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Everything but the 'why'

06/10/2007  
Relevance: 5.55
In the Microsoft patent debate, one simple question -- why? -- has a variety of speculative answers. But is Redmond collecting distros to show a judge that"all these Linux companies violated our patents, and they signed agreements to prove it"?
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Microsoft practicing digital McCarthyism?

05/17/2007  
Relevance: 5.30
In 1950, Sen. Joseph McCarthy said he had the names of Communists in the State Department. They were never named. Fifty-seven years later, Microsoft says GNU/Linux has violated 235 patents. They have yet to be named. See a pattern here?
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Novell rejects Microsoft patent claims

05/16/2007  
Relevance: 5.27
Recent Microsoft partner Novell today distanced itself from the Redmond giant's claim that free and open source software violated more than 200 of the company's patents.
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Another Day, Another GPL Win

12/20/2007  
Relevance: 4.84
Xterasys settles a suit filed by the Software Freedom Law Center regarding GPL violations involving the BusyBox tool set. During the last several months, the Software Freedom Law Center has gone on the warpath to defend the GPL. On Dec. 17, the SFLC announced its second win in its four lawsuits against companies it says have violated the General Public License, as Xterasys, a Wi-Fi OEM, has agreed to settle.
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Microsoft and Novell reaffirm pact

08/24/2008  
Relevance: 4.83
Microsoft has dropped another ton or three of cash on Novell and in celebration they issued a joint press release announcing this new phase of their relationship. I was never a fan of the original deal, feeling that it violated the spirit if not the letter of the GPL. Some purport that it has increased the usage of Linux in the enterprise; that's a claim for which I don't have the numbers to verify or debunk. Honestly, I sort of doubt much of anyone really does.
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MPAA Forced To Take Down University Toolkit

12/04/2007  
Relevance: 4.82
Ubuntu developer Matthew Garrett has succeeded in getting the MPAA to remove their 'University Toolkit' after claims it violated the GNU GPL. After several unsuccessful attempts to contact the MPAA directly, Garrett eventually emailed the group's ISP and the violating software was taken down.
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Court: Microsoft, Best Buy must stand trial for racketeering

06/11/2007  
Relevance: 4.79
Microsoft Corp. (NASDAQ: MSFT) and Best Buy Co. Inc. (NYSE: BBY) must stand trial on charges they violated the federal anti-racketeering laws, the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled Friday.
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Linux: Clarifying the ath5k License

09/08/2007  
Relevance: 4.68
Author of OpenBSD's hardware driver layer for wireless Atheros devices,Reyk Floeter, sent a query to the Linux Kernel mailing list regarding the recent licensing debate surrounding the Linux"ath5k" driver,"I'm still trying to get an idea about the facts and the latest state of the incidence that violated the copyright of my code, because I just returned from vacation."
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D-link Found Guilty of Linux GPL Violation in Germany

09/26/2006  
Relevance: 4.68
D-Link has agreed to stop distributing its DSM-G600 networked attached storage device after a German court found it had violated terms of the General Public License by incorporating Linux into the product. However, D-Link has refused to reimburse the GPL-Violations Project for its legal costs in bringing the action against the company.
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Freetech 2007, an (un)Conference, San Diego, March 25th

03/23/2007  
Relevance: 4.60
Community. Free Software. Openness. All of the values of the Free Software movement are totally violated by O'Reilly publishing's conferences. These same values are what has made internet culture exciting and vibrant and an important social force, and they are also the words that O'Reilly uses to market its $1500 per seat ETech conference.
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