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Predicting Open Source Licensing
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EFF Wins Reexamination of Bogus Patent
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Patent Office to Take Second Look at Meritless Claims Threatening Mobile Information Access. The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) has won reexamination from the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (PTO) of a bogus patent threatening mobile information access. The reexamination order is the third granted by the PTO after challenges from EFF's Patent Busting Project.
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Microsoft Posts the New License Terms for Interoperability in the EU Agreement - Updated
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Microsoft has now posted the revised licenses for interoperability as a result of the EU antitrust agreement. Microsoft calls them the Microsoft Work Group Server Protocol Program License Agreements for Development and Product Distribution (WSPP Development Agreements). I don't know why they can't come up with better names. Probably for the same reason the Zune is brown.
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FSF Compliance Lab online meeting addresses license questions
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The Free Software Foundation's (FSF) Free Software Licensing and Compliance Lab held a public question and answer session in an IRC meeting last night. The meeting was conducted by Brett Smith, the licensing compliance engineer at the FSF.
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Babya Joins OpenDocument Format Alliance
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Babya today announced that it has become an official member of the OpenDocument Format Alliance. Babya is an award-winning developer of digital media software for Mac and Windows, including Babya bSuite, bPicture, Babya Firestorm, Babya Photo Workshop and Babya Logic.
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Getting Inventive With Software Patents
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The dangers of software patents for free software have always been a hot issue. But with the news that Red Hat and Novell are being sued for alleged patent infringement by IP Innovation, the matter has moved from theory into practice.
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Do software patents exist in the EU?
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Frequently Asked Question: Do software patents exist in the EU? Answer: The problem is that software patents exist in some ways in the EU. The power of patent governance is split between a legislature, an executive, and a judiciary.
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EU Duped by MS settlemeent?
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"I have always said that open source software developers must be able to take advantage of [the 2004 ruling]: now they can," the Commission's competition commissioner Neelie Kroes boasted in a press release.
Read more »Media companies in copyright pact, Google absent
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Viacom Inc, Walt Disney Co, Microsoft Corp and other media companies have agreed to a set of guidelines to protect copyrights online but Google Inc, owner of the Web's biggest video site, was notably absent from the pact.
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License change makes software more attractive for the community
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Dimdim calls itself the world's first free Web meeting service based on an open source platform. Users can share their desktops and files while chatting and videoconferencing with meeting participants.
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Let's Make a Deal - The MS-EU Settlement
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Here's the press relase from the EU Commission announcing a settlement with Microsoft. As you will see, it's some good, some bad. The patent part is terrible. Worse than terrible. They are not blocked from offering patent deals, only constrained as to how much to charge for a license, which is not and never was the issue. So they'll beef up those initiatives, I'm sure.
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Do software patents exist in the EU?
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"...The legislature (the European Patent Convention) says that software ideas are not patentable.
The executive (the European Patent Office) ignores this and approves software patent applications.
The judiciary (the national courts) usually declares the EPO's software patents to be invalid whenever there is a court case. .."
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SCO vs. Linux: Costly German lawyers
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The never ending story surrounding SCO's litigation over alleged copyright infringements contained in Linux as well as the copyrights to Unix has taken yet another twist: The SCO Group, currently subject to proceedings under Chapter 11, is causing a stir as details in relation to their payment obligations emerge.
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Time for a Wiki to Invalidate Patents
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"Show Us the Code is gearing up now for round two. This time around we’ll pack a more permanent punch. A wiki will be setup in the near future, the goal? ..."
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More states join call for extra Microsoft policing
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Updated at 4:00 p.m. PDT: In something of a surprise move, four state attorneys general who previously praised the effectiveness of Microsoft's antitrust settlement with the feds said they're not ready to see five years of oversight wind down just yet.
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