Free Software Business¶
Ubuntu CTO, Matt Zimmerman is leaving Canonical.
Red Hat launches a new PaaS called OpenShift.
- the Inquirer: Red Hat launches Openshift 'platform as a service'
- RedMonk: Deconstructing Red Hat’s OpenShift: The Q&A;
Oracle has subpoenaed the Apache Software Foundation to produce documents relating to Apache Harmony in Google's Android operating system.
- Apache Software Foundation Blog: The Apache Software Foundation Subpoenaed to Produce Documents in Oracle America vs. Google
- the Inquirer: Oracle subpoenaes Apache dealings with Google
After Attachmate's acquisition of Novell, the questions arise what will happen to Mono and more importantly what will happen to SUSE?
Software Patents¶
TechRights: Eben Moglen Explains Why Software Patents Should Not Exist
TechDirt: How One Startup Used Patents To Kill A (Better) Competitor
Groklaw: Oracle Ordered to Reduce Claims Against Google From 132 to 3
Groklaw: Prior Art, Anyone? Anyone? Barnes & Noble? Google? Motorola?
TechDirt: Woz Completely Changes Tune On Patent Trolling From Just Months Ago
Ars Technica: Long-running TiVo patent battle settled for $500 million
the Inquirer: Oracle might have to toss 129 patent infringement claims in Google lawsuit
Ars Technica: Samsung continues barrage against Apple with new lawsuit in the US
Copyright and Other Legal Act Reforms¶
Peru's congress declares access to internet as a funamental right.
FFII criticises EU Comission's reply to the Opinion of European Academics on Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement [ACTA] and is not happy at all with it.
IPtegrity: _Hollywood presses European Parliament to sign ACTA _
Intellectual Property Watch: Trading’s End: Is ACTA The Leading Edge Of A Protectionist Wave?
Spicy IP: USIBC lobbies extensively with the Indian Govt. for increased IP protection
the Register: [UK] Parliamentary committee suspends intellectual property rights inquiry
Ars Technica: Wikileaks cables reveal US pressuring Canada on IP enforcement
Ars Technica: WikiLeaks: US offered to bankroll New Zealand piracy crackdown
Government and Free Software Policies¶
Campaign4Change: A sign that Cabinet Office reforms will alter behaviour of major IT suppliers
OSOR: 'Open source on the rise in UK schools'
OSOR: EU/GR: Greece becomes the first EU Member State to use Open e-PRIOR
Open Standards¶
More on the WebM Community Cross Licence.
Other interesting links¶
ReadWriteWeb: This Could be Big: Decentralized Web Standard Under Development by W3C
Open…: Moral Bankruptcy of the Copyright Industry
ZDnet: Why You Should Think Twice About Opting-In to the Delicious-AVOS Transfer
On the Media: How to Beat Pirates
First Monday: Community created open source hardware: A case study of "eCars – Now!"
the Telegraph: Music industry takes lead in copyright battle
Righthaven – yet another highly controversial copyright-enforcement company with a dubious business model – is being sued.
the Guardian: Why poor countries lead the world in piracy
O'Reilly Radar: Does digital text create a cognitive gap?
CNET accused of copyright infringement because of distributing LimeWire – a P2P tool.
- ZDnet: CNET, CBS hit with piracy lawsuit: Who is to blame for piracy?:
- Wired: CNET Accused of Copyright Infringement for Distributing LimeWire
- Ars Technica: CNET sued over LimeWire, blamed for "Internet Piracy Phenomenon"
TechDirt: The Info Law Enforcement Gets When They Subpoena Facebook
TorrentFreak: Piracy Politics Fuel Internet Censorship
Ars Technica: Google faces $50 million lawsuit over Android location tracking
Ars Technica: And the leader in high speed fiber broadband is… Lithuania
Ars Technica: Unhappy Mounties sick of being private copyright cops
Ars Technica: House hearing blasts Sony's "half-hearted, half-baked" hack response
Ars Technica: Mozilla resists US gov't request to nuke "MafiaaFire" add-on
Ars Technica: Novell overturns judgement, WordPerfect antitrust suit against Microsoft is back on
This week in EDRi-gram about EU Comission and ACTA, "Virtual Schengen Border" or "Great Firewall of Europe", etc. etc.
hook out → study time :P