What could make the Free Software Foundation (FSF), proprietary software companies, and at least one venture capitalist into allies?
The End Software Patents (ESP) coalition, a new organization poised to swing into action next month under the leadership of Ben Klemens.
Read more »After an interesting free software licensing event in Helsinki, I got thinking about licence complexity. At the conference, people had two types of questions (a) Why didn't GPLv3 additionally solve X problem? and (b) Why is it so long?
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I've just heard from the Software Freedom Law Center that the BusyBox-Monsoon Multimedia GPL-enforcement litigation has been settled on the following terms:
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Microsoft, state prosecutors, and the U.S. Department of Justice on Tuesday said a federal judge needs more time to weigh whether Redmond should be subjected to a lengthier period of antitrust policing.
Read more »I thought you'd want to know that Sun's general counsel, Mike Dillon, has posted the latest on the NetApp v. Sun litigation. Sun has filed its Answer with Counterclaims to NetApp's Complaint in Texas, and it has also filed a Complaint in California.
Read more »In the sleepy village of Santa Clara, there lived a very wealthy but very frightened giant named Intel. Intel was plagued by a fearsome band of evil trolls -- patent trolls, to be exact -- who wanted a glittering pot of gold in exchange for doing absolutely nothing. And they were very powerful because they said they owned the patent on some of the magic Intel used to become rich."
Read more »The European Union's antitrust agency is becoming more influential just as its U.S. counterparts have grown more cautious and inactive, experts say.
Read more »The judge in favor of a user who asked money back software pre-installed in PCs
Read more »Another request from an attorney to pick your brains. Ray Beckerman asks the following in connection with the UMG v. Lindor litigation:
Read more »Microsoft has been slapped with a lawsuit filed by Korean instant messaging program developer Digito.com, which is claiming millions of dollars in anti-trust damages.
Read more »What can the World Series and the General Public License (GPL) possibly have in common?
Read more »Open-source software company Red Hat has said that it is concerned that Microsoft patent arrangements may not be compatible with open-source licensing models.
Read more »Sometime computer maker and intellectual property clearing house IBM has threatened the fabric of space-time by attempting to patent profiting from patents.
Read more »I could feel it in my bones: the great victory of the EU over MS is a sham. Here's why.
Read more »Having watched how Microsoft included patents in its deal with then EU (more on this in the next post), it is worth pointing out that the US won’t extend antitrust sanctions, despite rising opposition and the recent decision in Europe.
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