New leak shows that IBM not only lobbies to keep software patents, but that it also uses them against rivals
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BM: Open Source's Friend? Not So Much Now
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[…] IBM has sent a nastygram to the company TurboHercules, with a “non-exhaustive” list of US patents that it believes “will be infringed” by TurboHercules' code.
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IBM, Canonical to sell Ubuntu-ready netbooks in Africa
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IBM, Canonical and Simmtronics today announced they will market a low-cost, Intel Atom-based Simmtronics netbook in emerging markets. The Simmbook will be preloaded with the IBM Client for Smart Work Linux distro, based on Ubuntu Netbook Remix, and will first be made available in Africa for just $190, says IBM.
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Confirmed: IBM and Ubuntu To Counter Windows 7 at Lotusphere 2010
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Once again, The VAR Guy's sources were right. Canonical, as our resident blogger expected, is set to announce some Ubuntu news at IBM's Lotusphere conference in Orlando the week of January 18.
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IBM will offer the Open Source Web eyeOS to its System Z customers
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We're happy to present to the eyeOS community the result of more than six months of work together with the great IBM US team, where eyeOS will be the Sample Workload of the new System Z serie Solution Edition for Cloud Computing
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IBM Rolls Out New System z Linux Servers
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IBM on Tuesday debuted new hardware, software and services packages for enterprise customers that want to consolidate and virtualize Linux-based data loads on their System z mainframes.
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Jaguar outruns Roadrunner
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Linux claims an even larger portion of the world's top supercomputers and IBM's Roadrunner gets run off its feet by a Jaguar.
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Why the GPL Sinks SCO's Copyright Infringement Claims, Even if it Owned the Copyrights
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I've started to wonder if Novell or IBM has explained to SCO's Chapter 11 Trustee Edward Cahn how the GPL works. It cuts through all the other ways SCO is bound to lose, in my view. Then, I thought: why not just explain it myself? You never know. It might prove useful to put it all in one place. So, here goes, SCO and the GPL.
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IBM and Open Forum Europe Address European Interoperability Framework (EIF) Fiasco
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Version 2 of the European Interoperability Framework (EIF) addressed by Open Forum Europe and IBM's Bob Sutor, along with a European colleague
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SUSE Moves to Lift Stay on Arbitration; Novell Asks to Consolidate with IBM Litigation
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Novell has made two moves. In bankruptcy court, SUSE asks that the stay be lifted so the arbitration can go forward. And in Utah, Novell has filed a motion asking that the SCO v. Novell and SCO v. IBM litigations either be consolidated with SCO v. IBM or at least be assigned to the same judge, Tena Campbell.
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Apple and Linux Forces Rain on Windows 7 Parade
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Apple and Linux advocate IBM both tried hard to cramp Microsoft's style this week before the Windows 7 rollout even got under way. On Tuesday, Apple launched a new iMac, MacBook, and Mac Mini line, while IBM joined with Linux distributor Canonical to introduce a new "cloud-and-Linux-based" offering called IBM Client for Smart Work.
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IBM and Canonical team up against Windows 7
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IBM and Canonical, the commercial entity behind Ubuntu Linux, on Tuesday are launching a combined cloud and Linux desktop package designed for Netbooks and low-end PCs.
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IBM & Canonical to launch Ubuntu desktop for business
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Today IBM (NYSE: IBM) and Canonical are introducing a cloud- and Linux-based desktop package in the U.S. designed for use on a company's existing fleet of personal computers (PCs) or even low-cost netbooks.
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IBM has claimed that software patents help free software !
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"This page documents companies whose main business is not free software, but who try to claim to represent free software so they can push a pro-software-patent agenda..."
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IBM Blasts Microsoft for Spreading “Fabricated” Figures
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Steve Ballmer and Kevin Turner accused of spreading "ridiculous and fabricated" figures
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