After two years of litigation, the parties involved in an Israeli law suit that centered on the validity of the GNU General Public License (GPL) have settled out of court. The result leaves the legal status of the GPL in Israel unresolved.
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NetApp's Point of View on the Sun Litigation - An Update
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Dave Hitz, CEO at NetApp, has posted his view on the latest happenings in the NetApp v. Sun patent litigation.
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In Conroy’s muddy waters you'll never know what’s being filtered
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Critics of Conroy's Internet filtering say Australians will not be able to find out what the governmnet censors online, and ask: who watches the watchmen?
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So, that's how GPL Violations finds it out!
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Ever wondered how GPL violations and the other guys in pursue of violations of the Free Software licenses find out who is an infringer?
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When Spoliation Gets Found Out
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You have to read this. Do you remember when SCO tried to accuse IBM of spoliation, albeit unsuccessfully? If so, you will enjoy reading this ruling, where a New York judge actually agreed with a plaintiff that the defendant had deliberately destroyed computer evidence.
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Patent System Status in the United States, European Union
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A roundup of stories about the continued struggle to change (rectify) the patent systems
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SCO Plans... er... SCO Hopes for a Future
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Well, this is perfect. SCO's plans for the future surfaced at TecForum 2008 in a presentation they've put on their website, so we can all have a laugh together. Here's the plan.
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Symbian is Not About Freedom, It’s About DRM and Software Patents
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Symbian throws in some old misconceptions to discredit the GPL, so we explore possible motives
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Open Source Is Far From Free
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Open-source software is software for which the source code is freely and publicly available. Although open-source software is also called "free software" (see www.fsf.org and www.opensource.org), it is far from free. There are specific licensing agreements that are applicable to such code, which specify the responsibilities of the user of the code.
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What if Psystar Wins?
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From the beginning it seemed like a long shot, but Psystar has only made it clearer and clearer that they are determined to prove Apple's locking of Mac OS X to their own hardware is a violation of anti-trust laws.
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Creditors Being Objected to by SCO Begin to Respond
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Some of the creditors that SCO tried to toss out of the lifeboat with its First (Non-Substantive) Omnibus Objection to Claims are starting to show up, evidently mad as can be, to support their claims.
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No Linspire Love Lost
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When Michael Robertson sold Linspire to Xandros, I doubt many people saw a lawsuit coming his way from former Linspire CEO Kevin Carmony.
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FOSSBazaar Attacks Open Source Licensing Fears
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According to the open source industry group FOSSBazaar, there are plenty of organizations that view using the software as risky. But the group maintains that concerns about open source stem from often poorly understood legal issues that could be overcome with some education.
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Straightening Out Some Silly Stuff Being Written About Apple v. Psystar
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All right. I wanted to goof off yesterday, but the amount of silly stories about the Apple v. Psystar case drove me to do some real digging and then write an article to try to tell you the real story. Here is the bottom line.
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SCO's Tec Forum in Full Sway. Two Press Releases Today.
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Well, it's time for SCO's Tec Forum, which is what SCO is calling SCOforum this year, and lest the company's press releases get lost to paid services someday and disappear behind their drawbridge, and in harmony with our goal to provide historians with the entire picture, here are a couple of press releases that went out today, one about an upgrade to SCOoffice Server and the other about SCO Mobil
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