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The ‘Cost’ of GPLv3 is the Loss of All Threats to Free Software

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"We continue to explore the Linspire/Microsoft affairs and we identify some highly discomforting facts. As we stated in the past, personal benefits were possibly (even probably) part of all those recent deals. Moreover, vile attacks which ensued could truly make you wonder who is on whose side. There are no answers, but there is a lot of evidence to gather and then weigh."

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Update on the US Vote on OOXML (and What Happens Next)

http://www.consortiuminfo.org

"As you will recall, V1, the INCITS Technical Committee that addresses document format standards, was unable to reach consensus on a recommended US vote to either approve or reject DIS 29500, the draft ISO/IEC standard that describes Microsoft's OOXML formats. As expected, Microsoft is seeking to gain a US vote in favor of OOXML..."

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EU Court Backs ISPs on User Privacy

http://www.businessweek.com

"A high court adviser says Internet service providers are not required to disclose data on people suspected of music piracy"

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What Linspire Agreed To

http://www.groklaw.net

We can read the Linspire-Microsoft patent agreement now, and I thought it would be worthwhile to give it a close, line-by-line reading. I'll explain it as best I can, but ask your lawyer if it matters to you in a real-world sense. For our purposes here, let's just have fun with the worst deal I've seen yet in this category.

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Office Open XML Standards Push Not Dead Yet

http://itmanagement.earthweb.com

"Like the Terminator – just when the monster machine seems defeated, it always somehow rises again – Microsoft's push for international standards status for its Office document formats refuses to die."

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Can Linspire Still Feed on Ubuntu (or Debian) Linux Codebase?

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"Earlier this week, just less than a couple of months after their seemingly-friendly deal, Microsoft betrayed Linspire. There are more questions to be raised and implications to discuss."

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GPLv3, the dishonorable suicide

http://beranger.org

RMS will not save the world - he has just killed the FLOSS, actually. We have already started to hear about strange license lockups...

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A green light for free-software defined radio?

http://lwn.net

Playing around with radio-frequency transmission and reception used to be restricted to those of us with hardware skills. That has been changing for some years, though, as processors get faster and software techniques advance; now, many radio transmitters and receivers are built with simple (but flexible) hardware.

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Microsoft’s patent covenants cause confusion

http://www.businessreviewonline.com

"When Microsoft announced the first of its patent interoperability agreements with Novell in November 2006, one of the major claims made in favor of the patent covenant agreement was that it would give customers peace of mind and ensure that they didn’t have to worry about issues such as intellectual property infringement."

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GPL v3 Q&A with Luis Villa

http://www.redhatmagazine.com

"Unless you’ve been living under a rock, you know that the Free Software Foundation finally ratified and released the new version of the GPL at the end of June. This marks the newest chapter in the history of one of open source (and free) software’s oldest and most venerated licenses."

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Notes from Portugal on the July 16th Meeting on Ecma-376

http://www.groklaw.net

"We've seen now reports from Italy and Portugal of what some are describing as a kind of ballot-stuffing on the part of Microsoft and supporters to get Ecma-376 approved as an ISO standard. Trust me when I tell you that you haven't heard the half of it yet. I feel safe in saying that you will never hear the phrase "fast tracking" again, without remembering what you are about to read."

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Open standards beat Microsoft 13 to 4 in South Africa

http://www.tectonic.co.za

Microsoft's plans of having its OOXML document format accepted as a national standard were thwarted by the South African Bureau of Standards in a conclusive vote against the move in a meeting yesterday.

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Gnash switched to GPLv3

http://www.gnashdev.org

Gnash has now switched to the GPLv3 license, see http://gplv3.fsf.org for more info.

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Open XML Suffers a Setback on the Road to ISO Ratification

http://www.eweek.com

Microsoft has suffered a setback in the quest to have its Open XML document format approved as an ISO standard. A vote on July 13 by the committee established to formulate the United States' position on whether or not to support the application for ISO approval failed to achieve the two-thirds majority necessary to approve the move.

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Linus and the GPLv3 - the saga continues

http://fosswire.com

Now that the GPLv3 has been finalised and is now released (and we’re starting to see projects adopting it), many of us in the free software community have been wondering what Linus Torvalds’ stance is on the final version.

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