A look at the (mostly) positive analyses resulting from the ruling where Stevens was unable to convince a majority of his peers to pull the plug on software patents
Read more »Freedom Defenders Look at the Glass Half Full in the Bilski Aftermath
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Open Core is the New Dual Licensing
Which is to say an open source business model that will generate marginal revenue improvement for firms that employ it, at the cost of developer goodwill and participation. And, potentially, distribution. What open core is not is a model that will mitigate the commercial limitations of the model sufficiently to produce outsized returns similar to historical software producers.
Read more »Gillard to stick with web filter despite disquiet
THE Prime Minister will push ahead with controversial plans for a mandatory internet filter despite acknowledging public concerns that it will interfere with ''legitimate use''.
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Canonical, OIN's 1st Associate Member, Commits to Freedom of Action in Open Source
OIN has just announced a new associate membership program, and Canonical is the first associate member:OIN Associate Members, such as Canonical, demonstrate support and commitment to limiting the effects of patent disputes in Linux.
Read more »Marten Mickos says open source doesn't have to be fully open
The term "open core" essentially means that the heart of a software project is built on, and remains, open source but added features may not be (particularly a commercial version intended for enterprise use).VC-funded software startups love this model.
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Open Source vs Proprietary Code: seeking a balanced standard
Open source is great. Code is knowledge and knowledge should not be hidden forever. ASAP it should become public for all to use and benefit from. In the past the flow of information was slow, but nowadays is fast, and the faster we share and need information, the greater the need society has for all code, which is knowledge, to become public, with no strings attached.
Read more »More "Paul Murphy" Anti-Linux FUD: SCO or Son of SCO Can Still Win
Were you imagining that "Paul Murphy" was going to apologize for his attacks on Groklaw or for being so wrong in his support of SCO? Or that he'd keep his promise to stop blogging if SCO lost? Or that he'd finally admit SCO has no case? Au contraire.
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Novell Unlikely to Get Money From SCO
SCO's bankruptcy hearing won't take place until next month; SCO deals with pocket money, so Novell is unlikely to be properly compensated
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Thank you, Novell
It's been over a week since Judge Stewart ruled for Novell and against The SCO Group (or tSCOG, as it's known). The court had already concluded in August 2007 that Novell was the "owner of the UNIX and UnixWare Copyrights."
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Issue three of the 'International Free and Open Source Software Law Review'
The Editorial Committee is delighted to announce issue three of the 'International Free and Open Source Software Law Review' (IFOSS L. Rev.) is now available.
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Striding Towards Codec Freedom to Remove ‘Linux Tax’ from Dell
The importance of WebM, its progress in GNU/Linux-compatible Web browsers, and Google's situation wrt MPEG-LA FUD
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SCO: So die already!
Another shoe has dropped for the SCO Group -- this makes about a dozen -- but when will this outfit go away? First the SCO Group sues IBM for billions in a case related to alleged intellectual property infringement, and then it starts threatening Linux and Linux users. Then, after Novell says that the SCO Group does not have the rights to Unix that it needs to sue and threaten, it sues Novell.
Read more »Distributing Open Source? Survey Says...
Many companies are unaware when they are distributing open source or violating open source licences.
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SCO and Novell: Game, set and match
Last week, the U.S. District Court for the District of Utah finally granted Novell's request for declaratory judgment and ruled against SCO's last frantic attempts to keep any of its claims going. Or, to quote Pamela Jones, editor of Groklaw and top expert on SCO's endless anti-Linux lawsuits: "The door has slammed shut on the SCO litigation machine."
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A new and better Open Source Initiative
When I said recently that we still need the Open Source Initiative (OSI), it started a flood of comment. There's no doubt that we need OSI - but we need a better OSI.
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