We’ve heard from folks that the final post-Ballot Resolution Meeting version of OOXML has still not been made available to national standards bodies. This would be the updated 6000+ page document that included all the edits voted on at the BRM. With such a document one could actually, for example, check correctness of the edits and ensure that changes were actually inserted.
Read more »Where’s the final OOXML specification?
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"Racketware": illegal in France
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"Ironically, as the hearing for the first out of three assignements introduced by French consumer association UFC-Que Choisir against systematic sale of pre-installed Windows with Personal Computers was held in Court in Paris, we learned that manufacturer Asus was condemned in Caen, Normandy (case Hordoir vs. Asus, 30 April 2008) to reimburse the client for unwanted software licences.
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OOXML Scandals: Danish Parliament Steps Up, Ireland Under Scrutiny Also
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An update on OOXML complaints in Europe: Yesterday we mentioned only a quick translation of an article written in Danish. Andy Updegrove and Groklaw have picked it up by now and there is now a minor update on this. It comes from Denmark in the form of another snippet that’s published in English.
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Transcript of the April 30 SJ Motions in Novell v. SCO - Yay! - as PDF and text
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We finally have permission from the court to share the transcript of the hearing on the summary judgment motions [PDF] heard on April 30th, on the second day of the Novell-SCO trial in Utah, with you. Yay!
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Novell slapped with suit for new mini-OS
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Astrum Inc., a software security company in Carrollton, Texas, has filed suit against Novell Inc. Astrum claims that Novell violated its contract regarding development of the mini-operating system appliance that Novell launched last month.
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"A Strategy for Openness: Enhancing E-Records Access in New York State"
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Remember the New York State group that was told to investigate longterm storage needs in government and ODF/OOXML? The report is now published, "A Strategy for Openness: Enhancing E-Records Access in New York State". You can get it here in doc, PDF and odt formats, although only PDF works currently. It's just been posted, so later they should all be there. What did they find?
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OOXML BRM Convenor: “It May Be Time to Start Again from Scratch”
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Litigating against innovation: Legal attacks on Linux
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Patents and how they're controlled are damaging the way technology is developed - and the Linux case is a key example of this.
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Does open source mandate change in copyright law?
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In their paper Money Ruins Everything, Australian law professor Dan Hunter and economist John Quiggin (right) argue that open source and Internet creativity mandate changes in copyright law, which now favor industries whose costs have disappeared.
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Compro Technology accused of GPL violation
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An eagle-eyed user of the Linux Kernel Mailing List archive, going by the name of Jo Shields (who many of you may know), has accused Compro Technology of violating the General Public License (GPL).
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EU and USA negotiating mutual patent recognition
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In its statement on the results of the Transatlantic Economic Council negotiations, issued last week, the council made brief reference to the intellectual property rights issue. A single bullet point in the statement references a roadmap issued jointly by the European Commission and US Patent Office aimed at advancing "global patent harmonization".
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OOXML backwards compatibility led Microsoft to ODF
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Microsoft's decision to add support to Office 2007 for the Open Document Format instead of its own OOXML office file format is due to backwards compatibility issues with OOXML, it has emerged.
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SCO's Updates its "Legal Update" Page
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SCO has posted some new materials on its Legal Update page, under a bizarre header, "Update on Rights to Continue Our UNIX Business." Has that ever been in dispute? If so, I've missed it. And isn't that exactly what SCO keeps trying to sell, its Unix business? I'm confused, unless one defines SCO's "business" as the business of litigation.
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Open source licensing suits settle in short order
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Many open source licences are only two or three paragraphs long and read more like a manifesto than a traditional software licence.
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I thought you might like to see the actual filings in the Viacom v. YouTube/Google litigation. In April, Viacom filed a First Amended Complaint [PDF] and YouTube/Google has now filed its Answer [PDF]. If you'd like to see the original complaint and answer from 2007, for comparison purposes, we have it as text here on Groklaw.
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