The concept of open IT standards, which is central to the European Interoperability Framework (EIF), is to be watered down to such a degree that it will fade into insignificance. At least that's the impression given by a current EIF 2 release leaked to the Free Software Foundation Europe
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Novell Wins Again - Jury Rules Copyrights Didn't Go to SCO
It's over. The jury has found that the copyrights did not go to SCO under the APA or anything else. The verdict is in. Novell has the news up on their website already, but I heard it from Chris Brown also. Here's the brief Novell statement...
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Decision in the SCO vs. Novell trial
Today, the jury in the District Court of Utah trial between SCO Group and Novell issued a verdict.
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Novell Beats SCO in Unix Jury Trial
The jury decision from the District Court of Utah ruled in favor of Novell, which could serve to end SCO's legal actions against Novell, IBM and the broader Linux community.
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The GPLv3 in Plain English – The Parts Microsoft Worries About
Awhile back I read the small print about Microsoft’s Moonlight software distribution. It specifically mentions the stuff they don’t like about the GPLv3. Interesting. Let’s see what they are worried about.
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Novell Wins! SCO Loses!
Yes, it's true. After just more than 7-years of SCO lawsuits, SCO has lost its last real chance of causing Linux and the companies that support it-IBM; Novell, and Red Hat--any real trouble.
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Legal Strings Remain in Novell-SCO Group Tussle over Unix
There are still some dangling legal strings that need to be trimmed, and those won't happen for at least a few weeks -- barring any more appeals, of course, by the Lindon, Utah-based SCO Group. One of them involves counterclaims by IBM and Red Hat.
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Alex Brown: "Without action, the entire OOXML project is now surely heading for failure"
Alex thinks that Microsoft has failed to fulfill crucial promises upon which the approval of OOXML was based. He concludes that unless Microsoft reverses course promptly, "the entire OOXML project is now surely heading for failure."
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OOXML Crony Admits That “Microsoft Fails the Standards Test”
Microsoft back into its walled gardens after bribing, cheating, stuffing ballots, and lying to everyone for the sake of hurting document standards (ODF)
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What Happens Next in the SCO Case (Post Novell)
Explanations from authoritative sources of what SCO may do next (except what it publicly says it will do)
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Federal Appeals Court Deals Blow to OOXML as it Becomes Increasingly Irrelevant
This past week of Document Freedom brings even more abysmal news for Microsoft's corruption-riddled response to ODF (OpenDocument Format)
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Microsoft Could Buy UNIX, Novell and Microsoft to Return to the Courtroom
Novell's ownership of UNIX leads to increasingly-prevalent concern that UNIX is not in safe hands; Novell promises to appeal the WordPerfect ruling
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Bankruptcy Hearing on Darl's Mobility Offer on April 7 is "Going Forward"
The agenda for the hearing in bankruptcy court regarding Darl McBride's offer to buy the SCO mobility assets set for April 7th is now posted on Pacer...
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FSF and Eclipse offer guidance on licences
The Free Software Foundation and Eclipse Foundation have released guidance on how each organisations licenses, GPL and EPL, interact with each other. At the core of the debate is the question "Can you GPL an Eclipse plug-in?"
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XML expert says Microsoft's OOXML fails standards test
Alex Brown, the convenor of the ISO's Office Open XML (OOXML) Ballot Resolution Meeting, has accused Microsoft of failure in its efforts to transform the document format into a genuinely open standard
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