THE UK'S CHALLENGE to Microsoft's bid to have its documents become an official international standard is back on track.
Read more »OOXML battle bus is back in action
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Java finally open-sourced. Does anyone still care?
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The IcedTea Project has completed a major milestone by passing the Java Test Compatibility Kit (TCK). What all that means is that the IcedTea Project has achieved what Sun promised to do over two years ago at JavaOne: make Java completely open-source. Red Hat's Fedora 9 will be the first Linux distribution to ship with an OpenJDK binary, and other Linux distributions will probably follow.
Read more »Fight the Canadian DMCA!
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On Wednesday, Industry Minister Jim Prentice introduced a bill that BoingBoing's Cory Doctorow described as making it "flatly illegal to break any kind of digital lock, or to violate terms in one of those absurd end-user license agreements that make you promise to agree to let the record industry kick your teeth in and drink all your beer, just for the dubious privilege of paying for a song at iTu
Read more »GPL Project Watch List for Week of 06/13
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The GPL v3 Watch List is intended to give you a snapshot of the GPLv3/LGPLv3 adoption for June 7th through June 13th, 2008.
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Novell Responds to SCO's 2nd Extension Request: Please Make it the Last, Yr. Honor
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Novell has filed its Response to Debtors' Second Motion to Extend Exclusivity [PDF], and you could sum up its message to the court like this: Enough already, but if you do grant another extension, please let it be the last. SCO's position is that it can't file a plan until Utah reaches a decision on how much SCO owes Novell. Oh really?
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GPL: why can't a lawyer understand it?
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Nearly a year after the Free Software Foundation released an updated version of the General Public License - the GPLv3 - there appears to be a great deal of confusion about what the license actually means, if one goes by two recent publications.
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Four national standards bodies appeal against approval of ISO/IEC DIS 29500
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Four national standards body members of ISO and IEC – Brazil, India, South Africa and Venezuela – have submitted appeals against the recent approval of ISO/IEC DIS 29500, Information technology – Office Open XML formats, as an ISO/IEC International Standard.
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Chris Sontag's Trial Testimony in SCO v. Novell (April 29 and 30, 2008)
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I thought it would be fun to look at Chris Sontag's testimony as a whole, instead of just covering the SCO v. Novell trial according to the particular day. Sontag was called by Novell on the first day, April 29, 2008. They didn't finish so he was back on the stand on the 30th, so I've cobbled together the relevant sections from the two day's transcripts to show you the complete performance.
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GPLv3 Watchlist update
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The GPL v3 Watch List is intended to give you a snapshot of the GPLv3/LGPLv3 adoption for May 31st through June 6th, 2008.
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Eyeballs Needed for ODF
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There is an announcement just posted about OASIS opening a new discussion list for members and nonmembers to discuss a proposal to form a new technical committee to help out with "ODF Implementation, Interoperability and Conformance". Yes, interoperability is the key.
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Be Careful Who You Trust (on Document Standards)
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The post highlights some of the latest disinformation you ought to watch out for
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Law.com article spins old confusions into new "danger"
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Law.com recently ran a sensationalist piece by Edmund J. Walsh warning of the impending “dangerous real world business dispute” in store for any for-profit company that uses free software. Walsh points to lawsuits filed by SFLC on behalf BusyBox as a source of this danger, and having worked on those lawsuits, I hope I can provide a helpful counterpoint.
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Breaking: Slovakia Chooses ODF and Other Open Standards
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A reader from Slovakia tells us that his country has just made the right move
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Update on the NetApp-Sun Patent Litigation
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You may have read in News Picks recently that Sun won a partial stay in the NetApp patent lawsuit over ZFS, according to IP Law 360:A judge has partly stayed software company Network Appliance Inc.'s patent lawsuit against rival Sun Microsystems Inc. over Sun's ZFS technology, pending the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office's re-examination of one of the patents in the suit.
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Germany and Denmark Show Signs of Endorsement of Appeals, Complaints Against ISO OOXML
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One reader is suggesting that there might now be 5 (formal appeals against OOXML); Germany's DIN jumps in to the debate also
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