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- Why are vendors waiting for the SFLC lawsuit?
- Why are vendors waiting for the SFLC lawsuit?They are hosed.They have no leg to stand on, and obviously, they are using GPLed software with proprietary methods that they don't want to disclose. Since the long term relief is simply that they must stop using BusyBox or release the full...
- Tags: SFLC
- Discussion threads 2008-07-23
- Embedded market keeping SFLC busy as in BusyBox
- As in the previous suits, the defendants ignored attempts by the SFLC to settle the problems privately. Previous suits settled soon after being filed. by Dana Blankenhorn
- Tags: Bell Microproducts Inc., Suit, BusyBox, Embedded Linux, Linux, Internet, Tools & Techniques, Operating Systems, Software, Management, Dana Blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2008-06-11
- Do the Busybox cases change anything?
- Do the Busybox cases change anything?About rightIf you're looking at free software as a starting point for closed source development, then stay away from GPLed code, but if your interest is in using the software or in selling support contracts, then there's no problem.I've long thought that controversies over license...
- Tags: Tools & Techniques, BusyBox, software
- Discussion threads 2008-06-04
- Busybox takes another step up GPL protection ladder
- The Software Freedom Law Center, acting on behalf of Busybox, has won a second settlement of GPL infringement charges and now faces Verizon's lawyers. Pictured is the Busybox logo with a hint for last-minute Santas who have very small children. They will prefer the box to whatever...
- Tags: GPL, Router, Settlement, Verizon Communications Inc., Busybox, Litigation, Routers & Switches, Open Source, Network Technology, Networking, Business Operations, Dana Blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2007-12-19
- Lawsuit asserts violation of GPL
- The Software Freedom Law Center will file its first lawsuit alleging violation of the GPL General Public License. The suit is against Monsoon Multimedia on behalf of the open-source BusyBox project. BusyBox is accusing Monsoon of failing to fulfill the license's copyleft obligations by including BusyBox in the firmware...
- Tags: GPL, Lawsuit, BusyBox, Open Source, ZDNet Government
- Blog posts 2007-09-21
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- News to know: Vista tweaks; Firefox 3; Life streaming for business; Office
- Notable headlines: Ed Bott: 10 top tweaks for Windows Vista. Gallery right. Mary Jo Foley: Microsoft to show off a corporate Facebook-like prototype About those Windows XP 'upgrades' from Vista ... Dennis Howlett: CIO perspective:...
- Tags: Mozilla Firefox 3.0, Mozilla Firefox, Microsoft Office, Microsoft Windows Vista, SOA, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Microsoft Windows, Web Browsers, Web Services, Middleware, Enterprise Software, Software, Operating Systems, Internet, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-06-12
- Calling out lawyers on their own FUD
- Last week I did a little legal snark, suggesting that the BusyBox settlements do not, as attorney Edward Walsh wrote, add to the legal risks run by enterprises using open source. Now the Software Freedom Law Center has weighed in on this, and they agree with me....
- Tags: Edward Walsh, Open Source, Dana Blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2008-06-10
- News to know: Windows 7; Firefox 3.0; Yahoo; SOA; Nokia
- Notable headlines: Mary Jo Foley: Windows 7: To wait or not to wait? That is the question Microsoft continues paring back the Windows Live family Adrian Kingsley-Hughes: Firefox 3.0 Release Candidate 2 available from FTP servers ...
- Tags: Mozilla Firefox 3.0, Mozilla Firefox, Microsoft Windows 7, Nokia Corp., Yahoo! Inc., Camcorder, SOA, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Microsoft Windows, Web Browsers, Apple Mac OS, Operating Systems, Web Services, Enterprise Software, Software, Internet, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-06-05
- Do the Busybox cases change anything?
- The GPL violation cases known collectively as the BusyBox cases never went to court, but they do seem to have settled the question of whether the license is enforceable. It is. So why is Edward Walsh, an attorney at Wolf Greenfield in Boston, trying to...
- Tags: Software, GPL, Open-source Software, Compliance, Open Source, Tools & Techniques, Management, Dana Blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2008-06-04
- News to know: IE 8; 50W dual-core PC; Oracle; NetSuite; Dell snafu
- Notable headlines: George Ou: Hitting 50W peak on a dual-core desktop computer Mary Jo Foley: Internal Microsoft IE 8 build passes the Acid standards test. MSDN blog. Opera: Acid or no, its Microsoft antitrust complaint goes forward Adrian Kingsley Hughes: First...
