Earlier this week it was made public that IBM had levied patent infringement allegations against French company TurboHercules and its mainframe emulator. A letter signed by IBM VP and technology officer Mark S. Anzani and addressed to TurboHercules co-founder Roger Bowler detailed the more than 170 patents the company allegedly infringed upon.
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Response to Software Exception in Patent Bill
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Law firms that supported continued software patents have published critiques of the arguments put forward by those who opposed software patents and asked for an exclusion to be added to the Patent Bill. In this article Peter Harrison, vice President of the NZOSS responds.
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Get Off IBM's Back Already!
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Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols explains why he thinks the recent attacks on IBM patent use by some in the open-source community are way out of line.
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Is IBM splitting hairs
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I was pretty happy in 2005 when IBM, in an obvious PR stunt to get buddy-buddy with the open source community, made its Statement of Non-Assertion of Named Patents Against OSS, ostensibly saying that it would permit open source projects to use any of the items covered by those patents without risk of penalty or lawsuit. Yay! Finally, a BigCo getting it and doing the right thing!
Read more »Gene patenting and free software: a breakthrough
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Last week, to the surprise of patent lawyers and the biotechnology industry, advocates for technological freedom won an enormous victory against socially harmful distortions of patent law.
Read more »Linux Foundation say "breathe easy" on IBM patents
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The Linux Foundation say "breathe easy" over the Hercules/IBM patent dispute and IBM's patent pledge, but others disagree
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Another Hearing on Anti-Citizen Tyranny Agreement (ACTA)
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The latest video explaining the atrocious situation (no Ogg yet, sorry)
Related post: Anti-Citizen Tyranny Agreement (ACTA) Negotiations Video (Update: Ogg Added)
Credit: André Rebentisch
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IBM’s Open Source Patent Pledge
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To get to the bottom of things I contacted Dan Frye, VP of Open Systems Development at IBM and member of the Linux Foundations board of directors, to “say it wasn’t so.” Fortunately all of us can breathe easy - IBM remains true to their word. Here is the note I received from Dan which is very clear...
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IBM Will Never be the Same After Taking Software Patents Out of Its Holster
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IBM runs away from bad publicity after making a poor decision and sending a Free software-hostile nastygram
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Driving a wedge between IBM and the FOSS community
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Just who is driving a wedge between IBM and the FOSS community then? Here's a clue: it's a big wedge and it's blue.
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Darl Buys SCO's Mobility Assets for $100,000
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First word from the bankruptcy hearing today on Darl McBride's offer to buy SCO's mobility assets. Groklaw's UD has this quick report, with more to come later:Just got out of the SCO BK hearing a little bit ago and thought I'd send a quick update for you.
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IBM denies breaking patent pledge
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IBM says that they are within their rights to protect their investment in mainframe technology and have not broken their 2005 pledge
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XML expert says Microsoft's OOXML fails standards test
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Alex Brown, the convenor of the ISO's Office Open XML (OOXML) Ballot Resolution Meeting, has accused Microsoft of failure in its efforts to transform the document format into a genuinely open standard
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FSF and Eclipse offer guidance on licences
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The Free Software Foundation and Eclipse Foundation have released guidance on how each organisations licenses, GPL and EPL, interact with each other. At the core of the debate is the question "Can you GPL an Eclipse plug-in?"
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Bankruptcy Hearing on Darl's Mobility Offer on April 7 is "Going Forward"
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The agenda for the hearing in bankruptcy court regarding Darl McBride's offer to buy the SCO mobility assets set for April 7th is now posted on Pacer...
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