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- OIN outmanuevers Microsoft, buys Linux patents
- The Open Invention Network seems to have one upped Microsoft. Â 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
- 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
- Google throws in with Linux patent-sharing organization
- It's good news for GNU/Linux fans as Google joins the Open Invention Network OIN, a patent-sharing organization that creates a legally protected environment for anyone who works with Linux. All OIN licensees agree to cross-license any Linux-related patents they might have to the others free of charge. According to Chris...
- Tags: Google Inc., Linux, Open Source, Ed Burnette
- Blog posts 2007-08-07
- Can Google get OIN over the enterprise hump?
- Consider the following: You're a big open source shop that spends a lot of time developing Linux code. Now you get a vehicle to cross-license Linux-related patents without all the licensing hubbub from the likes of IBM, Oracle, and Google. Doesn't it make sense to become a licensee?Google announced that...
- Tags: Google Inc., Linux, Patent, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2007-08-07
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- 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
- Could open source have built Silicon Valley?
- Could open source have built Silicon Valley?Silicone Valley?Isn't "Silicone Valley" down in Orange County, where all the plastic surgeons are? ;)By your own admission, it's Constitutional.I think Silicone valley would exist only they would be a lot poorer for it. The turnover rate for companies would be higher. We also...
- Tags: patent, Silicone Valley, software, open source
- Discussion threads 2009-07-27
- Intel discusses upcoming laptop and Atom chips, why we need more performance in mobile devices
- This week I'm at the Semicon West show in San Francisco. Most of this is inside baseball--the show is devoted to the companies that make the equipment used to manufacture chips--but in his opening keynote, Anand Chandrasekher, who heads up Intel's Ultra Mobility Group, discussed some details of the company's...
- Tags: Performance, Mobile, Power Consumption, Mobile Device, Laptop Computer, Intel Corp., Chip, Advertising & Promotion, Performance Management, Notebooks, Processors, Marketing, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, Semiconductors, Components, John Morris
- Blog posts 2009-07-15
- The Internet devalues everything it touches . . .
- The Internet devalues everything it touches . . .Cloud Computing: The low cost arrived to IT business?Hi Tom,Great analysis, and of course I agree.And dare to say that Cloud Computing is also the IT business ?low cost?:http://www.cloudviews.org/2009/05/cloud-computing-the-low-cost-arrived-to-it-business/RE: The Internet devalues everything it touches . . .i don't think it can...
- Tags: Internet, gravity, industrial revolution, cloud computing
- Discussion threads 2009-06-20
- Bing passes Yahoo, steals share from Google?
- Bing passes Yahoo, steals share from Google?I'm confused.... On what exactly the point of your article. Were you trying to convince readers that MS is playing dirty tricks with the statistics? Because COMING from a Google apologist like you, it sure doesn't sound convincing.Read around. Bing got some really impressive...
- Tags: Google Inc., Bing, Yahoo! Inc., Microsoft Corp.
- Discussion threads 2009-06-06
- The case for a Global Digital Public Library Network policy
- By Bill Kallman This guest blog is penned by Bill Kallman, CEO of Scayl, a direct, unlimited secure email solution, a longtime VC and real estate investor. He was a founding director of Streamcast, one of the defendant's in the landmark MGM v Grokster ruling. He holds...
- Tags: Google Inc., Network, Radio, Library, Digital Library, Library Network, GDPLN, Content Industry, Copyright War, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2009-05-22
- Microsoft sends mixed patent message
- In the wake of the Open Invention Network challenge to Microsoft's patents related to Linux, the company's good cop-bad cop routine has gone into overdrive. by Dana Blankenhorn
- Tags: Microsoft Corp., Linux, UNIX, Operating Systems, Open Source, Software, Dana Blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2009-04-30
- Enterprise 2.0 promise is years off...if it materializes
- At the risk of bringing the wrath of the Enterprise 2.0 fans crashing around this blog I'm taking a deliberately contrarian view of Dion Hinchcliffe's recent Determining the ROI of Enterprise 2.0. My intention is not to upend Dion's argument but to expand upon the issues....
