Another ho hum day turns sour. Just when you thought it was safe to return to those keyboards knowing that all is well with the world and the ownership of Unix is happy with its rightful owner, Novell; he's baaaack. I'm sure that I'm not the first to look at this latest news and say "WHAA? AGAIN?
Read more »SCO vs. Linux Again--You've Got to be Kidding.
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Open vs. Fauxpen
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Tristan Louis gives weight to new term that I like a lot: fauxpen. Faux in French means "false" or "fake". So fauxpen means fake open. There has always been a lot of that going around, but since the world of tech inevitably contains more of everything, there's more fauxpen stuff than ever.
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Open source NTFS developers sign IP agreement with Microsoft
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Tuxera, the NTFS-3G File System Provider, Signs Intellectual Property Agreement with Microsoft, Announces Tuxera exFAT for Embedded Systems"
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The i4i-Microsoft Appeal - HP and Dell Ask to File Amicus Briefs in Support of Microsoft
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HP and Dell have asked the court to allow them to file amicus briefs in support of Microsoft's Emergency Motion to Stay Permanent Injunction Pending Appeal in the i4i patent litigation. I can't show you the documents yet, as they are not yet available electronically. I'm sure you could write them in your mind quite readily, though.
Read more »SCO's Chapter 11 Trustee Appointed and Approved
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Here he is: 08/25/2009 - 898 - Appointment of Chapter 11 Trustee (Notice of Appointment of Edward N. Cahn, Esquire) Filed by United States Trustee. (McMahon Jr., Joseph) (Entered: 08/25/2009)
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SCO: 'Linux is a knock-off of our Unix'
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Is it just me, or does it sometimes seem that the principle role of the IT industry is to act as a job creation scheme for lawyers?
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SCO vs. Linux: Unix copyright dispute enters the next round
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Litigation between the SCO Group and Novell over the copyright to Unix grinds slowly onwards. The Court of Appeals has affirmed that SCO must pay approximately $2.5 million in royalties to Novell, but has remanded the question of whether the copyright to Unix was passed on to SCO when the distribution rights were sold, back to the Utah District Court for retrial.
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New trial means Unix ownership still up for debate
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A US federal appeals court overturned a judge’s ruling that granted Novell the copyright of the Unix computer OS yesterday. A panel of three judges of the 10th US circuit Court of Appeals ruled that a judge in the August 2007 case wrongfully handed the copyright to Novell. As a result the panel has ordered a “remand for trial” to establish ownership.
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What If Novell Does Not Own UNIX? Nothing.
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So What About Those XML Patents, Anyway?
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The other reason I haven't yet written is equally simple: the latest skirmish that i4i won in Texas really doesn't matter very much.
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Linux chief challenges Microsoft to pony up on patents
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Microsoft's earned the respect of certain sections of the open-source community for its engineering work around open-source and Linux. Specifically, its support for MySQL, PHP and JBoss on Windows and its involvement with Eclipse and Apache have been welcomed by developers and various community leaders in and around these technologies and projects.
Read more »Mozilla to EU: Microsoft Settlement Proposal Not Enough
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Mozilla has taken a position on the European Union's proposed settlement with Microsoft about browser integration in Windows 7. Both Mozilla Foundation's Mitchell Baker and Mozilla's general counsel feel that Microsoft is benefiting all too well from the settlement.
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Licenses, Libraries, Laws and Loopholes
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What's the point of GPLv2 libraries? What's the purpose of libraries associated with licenses anyway? Do they provide useful guidance or impose annoying restrictions? Who wants to puzzle out the legalese of licenses and their appurtenances when working with code and systems that are supposed to be open?
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Fraunhofer Institute on OOXML und ODF
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The Fraunhofer Institute has published a whitepaper on the interoperability of Office Open XML (OOXML) and the Open Document Format (ODF). Microsoft had a hand in its development.
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Microsoft's Emergency Motion for a Stay Repeats Arguments Already Rejected by District Court
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In Microsoft's Emergency Motion for a Stay of Injunction [PDF], it argues that it would be irreparably harmed without a stay, that it's in the public interest to avoid disruption to its business and its partners' businesses, and that while they expect to win on appeal, they'd then would be out all the expense of implementing the injunction.
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