I just received our first word on the hearing in Utah on SCO v. Novell from one of our reporters. "looking for a march 8th trial date, to run 3 weeks" is the report. I'm sure there will be more info on the way as soon as they can type it up. We had several eyewitnesses in attendance. So stay tuned for updates.
Read more »First Word from Utah in SCO v. Novell: Trial Set for March
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Closed Is New Open: Software Industry Bends Standards
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The European Interoperability Framework, EIF, regulates how public agencies, citizens and businesses communicate with other on a software level. Now an alliance of proprietary ventures has had an influence on the EIF draft.
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Yahoo's Lawful Spying Guide - PDF
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Downloadable Yahoo pdf describes their procedures for supplying law enforcement with information gleaned from their customers. Currently fourth entry on Crytome's index. Internet privacy? Not guaranteed by Yahoo.
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Does “Tivoization” Also Mean Massively Suing All Competitors Using Software Patents?
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TiVo's shift to a strategy of patent litigation is not paying off, patent trolling becomes common, Microsoft rides the wave
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Helge Sander Helps Microsoft Again by Blocking ODF in Denmark
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Danish minister with history of Microsoft affinity is suspending a move to make OpenDocument Format the only national standard
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The 158 Exhibits Attached to Novell's Response to MS's Cross Motion for SJ in Antitrust Suit
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And now, as promised and thanks to your donations, we have the 158 exhibits, attached to Novell's response [PDF] to Microsoft's cross motion for summary judgment in the WordPerfect antitrust litigation. This is the other side of that story.
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Open Letter to Lord Mandelson (Video)
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Dan Bull responds to Lord Mandelson (”Dan Bull – Dear Mandy – an open letter to Lord Mandelson”)
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Vandana Shiva talks about patenting of seeds; other examples of privatisation with patents and funding.
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Study: Intellectual Monopolies (Patents) Vastly Dominated by… the Monopolies
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A not-so-overly-alarmist reminder of how monopolies are taking over society using self-serving laws and establishments, including the patent office
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The Case for a Mono-Free Ubuntu and Novell’s Case for a Mono Fee Ubuntu
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Canonical's route to escaping Microsoft's patent extortion is simple owing to gThumb and Gnote, but will it manage to see Mono's agenda?
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Microsoft May Have Failed to Comply With the GNU GPL (Again)
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No compliance after GPL violation from Microsoft; the exploited project is meanwhile unpublished by its author
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The Distraction of Transparency: an ACTA News Roundup
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Senators have begun to express concern over the secrecy and content of ACTA, while the MPAA, RIAA ,,, rush to reassure them that ACTA — will be good for business and that "transparency is a distraction".
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Legal Compliance: Open Source and Quality Assurance
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In the age of open source and large scale outsourcing, assuring the quality of software must comprise ascertaining its legal compliance as well. Numerous legal cases in recent years have highlighted the business risks and the enormous costs incurred when this is not done properly.
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Sun Microsystems To Relicense Its X.Org Code
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Alan Coopersmith on behalf of Sun Microsystems has announced this afternoon that they will be relicensing all of their past and present X server work under the canonical form of the X.Org license in its latest form. This is being done to reduce the number of MIT license variants within the X Server...
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Open letter to Nexon
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"제발 한국을 읽고 아래로 스크롤합니다. Hello, my name is Jacob Lludkrab, I am an advocate for Free Software. I am writing to you in hopes that this email might reach the Combat Arms developers, or those in charge of the licensing of Combat Arms. Will you please forward it to the appropriate recipients?
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