The Viral Clause [in GPL]
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| Paradoxically, the viral clause, the part of the GPL licensing framework
| that so many people objected to because it wasn't business friendly, made
| the license business friendly - in the future, a license that liberates
| business from the drug of DRM and the prison of software patents may
| turn out to have been equally prescient and business friendly...
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http://www.tuxdeluxe.org/node/246
That Which Survives [the Microsoft Lockin and DRM]
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| Joking aside, proprietary record formats will increase the difficulty of
| preserving our culture, on top of the problems with obsolete hardware
| interfaces and the decay of storage media we think of as permanent. File data
| formats that are not published standards are just asking for trouble for long
| term data storage. Much though I prefer the OpenOffice “Open Document Format”
| (ODF) data format for documents, the Microsoft “OfficeOpen XML” (OO-XML)
| format is also a documented format (although without any other
| implementations as yet) so it shouldn't cause problems for long term storage.
| However, most of the world's documents in both governments and corporations
| are still in undocumented proprietary formats, and it sometimes ends up that
| the documents that people don't think are worth preserving are the ones
| historians are most excited to find.
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http://www.tuxdeluxe.org/node/244
Headsup: another patent troll on the loose...
OPTi Initiates Patent Infringement Lawsuit Against Eight Companies
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| The lawsuit against these companies is a continuing part of Opti's strategy
| for pursuing its patent infringement claims relating to its Compact
| ISA-Bus technology says Opti.
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http://www.linuxelectrons.com/news/embedded/10558/opti-initiates-patent-infringement-lawsuit-against-eight-companies
That's what Microsoft could become (or become a victim of) in the future.
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