In the proprietary production world, what matters about a copyright is who owns it. In the free production world, however, who owns a copyright is relatively unimportant. What matters is what license it is offered under. There is a very simple rule of thumb about the best license to use: use a 'free,copyleft license'
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Judge Finds Microsoft (Un)Documentation Unimpressive
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Microsoft's U.S. Antitrust Proceedings Continue. Seriously?
According to published reports, Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotell has ruled that Microsoft is still behind in fulfilling its obligations to the court in regard to documenting their APIs and protocols, some of which are nearly five years overdue now.
In the wake of antitrust actions, documentation of Microsoft technologies has become a [...]
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A Triumph for Common Sense in the Patent System
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Those were the words of Microsoft counsel Tom Burt, regarding the upholding of a previous ruling overturning the $1.5B Alcatel-Lucent v. Microsoft patent infringement judgment.
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Transcript of Sept. 16 Bankruptcy Hearing
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We have the transcript [PDF] of the September 16th hearing in the SCO bankruptcy. There are quite a few subsidiary and less interesting filings too, which we'll have for you soon. But I didn't want you to have to wait to read this. I haven't read it yet myself, so we can do that together. A quick glance shows that Darl McBride took the stand, on page 32.
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Stay Lifted on AutoZone as of December 31st
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The stay on SCO v. AutoZone has been lifted, and the case will resume after December 31. We learn this from the minutes of the status hearing that was held on the 22nd, now listed on PACER. I gather from the minutes that SCO asked for the stay to remain in place, which surprises me, but then again, nothing SCO does should surprise me any more.
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SCO's Expedited Motion to Enforce Amended Scheduling Order, as text
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Memorandum in support of SCO’S expidited motion to enforce the Court's Amended Scheduling Order dated June 10, 2004
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Can Crowdsourcing Curtail Patent Abuse?
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The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office is experimenting with a program that calls on the wisdom of the masses to help patent examiners better review applications. The program, Peer-to-Patent, publishes applications on the Web and asks the public to help determine whether the idea already is in use.
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SCO Seems to Be Trying to Ramp Up AutoZone
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SCO sent the AutoZone judge a letter [PDF], which leaves me in little doubt that SCO yearns to ramp up the AutoZone case, which SCO tells the judge is in part about OpenServer.
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Attorney Shaalu Mehra discusses emerging GPL trends (video)
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Shaalu Merhra, an attorney with Perkins Coie, spoke at LinuxWorld 2008 about the legal implications of adopting the GPL within one's organization, and about outsourcing and performing due diligence on the software stack.
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New Class Action Lawsuit Against Microsoft; Microsoft Loses Anti-Monopoly Case in Japan
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News about Microsoft's latest legal setbacks. Japan trade commission rules against Microsoft
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Are Open Source Violations Lurking in Your Code?
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IT organizations that feel safe from open source licensing violations might be wise to check their code, as open source components are rapidly seeping into applications by way of offshore and in-house developers taking open source shortcuts, as well as a growing population of open source-savvy grads entering the workforce.
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Myths of Linux - People don't care about licensing
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I care about the licensing of the software I use, not because of some philosophical principle, but because I got sick and tired of having the thumbscrews put on me by proprietary software companies.
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The Latest on the Firefox EULA Matter
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Mitchell Baker has posted on her blog a notice that Mozilla will let us know today what solution they've come up with for the Firefox EULA dispute:Firefox without EULAs.
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SCO Gets What It Asked For From Bankruptcy Court: Extension to End of Year and Stock Options
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So, the hearing minutes from today's bankruptcy hearing are posted, and it appears (comparing it with the Notice of Agenda) that SCO got an extension to the end of the year to exclusively file a reorganization plan, and it also got the stock options declared "in the normal course" and the quarterly bills were approved.
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‘EnterpriseBuntu’ Becomes a Reality
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Buy Ubuntu, pay Microsoft
This was probably inevitable. I first brought it up here and Mark Shuttleworth soon replied, refusing to refute the speculation. So, Canonical will be paying Microsoft indirectly (for codecs).
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