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Microsoft patent FUD working against Linux, says new study

Looks like Microsoft's FUD campaign against Linux and open source is paying off, according to a new IDC study. Matthew Lawton, director of IDC's Worldwide Software Business Strategies Group, revealed some interesting tidbits from the non-public study in a conference call this week:The potential for copyright and patent infringement is...

Tags: Patents, Microsoft, Linux, Licenses, General, Community, Commercial

Blog posts 2007-08-02

GPLv3 Myth #3: GPL forbids DRM

In our continuing series on the latest version of the world's most popular and least understood free/open source license, today we look at a controversial subject: Digital Rights Management DRM. My colleague David Berlind has another name for DRM: Content, Restriction, Annulment, and Protection CRAP.Disclaimer: This information was culled from...

Tags: Programming, Licenses, Linux, GPLv3 Myths, General, Community, Commercial

Blog posts 2007-07-30

Lawgarithms Links for 7/28/07

My Google Reader starred items are the ones I've selected just for you, O Lawgarithms readers. Some current highlights therefrom include:NPR on MP3 blogs, from Scripting News New York Lawyer Advertising Rules Round Up, from Sui Generis--a New York law blog by NBlackThe Pirate Bay Goes Simpsons, from Digg...

Tags: Social networking, Net neutrality, Links, Licenses, Lawsuits, DRM, DMCA, Copyright, Blogging, Attention

Blog posts 2007-07-28

Valleywag latest example of cutting Creative Commons corners

Flickr makes it so easy to find photos, doesn't it? And if you're blogging for a commercial outlet like this one, or, say, Valleywag, it even makes it easy to find photos licensed for commercial use.Yesterday, Valleywag disregarded that when it copied and republished a noncommercially licensed Dan Farber...

Tags: Social networking, Licenses, Copyright, Blogging

Blog posts 2007-07-27

Lawgarithms Links for 7/20/07

Now that I'm smitten with keeping a link blog, I'll endeavor once a week or so to cull through it for things I think might be of particular interest to Lawgarithms readers. So, here we go. I'm curious whether you find such undertakings useful or not, so there's...

Tags: Social news, Social networking, Privacy, Patent, Live Web, Links, Licenses, Lawsuits, DRM, DMCA, Copyright, Collaboration, Blogging

Blog posts 2007-07-20

Viacom and YouTube lawyers and others are in violent agreement: intellectual property won't kill social media

There has been a good deal of violent agreement thus far here at Supernova, but I was pretty surprised at the degree of it we had on the panel I moderated this morning, captioned Will Intellectual Property Kill Social Media? The answer was resoundingly "no," and the converse also...

Tags: Video, User generated content, Social news, Social networking, MGM v. Grokster, Mashups, Live Web, Licenses, Lawsuits, DMCA, Copyright, Conferences

Blog posts 2007-06-20

GPLv3 myth#2: You can't mix GPL software with other software

Now that the “Final Draft” of the GNU General Public License version 3 (GPLv3) is out I thought it would be a good time to take a look at some of the least well understood provisions in the license. In part 1, we explored the notion of selling GPL software....

Tags: Programming, Linux, Licenses, General, Community, Commercial

Blog posts 2007-06-07

Movable Type becomes free again

When I first got started blogging, I used a popular system called Movable Type. It was free, easy to install, and it worked well. At the time it was the system of choice for most bloggers. But then in May 2004, Six Apart, the owners of Movable Type, decided to...

Tags: Licenses, General, Community, Commercial

Blog posts 2007-06-06

Top 5 myths of GPLv3 dispelled (part 1)

Now that the "Final Draft" of the GNU General Public License version 3 (GPLv3) is out and we're 30 days away from the official published version, I thought it would be a good time to take a look at some of the least well understood provisions in the license. These...

Tags: Programming, Patents, Linux, Licenses, General, Community, Commercial

Blog posts 2007-06-04

Day 1 of iTunes Plus has its minuses

As Bob Lefsetz rants, the iTunes Plus launch today has not been without its hiccups. He's particularly ticked off that users must go through a laborious "change preferences" process once they've drunk the iTunes Plus Kool-Aid, should they wish at any time to purchase the non-Plus version of a...

