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Red Hat: Software Patents Slow Innovation
News Any access that would allow workarounds to take place, so the respect for the innovation is maintained, is a good thing," he said, sidestepping the issue that Microsoft would doubtless prefer that others license rather than bypass its patents.
[May 23, 2007, 9:53]
FFII Slams EC Taskforce Over Software Patents
News But FFII UK director Rufus Pollock claimed that this statement was self-serving, as Microsoft already holds many patents that it wishes to license to an untapped SME market. A software development pressure group has slated a report published this...
[November 29, 2006, 13:48]
Torvalds And Cox Oppose Software Patents Law
Talkback No to patents on any form of LOGIC unless it is very unique mathematical, physical or chemical formula! Same NO drugs shall be allowed to carry patents, as it is a standard chemical composition of frequently highly controversial...
[January 4, 2004, 19:10]
Lineo Jumps Into Software-patents Fray
News Software patents in general are highly controversial, with some arguing that they are used to drive small competitors out of business. Software patents are also heatedly opposed on ideological grounds, although the most visible controversies have...
[August 7, 2001, 17:16]
McAfee Patents Software-as-a-service
News Many oppose software patents on the grounds that they are often broad enough to put the competition out of business. In an interview with the Associated Press, Sampath said that companies could either license the technology or "engineer around the...
[August 8, 2001, 15:35]
Judge Dreads Software Patents
Talkback I think copyrights (not patents) are the tool to use for computer programs. Patents are granted to stimulate the market place and if the patent owner does not market a product based on the patent he loses his right to the patent to a company that...
[January 19, 2006, 5:39]
Sun And Kodak Settle Out Of Court
News Sun Microsystems has settled a patent suit brought by Eastman Kodak relating to Java software, agreeing to license Kodak's patents for $92m. However, the software giant, like Hewlett-Packard and IBM, has licensed Kodak's patents, Lanzillo said.
[October 8, 2004, 9:45]
The Patent Poison Spreads
Leader Take software patents, which daily seem more and more perverse. Even with the best will in the world on all sides, patents are fundamentally incompatible with the essential traffic in ideas that keeps software progressing.
[April 14, 2005, 13:40]
IBM Sues Mainframe Cloner Over Patent
News IBM also argues in its lawsuit that it has refused to license its patents and copyrighted mainframe software for use in PSI's servers. IBM, which filed the suit last week in the US District Court for the Southern District of New York, claims that...
[December 7, 2006, 10:35]
Stallman Touts GPLv3 Provisions
News Patents already obstruct free software development," he added. Software patents are a vicious and absurd system that puts all software developers in danger of being sued by companies they have never heard of, as well as by all the mega-corporations...
[June 4, 2007, 10:25]
FSF Recommends Express Patent Licences
News When the GPL -- which is one of the licences that doesn't have an express patent license -- doesn't say anything about [patent licensing] that doesn't mean that there's no right to practice the patents of the company that is licensing the software...
[November 5, 2004, 10:08]
Regulator Asked To Revoke Windows Patent
News Companies asked Microsoft to license our FAT specification and patents to help improve interoperability and we have entered into a number of such licenses. The Public Patent Foundation on Thursday asked the US Patent and Trademark Office to revoke...
[April 19, 2004, 13:00]
Open-source Community Reacts To Microsoft Move
News And even though Microsoft said it now will share the specific list of patents it says it has on technology it wants to license to others — something open-source fans have sought once Microsoft asserted last year that Linux and other projects...
[February 22, 2008, 12:42]
IBM Promises Not To Attack Linux
News IBM on Wednesday promised not to use its formidable collection of technology patents against Linux and challenged other companies to do the same, working to dispel one cloud that hangs over the open-source programming movement.
[August 5, 2004, 9:20]
IBM Patent Sparks Open Source Code Rewrite
News If you are an open source developer - you can just forget about patents and hack freely: you have written license to do so," said the posting on LWN. Any software covered by the Open Source Initiative's Open Source Definition was granted royalty...
[April 13, 2005, 15:05]
Microsoft Coughs Up To Settle Another Legal Saga
News More and more, it became clear to us that InterTrust had some foundational patents that we would need to license," David Kaefer, Microsoft's director of technology policy, said in an interview. While the claim had been tied up in court for some...
[April 13, 2004, 8:25]
MPEG-4 Adoption Gets Closer As Licence Released
News A consortium of companies holding patents attached to the MPEG-4 multimedia standard released its licence for the technology, raising hopes for widespread adoption. Companies claiming patents related to MPEG-4 include Microsoft, Canon, France...
[November 26, 2002, 9:24]
Patent Blow For Microsoft As FAT Is Rejected
News Microsoft has been stepping up both its efforts to license its intellectual property as well as moving to file for more patents. Some have worried that Microsoft may claim Linux infringes this or other Microsoft patents and that the software giant...
[October 1, 2004, 11:45]
Symbian Vs Android: How They Square Up
News In contrast, the Apache licensing agreement is less tolerant of software patents. Software patents can be applied for and enforced under the licensing agreement. Signatories of Apache version 2.0 agree to exceptions to the irrevocable nature of...
[June 26, 2008, 11:32]
US Report: Open Market Shares Jump As Intel Buys
News We are in serious discussions to license the patents to some of the largest players," said Open Market CEO Gary B. We are in serious discussions to license the patents to some of the largest players," said Open Market CEO Gary B.
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