- Tags: Google Inc., Facebook, Larry Dignan, Dell Computer Corp., Dual-core, Oracle Corp., PC, NetSuite Inc., Health Care, Microsoft Internet Explorer, Microsoft Corp., OpenOffice, Keyboards, E-health, Business Structures, Vertical Industries, Healthcare, Benefits, Processors, Office Suites, Software, Hardware, Peripherals, Finance, Enterprise Software, Human Resources, Semiconductors, Components
- Blog posts 2007-12-20
- Just don't call it trolling, Verizon
- Just don't call it trolling, VerizonHmm..So that's why Verizon support technicians clam up the second you mention you use Linux.It's quite possible......that Verizon is right on this and that the Busybox developers and SFLC have overreached. I'm not at all sure I'd like a precedent that holds the unwitting...
- Tags: Verizon Communications Inc., DD-WRT, GPLv2, source code
- Discussion threads 2007-12-07
- Just don't call it trolling, Verizon
- The Software Freedom Law Center has sued Verizon on behalf of Busybox. Busybox wrote a Linux application, under the GPL, which Verizon used in a wireless router it provides users of its FIOS service, which promises faster speed in exchange for cutting users' copper and tieing them...
- Tags: GPL, Router, Verizon Communications Inc., Software Freedom Law Center, SPLC, Routers & Switches, Network Technology, Networking, Dana Blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2007-12-07
- Will open source desktops succumb to bloat?
- Will open source desktops succumb to bloat?No, I don't believe it willMainly because we don't really need to run all the life support applications that a Windows machine needs. And the ones we do, well we can re-nice those so they don't interfere with daily operations. CRON is easy to...
- Tags: Desktops, Operating systems, Cron, open source, Windows Machine, desktop, open source desktop, Microsoft Windows
- Discussion threads 2007-10-04
- Is Linux innovative?
- Is Linux innovative?"innovation" - bah!Just what IS innovation? I always thought that innovation is the poor stepchild to invention - i.e. If you aren't good enough to invent something new, maybe you can fiddle with something existing to "improve" it. Henry Ford had his "campouts" with Thomas Edison (and other...
- Tags: Leadership, Strategy, UNIX, Operating systems, OPEN SOURCE, Hewlett-Packard Co., Microsoft Corp., innovation, LINUX IS, Linux, GNU/Linux
- Discussion threads 2007-09-28
- GPL will get its day in court
- GPL will get its day in courtSP?[i]Software Freedom Law Center SLFC[/i]Shouldn't that be SFLC not SLFC. You used the latter twice.I doubt they signed any contractPersonally, I don't think ANY company should be able to publish a contract and claim that it is valid. If we don't mutually agree...
- Tags: OPEN SOURCE, GPL, EULA, Monsoon
- Discussion threads 2007-09-21
- GPL will get its day in court
- The Software Freedom Law Center says it has filed the first ever U.S. copyright infringement lawsuit based on the GNU General Public License. The Software Freedom Law Center SLFC said Thursday it is filing the lawsuit (see complaint, statement and Techmeme) against Monsoon Multimedia on behalf of the...
- Tags: Software, GPL, Complaint, Software Freedom Law Center, Open Source, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2007-09-21
- Intel (and Microsoft) in your hip pocket
- Intel and Microsoft in your hip pocketThe World, In the Palm of Your HandUMPC is a curiosity and only a curiosity. You are correct that until they fall below $500 there won't be much consumer interest.[url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ARM_architecture]ARM-embedded devices] on the other hand are dominant, power-efficient, sufficiently lower in cost and...
- Tags: Wireless LANs, RSS, Microsoft Corp., ultramobile PC, Audio/video, Nokia N800, Intel Corp.
- Discussion threads 2007-04-15
- Build Your Own Wireless Access Point
- This paper will cover the software, tools, libraries, and configuration files needed to construct an embedded Linux wireless access point. Some of the software available for constructing embedded Linux systems will be discussed, and selection criteria for which tools to use for differing embedded applications will be presented. An embedded...
- Tags: Access Point, Embedded Linux Wireless Access Point, Embedded Linux, Linux, Wireless, Open Source, Operating Systems, Software
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