Alison Brimelow's referral to the Enlarged Board of Appeal (EU) is discussed again and the US continues to demonstrate the failure of systems with software patents

The first public draft of the W3C's Web Open Font Format represents a first step towards standardising dynamically loadable fonts on the web. The method has already been implemented in Firefox and in WebKit

Sony and ILM have released an alpha version of Alembic, an open source graphics interchange format designed to increase animation interoperability

A survey of eight makers of Android-based tablets found only one in compliance with the GPL requirements of the Linux kernel within Android

We have all the transcripts from the SCO v. Novell trial now as text, a version with line numbers, so as to match the PDFs. I'll be writing about them one by one, pointing out interesting things, with versions without the line numbers. So you can pick and choose. Here's a calendar you can use, to find whatever day of the trial that interests you the most

Microsoft has cracked open .NET a little further and surrendered some control over its development platform to the open-source community. Latest code for company's take on Python and Ruby – fine-tuned for .NET, IronPython, and IronRuby – has been quietly released under the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) license.

Look at this, will you? The first decision from the Board of Patents Appeals and Interferences post-Bilski to reference that US Supreme Court decision, in In Re Proudler [PDF], a ruling rejecting HP's application for a software patent, setting forth a rule stating, as I read it, as saying software is not patentable because it's an abstraction...

Apologists for the lock-in-prone "open core" model try to wrap themselves in the open source flag. Your business could suffer.