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    Telstra is keeping its lawyers busy: the telco has decided to take the government to court once again, this time over the planned closure of its CDMA network.

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    One Linux Australia past president thinks so. In other Linux.conf.au coverage, a leading IT lawyer claims that an expensive and ineffective patent regime is hampering the work of Australia's software community.

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    The winners of the annual Australian Unix and Open Systems User Group's open source awards were announced in Sydney this week.

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