- Tags: Collaboration, Blog, ROI, Enterprise 2.0, E2.0, Hugh MacLeod, Roi/Tco, Finance, Managerial Accounting, Dennis Howlett
- Blog posts 2009-04-13
- Linux Foundation: Let's kill Microsoft's FAT
- The Linux Foundation is ready and willing to help companies get Microsoft's FAT out of their products. In his blog posted today about TomTom's settlement with Microsoft that was announced yesterday, foundation executive director Jim Zemlin said the case only proves that Microsoft was taking aim against...
- Tags: Microsoft Corp., Linux Foundation, FAT, Linux, UNIX, Operating Systems, Open Source, Software, Paula Rooney
- Blog posts 2009-03-31
- OIN: TomTom settlement is no win for Microsoft, expect challenge
- Microsoft may view its legal settlement with TomTom as a patent victory of sorts but it's a hollow and meaningless win in the eyes of some in the open source community. Open Invention Network CEO Keith Bergelt said the settlement announced yesterday was anticipated and expected and...
- Tags: Patent, TomTom, Settlement, Microsoft Corp., Linux, Litigation, Open Source, Operating Systems, Software, Business Operations, Paula Rooney
- Blog posts 2009-03-31
- TomTom tells Ballmer tear down this wall
- TomTom tells Ballmer tear down this wallwell said!No it's time for OIN members to honor their agreement and counter sue M$ for patent violations.Just say..."I'm a doughnut". That's what the translation will be anyway.Microsoft will find inself increasingly isolated trying to preventcompetition and maintain the proprietary model. Companies all...
- Tags: Construction, TomTom, Steve Ballmer, wall, Microsoft Corp.
- Discussion threads 2009-03-23
- TomTom tells Ballmer tear down this wall
- By joining the Open Invention Network TomTom made its most important statement yet that it won't get pushed around in its patent litigation with Microsoft. OIN members include important players like IBM, Philips and Sony. On the other hand they also include Novell, whose original patent cross-license...
- Tags: TomTom, Steve Ballmer, Microsoft Corp., Wall, Linux, Construction, Strategy, Operating Systems, Software, Management, Dana Blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2009-03-23
- From Chapter Four: The Unix and Open source Culture
- This is the 40th excerpt from the second book in the Defen series: BIT: Business Information Technology: Foundations, Infrastructure, and Culture Roots (1) Almost everything you really need to know about Unix or Unics as it was first known and the open source movement can be gleaned from...
- Tags: Open Source, Multics, UNIX, Operating Systems, Software, Paul Murphy
- Blog posts 2009-03-06
- OIN: Microsoft lawsuit won't slow Linux's lead in mobile market
- Microsoft's lawsuit against TomTom is aimed at Linux but it won't deter the open source operating system's success in the mobile device market, said Open Invention Network's CEO. Open Invention Network CEO Keith Bergelt doesn't buy Microsoft's contention that the lawsuit, filed last week, is not targeting...
- Tags: Lawsuit, Mobile, Microsoft Corp., Linux, Open Source, UNIX, Operating Systems, Software, Paula Rooney
- Blog posts 2009-03-02
- Bang the TomTom slowly
- Sometimes a suit is just a suit. (What was Frank Langella actually doing when Nixon was President? Stay tuned.) Eben Moglen and the Software Freedom Law Center are thinking about getting involved in the patent suit Microsoft filed against TomTom, writes our Elinor Mills. ...
- Tags: Patent, TomTom, Microsoft Corp., Jim Zemlin, Linux, UNIX, Operating Systems, Open Source, Software, Dana Blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2009-02-27
- Linux Foundation ready to fight Microsoft if TomTom lawsuit involves Linux kernel
- The Linux Foundation insists it is equipped to fight Microsoft if the software giant’s lawsuit against TomTom impacts the open source Linux kernel. In his blog, Executive Director Jim Zemlin advised concerned parties to “calm down†in light of statements by Microsoft’s deputy general counsel that...
- Tags: Lawsuit, Patent, TomTom, Linux Kernel, Microsoft Corp., Linux Foundation, *It, Linux, UNIX, Open Source, Operating Systems, Software, Paula Rooney
- Blog posts 2009-02-27
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