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  • Australian Linux bodies blast US free-trade deal

    Australia's national open source industry body, OSIA (Open Source Industry Australia), and Linux Australia have spoken out about their concerns over the proposed Australian-US Free Trade Agreement (AUSFTA), warning that the legal framework of the intellectual property clauses will put the entire Australian software development industry at risk.

  • Developers gather to protest patents

    Several hundred demonstrators assembled in front of the European Parliament building in Brussels, Belgium, on Wednesday to protest a software patents directive that critics say would wreak havoc on Europe's software industry.

  • Patent fear plagues Aussie developers

    Software patents could be used for anti-competitive practices, as large IT players form a cartel to pool or cross license patents in order to keep out smaller players, warns legal expert.

  • Why the Eurocrats are patently mad

    The vote on Tuesday in Brussels to remove all the limits that had been placed on software patents is a sad day for Europe, but it's not too late to change.

  • Mandating open source "too risky": Government

    The coalition has ruled out mandating the use of open source software in the federal government.

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  • Microsoft opens up: Everything you need to know

    The software company has made a big show about opening up its APIs, but has it really changed its stance towards open source?

  • Bill Gates and other communists

    Free Software Foundation President Richard Stallman says Microsoft's chairman is blurring the issue of software patents.

  • Sun's no-op announcement

    Richard Stallman says even if Sun and others follow IBM's lead and started defusing the patent minefield of software development, the battle against software patents must continue.

  • The open source patent conundrum

    Although Sun Microsystems recently made software patents available for use by open-source developers, OSI founder Bruce Perens cautions that the patent picture is turning increasingly murky.

  • The open-source techie who means business

    Alan Cox, one of the most respected figures in the open-source community, talks about GPL 3, software patents, the kernel development process and Linux on the desktop.

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