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Watering down European standards

http://www.h-online.com

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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Created by clandestine 14 years 24 weeks ago
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Novell Wins Again - Jury Rules Copyrights Didn't Go to SCO

http://www.groklaw.net

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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Created by lando 14 years 24 weeks ago
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Decision in the SCO vs. Novell trial

http://www.novell.com

Today, the jury in the District Court of Utah trial between SCO Group and Novell issued a verdict.

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Created by kbcornwell 14 years 24 weeks ago
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Novell Beats SCO in Unix Jury Trial

http://itmanagement.earthweb.com

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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Created by Formaxx 14 years 24 weeks ago
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The GPLv3 in Plain English – The Parts Microsoft Worries About

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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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Created by armin 14 years 24 weeks ago
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Novell Wins! SCO Loses!

http://blogs.computerworld.com

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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Created by lando 14 years 24 weeks ago
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Legal Strings Remain in Novell-SCO Group Tussle over Unix

http://www.eweek.com

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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Created by laloj 14 years 24 weeks ago
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Alex Brown: "Without action, the entire OOXML project is now surely heading for failure"

http://www.consortiuminfo.org

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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Created by netturfer 14 years 24 weeks ago
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OOXML Crony Admits That “Microsoft Fails the Standards Test”

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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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Created by komrad 14 years 24 weeks ago
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What Happens Next in the SCO Case (Post Novell)

http://boycottnovell.com

Explanations from authoritative sources of what SCO may do next (except what it publicly says it will do)

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Created by komrad 14 years 24 weeks ago
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Federal Appeals Court Deals Blow to OOXML as it Becomes Increasingly Irrelevant

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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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Created by komrad 14 years 24 weeks ago
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Microsoft Could Buy UNIX, Novell and Microsoft to Return to the Courtroom

http://boycottnovell.com

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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Created by komrad 14 years 24 weeks ago
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Bankruptcy Hearing on Darl's Mobility Offer on April 7 is "Going Forward"

http://www.groklaw.net

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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Created by mick 14 years 24 weeks ago
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FSF and Eclipse offer guidance on licences

http://www.h-online.com

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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Created by kitin 14 years 23 weeks ago
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XML expert says Microsoft's OOXML fails standards test

http://www.h-online.com

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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