Today is our anniversary, guys. Unbelievably, Groklaw is five years old today. And we're still standing, still here, still working together. I know. Amazing. Who knew we'd still be together after five years?

For the first time in three years the amount of pirated business software on UK computers has fallen.

To those who think that Microsoft’s OOXML scandals are over, looking a little further is recommended.

It is therefore appropriate that The Hague has been chosen to witness yet another pronouncement in defense of human rights. That pronouncement has been titled The Hague Declaration by the new international group, called the Digital Standards Organization ("Digistan," for short), that crafted it.

In a previous post, we have made our point that dual licensing was unfair and community debilitating. In a search for a better solution, I met this weekend with Ludovic Dubost CEO, Founder and original contributor of XWiki. XWiki.com is making its income out of enterprise support, software guarantees and integration projects. This last part being a substantial source of revenues for XWiki.com

It was only a few weeks ago that we last showed total indifference inside the United States government amid an evident patent problem. It’s becoming rather hopeless. The latest update seems to suggest that a proposed semi-solution hasn’t just been put on the ice, but almost discarded.

Skype has abandoned its efforts to avoid complying with an open-source license that requires it to provide source code with Linux-based VoIP phones.

Earlier on we mentioned the Europe-based Blender and recently we also mentioned Microsoft’s role in pushing for software patents in Europe, using ‘proxies’ as large as the United States government. You may be interested in the following perspective on the latest Blender story.