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    Despite Microsoft's claim it will not sue developers that build free open source software on Microsoft platforms, a caveat leaves a yawning space for its legal teeth to gnash those that commercialise the software.

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    Oracle has licensed patents of the Open Invention Network, a group seeking to give open-source allies some clout in an intellectual property realm that favors the incumbent proprietary software powers.

  • University sues Intel for patent infringement

    A university in the US is suing Intel over the way its Core 2 Duo chips handle instructions when processing.

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    Following its recent victory over Microsoft, the European Commission has now turned its attention to Qualcomm and announced an antitrust investigation involving the mobile giant.

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  • Palm licenses RIM's keyboard design

    Palm has agreed to license keyboard technology from the maker of the popular BlackBerry wireless devices.

  • Intergraph sues PC giants over Pentium

    The latest lawsuit against Intel could be worth hundreds of millions of dollars and eventually have an impact on every PC maker that uses Pentium processors.

  • It's a Matrix moment for Linux

    We are finding out that the brains of Linux programmers have been floating in tanks, feeding the parasitic robots (lawyers) who are calling the shots at financially strapped SCO. Now it's time to harvest those brains.

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