There's some news on the Trend Micro v.Barracuda Networks case. That is the one where Trend Micro sued Barracuda over ClamAV and brought a complaint to the International Trade Commission. Barracuda has just filed a countersuit in California, alleging patent infringement by Trend Micro.
Read more »Barracuda Networks Countersues Trend Micro
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Rhapsody, Naxos go DRM-free.
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Rhapsody and Naxos show that they have gotten smart and consigned their DRM to the garbage, where it belongs.
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Xandros Speaks Out: Inside the Linspire Deal
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Early reports yesterday alleged that Xandros had secretly purchased Linspire, an accusation later confirmed by Xandros executives. We now have fresh details on the deal, straight from the mouth of Andreas Typaldos, CEO of Xandros and freshly installed President of Linspire.
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What’s Wrong with Software Patents?
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Patents on computer programs, financial processes and business methods have been controversial at least since the 1960s. Surveys regularly find that computer programmers are opposed to patents on software by a wide margin. In what other field is the class of inventors so opposed to patents?
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ISO approves PDF as an international standard
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The International Organization for Standardization has approved Adobe Systems' widely used PDF (Portable Document Format) as an international standard, and is now in charge of any changes made to the specification.
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GPLv3 One Year Anniversary Edition 06/29/08
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The GPL v3 Watch List is intended to give you a snapshot of the GPLv3/LGPLv3/AGPLv3 adoption for the past year.
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Tech giants form group to buy patents
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Google is part of a group of tech heavyweights going on the offensive against the threat of patent-infringement lawsuits, The Wall Street Journal reported on its Web site Sunday evening.
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Tackling Intellectual Monopolies the Wrong Way: An OIN for the Wealthy
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Industry giants join forces to address the patent trolls epidemic; but many are excluded
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Copiepresse's Complaint v. EU Commission Tossed Out
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Do you remember Copiepresse, the Belgian association of newspapers that went after Google for linking to their members' articles in Google News?
Read more »The first European Opensource Lawyers Event
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An important open source event will take place in Paris on September 24th and 25th 2008 : it is called "Paris Capitale du Libre" (PCL) and it is organised by the FNILL (French national federation of the free
software industry): http://www.paris-libre.org/.
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Is Mule Really Open Source?
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Most Open Source Projects (Not the namesake open source projects) are released under an OSI approved license. The open source definition of OSI states that "Open source doesn't just mean access to the source code.
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ODF ‘Conquers’ the Web; OOXML Abuses Revisited
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ODF is reaching new places while OOXML just continues to be criticised.
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SA Minister Slams Software Patents
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The South African minister of public service and administration on Monday addressed the opening of the Idlelo 3 free software conference in Dakar Senegal, saying software patents posed a considerable threat to the growth of the African software sector.
Read more »How "Ignorant of Standards" was Microsoft Really?
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But I thought that it might be useful to pause to share the "Huh?" that I experienced when I stumbled across this article by Andrew Donoghue at ZDNet while enjoying a brief respite of laptop connectivity in the lobby of a hotel. The article is titled, "Microsoft admits to standards ignorance pre-OOMXL" and is based on an address by Microsoft national technology officer Stuart McKee.
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The low-down on Open Source Law
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Open Source Law founder, Brendan Scott, discusses the legal implications of FOSS in Australian government and enterprise organisations.
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