Eben Moglen gives a talk titled "Patents at a Crossroads: Bilski and Beyond"
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Microsoft donates .NET Micro Framework to open source
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Microsoft has released part of its .NET Framework - the part for internet-connected smart devices - into the open-source community. The company said on Monday that it's releasing source code for the .NET Micro Framework under an Apache 2.0 license.
Read more »Microsoft Drags Its Feet on GPL Code Release
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"While we worked extremely hard to try and get the code ready for release by today, we still need to test and localize it. Our goal is now to release the tool in all languages on the same day in the next few weeks."[Excuse me all over the place for not buying that excuse. Publish the code of the program as it was released!-gus3]
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UK Alert: Stop the Pirate-Finder General!
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Lord Peter Mandelson, the UK's First Secretary of State, has introduced a bill to grant himself (and future politicians) the power to re-write Britain's core copyright legislation with almost no Parliamentary debate, using fast-track secondary legislation.
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Novell's Reply to SCO's Opposition to Consolidation/One Judge
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Novell has filed its Reply [PDF] to SCO's Response Concerning Novell's Notice of Related Proceeding, which asks the new judge now assigned to the Novell case in Utah, Hon. Ted Stewart, to consolidate the two cases, SCO v. IBM and SCO v. Novell, or in the alternative to at least assign the same judge to both, which SCO opposes.
Read more »Oracle-Sun: Senators and JasperSoft CEO Pressure EU
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From Washington, D.C., to Silicon Valley, senators and software industry CEOs are pressuring the European Union to make a decision on Oracle’s proposed buyout of Sun Microsystems and the MySQL open source database. Here’s the latest chatter, including a letter from JasperSoft CEO Brian Gentile to the EU.
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CrunchPad partner plans media event
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The man whom TechCrunch blog network founder and editor Michael Arrington blamed for killing his CrunchPad hardware project has scheduled a video call with reporters and industry analysts for Monday, according to a Silicon Valley public relations firm.
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Here's What Ocean Park Advisors Has Been Doing
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We find out now what Ocean Park Advisors has been doing on SCO's behalf since they were hired by the Chapter 11 Trustee Edward Cahn. Submitting a bill for $196,002.50. Gulp. For six weeks' work.
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Looking for Violations in Free Software: Fearsome or Awesome?
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As OpenLogic goes head-to-head with Black Duck, the troubling question again arises, "do they make Free software look scary?"
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Phony open source to be a 2010 trend
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Who knows, maybe O'Reilly will do a book on this, with some strange beastie on the cover. What would an OSINO look like? (Open Source In Name Only.)
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Microsoft Puts Windows 7 USB/DVD Tool under GPL
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Microsoft had released a tool in mid-November that generated bootable USB media or a DVD from the download version of Windows 7 and that conflicted with the GNU Public License. They now followed up by putting the tool under GPLv2.
Read more »Open Source Licensing Detection Gets More Competitive
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With the current economic recession, open source software is a route that some enterprise developers are increasingly considering as a lower-cost alterative to proprietary solutions. However, one of the potential issues with open source software adoption is license compliance—ensuring that developers and enterprises are not in violation with a particular license.
Read more »Answering SCO Bit by Bit - The Robert Swartz Memo, Take 2
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A reader points out that SCO's legal page seems to be changing. Since that likely indicates what they are planning going forward and what cards they imagine they are holding, we at Groklaw thought it would be useful to answer them, item by item.
Read more »Japanese ODF Standard Released, Alex Brown Seemingly Attacks OOXML Dissent (Again)
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Several more advancements for ODF and another eye-opening reminder that poorer countries are discriminated against by the Microsoft-faithful crowd
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Freedom to Innovate and Consumers, Winners in the EU Case Against MS, What About Arab Governments?
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As many believe, web users and innovators emerged winners upon the completion of the European Commission’s investigation into Microsoft’s browser-bundling practices. Microsoft will now offer users of Windows XP, Windows Vista and Windows 7 a screen presenting a choice of Web browsers.
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