Crimes aside, the obvious technical pitfalls of OOXML are made more apparent, whereas ODF proves to be future-proof because of its reuse of existing standards

Without a Fair Troll, it (Defensive Patent License supporters) is just a "Coalition of the Harmless". What's needed is at least one (ideally more than one) entity that will assert patents from the DPL pool very aggressively and systematically against entities who don't support the DPL.

Only two countries in the world have software patents which make it impossible to freely use video codecs such as AVC (H.264). [The Wild Fox project] aims to release Firefox builds with the features previously excluded due to software patents. This software will be available to those in non-software patent encumbered countries.

Fluendo S.A. announces its first webinar entitled "Solving the Legal Puzzle of Linux Deployments" aimed understanding the legal implications o0f Linux deployments.

At last! Novell responds to SCO's motion for judgment in SCO's favor as a matter of law or for a new trial. It will not surprise you that they oppose, arguing that SCO is entitled to neither, that its position is ludicrous

Red Hat and Novell stood up to a patent bully and got a favorable jury verdict in the IPI trial which invalidated some software patents that should never have been issued. It's hard to see how that's not a good thing for open source. It's also good that the particular battle has inspired discussion of the need for fundamental reform of the U.S. patent system.

When I was freshly elected at the OpenOffice.org’s Community Council the Free Software Foundation approached us with a question related to our extensions web site. Basically they felt that we should not be hosting non Free Software extensions and requested we take those down.