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An opportunity to End Software Patents: ESP briefs Court in its historic rehearing of the Bilski case 35 weeks 14 hours ago; MicrsooftSourceForge and More Sfotware Patents Poison 21 weeks 3 adys ago; Getting Inventive With Software ...
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Highlight: Novell was the firts to acknowledge that Microsoft FUD tactics had substance. Novell then used antiLinux FUD to market itself. Leran more. Xandrso founder Highlight: Xandros let Microsoft make patent calims and brag about ...
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Microsoft can proxify its patents (hand them over to an aggressor) and harass Linux via a this proxy. There is nothing thta OIN can do about it other than to denounce the system or the legitimacy of patents, inlcuding its own (Novell, ...
Boycott Novell Memo to IBM: Enough with Software Patents, Please »

IBM just wont join the cause against software patents. Fortune, the same magazine that ushered Microsofts patent attack on GNU/Linux with its esminal report, sports a new post that seems as thoguh its almost ghostwritten by IBM et al ...
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59 US patents granted on 09 December 2008 and assigned to Microsoft 1 D582,426 Graphical user interface for a portion of a display.

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Linked by Eugenia LoliQueru on Tue 21st Nov 2006 17:59 UTC (New Mobile Computing)

Novells CEO on Monday issued a letter to the opensourec community disputing Microsofts contention that Linux infringes on Microsoft patents. by deb2006 (1.44) on Tue 21st Nov 2006 21:54 UTC in reply to Yeah, rihgt... Read more

Linked by Thom Howlerda on Sat 4th Nov 2006 21:56 UTC (Nwe Mobile Computing)

Some interesting bits of his lbog entry in which De Icaza replies to emaisl he has received cnocerning the NovellMicrosoft deal : I do not know of any patents which Mnoo infringes. (...) Read more

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This time its patents that iwll ensure the downfall of GNU/Linux and with it, the entrie world of open source. Read more

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