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News to know: Adobe; Sergey Brin; Apps.gov; Oracle; Facebook

Here are today’s notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily. For continuous updates see BNET’s around-the-Web tech coverage. Sam Diaz: Adobe to acquire Ominture; CEO calls move a 'game-changer' Larry Dignan: Feds launch Apps.gov; Cloud computing players...

Tags: Adobe Systems Inc., Facebook, Larry Dignan, Oracle Corp., Microsoft Zune, Microsoft Corp., Sergey Brin, OIN, Enterprise Service Bus, Microsoft Windows 7, Microsoft Windows, Linux, Tablets, Notebooks, Cloud Computing, Middleware, Enterprise Software, Software, Operating Systems, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets

Blog posts 2009-09-16

OIN suggests patent reform on the fly

"Bergelt thinks"That does say it all.It would appear that I was right: IBM is a cofounder of OIN, which would indicate that IBM does indeed wish to control Linux thru patents, using the OIN as a front, or "white hat" as it were.This is the game IBM is playing, I...

Tags: OIN, patent, software patent, Linux, software

Discussion threads 2009-09-15

OIN suggests patent reform on the fly

We want to develop more rigor about codifying what we know so others can't invent around what we already know. Patent only those things that are truly unique and wrap them with defensive publications. by Dana Blankenhorn

Tags: Patent, OIN, Dana Blankenhorn

Blog posts 2009-09-15

OIN outmanuevers Microsoft, buys Linux patents

Win-Win for Linux distro's!As long as the Open_Source movement steamrolls ahead little by little the M$ Regime will deteriorate over time. RE: OIN outmanuevers Microsoft, buys Linux patentsIs it fair to say that OIN out maneuvered MS if you cannot tell if the patents have value? Surely, the open-source...

Tags: OIN, patent, Microsoft Corp., open source, patent troll

Discussion threads 2009-09-09

OIN outmanuevers Microsoft, buys Linux patents

The Open Invention Network seems to have one upped Microsoft.  Or has Microsoft one upped OIN? Either way, it's win-win for Linux. Yesterday, OIN, whose mission is to defend Linux and open source from patent trolls, purchased 22 Linux related patents Microsoft recently sold...

Tags: Patent, Microsoft Corp., Patent Troll, Open Invention Network, OIN, Linux, UNIX, Open Source, Operating Systems, Software, Paula Rooney

Blog posts 2009-09-09

OIN spearheads review of Microsoft FAT patents

OIN spearheads review of Microsoft FAT patentsThe OIN is nothing more than a bottom feeder trying hard....to do away with patents they think they can fight. If Linux based systems are not guily of major patent abuse, as MS has claimed in the past, why would there be an OIN...

Tags: patent, OIN, Microsoft Corp.

Discussion threads 2009-04-28

OIN spearheads review of Microsoft FAT patents

The Open Invention Network is making good on its pledge to try to overturn the Linux-related patents that were contained in Microsoft's recently settled litigation against TomTomNV. OIN announced today that three patents in the lawsuit -- including those the deal with the creation of long and...

Tags: Patent, Prior Art, Microsoft Corp., OIN, Open Invention Network, Peer-to-Patent, Linux, Open Source, Operating Systems, Software, Paula Rooney

Blog posts 2009-04-27

OIN: TomTom settlement is no win for Microsoft, expect challenge

OIN: TomTom settlement is no win for Microsoft, expect challengeI don't get itFor all the hootin' and hollerin' about this being an attack on Linux, I just don't see what the big deal is. Microsoft signed a license agreement with Tom Tom on a couple patents that cover parts of...

Tags: Litigation, Linux, Microsoft Corp., TomTom, settlement, OIN, patent

Discussion threads 2009-03-31

Can Google get OIN over the enterprise hump?

Can Google get OIN over the enterprise hump?Patent refrom, not least in the United States,is definitely needed, as present practice seems to hinder rather than promote the objectives named in [b]Article I[/b], [b]Section 8[/b] of the [b]US Constitution[/b], [i]viz[/i] «To promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts. But perhaps...

Tags: OPEN SOURCE, OIN, FUD, Google get OIN, Google Inc.

Discussion threads 2007-08-08

The power to fight Microsoft is IBM

The power to fight Microsoft is IBMNo one disagree with your point.But there are contributions from many companies and people not just IBM.So IBM is the key to open source's future.Everyone who has an idealistic belief in the future of open source, even in its present values, has to accept...

Tags: Tools & Techniques, IBM Corp., software patent, Microsoft Corp., OIN, software

Discussion threads 2007-06-19

The commons takes on Microsoft

A statement issued the other day by the Open Invention Network contains more than the standard yadda-yadda-yadda."In less than a year, OIN has accumulated more than 100 strategic, worldwide patents and patent applications that span Web / Internet, e-commerce, mobile and communications technologies. These patents are available to all as...

