The static typed variant of the Groovy dynamic language which offers as-fast-as-Java performance with the productivity of Groovy, is now fully open source
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Today's Bankruptcy Hearing Was Cancelled; Patent Sold, Order Signed
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Bankruptcy court gets more and more weird. Today's scheduled hearing in SCO's bankruptcy was cancelled at the last minute. No one told the U.S. Trustee's Office, I gather, since our reporter showed up and so did that office's representative. Meanwhile, the order approving the sale of the patent was approved and signed by the judge. They should just skip hearings.
Read more »IBM and the labors of TurboHercules
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Once upon a time, IBM was seen as the dark force in the computing industry - Darth Vader in a Charlie Chaplin mask. More recently, though, the company has come across as a strong friend of Linux and free software. It contributes a lot of code and has made a point of defending against SCO in ways which defended Linux as a whole.
Read more »Shaping IP Laws by Not-So-Gentle Persuasion: The Special 301 Report
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Since 1989, the USTR has used the Special 301 Report to intimidate other countries into adopting more stringent copyright and patent laws by singling out particular countries for their "bad" intellectual property policies, naming them on a tiered set of "watch lists,"
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Annotating SCO's Findings of "Fact" and Conclusions of Law - Want to Help?
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I have been quietly working on a project that I now realize would be more fun and more effective if we do it together, annotating SCO's proposed Findings of Fact and Conclusions of Law [PDF]. We were all stunned to read what they filed with the court, and I thought about historians someday reading this document and imagining it to be 100% accurate.
Read more »Cherry-Picking Open Source Licenses
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The widespread creation and reuse of open source software by commercial companies has introduced a whole new level of complexity to the legal challenges related to software licenses.
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Groggle boggled by Google mean spirit
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More trademark madness to rival the M$ prosecution of the mikerowesoft kids. ACTA is about to further entrench this sort of insane cyber trademark bullying, world-wide.
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Google grants license for Apache Hadoop
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Google has granted a license for a recently granted MapReduce process patent to the Apache Software Foundation for the Apache Hadoop open source framework for distributed computing
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Microsoft code analysis tool StyleCop goes open source
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The Microsoft tool can be integrated into Visual Studio or MSBuild projects and, as well as analysing C# code, checks for conformity with style, consistency and programming rules
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SCO Files Motion for Judgment As a Matter of Law
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SCO has filed its "renewed" motion for judgment "as a matter of law", with its supporting memorandum. They ask the judge to rule over the heads of the jury and decide that the jury "simply got it wrong" when it ruled that SCO didn't get the copyrights in 1995 from Novell. In the alternative, they'd like a new trial.
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SCO May Be Trying to Resurrect Novell Case
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SCO is trying to claim ownership of UNIX and it may also want a new trial
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Sony Sued For Removal Of Linux Support From PS3
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A class action lawsuit has been filed against Sony Computer Entertainment America for the removal of the 'Other OS' feature from the PlayStation 3.
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Novell v. Vigilant Insurance
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Well, this is fascinating. Here's an order from Judge Ted Stewart in a dispute between Novell and its insurer, Vigilant Insurance Company. Novell tried to get them to pay for the SCO v. Novell litigation back in 2004 and they refused, so Novell sued last May.
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Acacia’s Case Against GNU/Linux is Dead
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The patent troll known as Acacia loses its case against Red Hat and against Novell
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Red Hat and Novell Beat IP Innovation and in Marshall, Texas, too
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Do you remember the patent infringement case IP Innovation filed against Red Hat and Novell in 2007? We looked for prior art, if you recall. Well, I'm very happy to tell you that Red Hat and Novell have prevailed in the litigation...
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