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Fighting Bad Patents with Good Prior Art

Wednesday, 29 April 2009 18:12 FOSSBazaar

Red Hat's legal team share some insights about discovering prior art: "In patent lingo, ‚Äúprior art‚Äù refers to evidence of what was already known in the field. There‚Äôs no limit on the form the pr...

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Microsoft's TomTom patents posted for patent review

Tuesday, 28 April 2009 19:06 FOSSBazaar

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April 29, 2009, 3:06 am

LinuxDevices.com reports that the "Open Invention Network (OIN) announced that three of the eight patents cited in Microsoft's lawsuit against TomTom have been posted for prior art review by the Linux community.

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How many billions is open-source software worth?

Monday, 27 April 2009 19:10 FOSSBazaar

Computerworld asks how much open source software as a whole is worth: "Open-source software is big business. For example, most of what Oracle is getting for it $7.4-billion purchase of Sun is open-...

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Linux Don't Need No Stinkin' ZFS: BTRFS Intro & Benchmarks

Saturday, 25 April 2009 16:45 FOSSBazaar

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April 26, 2009, 12:45 am

Linux Magazine looks at the btrfs filesystem: "Btrfs holds the promise of giving Linux many enterprise class file system features similar to ZFS but with even more features and better performance. In fact, many Linux experts think that btrfs i...

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Aaron Seigo Talks About KDE's Past and Future

Friday, 24 April 2009 16:07 FOSSBazaar

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April 25, 2009, 12:07 am

Datamation has published an interview with KDE's Aaron Seigo: "Aaron Seigo is one of the most public faces of the KDE desktop. Not only is he a long-time develope...

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