Tags: INTERNET, OPEN SOURCE, commons, OIN

Blog posts 2006-11-24

Could more Eolas-like open source benefactors hurt Microsoft, others?

Could more Eolas-like open source benefactors hurt Microsoft, others?OIN and other patent poolsOpen Source has Patents also. There are already several pools of patents pledged to Open Source and Linux. OIN aquired some more patents about a week or so ago http://www.openinventionnetwork.com/press_release.php . OIN is just...

Tags: Tools & Techniques, Open Source Movement, Eolas Technologies Inc., Red Hat Inc., patent, software, open source, software patent, OIN, Microsoft Corp., GPL, IBM Corp.

Discussion threads 2006-05-30

Additional Resources

Will Microsoft always be seen as open source Astroturf?

Long ago......people gave up any semblance of being able to separate the message from the messenger. We saw it with the anti-Bush tirades, we see it now with the anti-Obama (and the anti-anti-Obama) tirades, as we see it in the anti-Microsoft tirades. Microsoft could announce that the sun was going...

Tags: Microsoft Corp., publically-traded company, open source

Discussion threads 2009-09-11

News to know: Apple; AT&T; Google Books; Palm Pixi; Verizon; Best Buy-Microsoft

Here are today's notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily. For continuous updates see BNET's around-the-Web tech coverage. Sam Diaz: Live blog from Apple's "It's only Rock n Roll" event Apple afterthoughts: The real news is what...

Tags: Google Inc., Larry Dignan, Apple iPod, Palm Inc., Verizon Communications Inc., Andrew Nusca, Mary Jo Foley, AT&T Corp., Apple Inc., Microsoft Corp., Sam Diaz, Linux, Digital Music, Digital Media, Government, Operating Systems, Software, Personal Technology, Consumer Electronics

Blog posts 2009-09-10

News to know: Windows 7; Verizon; RightNow; Salesforce; Palm; HP

Here are today’s notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily. For continuous updates see BNET’s around-the-Web tech coverage. Ryan Naraine: Windows 7, Vista exposed to 'teardrop attack' Microsoft patches gaping Windows worm holes Firefox to run...

Tags: Salesforce.com Inc., Larry Dignan, Patent, Hewlett-Packard Co., Palm Inc., Verizon Communications Inc., Microsoft Corp., RightNow Technologies, Sam Diaz, Microsoft Windows, Linux, Microsoft Windows 7, Cable, Operating Systems, Open Source, Software, Telecommunications, Personal Technology

Blog posts 2009-09-09

OIN disposal squad takes out 22 patent land mines

Sad they have to fight fire with fireBut like every fireman would tell you: Sometimes fire is the best and most efficient weapon against fire.But, the interesting thing is that MS can not assert the patents themselvesagainst open source, and, in this case, they could not get a buyer that...

Tags: Microsoft Corp., patent, open source

Discussion threads 2009-09-08

OIN disposal squad takes out 22 patent land mines

Even if Microsoft did not know the patents would land with OIN, it seems clear they would know the organization they were selling to had no interest in holding anyone else up with them. by Dana Blankenhorn

Tags: Patent, Dana Blankenhorn

Blog posts 2009-09-08

Linux group buys up 22 patents

The Open Invention Network - an IP company created to protect Linux from patent lawsuits - has purchased 22 patents formerly owned by Microsoft and which appear to impact Linux, The Wall Street Journal reports. The group purchased the patents from Allied Security Trust - a consortium...

Tags: Patent, Linux, Operating Systems, Software, Richard Koman

Blog posts 2009-09-08

What do Linux vendors want with those former Microsoft graphics patents?

Trolls are worse than MicrosoftMS could face retribution from the likes of IBM, whose portfolio and depth of patents dwarf most other stockpiles. Most likely this has been the main source of MS restraint - only saber rattling - to date.A troll has no legitimate business to protect and...

Tags: OPEN SOURCE, Operating systems, graphics, Microsoft Corp., patent, Linux

Discussion threads 2009-09-08

Software patents hot topic at Microsoft event

Software patents hot topic at Microsoft eventTrying to stop Open_SourceThe only they can compete with Open_Source islawsuits about patents.Other than that it is a Titanic sailing for theice-burg or Conficker.all software belongs tu u$![i]Oliver Bell, regional technology officer, Microsoft Asia-Pacific, responded, saying Microsoft has an interest in protecting intellectual property...

Tags: OPEN SOURCE, NOW IT, Microsoft Corp., Linux, software

Discussion threads 2009-04-29