Simon Phipps, OSI board member, is creating a group to develop a new charter to renew the Open Source Initiative as a member-based grass roots organisation
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Translation of Novell’s Statement Regarding the SCO Case
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Novell's spin is dissected following the end of the copyright/UNIX case
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ITC Considers Whether to Ban Apple Products After Apple Sued Linux (Android)
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The International Trade Commission (ITC) is looking at HTC's complaint and the Motorola-RIM patent fight is settled amidst ITC involvement
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A Lawyer is Questioning the Definiteness of Death of the SCO Case
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There might be room for an appeal from SCO, argues Christian Einfeldt (above)
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Modifications to Mozilla Public License: Join the Party and Comment
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The Mozilla Foundation has started the process of revising the Mozilla Public License (“MPL”) and has published the first drafts in the process. The changes are a welcome simplification to the MPL definitions and license grant.
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Looking Back at SCO
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Given SCO’s well-demonstrated tenacity and unwillingness to face reality, it may seem unwise to assume we have indeed seen the end of the road. It’s easy to just walk away and leave them alone with their delusions. Presumably, that’s what SCO’s trustee in bankruptcy will now do. What did it all mean?
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It’s Final: Novell Owns UNIX. Now, Who Will Buy Novell With UNIX?
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The judge gives UNIX to Novell, but it is worth remembering that Novell is up for sale and its assets are up for grabs
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Novell Appeals in Microsoft Antitrust Litigation on WordPerfect Claims
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Novell has filed a Notice of Appeal in its antitrust litigation against Microsoft. That's the case about its WordPerfect claims. Despite Microsoft prevailing on its motion to dismiss, for technical reasons I'll explain a bit in a minute, I want you to read what the judge said Microsoft did to Novell
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Novell Gains New Software Patents to Potentially be Sold to Patent Trolls
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5 more patents are awarded to Novell, which is in possession of a dangerous portfolio that could be auctioned away
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Ingres VectorWise goes GA, open source by end of year
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Ingres have made Ingres VectorWise generally available to download for free evaluation or commercially licence and say that an open source release for the accelerated database technology should be expected by the end of the year
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Transcript of Hearing on Novell's Daubert Motions and Pre-trial Conference in SCO v. Novell
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We now have the transcript [PDF] of the February 25, 2010 combined hearing on Novell's Daubert motions and final pre-trial conference between the parties in SCO v. Novell before Judge Stewart.
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Apple lifted 'make web go away' button from open source
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Apple Safari's new "make web go away" button is based on an open source project distributed under the Apache 2 license. And that's news to the open sourcers.
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Software Patents Still Fought Against by Red Hat, Brad Feld
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New evidence that Red Hat actively battles against RAND clauses; a venture capitalist opposes software patents
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NPR to open source its Android app
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National Public Radio has announced that, following "Android's incredible trajectory", it plans to open source its NPR Android application
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Swift and predictable reactions to WebM
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On May 19, Google unveiled something that many in the open source community had been expecting (and which the Free Software Foundation asked for in March): it made the VP8 video codec available to the public under a royalty-free, open source BSD-style license.
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