This whole "intellectual property" mania is a mental illness that deserves its own entry into the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders.
Read more »Intellectual Property Is A Mental Illness
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RIAA's claim rejected
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RMS: « A US court rejected the RIAA's claim that every copy shared P2P means a lost sale. The outcome is nonetheless an injustice. Noncommercial sharing, and noncommercially helping people to share, must be legal. »
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LCA2009: Why ODF should be the chosen one
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Suarez-Potts, an employee of Sun Microsystems, was speaking at the Australian national Linux conference in Hobart about the OpenDocument Format and OpenOffice.org and the reasons for using it.
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Microsoft's metered pay-as-you-go patent. It's Trusted Computing Mark Two but worse
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This time, Microsoft may have outdone themselves with a proposed patent of such breathtaking hubris that it makes their previous FUD pale by comparison.
Read more »Opening Up Video on the Web - Is it Possible?
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The web works because of open standards. It doesn't matter whether you're reading this on a Firefox on Linux, Opera Mini on a BlackBerry, IE on Windows, or even (possibly with a few issues) WorldWideWeb on NEXTSTEP. You can still read this content, because all of the protocols and languages used to encode and deliver this content to you are open standards.
Read more »The GPL is designed to put big corporations and individual contributors on equal footing
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«...The GPL is designed to put big corporations like Microsoft and individual contributors on equal footing," said Kuhn.
Read more »Mozilla Goes to Bat for Open-Source Video on the Web
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If Mozilla has its way, you'll soon be able to watch streaming video on sites all over the web without ever having to use a plug-in.
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Sun Vice President Battles the “Intellectual Property” Propaganda Term
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Simon Phipps speaks against intellectual property; software patents suffer in the US
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Linus’ Old Employer Swept by Microsoft’s Patent Übertroll
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Nathan Myhrvold's patent-trolling firm (backed by Microsoft) scoops Transmeta's patents
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Cory Doctorow just gets it.
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Cory Doctorow just gets it. Here is what he said about copyright accusations. “The Internet’s a single wire that delivers freedom of speech, of assembly and of the press — it’s a conduit for civic engagement, health care, employment, education, distant family, love and life.
Read more »How Music DRM Was Conceived at Microsoft Over a Decade Ago
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Antitrust exhibit drops clues about DRM being originated (at least conceptually) with Gates in 1998
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Combat Arms Ubuntu Trademark
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Proprietary software, we all know it, almost all of us have once used it. Video games are software, and the majority of all games on the market are still proprietary. When a free game uses a popular GNU/Linux distribution logo, therefore, trademark, to describe something; most GNU/Linux distribution vendors let it slide.
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Linux Defenders organize to fight patent trolls
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In December, General Patent Corp. announced it was working on behalf of Worlds.com to enforce its patents on "Scalable Virtual World Chat Client-Server System" and "System and Method for Enabling Users to Interact in a Virtual Space," which date back to 1995.
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SkyOS faces choice of go open source or go away
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SkyOS, an ambitious operating system for x86 PCs, has halted development and is considering whether to go open source or just close up shop.
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MAFIAA Enters the United States Government, Pro-Patents Lobbyists Also
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An overview of patent law and new developments around the world .
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