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- Watching the watchers of the GPL
- Ah, the GPL. The GNU Public License. It's probably one of the most controversial topics in all of the IT world. What is it and how is it enforced? Who backs it and who defends it? And who watches the watchers? Now there's the real rub. We all know...
- Tags: GPL, Groklaw, Open Source, Jack Wallen
- Blog posts 2008-04-26
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- Welcome to litigation land, 2006
- Patent reformThis case points to the urgent need for patent reform. Software patents and "methods and concepts" patents should be eliminated. Software can still be copyrighted to protect the intellectual property. I recommend www.groklaw.net for a full discussion on this critical issue.
- Tags: Schuylkill, patents, law, lawsuits, it management, litigation
- Discussion threads 2006-03-06
- EU Commission Study Finds You'll Save Money Switching to FOSS
- http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20070112025016466The article itself isn't very informative, but the report is quite interesting. all 289 pages of it.:Dediting to add:The url for the PDF format EU report:http://ec.europa.eu/enterprise/ict/studies/publications.htm
- Tags: F/OSS, it management, Jaqui, linux, software
- Discussion threads 2007-01-12
- Open-source leader: SCO suits a boon to Linux
- SCO Suit - Where are you now?This was everywhere, and then all of a sudden it was gone.It is suprising how a major story that affects so many people using linux and it could just go away for so long.When this is over, does anyone see SCO staying in business?...
- Tags: jd-quick (formerly clyde), jdclyde, linux, open source, SCO Group Inc.
- Discussion threads 2005-03-17
- Fact and fiction in the Microsoft-SCO relationship
- Microsoft-SCO: Separating fact from fictionMicrosoft's role in The SCO Group's legal actions against Linux has led to numerous conspiracy theories. While it doesn't appear as though Microsoft was in the driver's seat in SCO's attack on Linux, Microsoft did provide major financial assistance to SCO twice in 2003. News.com presents...
- Tags: IBM Corp., Microsoft Corp., Newsletter Editor, SCO Group Inc.
- Discussion threads 2004-11-15
- SCO loses major court ruling in UNIX lawsuit
- SCO's lawsuit to stake a claim to UNIX and therefore Linux has foundered, as a federal court ruled Friday that open-source-advocate Novell owns the rights to the core programming underlying both UNIX and Linux. U.S. District Court Judge Dale Kimball ruled SCO must allow Novell to let...
- Tags: Lawsuit, SCO Group Inc., Linux, Open Source, UNIX, Operating Systems, Software, John Bartley K7AAY
- Blog posts 2007-08-12
- Nigerian firm demands $20 million from OLPC over patent infringement
- Lagos Analysis Corporation (Lancor), the firm that brought a patent infringement suit against the OLPC project, has now approached the Nigerian court, claiming $20 million in damages. An excerpt from Groklaw: I kid you not. $20 million in "damages." And an injunction blocking OLPC from distribution...
- Tags: Injunction, One Laptop Per Child Project, Arun Radhakrishnan
- Blog posts 2008-01-03
- What's wrong with RSS is also what's right with it
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- Tags: RSS
- Technical articles 2004-12-08
- IBM strikes at SCO claims
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- Tags: OPEN SOURCE, Operating systems, SCO Group Inc., IBM Corp., Unix
- Technical articles 2004-08-17
- Microsoft's OOXML becomes an ISO standard
- The vote is in and it appears that Microsoft has won its bid to have OOXML declared an ISO standard according to voting results obtained April 1. Does this mean that Microsoft's fight to become a recognized ISO standard is over? Not really. There is...
- Tags: Commission, Antitrust, ISO, Microsoft Corp., OOXML, ECMA 376, Iso standards, Process Improvement, Corporate Law, Quality, Business Operations, Tricia Liebert
- Blog posts 2008-04-02
- Group: Linux potentially infringes 283 patents
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- Tags: UNIX, OPEN SOURCE, Operating systems, Linux, Open Source Risk Management, Dan Ravicher, patent
- Technical articles 2004-08-02
- Is Torvalds really the father of Linux?
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- Tags: Operating systems, OPEN SOURCE, Minix, Linux, Linus Torvalds, Andrew Tanenbaum, Unix
- Technical articles 2004-05-20
- Yankee Group slams 'Linux extremists'
- Yankee Group slams 'Linux extremists'article rootOf COURSE there's no collusion...Last year's Yankee Group TCO study attracted criticism when it became clear that that the sample group was taken from a mailing list aimed at Windows system administrators.Last year's Web-based survey was funded and carried out by Sunbelt Software, a vendor...
- Tags: extremist, Laura DiDio, Linux, rpitera@..., The Yankee Group
- Discussion threads 2005-04-08
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