A top Red Hat executive has attacked the open-source credentials of its sometime business partner Sun Microsystems.
The SCO Group's president and chief executive officer, Darl McBride, has hit back at calls by some Linux advocates that the United States needs to reform its software-patent and copyright protection laws.
Free Software Foundation (FSF) senior counsel, Dan Ravicher, has put forward a recommendation to help developers avoid potential legal pitfall when distributing software under free and open source licenses.
Those hoping for a swift outcome in one legal case seeking to clear Linux of the SCO Group's assertions of Unix copyright infringement will have to wait.
Software patents are slowing innovation, Red Hat Chief Executive Matthew Szulik said on Tuesday.
The software company has made a big show about opening up its APIs, but has it really changed its stance towards open source?
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.
CEO Stuart Cohen talks about OSDL's efforts to head off patent claims against the community-developed operating system.
Do you need open-source legal protection any more than you need meteor insurance? Don't dismiss the idea.
Hewlett-Packard has formally demanded that Sun Microsystems and its president, Jonathan Schwartz, stop publishing what it calls "misleading and factually incorrect statements" about HP's commitment to its version of Unix -- but Sun is standing firm.
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