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Eben law can have an open source business model: Anyone can have an open source business model. Even an open source lawyer. Eben Moglen, whose Software Freedom Law Center provides free legal help to open source projects, has just announced Moglen Ravicher LLC, a for-profit law firm covering the same ground. Their first...; Tags: Lawyer, OpenNMS, Ravicher, Open Source, Dana Blankenhorn; Blog posts 2008-03-27
Microsoft: Free and open source software violates 235 Microsoft patents: Microsoft finally has thrown down the gauntlet and is claiming publicly that free and open-source software FOSS violates 235 Microsoft patents. That tally comes from a newly published article in Fortune. In that article, Microsoft licensing chief Horacio Gutierrez wouldn't talk specifics. He declined to specify which Microsoft patents...; Tags: Patent, Open-source Software, Microsoft Corp., F/OSS, Linux, Open Source, Operating Systems, Software, Mary Jo Foley; Blog posts 2007-05-13
Bradley Kuhn rips Microsoft's patent pledge to shreds. But should we be surprised?: Bradley Kuhn rips Microsoft's patent pledge to shreds. But should we be surprised?FSF said there were violations.In fact they hired professionals to dig tghem out and they found 284 *possible* violations.Now, only a complete fool would thing that ALL 284 are without merit.Every open source supporter is going tosay that...; Tags: OPEN SOURCE, Microsoft Corp., patent, Open Source Risk Management, Novell Inc., Linux; Discussion threads 2006-11-10
USPTO to re-examine JPEG patent: Forgent Technologies is one of the most intellectual property firms. In 1997, it bought Compression Labs. One of Compression's patents, Forgent believes, covers the compression scheme for JPEG. It's been asserting that patent to digital camera manufacturers and has collected over $100 million in royalties so far. Forgent is also...; Tags: patent, Forgent Technologies; Blog posts 2006-02-02
Munich halts biggest-ever Linux migration: Munich halts biggest-ever Linux migrationTemporary setback- you cannot prevent FREEdom.And I'm sure some German M$hill had a hand in this..How do you say M$hill in German? M$chitkoft?It is not the patent issue..I do not think patents are the real reason the migration was stopped. My rep was telling me this...; Tags: OPEN SOURCE, patent, Linux, Microsoft Corp., Linux Migration, IBM Corp.; Discussion threads 2004-08-05

Linux potentially infringes 283 patents: Open Source Risk Management, a company that sells legal protection against Linux copyright-infringement claims, commissioned the Public Patent Foundation to analyze the potential patent infringement claims that could be aimed at Linux. The study found 283 patents, of which 98 are owned by Linux friendlies (including 60 by IBM, 20 by Hewlett-Packard...; Tags: patent, Linux; Blog posts 2004-08-02
Company claims patent for download apps: Company claims patent for download appsya knowI really miss the good ol days of the internet before greedy companies got involved. This is ridiculous! At this rate the internet is going to become too expensive to use because we have to pay for any and every action we do. I...; Tags: Current patent law, patent, Pubpat; Discussion threads 2004-06-15
Graphics patent suit targets Apple, Dell and others: Graphics patent suit targets Apple, Dell and othersIf this doesn't demonstrate...If this doesn't demonstrate just how flawed the idea of software patents are then nothing does.How much have these people made from the idea of JPEG compression? Software patents need to be eliminated!PNG is looking better and betterFirst the LZ...; Tags: graphics, PNG, Dell Computer Corp., Apple Inc., U.S. Patent No. 4,698,672, patent; Discussion threads 2004-04-23
Group seeks to invalidate Microsoft patent: Group seeks to invalidate Microsoft patentIn my humble opinion...In my humble opinion, the fact that any royalty fees are inconsistent with open source or free software is not sufficient reason to deny Microsofts patent. Only if it can be proven that there was prior art should this...; Tags: open source, patent, file system, Samba, prior art, Sounds like No_Ax, Microsoft Corp., software; Discussion threads 2004-04-16