Lordy, lordy, lordy. They have no shame. It appears that Microsoft has just patented sudo, a personalized version of it. Here it is, patent number 7617530. Thanks, USPTO, for giving Microsoft, which is already a monopoly, a monopoly on something that's been in use since 1980 and wasn't invented by Microsoft.
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IBM and Open Forum Europe Address European Interoperability Framework (EIF) Fiasco
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Version 2 of the European Interoperability Framework (EIF) addressed by Open Forum Europe and IBM's Bob Sutor, along with a European colleague
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Let's Act on ACTA Before it's Too Late
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It was over a year ago that I wrote about the “Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement” (ACTA), a new global standard for the enforcement of intellectual monopolies currently being discussed by representatives of the United States, the European Commission, Japan, Switzerland, Canada, Australia, Korea, Mexico and New Zealand.
Read more »SFLC tech director finds one new GPL violator every day
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The technical director of the Software Freedom Law Center says that GPL violations are so common that he finds an average of one new violator every day. In a recent blog entry, Bradley Kuhn offers some guidance about how the community should handle suspected violations.
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Oracle: European Commission Fails to Grasp Open Source
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Oracle claims that the European Commission's public policy against Oracle's takeover of MySQL runs counter to open source freedom and the growing database market.
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SUSE Moves to Lift Stay on Arbitration; Novell Asks to Consolidate with IBM Litigation
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Novell has made two moves. In bankruptcy court, SUSE asks that the stay be lifted so the arbitration can go forward. And in Utah, Novell has filed a motion asking that the SCO v. Novell and SCO v. IBM litigations either be consolidated with SCO v. IBM or at least be assigned to the same judge, Tena Campbell.
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MS pulls download tool over GPL violation accusation
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Microsoft has taken offline an utility it supplies to help download DVD and USB images of Windows 7 purchased online, while it investigates allegations that GPL-ed code was used to develop the tool.
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Bilski Hearing Starts Well for Abolishers of Software Patents
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Early reports suggest that judges are hostile towards abstract patents like Bilski's
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Bilski hearing implications for software patents
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An analysis by End Software Patents of what the Judges' statements at Monday's Bilski hearing say about patenting software ideas.
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Microsoft yanks Windows code on GPL violation claim (third time's the charm)
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Microsoft has pulled a Windows 7 media and administration tool from the Microsoft Store site for apparently violating the GPL. The company yanked ImageMaster after Within Windows blogger Rafael Rivera spotted the disc reading and burning tool was a CodePlex project licensed under GPLv2.
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Did Microsoft Borrow GPL Code For a Windows 7 Utility?
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While poking through the UDF-related internals of the Windows 7 USB/DVD Download Tool, I had a weird feeling there was just wayyyyyyyyy too much code in there for such a simple tool. A simple search of some method names and properties, gleaned from Reflector’s output, revealed the source code was obviously lifted from the CodePlex-hosted (yikes) GPLv2-licensed ImageMaster project.
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Microsoft Found to be a GPL Violator, Again?
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GPLv2-licensed code finds its way into Vista 7, based on one source
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Court Gets A Torrent-full About Linux
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BitTorrent is one of the most contentious technologies available. At least, that is, to the Old Order, those lovely suit-clad corporate types bent on holding technology forever in the days of the — manual — typewriter. The technology, and the suits' dreams of a world free of it, are on trial in Australia, where Linux made an appearance today — at the defense table.
Read more »Joseph Stiglitz on Why TRIPS (Patents) is Like Murder
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In a talk about intellectual monopolies, Joseph Stiglitz explains what those trade provisions really are about
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Leaked ACTA Internet Provisions: Three Strikes and a Global DMCA
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The leaks confirm everything that we feared about the secret ACTA negotiations..including obligations on ISPs to adopt Three Strikes Internet disconnection policies, and a global expansion of DMCA-style TPM laws.act
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