In a major victory for consumers' rights, a federal district judge has firmly rejected software vendor AutoDesk's claim that its license agreement restricts its customers from re-selling the software they lawfully owned.
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Novell Responds to Legal Assault by Betrayed Partner
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Novell to aggressively fight against former partner's claims, unlike Microsoft
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Will We Ever Have a GPL Test Case?
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The GNU General Public License is nearly 20 years old (version 1 came out in 1989). In that time there have been at least 100 million lawsuits filed in the US (and that's a conservative estimate). Amazingly enough, not one of those millions of court cases has actually tested the GPL's validity. How can that be - and is it a problem for the open source software movement?
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Make that Three: India Appeals Adoption of OOXML
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Last night was the deadline for filing appeals to the adoption of OOXML by ISO/IEC JTC 1. This morning, a spokesman for the IEC acknowledged the receipt of a total of three appeals by the deadline, with the third and final appeal being filed by India, as reported by Peter Sayers, of the IDG News Service.
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Another Backlash Against Microsoft in Denmark; Anger Over Microsoft Office Lock-in
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How Microsoft lost the office file format battle
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When MS announced that SP2 for Office 2007 would support ODF and not OOXML, it suffered defeat at its own hands
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IIT Bombay, Microsoft at loggerheads over standards
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Embers from the fiery debate over the International Organisation for Standardisation's (ISO) acceptance of Microsoft's Office Open XML (OOXML) file format as an international standard refuse to die out in India.
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Official Danish complaint to ISO
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The organazation OSL (www.osl.dk) (Danish organazation of OpenSource vendors) has officially posted a complaint to ISO (and Danish Standards). The complaint is regarding the process in the Danish National Body.
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What might come of the OOXML revolt?
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It’s late, and in terms of the process it’s hopeless, but the appeals of the ISO vote making Office Open XML (OOXML) an official standard could still have an impact.
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DeviceVM's proprietary/Linux split explained
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Covering Asus' adoption of DeviceVM's Splashtop software in all its motherboards and some laptops, we were wondering exactly which parts were proprietary and which were Linux - hence pulling back from calling it a "Linux OS".
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ODF: Open Standard; OOXML: The New and Unimproved .DOC/.XLS/Other
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OOXML might never catch on like its similar predecessor; Italy does ODF
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Interesting New Moves in Kenya After Alleged Microsoft Blackmail
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There are some shifts of power in Kenya's standards body shortly after strong accusation were flying
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Kenya standards bureau tackles IT
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The Kenya Bureau of Standards (KEBS), taking the first step toward developing national IT standards, is inviting experts to join technical committees.
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Open Source Software Shows Its Muscle
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Two recent events should give for-profit companies new reasons to re-evaluate the ways in which they use open source software as well as the extent to which they use it.
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