While groups representing the interests of foreign companies lobby for software patents, actual computer scientists from New Zealand reject them

The SCO bankruptcy hearing on the sale of the Java patent will be on April 20. That's this proposed sale to Liberty Lane for $100,000, and that's an LLC affiliated with Allied Security Trust, the anti-patent-trolls company, if you've dropped a stitch and can't keep up as SCO's assets get sold off bit by bit.

SCO and Novell have filed a joint motion, asking the court to order a new deadline for them to file their Proposed Findings of Fact and Conclusions of Law...

I view the bankruptcy hearings at this point as comic relief, since nothing goes the way any of us here think they should. Bankruptcy court seems like cartoon court to me. So, when I heard that the December 2009 hearing transcript [PDF] was available, I said, Oh, goody! It doesn't disappoint.

Oscar and Emmy award-winning editing software 'Lightworks is going open-source.

One thing that many people involved in the free and open source software community have a great deal of difficulty with is separating the personal from the professional.

When IBM said that TurboHercules was a member of organizations Microsoft is a member of, it was particularly talking about OpenMainframe.org. It's an organization that seems dedicated to attacking IBM's mainframe business. It describes its purpose like this...

Parliament had given them rights, but it had set a time limit on them: 21 years for books already in print and 14 years for new ones, with an additional 14 years if the author was still alive when the first term ran out. After that, the material would enter the public domain so that anyone could reproduce it.