Patents as a tool that protects the ’small inventor’ may be a Big Myth. They only protect monopolies and feed patent trolls that are not the ’small inventor’ but are rather the ‘vicious lawyer’.

It will not surprise you to learn that there has been another postponement of the hearing on SCO's desire to give some unearned money to York Capital Management. If you recall, SCO claimed it felt a moral impulse to pay them even though it doesn't have to. The new date in bankruptcy court for that hearing will be September 16. Or never.

In case SCO tries to resurrect any methods and concepts claims to OpenServer or UnixWare, let me remind the world that beginning in 1996, they gave that away themselves when they offered Unix enthusiasts free licenses to what they called Free-OpenServer.

A tech vendor-backed company that buys up patents in an effort to protect the Linux community from intellectual property litigation will soon launch a Web site to help inventors file defensive publications -- documents that make details of an invention public, preventing others from later making patent claims on it.

IBM Tuesday marked its 10 years of participation in Linux and open source by introducing new software, upgrades to existing platforms and an open source code contribution focused on supercomputing.

Optimists say the best things in life are free; realists say yes, but anything that's free costs way too much. Nowhere is that more applicable than in open source (define) software.

The United States Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit, Office of the Clerk, has sent a letter reminding the individual wishing to appeal the order denying him the right to intervene in the SCO v.