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Monkey Boy predicts the future
From groklaw: Patent Infringement Lawsuit Filed Against Red Hat & Novell - Just Like Ballmer Predicted. Here we SCO again.
posted 22:50 [/linux/legal]
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Funny and cool at the same time
Allan Cox files patent for DRM: see Luis Villa's blog entry regarding Alan Cox's patent application for DRM.
posted 03:16 [/linux/legal]
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Companies that violate GPL may also be violating federal law.
"Linux products are generally covered under GPL which among other things mandates that the source code must be available. Violating the terms of GPL is usually not a big deal and the offending companies are generally made to merely release the code, but Wasabi says that Sarbanes-Oxley makes this much more complicated." Read the Rest
posted 16:19 [/linux/legal]
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EFF sets its sights on 'frivolous' IT patents
The Electronic Frontier Foundation is gunning for a group of patents that it claims are frivolous and may pose a threat to freedom of expression online...Read More at ZDNetUK
posted 06:30 [/linux/legal]
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Patents and the Threat To Open Source
Have you heard of the media company Acacia? Probably not but actually quite a few web site owners have. Many of them have received FINAL NOTICES from Acacia Media Technologies Corporation...Read More at it-analysis
posted 06:27 [/linux/legal]
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Novell Wins Remand Contest- Case Stays in Federal Court - It's Copyright Proof Time
Judge Kimball, as he promised, has issued his order* on the Novell case. The big news is that SCO lost its fight to get the case sent back to state court. SCO's entire theory of the case as a contract issue only went out the window, and they are now squarely in a pure copyright fight, which is the last thing they wanted. They will now have to prove that they own the copyright they are using to threaten end users like AutoZone. Kimball agrees with Novell that there are serious questions about whether the agreement even as amended by Amendment 2 is sufficient to be a copyright conveyance, and that means it stays in federal court. He retains jurisdiction. Remember all the experts who told us SCO might win this? They were mistaken....Read More at groklaw
posted 20:34 [/linux/legal]
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SCO Loses Motion to Bifurcate - SCO Motion to Delay Partly Denied, Partly Granted
There is no moss growing on the Honorable Dale Kimball. Now comes word that SCO's Motion to Bifurcate the patent claims has also been denied without prejudice to renew after all dispositive motions have been decided. That is what IBM said made sense to do, wait until it is clear what is actually going to trial. Personally, I am guessing that would be nothing. What a waste of time it was to even bring this motion now. Perhaps that was the purpose....Read More at groklaw
posted 20:33 [/linux/legal]
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Grokline's UNIX Ownership History Project
This is an open, community-based, collaborative research project, a living history, designed to carefully trace the ownership history of UNIX and UNIX-like code with the goal of reducing, or eliminating, the amount of software subject to superficially plausible but ultimately invalid copyright, patent and trade secret claims against Linux or other free and open source software. If there is any code out there that represents a conceivable risk of that kind, we'd like to identify it and mitigate the litigation risk now. If there isn't any valid claim that can be made, we'd like to be able to prove it. Read More
posted 02:31 [/linux/legal]
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IBM slams 'grandiose' SCO, asks for whole farce to be called off
TechWorld By Robert McMillan, IDG News Service: Latest court filings may be make or break for controversial Linux copyright case....Read More
posted 06:13 [/linux/legal]
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The SCO Subpoena of FSF
Bradley M. Kuhn,Tuesday 18 May 2004, FSF: Late last year, we were subpoenaed by SCO as part of the ongoing dispute between SCO and IBM. Today, we made that subpoena available on our website. This is a broad subpoena that effectively asks for every single document about the GPL and enforcement of the GPL since 1999. They also demand every document and email that we have exchanged with Linus Torvalds, IBM, and other players in the community. In many cases, they are asking for information that is confidential communication between us and our lawyers, or between us and our contributors....Read More
posted 23:06 [/linux/legal]
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Red Hat adds legal firepower
News.com: Linux seller Red Hat, tangled in a legal wrestling match with the SCO Group, has hired a new top lawyer from IBM...Read More
posted 18:04 [/linux/legal]
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