Last week we saw Norway taking it to the streets where highly respectable figures spoke against OOXML. This was no mob action, but a case of sophisticated individuals speaking on behalf on those in their country who do not understand what is going on.
Read more »OOXML Protests Are Back, Lots of ODF FUD Seen Abound
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How Microsoft Will Play the ISO Card
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One of the arguments adduced in favour of making OOXML an ISO standard was that it would place control of the former in the hands of an independent ISO group, which was a much better situation than the present one. Anyone who believes this has clearly learned nothing from Microsoft's history of unremitting subversion of practically every independent standard it has been involved with.
Read more »The New Perverted Reverse Value Theory of Copyright
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Candidates for a unified theory justifying copyright in all its manifestations include the value of the copyright owner’s efforts in creating the work. This value can take a natural rights form – the value of genius – but it can also take the more mundane Lockean agricultural form – copyright owners are the sowers of their intellectual labor.
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Microsoft Insists on Receiving Payments for OOXML Use, Implementation
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The SFLC has already informed us all that OOXML is clearly incompatible with the GNU GPL. But Microsoft seems to have just picked itself another smaller target (it’s a pattern that we last mentioned days ago). It insulted the intelligence of the Groklaw crowd with some rude remarks on this issue.
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Worse Than a Licence to Kill: Licence to Practise Mathematics
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Mathematics-related patents in Europe seem to be silently percolating into the EPO’s mind if the following curious page is something to judge by.
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ISO Maxes Up Damage Control, OOXML Storm Looming
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At this stage, ISO seems to have a rough idea of what’s to come. OOXML could still be binned, as it always should have right from the very start had it not been for corruption.
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Reasonable and not non-discriminatory
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So much quarreling about open standards. Jason Matusow advocates for a document format with RAND licensing conditions for the patents. What does he mean when he talks about RAND? RAND stands for "reasonable and non-discriminatory". But Jason Matusow's company Microsoft lacks honesty when it talks about "reasonable and non-discriminatory" conditions.
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Novell Starts Talking Like Microsoft, Even Where IP is Invalid (Updated)
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This new report is rather disgusting yet by no means surprising. You really have to follow the names and attributions carefully here in order to know if it’s a Novell employee or a Microsoft employee being quoted.
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Unmasking the Anonymous Internet User
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Companies and their employees at times face the difficult issue of protecting themselves from cybersmears by anonymous Internet users.
Read more »Microsoft Accused of Blackmail and Rigging for OOXML in Kenya
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Yesterday we wrote about ugly denials by Microsoft and even ISO — denials that shortly afterwards turned out to be bald-faced lies. It new reports are correct, this appears to have also been the case elsewhere, further away from the sight of the western world.
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No Remedy Expected for Intellectual Monopolies in the US, Yet
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The so-called reform, which was proposed as an Easy Fix™ to be applied to the USPTO, has always been rather impotent. It kept the problems in tact where intellectual monopolies could benefit and perhaps harmed some of the smaller players, including the patent trolls
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Microsoft Denies Threatening to Withdraw Funding
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Microsoft East Africa has dismissed allegations that it threatened to withdraw funding to Kenya if the government did not vote "yes" on OOXML.
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Centrify’s Tom Kemp: Here’s the map to avoiding Microsoft’s patent minefield
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On February 21 of 2008, just two months ago, Microsoft announced “strategic changes in technology and business practices to expand interoperability.” These changes, which would be incorporated into a set of “Interoperability Principles” that would provide API and protocol documentation for connectivity to and from their “high-volume business products” naming specifically Windows Vista,
Read more »Prior aRt and Software Patents
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We’ve just begun a new project at Mozilla to create a tool that can help defend against invalid software patents...The problem is that when patents are asserted or enforced, it’s difficult, expensive, and time consuming to find the references (documents or other software/systems) that contain the elements of the asserted patent claims, also known as prior art.
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Conditions of contributing source codes to GNU
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Legal Issues about Contributing Code to GNU --- Project GNU has to be careful to obey intellectual property laws, even though these laws are wrong and people generally should share useful information without hesitation, because we are in the public eye. This means that if you want to contribute software, you have to do something to give us legal permission to use it.
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