You'll see that SCO, despite telling the media yesterday that it would file a plan today, meeting the December 31st deadline set by the court, instead has filed for another delay.
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The GPL is not a burden.
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Simply put, i fail to see in how the FSF is being 'greedy'. There have been attempts by the FSF since 2003 to bring Cisco into compliance, and the standard procedure has failed. More importantly, i don't think the GPL is necessarily a burden on companies either.
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OpenSUSE changes licenses
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With its recent 11.1 release, OpenSUSE has changed the end-user license agreement (EULA) users must accept in order to install the distribution. The new, more Fedora-like license could increase the distribution's appeal among those wishing to redistribute the software, including engineers assembling filesystems for embedded Linux devices.
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No such thing as a free Linux distro
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A few Linux distributions emphasize license freedom as a goal, but Tom “Spot” Callaway says that there’s no such thing as a free Linux distro.
Read more »in this post, i rant about licensing
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I tend to giggle a little bit to myself whenever I hear about a "100% Free GNU/Linux distribution". I'm sure it is possible, theoretically to make one, but it quickly delves into semantics.
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Don’t Forget to Talk About the ACTA
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Patent problem for a future Linux feature?
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A report from LWN.net suggests that there may be a patent problem with KSM, a memory management technology that is a candidate for inclusion in a future version of Linux.
Read more »Patents Roundup: Microsoft’s Intellectual ‘Welfare’, Litigation Rising, Abuse Beyond USPTO
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Microsoft settles suits; patent lawsuits rising; EU in need of answers
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Will Linux Defenders Save Linux from Microsoft?
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Opponents of open source often use the specter of potential patent infringement charges to protect their proprietary turf.
Questions over patent validity in software are never easy to answer, but it's one that a new effort called Linux Defenders from the Open Invention Network (OIN) is trying help solve.
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Petition to stop software patents in Europe
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"Our petition aims to unify the voices of concerned Europeans, associations and companies, and calls on our politicians in Europe to stop patents on software with legislative clarifications..."
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Linux Defenders - That Would Be You Guys, Actually
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The Open Invention Network, the Software Freedom Law Center, and the Linux Foundation have teamed up to create another tool to defend Linux from patents. It will be hosted by the NYU Peer to Patent folks, where Mark Webbink is now. It is called Linux Defenders, and that would be you, in that they are asking folks to provide prior art to block anyone else from patenting it.
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Funambol's CEO sees AGPL as essential for FOSS in cloud computing's future
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The future of software is in cloud computing," says Fabrizio Capobianco, CEO of Funambol, a company that provides mobile services. And if free and open source software (FOSS) is going to survive in that emerging market, he says, then the community needs to adjust by promoting greater use of the GNU Affero General Public License (AGPL), a license specifically crafted for software as a service.
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Patents Roundup: Microsoft Employs Patent Hawks, Google’s Chrome Sued, Ambush Denounced and More
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Various bits from the news, with particular emphasis on those that affect Free software
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Analysis on Balance - Standardisation and Patents - by Georg Greve, President, FSFE
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Analysis on balance - Standardisation and Patents - by Georg C. F. Greve, FSFE, President
This paper provides an analysis of the interaction of patents and standards and finishes with some concrete proposals to address the most pressing issues.
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Stand up to the RIAA
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RMS: « When universities stand up to the RIAA, they can block the record companies' harassment suits. Students should organize to demand that their universities not keep records that could make it possible to connect an IP address with anyone in particular. »
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