Free-software advocate Richard Stallman has spoken out against the association of open-source software with London's "unethical" Oyster-card system.
Microsoft has made public over 14,000 pages of preliminary technical documentation on the protocols built into its Office 2007, Office SharePoint Server 2007 and Exchange Server 2007 products.
The European Commission has expressed doubt over Microsoft's announcement claiming a move toward greater interoperability.
Linus Torvalds has revealed he's worried about how patents will affect the future of Linux.
Trend Micro is suing Barracuda Networks over its use of the free open source antivirus software, ClamAV. If it wins, open source advocates fear it threatens all users of the free software and will legitimise the use of patent law to attack OSS.
The revised European Patent Convention updates the original agreement with more flexibility, more legal certainty, simpler procedures and reduced costs.
The PC manufacturer says that Microsoft's patent-infringement claims have not affected sales of its Linux servers.
Linux vendors Red Hat and Novell have been sued for patent infringement -- but not by Microsoft.
Google has joined the Open Invention Network (OIN) which will see it agree to cross-license open- source-related patents to other members free of charge.
Software vendor SugarCRM has given General Public License version 3 the thumbs up and will use it in a forthcoming update of its open-source applications.
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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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CEO Stuart Cohen talks about OSDL's efforts to head off patent claims against the community-developed operating system.
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Free Software Foundation President Richard Stallman says Microsoft's chairman is blurring the issue of software patents.
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.
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.
MySQL chief Marten Mickos discusses software patents, Oracle, making money with open source and why his company is the Ikea of the database world.
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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