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- Now three Linux vendors won't sign patent deals with Microsoft
- Now three Linux vendors won't sign patent deals with MicrosoftLet's hear more...I respect the vendors for deciding whether to enter into agreements with Microsoft or not. But let's hear a bit more details (you know, accurate and detailed reporting and all that...) about why those three have decided...
- Tags: OPEN SOURCE, Operating systems, TurboLinux Inc., media, Microsoft Corp., patent, Linux
- Discussion threads 2007-06-21
- Novell document dump makes it look like a scandal
- Novell document dump makes it look like a scandalhow could Microsoft infringe on something thats "open to everyone" NTOSS it seems to me is locked in by there own rules free and open source code. so if it's free and open for anyone to change use or what ever...
- Tags: OSS, Microsoft Corp., patent, Novell Inc., IP
- Discussion threads 2007-05-27
- Microsoft: If we're violating IP, 'we'll take a license'
- Microsoft: If we're violating IP, 'we'll take a license'Ya gotta love the answer to the first question: "No futher details areavailable at this time.". Seems to me, ALL the details are available, they are just not being released.A truthful answer is: "The truth and the details would embarrass the...
- Tags: Microsoft Corp., IP, patent, software
- Discussion threads 2007-05-16
- 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
- Patent reform bill may raise questions for agencies using open source
- Government agencies relying on open source software may be particularly interested in patent reform legislation introduced by Rep. Lamar Smith. While the bill largely satisfies the needs of the pharmaceutical industry, it does make a number of changes to software, as well. And...
- Tags: patent
- Blog posts 2005-09-13
- Microsoft XML technologies and patents drawing fire from multiple quarters
- The recently announced XML-based file formats for Word, Excel, and PowerPoint -- formats that Microsoft has claimed to be "open" -- are getting some heat for not only pushing the boundaries on the definition of open, but also for the validity of the patents behind them. In addition,...
- Tags: Microsoft Corp., GPL, patent
- Blog posts 2005-06-20
- Rage against the patent machine, but is anybody listening?
- Triggered by Sun's granting of access to 1600 patents -- but only if the resulting implementations are licensed under the recently Sun-authored, Open Source Initiative OSI-approved Community Development and Distribution License (CDDL, pronounced "cuddle") -- the squeakiest of the anti-patent wheels are letting their disappointment be known. Last week,...
- Tags: patent, software
- Blog posts 2005-02-02
- Sun gives way more than an inch, but open source advocates want the whole mile
- Somewhere within Sun, the executives are saying "Whattayagotta do to get some respect around here? We give and give and give and they still want more." The "they" of course is the open source community. The last "give" was the 1600 patents that Sun appears to have promised...
- Tags: Sun Microsystems Inc., open source
- Blog posts 2005-01-31
- Group: Linux potentially infringes 283 patents
- Group: Linux potentially infringes 283 patentsGood luck on this...Seems awfully shoddy... "potentially" infringing? Might sorta look like something that kinda resembles this one thingamajig...Ol' Linus doesn't have anything to worry about.283 patents?I think this is mostly FUD by the open source risk management to sell their "insurance".But still.....
- Tags: OPEN SOURCE, UNIX, Operating systems, patent, Microsoft Corp., Linux, Timeline Inc.
- Discussion threads 2004-08-01
- 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
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