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ECIS: What's Wrong with Microsoft's Browser Self-Remedy - Case to Continue

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ECIS, accepted as an intervenor in the European Commission's Microsoft browser antitrust case, has now released a statement [PDF] explaining all that it feels isn't enough about Microsoft's self-remedy. It's titled, Too Little, Too Late, and it says that while the remedy might have been appropriate in 1997, now that there have been "decades of abuse" further action is needed.

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Microsoft IP Ventures and Intellectual Ventures

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Vultures of intellectual monopolies seek to turn a dying business model into one of racketeering

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Rob Weir Exposes an Anti-ODF Whisper Campaign

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Alex Brown, the convenor of the OOXML BRM, has been editing Wikipedia's article on ODF. That strikes me odd, like finding out Steve Jobs had been editing the Microsoft Zune page. Some things are simply inappropriate. It puzzles me why Wikipedia allows it, frankly.

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Hadopi is dead: "three strikes" buried by highest court.

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"The Constitutionnal Council, highest jurisdiction in France gave its decision1 concerning the HADOPI "three strikes" law, final stage before the promulgation of the law. It decided that presumption of innocence is more important than the idiotic schemes from the entertainment industries to artificially prolong their obsolete models..."

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Hungary Makes ODF a National Standard

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The already-long list of ODF-supportive countries just keeps growing

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Donald Knuth: Mathematical Ideas, or Algorithms, Should Not Be Patented

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Donald Knuth, distinguished computer scientist, recipient of the Turing Award, creator of the TeX computer typesetting system, and author of The Art of Computer Programming, which some call the Bible of computer programming, has submitted a letter [PDF] to the European Patent Office for submission to the EPO's Enlarged Board of Appeal considering the question of software patents and whether th

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Unrest in OpenSUSE Forums

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OpenSUSE departures noted, Novell defends its OpenSUSE trademark

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US Breeds Software Patents

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A look at some new articles about software patents in the United States

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Outreach to GFDL liensed wikis: migrate to CC BY-SA by August 1st!

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"...Benjamin Mako Hill (Wikipedian, Free Software Foundation board member, and one of the people crucial to making the migration possible) writes on the Wikimedia Foundation mailing list: As the group with the most to lose and as the group that introduced the change at issue, the foundation and its broader community should devote as much time as possible to this issue in the next two months before

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The Battle for ODF Interoperability

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Last year, when I was socializing the idea of creating the OASIS ODF Interoperability and Conformance TC, I gave a presentation I called "ODF Interoperability: The Price of Success". The observation was that standards that fail never need to deal with interoperability.

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A Battle Over Deposing Bill Gates in the Novell v. Microsoft Antitrust Litigation

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So, guess what has been happening in the Novell v. Microsoft antitrust litigation? A battle over deposing Bill Gates.

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USPTO Leaves People Dead. Is the Intellectual Monopoly Doctrine Practically Dead Too?

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Stories of great failure to balance ethics and ownership of ideas

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FSF and Cisco Settle - For Real, This Time

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The Free Software Foundation and Cisco have now settled the litigation over the GPL and Cisco's subsidiary, Linksys.

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Proprietary software in cars

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RMS: « The proposal for a right-to-repair law illustrates the harm done by proprietary software in cars. »

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Wikimedia Foundation to Add Creative Commons License for All Content

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"Recently, the Wikimedia Foundation proposed that the copyright licensing terms on its wikis be changed to include a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike license in addition to its longstanding GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL). The proposal was approved by a 75 percent majority of community voters as announced this week..."

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