For the curious, Microsoft has posted the new "covenant not to sue" covering Moonlight 3 and 4. It is still quite narrow"
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The text of the new Moonlight covenant
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David and Goliath II: i4i Wins (Again) over Microsoft
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Yesterday a very small company won a very big victory against a very large software vendor.
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Answering SCO Bit by Bit - Streams and more GPL'd header files in Caldera OpenLinux 2.2
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A reader sends us some more screenshots of Caldera, now SCO Group, distributing header files under the GPL. This time, it's from OpenLinux 2.2-4, dated from 1999.
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USPTO Implicitly Admits It’s Broken
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The USPTO needs advice from the public as flaws are realised and a solution is seen as required
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Why the EU's "browser ballot" is a bad idea
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While I believe that browser diversification is a good thing, I feel that approached used here is a flawed one, and will make Windows user more vulnerable to malware.
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Microsoft Word sale prohibited as of Jan. 11
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Microsoft was issued a permanent injunction against selling Microsoft Word products due to a patent infringement dispute with a Canadian company called i4i.
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“DRM is Probably 70% of the Complication in Supporting Open Source”
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RadeonHD driver suffers from Digital Restrictions Management (DRM) which Microsoft and the copyright cartel push into GPUs
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Reader’s Article: Google’s Chrome EULA Disappoints
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Answering SCO Bit by Bit - Binutils in UnixWare and OpenServer Too
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I thought you'd find the slides from a talk given at SCOforum 2004 of interest, because they show that SCO also distributed, under the GPL, binutils in UnixWare and OpenServer. The talk was titled, "Open Source Components in SCO OpenServer and SCO UnixWare", and the credits list Ron Record at SCO engineering.
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Truisms About SCO
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Accurate Coverage of Novell
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Few new articles accurately describe what is really happening at Novell and what the legal terms really are when it comes to Moonlight
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Answering SCO Bit by Bit - more a.out.h and errno.h and elf.h, this time in OpenLinux 1.3
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Groklaw member valerio checked the contents of Caldera Systems OpenLinux 1.3, a CD from 1998, and you'll never guess what he found. Yes, friends, the CD contains, in the archive file col/install/RPMS/linux-kernel-include-2.0.35-1.i386.rpm, two files SCO claims are infringing if placed in Linux...
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Updates on Microsoft-funded SCO Attack on Novell, Novell’s EU Case and Settlement
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How Novell is being legally screwed by Microsoft, as suggested by this week's news
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EU Commission Plans to Allow Patent Imperialism, Authorises MS’s Attack on FOSS
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The EU Commission wants Michel Barnier to make the Community patent a reality ("community" being a euphemism that would fascinate even Orwell)
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The Relevancy of ODF 1.0
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By the time you read this (actually probably by the time I finish writing this post) a ballot approving the Public Review Draft of ODF 1.2, Part 1 will have passed.
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