Novell gets some new intellectual monopolies and Microsoft gets sued over patent infringement

"...The suit, filed by Bethesda-based CoStar Realty Information, alleges that managers at New York’s Dumann Realty illegally accessed CoStar's Web site, a subscription to which costs hundreds of dollars a month and provides clients with real estate information such as photos and vacancy databases, by borrowing another customer's user information..."

Bill Gates snubbed JDK 1.2 and chose the older version, 1.1, instead

"We have signed the Stop Software Patents .eu petition to support their view on serious restrains current software patent legislations cause..."

"The Free Art license is the English language version of the Licence Art Libre, a French copyleft license for works of art. Created in July 2000, it is the first free license, in the spirit of the GNU General Public License, dedicated to works of art..."

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A timely lesson to be learned from Cisco's GPL violations

"...Once you have collected the details, you should send a precise report to the copyright holder of the packages that are being misused. The copyright holder is the one who is legally authorized to take action to enforce the license..." -- via GNU Affero General Public License