Microsoft has been awarded a tongue-in-cheek prize by the Foundation for a Free Information Infrastructure (FFII) for the debacle surrounding its Office Open XML specification.
An online petition posted by Microsoft to fast-track the standardisation of its Office Open XML document format masks the company's concern over the procedure, according to a leading open-source advocate.
Software patent campaigners have reacted with surprise to an apparent change in the European Commission's stance on those patents.
European Commissioner Charlie McCreevy is making a 'final effort' to push through the proposal for an EU-wide patent.
The European Parliament voted on Wednesday to reject the directive on the patentability of computer implemented inventions.
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.
Free Software Foundation President Richard Stallman says Microsoft's chairman is blurring the issue of software patents.
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