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Mozilla to EC: Microsoft Getting Off Too Easy

Wednesday, 19 August 2009 00:16 internetnews.com

As Microsoft and the European Commission talk settlement, Mozilla says it wants more detailed promises from the software titan.

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Microsoft, Open-Source Community Could Both Avoid Lawsuit Damage

Saturday, 15 August 2009 15:07 eWeek

When a U.S. District Court judge in Texas ruled that Microsoft had violated an XML-related patent held by i4i, a small Canadian company, the verdict seemed to potentially threaten both Microsoft and the open-source community.

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Judge Rebukes SCO, Blocks Sale, Appoints Bankruptcy Trustee

Thursday, 06 August 2009 00:05 ArsTechnica

The SCO Group attempted to stave off liquidation in June by signing a last minute deal with Gulf Capital Partners and a tech firm called unXis.

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Patent Reformer Becomes Troll, Sues Defunct OSS Company

Wednesday, 29 July 2009 04:23 ArsTechnica

A small Web development and open source software company called CityWare was recently named alongside Google, Yahoo, Amazon and other software giants in a patent infringement lawsuit. What makes this unusual is that CityWare has no products or customers and no longer exists.

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Pirate Party's Copyright Reform Cannon Could Sink Copyleft

Sunday, 26 July 2009 21:57 ArsTechnica

Free Software Foundation founder Richard Stallman published a statement last week expressing concern about the Swedish Pirate Party's copyright reform platform.

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