April 24, 2007
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Novell is once again trying to finish off The SCO Group’s court cases by proving that Novell is the company that actually owns Unix’s intellectual property rights. What makes this latest attempt different, is we finally see an explanation of … Continue reading
March 28, 2007
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The Free Software Foundation released the third discussion draft on the GNU General Public License on March 28. As expected, it contains language designed to prevent patent partnerships that extend protection from patent litigation to only the companies involved in such agreements. … Continue reading
February 25, 2007
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Along the lines of early efforts to derail SCO’s claims that Linux infringes Unix copyrights, a gentleman going by the moniker, “digduality” has decided to fight recent claims by Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer that Linux infringes on Microsoft patents, by … Continue reading
February 15, 2007
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CEO Darl McBride said that his company’s primary attorneys, Boies, Schiller & Flexner, are indeed trying to serve a subpoena for a deposition on Pamela Jones, the editor of, Groklaw, the legal IT news site. McBride said that the idea … Continue reading
February 15, 2007
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According to Forbes, SCO recently tried to subpoena Pamela “PJ” Jones, editor of the popular Groklaw legal news website. They were not successful. I’ve been unable to confirm with SCO that they indeed attempted to have Jones file a deposition … Continue reading
January 1, 2007
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Now that noted Samba developer Jeremy Allison has left Novell, but before he starts work at Google, he’s letting the world know why he feels he had to leave his job over the Microsoft/Novell patent deal. Allison recently spoke in … Continue reading