Canonical ought to offer some form of disclosure about patent deals with the MPEG cartel
Read more »Symptoms of the Sickness of the Patent System and Apple’s Infinite Greed
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The patent system receives more mockery and jabs while monopolies like Apple exploit it in order to marginalise competition
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Canonical explains Ubuntu unfree video choice
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Canonical is the first Linux shop to have agreed to license the codec in question, H.264 from MPEG LA. Even though Red Hat and Novell are also available for use on PCs, they have not licensed H.264.
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Eben Moglen on Freedom in The Cloud (Ogg)
Free Software Foundation Europe Likens Apple/Microsoft Behaviour to Blackmail
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The Free Software Foundation Europe (FSFE) calls the spade "a spade"; Nokia's solution to the extortion problem cannot be generalised, so patent reform is urgently needed
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Diaspora: Freedom in the Cloud?
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One of the key thinkers in the free software world is Eben Moglen. He's been the legal brains behind the most recent iterations of the GNU GPL.
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Dear Google: Please Abolish Software Patents, Don’t ‘Donate’ Patent ‘Protection’
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Google is playing "patent God" by acquiring a monopoly on MapReduce and then pardoning those who worship its feet and don't pose a commercial threat
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Software patents: Stifling innovation with threats and bluster
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Jobs replied, saying that “[a] patent pool is being assembled to go after Theora and other open source codecs now.” The news spread like wildfire. This episode provides a good example of how software patents harm innovation and why they are ultimately incompatible with Free Software. Any program - Free Software or not - is threatened by patents.
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Total victory for open source software in a patent lawsuit
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The jury verdict last Friday in favor of Red Hat and Novell in a case based on bad software patents owned by "non-practicing entities" is an important victory for the open source community.
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ODF at 5 Years
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Five years ago today, on May 1st, 2005 OASIS approved Open Document Format 1.0 as an OASIS Standard. I’d like to take a few brief minutes to reflect on this milestone, but only a few.
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SCO: jurors too busy Facebooking to rule on Unix claim
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SCO Group wants a judge to overrule a jury that found it doesn’t own Unix. Or it wants a fresh trial. Either, really, as long as SCO gets the result it wants.
Read more »Why Our Civilization's Video Art and Culture is Threatened by the MPEG-LA
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Did you know your camera has a license agrement that says that you can only use that camera to shoot video for "personal use and non-commercial"?
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Microsoft says Android infringes its patents - HTC pays up.
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Microsoft believes that elements from both the user interface and the underlying operating system are in violation of its rights.
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Is the Microsoft-HTC patent deal more about Linux or Apple?
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Does the Microsoft-HTC patent agreement mean we can expect to see Microsoft weigh in on the Apple vs. HTC patent infringement matter? Or is the Microsoft-HTC deal just one more example (with more mobile-phone makers possibly to come) of Linux companies attempting to head off potential Microsoft lawsuits involving Linux?
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Sony Sued for Removal of Linux Support From PS3
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Dropping support for Linux on the PS3 has landed Sony in court. A class-action suit filed Tuesday in a San Francisco court (via IGN) claims that the intentional disablement of Other OS support constitutes a breach of sales contract as well as a breach of the covenant of good faith and fair dealing.
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