Tags: Copyright, DRM, Licenses

Blog posts 2007-05-30

Google Web Toolkit 1.4: "Have to see it to believe it"

Google just released the Google Web Toolkit GWT 1.4 Release Candidate, a major upgrade to the company's open-source framework for writing AJAX web applications in the Java programming language. A download is available here (make sure you get the latest 1.4 version). Highlights include: The new ImageBundle feature creates a...

Tags: AJAX, Community, General, Google, Java, Licenses, Programming

Blog posts 2007-05-30

Dell Ubuntu Linux has arrived

Late yesterday Dell opened the floodgates of its grand consumer Linux experiment by offering three systems with Ubuntu Desktop Edition version 7.04 pre-installed. They are available for purchase now:The Dimension E520 N starts at $599 ($749 - $150 promotional discount), and includes an Intel Core 2 Duo processor (E4300), 1GB...

Tags: Commercial, Community, Dell, General, Licenses, Linux

Blog posts 2007-05-25

Novell takes MS money, then stabs 'em in the back

In the "turnabout is fair play" department, Novell announced today that it's partnering with the Electronic Frontier Foundation the people that brought you GPL in their effort to reform software patents worldwide. Novell will help the EFF with lobbying efforts, and contribute "significant resources" to EFF's Patent Busting project. Nat...

Tags: Commercial, Community, General, Licenses, Linux, Microsoft, Patents, Programming

Blog posts 2007-05-23

Microsoft Windows and Office violate 532 patents?

By now I'm sure you've all read about Microsoft's latest attempt to slow down open source software adoption by asserting that Linux and other open source software violates 200+ of their patents. This isn't the first time they've made such a claim, nor will it be the last.But what if...

Tags: General, Licenses, Linux, Microsoft

Blog posts 2007-05-17

Sun delivers Open Source Java and governance board

Sun Microsystems Inc. is announcing today the long awaited release of a fully buildable open Java Development Kit OpenJDK for the Java Platform Standard Edition Java SE under the GNU General Public License version 2 (GPLv2). Everything is open source, except for a few bits that were not owned by...

Tags: Sun, Programming, Licenses, Java, General, Community

Blog posts 2007-05-08

Sun preparing answer to Flash, Silverlight?

The details are a closely guarded secret until JavaOne opens next Tuesday. But all indications point to some kind of response from Sun to Adobe Flash and Microsoft Silverlight. I admit this is based on 2 parts information, 4 parts speculation, and 3 parts wishful thinking, but a few hints...

Tags: Sun, Licenses, Java, General, Community, AJAX

Blog posts 2007-05-04

Adobe keeps Flash, Flex close to the vest

Adobe has announced that most of the Flex SDK will be open source starting with the "Moxie" version, due out later in 2007. Specifically, all of the components of the Flex SDK needed to create Flex applications, including the Java source code for the ActionScript and MXML compilers, the ActionScript...

Tags: Scripting, Programming, Licenses, Java, General, Eclipse, Community, Commercial, AJAX

Blog posts 2007-04-26

Andy Oliver: New JBoss model not the same as Fedora

In 2003 Red Hat discontinued its popular Red Hat Linux distribution, replacing it with Red Hat Enterprise Linux RHEL for commercial users and Fedora for more casual users. Now the company is planning a change for JBoss, the highly successful application server it acquired for $420 million last year. While...

Tags: Commercial, Community, Ed Burnette, Fedora Project, General, JBoss, Licenses, Linux, Red Hat Inc.

Blog posts 2007-04-25

Supernova: will intellectual property kill social media?

Kevin Werbach just posted the draft agenda for the upcoming Supernova conference. Ill be moderating a session at the Challenge Day on June 20 titled "Will Intellectual Property Kill Social Media?," and weve confirmed the following stellar panel to take on this topic:EFF Senior Intellectual Property Attorney Fred von...

Tags: Video, User generated content, Social news, Social networking, MGM v. Grokster, Mashups, Live Web, Licenses, Lawsuits, DMCA, Copyright, Conferences

Blog posts 2007-04-23

Sun and Canonical to distribute Java with Ubuntu Linux

A complete Sun Java stack, including Java SE 6, GlassFish, JavaDB, and NetBeans, is now available with the latest release of Ubuntu v7.04 Feisty Fawn. Users can find it in the "multiverse" repository and install the packages just like any other Ubuntu programs, according to Ubuntu founder Mark Shuttleworth."Last November...

Tags: Sun, Licenses, Programming, NetBeans, Linux, Java, General, Community, Commercial

Blog posts 2007-04-18