...when I see that one attorney thinks there's an "easy technical work-around" for Microsoft's patent violation in Word, my alarm bells go off. There is no easy fix here, and, short of waving the white-flag, Microsoft may very well have to stop selling Word, and thus Microsoft Office, this fall.
Read more »Darl McBride: On trees, branches and leaves
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I've been going through the testimony at the July 27th hearing in SCO's bankruptcy, the one that resulted in the court ordering the management out of control and a Chapter 11 trustee appointed. It's fascinating to compare what was testified to under oath at that hearing with what was testified to under oath at the SCO v. Novell trial last May.
Read more »Microsoft Files Emergency Motion to Stay Execution of Judgment in i4i
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Microsoft on August 14th filed a sealed motion, in response to the August 11 judgment and injunction against it in i4i v. Microsoft. I can't show you a sealed motion, obviously, but here's the docket entry, to at least give you a clue...
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Is use of the GPL really decreasing?
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Is it reasonable to raise the question "does X still matter?" when the X in question is in use among nearly two-thirds of the target users under discussion?
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A new GCC runtime library license snag?
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The saga of the GCC runtime library has been covered here a couple of times in the past. The library's license is a legal hack which tries to accomplish a set of seemingly conflicting goals.
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Canadians: Please make your voice heard today on copyright law
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"The Canadian government has set up an online public consultation process to revise its copyright policy, running until September 13, 2009. If you live in Canada, now is your chance to take back your copyright law..."
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Ubuntu Tweaks Patent Policy, MS Has “IP Group”
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XML Patent for Microsoft
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The core of US Patent 7,571,169 which Microsoft was granted on August 4th refers to – "A word-processing document stored in a single XML file that may be manipulated by applications that understand XML".
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Any Questions About the SCO Bankruptcy Hearing? I Have a Transcript
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I have now a copy of the official transcript of the SCO bankruptcy hearing on July 27, 2009. It's a 527-page document, so it will take a while to go through it, and I have to clarify the rights issues before I can post it, which will take a while. Meanwhile, I thought it would be useful to let you post any questions you would like answered. I'll then try to answer them later this evening.
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Sony open sources digital effects software
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Film effects specialist Sony Pictures Imageworks has released five digital image-manipulation software tools under open source licenses.
Read more »Open Invention Network starts buying patents
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The Open Invention Network (OIN) today announced that it was starting a new programme to acquire patents from "entrepreneurial inventors".
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Patents, Video, and an Open Internet
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For a number of reasons, I’m fascinated by the fight over the tag in HTML5 as related by Ryan Paul of Ars Technica – and not just because I like the idea of not having to install a plugin to watch video online.
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More Countries Move to ODF, But What About Portugal?
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OpenDocument Format (ODF) is increasingly adopted and the latest dealings in Portugal give reasons for concern
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Yes Linus, Microsoft hating is a disease. And it's a pandemic
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The submission by Microsoft of twenty thousand lines of code to the Kernel has, predictably, caused many an eyebrow to arch. The phrase "beware Greeks bearing gifts" comes swiftly to mind.
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Launchpad Open-Sourced. Now What?
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Launchpad, a Web application developed by Canonical for managing software development, was finally open-sourced last week. But with a number of its other products remaining proprietary, what are Canonical's real intentions towards living by the free-software ideology that drives projects like Ubuntu?
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