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The LibDave method of patent immunity
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| Either way we put MS and other FUD generating companies over a barrel. They
| either show us what patents, if any, are being infringed, and we simply code
| around them. Or else we force them to shut their mouths and end their FUD
| mongering. Either way, we win. And the best part is, once we're done, if
| these companies continued their patent threats, the EFF and the FSF could sue
| those companies for slander.
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http://www.raiden.net/articles/the_libdave_method_of_patent_immunity/
Steve Stites - Subject: Put your mouth where your money is
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| Microsoft has spent enormous sums of money to build a huge portfolio of
| dubious quality software patents. Armed with this immense obsolete weapon
| they have entered into the patent wars. And lost.
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| The sums of money extracted by patent trolls from Microsoft far exceed
| whatever money Microsoft has managed to extract from other companies with
| software patent threats. So far, software patents are a huge net loss for
| Microsoft.
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http://www.linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=2009-07-07-028-35-NW-MS-LL-0003
Recent:
German Court: SCO Must Pay a Fine. Yes. Again.
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| SCO was enjoined from making certain claims in Germany, and it signed an
| agreement in 2003 not to say them there, because its alternate choice was to
| have to prove them immediately, so it chose silence. As a result, SCO can't
| say in Germany that Linux violates SCO's IP or that end users could be liable
| for violations of SCO's intellectual property or that Linux is an
| unauthorized derivative of UNIX. Unless it can prove it. Good luck with that.
| SCO hasn't been successful proving that anywhere, so it can't say that in
| Germany. But the US website makes such claims, which were apparently shown in
| Germany too. Naughty, naughty.
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http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20080820140159120
ASA Adjudications
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| A TV ad, for the iPhone, showed the phone in someone's hand and a finger
| switching it on to reveal the menu page. The finger touched the weather icon
| showing the forecast for Cape Town and then navigated through a Heathrow
| Airport area map, a Safari icon, hotels and stock market webpage. The iPhone
| rang and the hand was shown answering it. During the ad, the voice-over
| said " You never know which part of the internet you'll need. The do you
| need sun cream part? The what's the quickest way to the airport part? The
| what about an ocean view room part? Or the can you really afford this part?
| Which is why all the parts of the internet are on the iPhone". The ad ended
| with on-screen text that stated "iPhone. Only on O2".
|
| Issue
| Two viewers believed the claim that all parts of the internet were accessible
| was misleading because they understood that the iPhone did not support Flash
| or Java, both integral to many web pages.
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http://www.asa.org.uk/asa/adjudications/Public/TF_ADJ_44891.htm
SCO Moves for Summary Judgment on Slander of Title in Novell Case
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| So, Lyons and O'Gara both seem to stand before the court with an
| ethical cloud over their heads. And recently Lyons shows up again,
| in a SCO exhibit, again helpful to SCO's litigation agenda, writing
| more baloney about me, but how valuable will that be under these
| circumstances? I've wondered if Forbes wouldn't print the latest
| Lyons hate-PJ material now showing up on his blog, and that is why
| he was forced to join the blogosphere, ironically enough, but I
| wouldn't wish to place the Forbes bar too high. I might get
| disappointed. But if they did refuse, I commend them for
| mitigating their damages. It was Lyons, after all, who first
| insinuated a Groklaw-IBM tie. And it was he who first mentioned
| the court filing with a different date stamp. He seems deeply,
| deeply involved, no matter how you look at it, from my perspective.
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http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=2007040920165874
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