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InternetNews
January 23, 2004
Sean Michael Kerner |
GPL Awaits Test in SCO Group/IBM Dispute Is the GNU General Public License unconstitutional?   |
InternetNews
February 1, 2005
Wagner & Singer |
Open Source Law Center Opens Doors A $4 million investment made by the Open Source Development Labs has helped create a center to provide free legal support to free and open source software (FOSS) projects. |
Bio-IT World
September 9, 2002
Jim Gatto |
Open Source: Not Yet a Closed Case Biotech companies should weigh both the benefits and risks before choosing open source software. |
InternetNews
September 30, 2004
Michael Singer |
Microsoft's FAT Patent Rejected The U.S. Patent Trademark Office has rejected all claims to patents for a Windows file format held by Microsoft. |
InternetNews
August 12, 2010 |
Patent Uncertainty Still Dogs Free Software Push At LinuxCon, noted open source crusader Eben Moglen, one of the authors of the GPL, argued that free software has earned a place in the mainstream, but that patents remain a thorny issue. |
InternetNews
July 27, 2006
Sean Michael Kerner |
GPL 3: Making Room on Patents, DRM The second draft release of the GNU General Public License Version 3 is out, including a softening on its terms about Digital Rights Management and patents. |
InternetNews
August 25, 2005
Sean Michael Kerner |
Moglen: Linux Trademark Needs to be Policed Software Freedom Law Center founding director says the the Linux trademark license is well designed not to overburden businesses who want to sell software under the Linux name. |
InternetNews
May 14, 2007
Sean Michael Kerner |
Microsoft: Open Source Infringes on 235 Patents Microsoft continues to allege Linux patent infringement but still doesn't identify which ones. |
InternetNews
June 27, 2007
Sean Michael Kerner |
GPL Version 3 Hits The Home Stretch. GPL version 3 is set to be officially released this week. |
InternetNews
December 24, 2003
Jim Wagner |
A FAT Licensing Uproar? Critics of Microsoft claim its new intellectual property policy is a plot to undermine Linux, but a closer look at the policy suggests otherwise. |
InternetNews
April 5, 2006
Sean Michael Kerner |
LinuxWorld: GPL 3 And The Linux Kernel Devs The under-discussion GPL version 3 license is a bit of a hot potato. Some like it and others, such as Linux creator Linus Torvalds, do not. |
InternetNews
December 20, 2007
Sean Michael Kerner |
2007: Open Source, Patents, SCO, And More It was a big year in open source. |
InternetNews
August 12, 2010 |
Linux Foundation Tools Aim to Nix License Woes At LinuxCon, the Linux Foundation shows off a new compliance program, tools and resources to help enterprises track and manage open source licensing. |
InternetNews
August 18, 2006
Sean Michael Kerner |
GPL 3 Lawyer Has His Regrets Free Software Foundation counsel and co-author of the GPL 3 draft, Eben Moglen, explained the current status of the license draft discussion as well as some of the more contentious issues surrounding it. |
InternetNews
March 25, 2005
Sean Michael Kerner |
Jason Matusow, Microsoft Shared Source Initiative The director of Redmond's Shared Source programs opens up about strategy, BSD and the concept of shared vs. open source. |
InternetNews
September 7, 2005
Sean Michael Kerner |
Work on Next GPL Version Under Way Love it or hate it, the General Public License is the cornerstone of the Free Software Movement and the guiding license of Linux and Open Source software. |
Knowledge@Wharton
August 13, 2003 |
Open Source: Closing, Closing... It might look like the battle of David and Goliath, but in the case of the SCO Group vs. IBM, not too many people are rooting for David. |
InternetNews
October 11, 2004
Sean Michael Kerner |
In Focus: GPL and What You Need to Know A Free and Open Source Software primer to help you make sense of open source and the General Public License in a hurry. |
InternetNews
January 13, 2005
Jim Wagner |
IBM's Patent Pledge Ripples Open Sourcers Reaction to IBM's pledge to free 500 of its software patents to the open source community has varied, ranging from praise to panning the software patent process itself. |
InternetNews
January 16, 2004
Erin Joyce |
SCO to Europe: Please Pay for Linux Will European companies pony up license fees to SCO when its right to ask for the fees is still before a court? SCO is taking a nice approach to the issue... for now. |
InternetNews
February 10, 2004
Alexander Wolfe |
Legal Eagle Fires at SCO In a paper released by an open source advocacy group, a Columbia law professor predicts SCO's legal campaign over Linux copyrights is 'headed for a wall.' |
InternetNews
April 7, 2005
Michael Singer |
Insider Hints at GPL Changes Amazon, Yahoo, and Google could feel the heat if some legal language is redefined in GPL 3.0. The current version of the GPL, which was last updated in 1991, fails to trigger the open source license if a company alters the code, but does not distribute its software through a CD or floppy disk. |
InternetNews
March 8, 2006
Sean Michael Kerner |
GPL 3 Good For SOX? The GPL open source license does not increase legal risk to companies that are governed by the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002, according to the Software Freedom Law Center. |
Salon.com
March 6, 2001
Ed Frauenheim |
Crafting the free-software future At VA Linux's SourceForge, thousands of programmers are collaborating for both love and money... |
InternetNews
July 11, 2007
Sean Michael Kerner |
IBM Extends Patent Pledge IBM has added over 150 key standards specifications and protocol implementations to its list of items it's willing to share in an effort to make software more interoperable. |
InternetNews
August 6, 2007
Sean Michael Kerner |
It's a LinuxWorld. Or Is It? LinuxWorld San Francisco is the annual love fest for Linux aficionados. This year's iteration will attempt to share the love with virtualization and energy usage, as the show is being co-located with the Next-Generation Data Center conference. |
The Motley Fool
April 26, 2005
Dave Mock |
The Lowdown on Patent Shakedowns The business of extorting license fees for patents can be very lucrative -- and damaging. It is important for investors to understand how the companies they own utilize and protect their inventions -- and what approach management has taken to deal with intellectual property disputes. |
InternetNews
September 2, 2004
Jim Wagner |
Sender ID Finds Followers Ahead of Approval Software vendors jump the gun on implementing an anti-spam protocol working its way through an international standards group. |
InternetNews
March 31, 2006
Sean Michael Kerner |
It's a Linux World Yours truly and other Linux aficionados will be in Boston next week for the love fest known as Linux World Conference and Expo. |
InternetNews
May 14, 2004
Sean Michael Kerner |
From Adam Smith to Open Source Was an 18th century economist the inspiration behind the free and open source movement? |
BusinessWeek
June 3, 2010
Olga Kharif |
The Patent Battle in Smartphones Industry players are suing and counter-suing one another over intellectual property. |
