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.
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ODF writer to be included in Qt 4.5
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To speed up ODF recognition Qt 4.5 will ship with an ODF writer. Qt’s text module turns into a one stop document generation API where you can use QTextCursor to create your document via a nice API and you can then export the created QTextDocument to ODF ready to be opened by any opendocument implementation. Naturally exporting to plain text and html are still supported, as is printing to PDF.
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IBM to open source supercomputing code
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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.
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New OOXML Fiasco: Germany and Canada Propose Microsoft as Editor for ODF-OOXML Convergence
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Leaked document shows that old tricks may be back as Microsoft seeks control over formats
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Linux patent pool to push for 'defensive publication'
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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.
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Editor's Note: Open Source Is Not Going To Sue You
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The Pitfalls of Open Source Litigation ran a couple of days ago. It painted a picture of Open Source software as being a minefield of grumpy litigious geeks who want to cash in with fat lawsuits, and no clear guidance for how to stay out of trouble. Oddly, this all seemed to come from a most unlikely source, the director of the Gnome Foundation, Stormy Peters.
Read more »Free-OpenServer. What a Concept!
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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.
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It’s Not Innovation, It’s Collusion
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Backed by the latest news, here is a critique of a system that obstructs competition
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Hearing Postponed on Gifting York- New Date Sept. 16 [or never?]
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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.
Read more »Rethinking patent law
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We (Bessen and Meurer) received a nice note from Judge Plager letting us know that he cited our book, Patent Failure, in his recent speech where he called for rethinking patent law by returning to its origins in property law.
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Patent News: The Big Myth, Microsoft vs. Avistar, Trolls, and Urgent Reform
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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’.
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Open source advocates hail appeals court ruling
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Free software advocates are praising a federal appeals ruling that allows greater protection for open-source software against copyright infringement.
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OOXML Appeals Rejected
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I know it will not surprise you to hear that ISO/IEC have rejected the four appeals against OOXML. Here's their press release. Now what?
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Court: violating copyleft = copyright infringement
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A federal appeals court has overruled a lower court ruling that, if sustained, would have severely hampered the enforceability of free software licenses. The lower court had found that redistributing software in violation of the terms of a free software license could constitute a breach of contract, but was not copyright infringement.
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Vaster Than Empires, and More Slow
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The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit ruled that the Artistic License really is a copyright license and not a contract.
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