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Patent Infringement Lawsuit Filed Against Red Hat& Novell - Just Like Ballmer Predicted

10/12/2007  
Relevance: 8.09
A relatively unknown Texas-based company this week filed a patent infringement lawsuit against Novell and Red Hat in what may be the first of a flurry of patent activity. The company behind the lawsuit, however, has interesting links to Microsoft.
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Vista Capable Lawsuit is Too Capable

11/23/2008  
Relevance: 7.93
It's time that Microsoft settled the Windows Vista Capable lawsuit, before the PRâ€' and quite possibly legalâ€' damages escalate. The judge's decision to compel testimony from Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer must be the end. No matter the outcome, Microsoft cannot win this lawsuit. The case may be winnable in the court of law, but not in the court of public opinion. More importantly, the company risks exposing its chief executive to unnecessary scrutiny and liability.
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First U.S. GPL lawsuit heads for quick settlement

09/26/2007  
Relevance: 7.71
The first U.S. GPL-related lawsuit appears to be headed for a quick out-of-court settlement. Monsoon Multimedia admitted today that it had violated the GPLv2 (GNU General Public License version 2), and said it will release its modified BusyBox code in full compliance with the license. This matter came to the public attention when the SFLC (Software Freedom Law Center) announced on Sept. 20 that it had just filed the first-ever U.S. copyright infringement lawsuit based on a violation of the GPL on behalf of its clients, BusyBox's two principal developers.
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Open Letter to Jason Weber

06/07/2007  
Relevance: 7.37
You know things are bad when a company's products are not up to snuff. You know it's ugly when said company is threatening a lawsuit pertaining to software patents and so-called intellectual property. You know it's really screwed up when a Visual Studio developer is threatened with a lawsuit. Mr. Weber, how in the world do you sleep at night?
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Judge Deals SCO Setback In Lawsuit Against IBM About Linux Code

12/02/2006  
Relevance: 7.08
A federal judge on Thursday gutted SCO Group's $5 billion, Linux-related lawsuit against IBM - renewing debate about the Utah company's future.[I can't wait till the proverbial fat lady sings - dcparris]
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SFLC Files GPL Violation Lawsuit Against Extreme Networks, Inc.

07/21/2008  
Relevance: 6.93
The Software Freedom Law Center (SFLC) today announced that it has filed a copyright infringement lawsuit against Extreme Networks, Inc. on behalf of its clients, two principal developers of BusyBox, alleging violation of the GNU General Public License (GPL).
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French Record Labels Suing Sourceforge, Among Others

11/18/2008  
Relevance: 6.77
If you thought the RIAA had cornered the market on heavy-handed, misguided lawsuits, think again. TorrentFreak reports that the Societe civile des Producteurs de Phonogrammes en France (SPPF) plan on pursuing a lawsuit against three US-based companies that develop P2P applications. Vuze, Limewire, and Shareaza are the applications targeted in the lawsuit. There is a fourth company named that's not a developer, or a P2P site -- it's a repository.
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Microsoft may lodge patent lawsuit test case: Linux specialist

11/22/2006  
Relevance: 6.45
After a week of saber rattling to seed the marketplace with FUD about the dangers of moving away from Microsoft to Linux, look for Microsoft to lodge a lawsuit against a medium sized user that's large enough to be noticed but too small to sustain a defence in court. That's the prediction of a Linux specialist who has been watching Microsoft's actions of the past week.
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Nigerian Patent Infringement Lawsuit: Scam or Shame?

11/29/2007  
Relevance: 6.16
Now I'm not quite sure what to make of this at the moment but a United States-based Nigerian-owned company has sued OLPC for an alleged patent infringement about multilingual keyboard technology. As MarketWire.com puts it:"The patent infringement lawsuit was filed on November 22nd, 2007 as a result of OLPC's willful infringement of LANCOR's Nigeria Registered Design Patent # RD8489 and illegal reverse engineering of its keyboard driver source codes for use in the XO Laptops."
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SFLC to Dismiss GPL Lawsuit

03/08/2008  
Relevance: 6.05
The Software Freedom Law Center and High-Gain Antennas jointly announced March 6 that High-Gain will conform to the General Public License and that as a result the SFLC will dismiss its GPL lawsuit. The suit began when the developers of BusyBox, a set of embedded Unix utilities licensed under the GPLv2, asked High-Gain to provide access to its source code, which used BusyBox code. The company didn't respond, so BusyBox brought the licensing disagreement to the SFLC's attention.
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