U.S. regulatory authorities today filed a lawsuit against Intel, alleging a 10-year history of monopolistic behavior that saw the world's largest chipmaker use its dominant market power to crowd out cheaper, potentially superior alternatives.

Earlier this week, the latest round of BusyBox GPL lawsuits were announced by the SFLC. The current offenders are Best Buy, JVC, Samsung, Westinghouse and 10 others. It seems that every few months, there are a new round of violations or lawsuits announced, so it behooves every company that distributes software or products containing software to ensure they aren't ever on the list.

I've been engaged in a wide range of open source software projects and communities, including the Android OpenMoko, and Maemo Linux-based mobile platforms. Violations are commonplace. However, if you follow the nine tips I present here, you can avoid problems, while still benefiting from what the open source software community has to offer.

Although the mainstream media has tried to make it a big deal, a closer look at the recent court ruling ordering Microsoft to stop selling Word, shows it's really not going to have very much impact.

More software adds ODF support; ODF disinformation comes from sources supportive of Microsoft or actually paid directly by Microsoft

A couple of weeks ago (Dec 12, 2009 to be exact) Miguel di Icaza made a bold move and pulled all GPL code out of MonoDevelop, replacing it with LGPL Of course the open source community had a lot to say about this.

Microsoft has lied about OOXML patents and willfully infringed patents with it, only to be denounced years down the line