… for Now… Sort of…
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The impact of the Symbian case revisited; Europe under threat of anti-FOSS laws, which Microsoft craves
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P2P study: Music crackdown is bad for business
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A study of P2P music exchanges to be revealed this week suggests that the ailing music business is shunning a lucrative lifeline by refusing to license the activity for money.
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Finding the right open-source savvy lawyer
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Some days, like it or not, you need a lawyer. For most business purposes, picking the right law firm isn’t usually that big of a deal. But what if your programmers are using open-source code that’s licensed under two different licenses?
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Lists of Microsoft- and Gates-Hired Lobbyists in the United States of America
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Getting down to pertinent details and names of Microsoft lobbyists (including those working for the Gates family)
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Knuth Tells Europe to Let Him “Innovate in Peace” (Without Software Patents)
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PROFESSOR DONALD KNUTH IS nobody to sneeze at. He is considered one of the world's masters or authorities in algorithms and his letter opposing software patents in the United States is rather famous. A short while ago Knuth was kind enough to worry for Europeans too.
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ODF Alliance, Jeremy Allison and Others Tell Microsoft to Fix Its Broken ODF Implementation
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The pressure is rising for Microsoft to stop vandalising interoperability while keeping disingenuous
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Wikimedia community approves license migration
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"Today we announced some fantastic news.The proposal to see Wikimedia’s content adopt a new dual license system has been voted on and approved by the Wikimedia community [...] A huge thanks to the committee, to the folks at Creative Commons [...] to Richard Stallman and the Free Software Foundation ..." -- via
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