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Linux kernel maintainer joins patent celebrations
News Alan Cox, sometime maintainer of the Linux kernel and well-known open source advocate, said on Thursday that he was pleased with the news and thanked Poland for its role in delaying the EU Council from ratifying the proposed directive.
[February 3, 2005, 15:55]
Linux kernel maintainer joins patent celebrations
Talkback I'm a software developer/inventor that the patent system was supposedly made to look out for and protect. A broad software patent system only benefits the big companies who can pay millions to have any idea made to a patent and of course the patent...
[February 4, 2005, 11:10]
Patent directive 'could halt Linux development'
Talkback This is also an example of a self-fulfilling prophecy - "I acknowledge that the Linux kernel has patent problems," so "you should hire me to fix your liability for you. Patent infringements "acknowledged" by whom?
[March 2, 2005, 12:00]
Patent directive 'could halt Linux development'
News There is no question that some of the open source software that is out there -- such as the Linux kernel itself -- has got patent violations in there. Jeremy Mark Malcolm, an information technology lawyer specialising in Internet-related law and...
[March 1, 2005, 14:25]
Patent directive 'could halt Linux development'
Talkback Malcom ought to read some of the current US court documents coming out of the SCO vs IBM case, in which the presiding judge says that SCO has thus far shown _no_ evidence of any code taken from Unix or System V has ended up in the Linux kernel.
[March 1, 2005, 20:29]
Nokia makes Linux patent pledge
News Nokia isn't extending its legal protection to those who assert their own patent infringement claims against the Linux kernel. Nokia said Wednesday its patented technology may be freely used in the Linux kernel, making the Finnish mobile phone giant...
[May 26, 2005, 10:15]
Gartner: Patent issues aren't the only cause for Munich's Linux delay
News Recent press reports have suggested that almost 300 US patents could support legal cases against the Linux kernel. Software patent issues have somewhat clouded the open-source landscape since the SCO Group filed its suit against IBM in 2003.
[August 12, 2004, 10:10]
Microsoft sues TomTom over Linux patents
News Microsoft has filed two separate patent-infringement actions against TomTom, including claims relating to the GPS navigation company's use of the Linux kernel. While five of the patents relate to car-navigation systems specifically, three of the...
[February 26, 2009, 11:26]
Patent directive 'could halt Linux development'
Talkback There is no question that some of the open source software that is out there -- such as the Linux kernel itself -- has got patent violations in there. There have been no proofs that the Linux kernel has any patent infringement, as the SCO case has...
[March 4, 2005, 16:02]
Nice one, Debian
Blog Comment To my mind, this is what makes the Linux kernel safer terrain in any patent war. The older parts of the BSD kernel, perhaps. For example, if the FreeBSD project implements VFAT access, how do you propose they might do this without running across...
[April 8, 2009, 7:14]
RTLinux patent accused of violating GPL
News In a statement issued on Friday, the Foundation criticised FSMLabs for the surprise grant of a software patent for RTLinux last year, saying that not only are such patents wrong in general, but they also conflict with the GPL, which governs the...
[September 17, 2001, 17:07]
Microsoft wins final FAT battle
Talkback There are FAT drivers in the Linux kernel, so that you can read hard disk partitions that are formatted in FAT. When those FAT drivers are removed from the Linux kernel, nothing is wrong (except that you won't be able to read FAT partitions anymore).
[January 12, 2006, 13:54]
Lineo jumps into software-patents fray
News In the case of FSMLabs' patent, critics charged that the process patented, the so-called dual-kernel approach, is so obvious that one company should not be given ownership. FSMLabs chief executive Victor Yodaiken has said from the beginning that he...
[August 7, 2001, 17:16]
Experts cast doubt on Microsoft's patent claims
News Microsoft said the Linux kernel infringes 42 Microsoft patents, but Torvalds is among those who refuse to investigate whether they're violating any. Two years ago, a thorough study found that the kernel Linux infringed 283 different software...
[May 16, 2007, 16:50]
GPL clamps down on patent deals
News Also new in the third draft are simplified terms to make GPLv3 more compatible with GPL 2, which is used for thousands of open-source software products, including the Linux kernel, Java and MySQL. Previous drafts of GPLv3 have drawn mixed reviews...
[March 29, 2007, 9:18]
FSF disputes anti-GPLv3 arguments
News A news release on Monday labelled as "inaccurate information" some criticisms that 10 high-ranking Linux kernel programmers made on Friday about the draft of GPL version 3. For my colleagues and fellow citizens who develop the Linux kernel, I have...
[September 27, 2006, 9:40]
Intellectual property battles will wound Linux
News To beat back the SCO lawsuit, IBM and the others rising to the defence of the Linux kernel will have to prove that SCO doesn't have any intellectual property claims to the kernel. Referring to the code that was "leaked" into the Linux kernel...
[June 18, 2003, 16:05]
Free Software Foundation releases GPLv3
News Linux kernel leader Linus Torvalds has expressed his preference for GPLv2. The Linux kernel project, governed by GPLv2, was grafted onto GNU, and the result has been an operating system that's widely used on servers and strongly competitive with...
[July 2, 2007, 8:47]
Torvalds and Cox oppose software patents law
News Torvalds initiated the development of the Linux operating system kernel, and still leads the project, while Cox is one of the most influential Linux developers. The Linux operating system, which includes the Linux kernel as well as numerous...
[September 22, 2003, 14:25]
Sun looks to GPL v3 for Java, Solaris
News Right now, that effort is based on the Linux kernel. A distribution of GNU utilising the kernel of Solaris would certainly receive at least as much support (from the FSF) as GNU with the kernel Linux," Brown said.
[February 9, 2007, 15:22]
