Micro$oft continues bullying for intellectual property licenses.
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| These moves have excalated from private lawsuits against individuals to
| open hostility against the world of free software and most recently,
| to inking cross-licensing (i.e.: "protection") agreements.
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| All of this is, naturally, under the guise of "improving
| interoperability" between software products.
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http://www.mywesttexas.com/site/news.cfm?newsid=18486567&BRD=2288&PAG=461&dept_id=475590&rfi=6#08310989284596593909
http://tinyurl.com/34u7eo
Is Microsoft preparing for the end of Windows and dominance of Linux?
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| Some of the best analysis of the Microsoft/Linspire deal was written by
| Dennis Byron (Research 2.0) Should this deal eventually involve vouchers
| like the Novell deal, he says, what we might be looking at is Microsoft’s
| graceful exit from Windows (well, maybe not graceful and maybe not without
| milking it for a good decade, a la IBM and its mainframes).
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http://www.networkworld.com/community/?q=node%2F16267#09785980181374299903
The good news for the GPLv3:
GPLv2 or GPLv3?: Inside the Debate
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| In the longer term -- say the next five years -- GPLv3 will probably win
| out through attrition. If nothing else, as the discussion on TiVoization
| makes clear, the FSF cares strongly about the issues behind the provisions
| in the new version of the license while those who think like Torvalds, for
| all the animation with which he expresses himself, care relatively little.
| In the end, they would rather be coding. As more projects move to GPLv3,
| open source advocates will probably move with the rest of the community.
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http://itmanagement.earthweb.com/article.php/3683791#8167980942884991818
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