If one were to believe Microsoft, antitrust law is for sore losers who are too lazy to innovate, and the decision of the European Court of Justice against Microsoft was to the detriment of consumers around the world. One might even believe that any company with large enough market share would now have to fear the wrath of the European Commission and its anti-innovation bloodhounds.
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Monsoon Multimedia responds on GPL
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"We wish at this point to apologize for this oversight, both to the copyright holders of the code which we have used and modified, and to the free software community in general. We take full responsibility for these actions."
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First US GPL case is *not* settled
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Contrary to yesterday's report, the lawsuit against Monsoon Multimedia for violating the GNU General Public License (GPL) in its distribution of BusyBox may not be headed for a quick settlement. Nor will the settlement necessarily be out-of-court.
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DRM advocates getting nervous about consumer backlash
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You all know the slogan: "Guns don't kill people, people kill people." At the Digital Rights Strategies conference in New York City, a similar message could be heard: "DRM doesn't anger consumers, content owners abusing DRM anger consumers."
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Monsoon Multimedia to Comply with GNU General Public License
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Monsoon Multimedia today announced efforts to fully comply with the GNU General Public License (GPL). Monsoon is in settlement negotiations with BusyBox to resolve the matter and intends to fully comply with all open-source software license requirements.
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Regulating Microsoft
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Microsoft’s resounding defeat in a European antitrust case establishes welcome principles that should be adopted in the United States as guideposts for the future development of the information economy.
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People power can come down mighty hard on Microsoft
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A fine of $810 million sounds like a lot of money. That is what Microsoft was fined for anti-competitive conduct. The fine by the European Commission was upheld this week by the European Court of First Instance.
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What’s in a free software license?
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“Open source” is a hot buzzword today. It’s important to understand free software is still subject to a license just like conventional shrinkwrapped packages. The big difference is these licenses convey rights which can’t be revoked. Here’s what they mean for programmers and for end users.
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Has Microsoft lost patent power over Linux in UK?
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Microsoft claims that Linux infringes 235 patents, but if it wants to fight it out in a UK court, it had better think again.
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FSFE & Samba interview about Microsoft anti-trust
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When Monday’s anti-trust verdict was announced, the FSFE and Samba team talked to the gathered journalists and then sat down for a group interview with Sean Daly.
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The device behind the GPL's first U.S. legal test
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Monsoon Multimedia has used embedded Linux to build a consumer DVR (digital video recorder) with remote multimedia file serving capabilities. The Hava -- recently implicated in a GPL violation court case -- aims to let the user access live and recorded TV content from broadband-connected locations.
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OSI Calls for Major Revisions to Microsoft Permissive License
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The Microsoft Permissive License, one of two licenses the software maker submitted to the Open Source Initiative for approval as open-source licenses in August, is unlikely to be approved in its current form.
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First GPL Violation lawsuit
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Groklaw reports that the first GPL violation lawsuit was filed in USA by the Software Freedom Law Centre(SFLC). Read the complete story at Groklaw.net
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BusyBox Hall of Shame
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BusyBox lists the manufacturers who make use of their GPLv2 software but refuse to release the source-code to subsequent purchasers.
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Want to meet four men who dared to fight MS -- and won?
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Right after the Court of First Instance announced its verdict Monday upholding the EU Commission's finding that Microsoft abused its monopoly, our own Sean Daly did an interview with the following: Georg Greve of FSFE, Jeremy Allison and Volker Lendecke of Samba, and Carlo Piana, their lawyer of record in the case.
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