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Novell Will File Petition for a Writ of Certiorari in the US Supreme Court
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Novell asks the Appeals Court for a stay pending filing a petition for a writ of certiorari in the Supreme Court
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Software Patents Are Killing ZFS
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ZFS as a good example of wonderful software that gets sidelined due to obsession with intellectual monopolies
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A Bit of Licence
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One of the striking aspects of the free software community is its obsession with licences. It's as if within every hacker there's a lawyer struggling to get out. But maybe it's not so surprising; as Larry Lessig reminded us, “code is law”, and the reverse is also true in the sense that the licence adopted has a big impact on how the software is produced.
Read more »In re Bilski - Let us get back to work
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The case known as "In re bilski" has the potential to go some way towards righting some of the wrongs of the patent industry, while coincidently, transforming the prospects for innovation in the information and software industries.
Read more »Latest Twists in the SCO Case: AutoZone Settlement and More
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A SCO Trustee, Edward Cahn, wishes to end the case against AutoZone, but the Linux lawsuit stays for now, with or without McBride
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Even The Open Source Community Gets Overly Restrictive At Times
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Reader Brad sent in a fascinating post from a little while back by Steve Streeting, a software developer who created an open source 3D rendering engine called OGRE. In the post, Streeting describes his evolving view on open source licenses.
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Symbian Releases Microkernel and SDK
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The Symbian Foundation today announced a significant milestone in its plan to move the entire Symbian platform into open source: the release of the platform microkernel (EKA2) and supporting development kit under the Eclipse Public License (EPL).
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Lots of New Vendor/Developer Support for OpenDocument Format
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More OpenDocument Format (ODF) wins and an important reminder of people who try to harm it, sometimes while pretending to be "helping"
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Pay-to-Say Firm Gartner Group Gets Sued
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Reasons I Believe the Community Should Support the Oracle-Sun Deal
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Monty Widenius has posted a press release, urging Oracle to sell MySQL to a third party, and there is a link to the materials that he and Florian Mueller, who is working with him, provided to the EU Commission, which appears to have influenced it to delay approval. I've been reading all I can find on this topic, and I'd like to tell you why I think the community should support the Oracle deal.
Read more »The Hon. McConnell, Lucero and Baldock Deny Novell Petition for ReHearing
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The same three appeals court judges who decided to send the copyright ownership issue in SCO v. Novell back to Utah for a jury trial, including the now-retired Judge McConnell, have denied the Novell petition for rehearing.
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Alex Brown Extremely Busy with OOXML Today
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GPLv2 clause 6
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So I talked about licenses. And license obligations. And interesting bits of the GPL version 2. There’s one clause of the GPL version 2 that I’d like to single out because it’s one that is surprising to me — and rarely mentioned. Clause 6.
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Letter to the EC opposing Oracle's acquisition of MySQL
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We are writing to express our opposition to the proposed acquisition of MySQL as part of the larger merger between Sun Microsystems and Oracle Corporation.
Oracle seeks to acquire MySQL to prevent further erosion of its share of the market for database software licenses and services, and to protect the high prices now charged for its proprietary database software licenses and services.
