A European Java developers' conference has been prevented from using Javapolis and JaVoxx after opposition from Sun's lawyers. The conference now has a new name, but there's no obvious Java connection.
Read more »A Question About the Novell-Microsoft Deal
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I've been thinking about something for a few days now. It's about the latest Novell-Microsoft deal that was announced on August 20, where Microsoft agreed to buy another $100 million worth of vouchers from Novell. I was wondering: how come two public companies can make a deal that seems to me to be material and yet keep pieces of the deal secret?
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ODF approved as Swedish Standard
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Without making a press release or public announcement the Swedish Standards Institute has formally approved ODF 1.0 as a national standard. Only the “SS” prefix in SS-ISO/IEC 26300:2008 give away the status of the document.
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OSS advocates file human rights complaint against SA election body
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The head of South Africa’s government open source working group, the chief technical officer of the State IT Agency (Sita) and The Shuttleworth Foundation, have laid a complaint with the Human Rights Commission (HRC) against the Independent Electoral Commission (IEC) for excluding non-Internet Explorer users from it website.
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Google shows its anti-social Fakebook-like side: what’s yours is theirs to use forever after!
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"WARNING: The Big Bad Google has released a web browser - and it is very fast reviews are telling us, but don’t start using it too fast, better read the license and face(book) the consequences: ..." --
* see also: Chrome license makes Google more than the new Big Brother
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CONSEGI 2008 Declaration -- Open Letter to ISO Reveals More OOXML Issues
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There is an unexpected reaction from major government IT agencies in six countries condemning the ISO/IEC refusal to act on the four appeals against OOXML, which they say "reflects poorly" on ISO/IEC. They have signed and sent an open letter to ISO, which I'll show you in full. The countries represented are South Africa, Brazil, Venezuela, Ecuador, Paraguay, and Cuba.
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Google's weird ways with open-source licenses
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CNET's Stephen Shankland has already picked up on Google's decision to allow two popular open-source licenses back onto its Google Code open-source repository. Up until now, the Mozilla Public License (MPL) and Eclipse Public License (EPL) were both banned from the site.
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The Dangers of Weak Copyleft
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"I’m trying to wrap my head around embedding, given the on-going attempts to make the DRM font format “Embedded OpenType” a W3C web standard..."
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Teenage Riot? - Letter of Outrage to ISO
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Now this is becoming interesting, or perhaps just very unfortunate: The countries appealing against the ISO procedure on the OOXML standardization have signed and sent a letter of protest to the ISO.
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Debian not complying to licenses
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"First of all, I don't want to blame individual persons. This is just a note of how disappointed I'm about some parts of Debian that are not complying to licenses when it comes to distributing software..."
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GPL 3 – The good, the bad, and the patent protected
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Version 2 of the General Public License ("GPL 2") has led a long and prosperous life in the software community since its release in 1991. It has been embraced by software developers and used more than any other free software license.
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Quebec sued for ignoring Free Software
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"MONTREAL, Aug. 27 /CNW Telbec/ - FACIL, a non-profit association, which promotes the collective appropriation of Free Software, contests the Quebec government purchasing methods for software used within public administrations.
Read more »FSF India Fights Patent Deform by Microsoft and Partners
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Free software supporters in India fight against another attempt to legalise software patents
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Software Patents Riot Spreads to Four Continents
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Renewed action against the spread of software patents seems to be surging so suddenly
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Mickey Mouse
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RMS: « Disney bought a US law to extend the copyright on the drawing of Mickey Mouse, but it may have lost that copyright in 1929 through an error.
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