B&N claims that all of these [exposed patents] are "trivial" and "insignificant" in terms of Android's use. They claim Microsoft is using these patents for minor functionality to hold Android hostage. It is not just licensing fee's either, ...
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Petition to End Software Patents in the US
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On the White House's official website for petitioning the government, there is a petition to return sanity to the US software industry by overturning software patents.
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Beware: Europe's 'unitary patent' could mean unlimited software patents
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The battles seen in the US over software patents could spread to the UK and the rest of Europe if the unitary patent is allowed to come into force
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Software patents: foolish business
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Academic research by the Berkman Center for Internet and Society has found that software patents have provided no net benefit to the software industry, let alone to society as a whole.
Read more »Community Distribution Patent Policy FAQ
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This document presents information about patents and patent liability useful for developers working on community distributions of Free and Open Source Software (FOSS).
Read more »US Proposals For Secret TPP 'Son Of ACTA' Treaty Leaked; Chock Full Of Awful Ideas
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The USTR has shown what it's learned from the ACTA negotiations: which is that it can absolutely get away with unprecedented levels of secrecy. It has no problem sharing details with industry representatives, but the public and consumers who will be most impacted by the intellectual property rules found in TPP are kept completely away.
Read more »MPEG LA's attack on VP8 video highlights need for software patent abolition
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MPEG LA is blatantly trying to claim a monopoly on online video. The patent system is failing for software, and initiatives to “fix” the system are not working. A clear exclusion of software ideas from patentability is the only workable solution. VP8 is an attempt to free the software industry and all software developers from this patent troll.
Read more »Tell the USTR to reject ACTA
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The ACTA drafting process is finished, and countries are beginning to turn an eye toward signing it. Help us stand against it!
Read more »Open source campaigners urge investigation of Novell patent sale
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Open Source Initiative (OSI) has asked a German competition law regulator to investigate the purchase of patents owned by Novell by CPTN, a consortium led by Microsoft and including Apple, Oracle and EMC.
Read more »How Software Patents Will Ruin the World
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Instead of finally achieving financial success and changing the world with his software, Raul finds himself faced with a lawsuit, unless he pays steep licensing fees for patent usage rights.
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Red Hat joins charge to fend off patent madness
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If the ruling is upheld, it would almost certainly stifle software innovation on a global scale and make development the preserve of corporations with large legal departments and their own patent arsenals available for countersuing.
Read more »Mono: Unsafe At Any Speed
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So, that’s the 5 most popular (give-or-take) Mono applications for Linux. Not a single one of which doesn’t have a significant amount of references to non-ECMA namespaces.
Read more »FSFE Newsletter - December 2010
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This edition covers the current developments in Open Standards policy, some basic information about software patents, an update from FSCONS about distributed computing, and how you can support us in the end of the year.
Read more »Bad Decision Made at Canonical Regarding Media Player
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Insertion of Mono-based software like Banshee endangers Ubuntu as it makes the parent company more reliant on Microsoft and more sensitive to Microsoft extortion
Read more »Intellectual Ventures and Other Microsoft-affiliated Groups Are Poisoning Linux With Patents
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New examples of patent trolls and patent boosters (possibly even lobbyists) putting a form of patent tax on the de facto universal platform which is free Myhrvold’s Intellectual Ventures, which is funded and made with Microsoft’s investments (Myhrvold is Microsoft’s former CTO), is expanding the pyramid scheme by signing a patent deal with HTC. The Register says:
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