The Global Software Industry in Transformation: After GPLv3
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| Where: Edinburgh, Scotland
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| When: Tuesday 26 June 2007, 6.30 p.m.
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| Who: Eben Moglen
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http://www.softwarefreedom.org/events/2007/scl/
The Danger of Software Patents
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| Today, Stallman will be talking about the danger of software patents. In fact
| this is one of the most important aspect of the freedom of programming
| because the aspect of software patents may make all programmers potential
| lawbreakers because unknowingly they may be violating some of the patents
| registered by some other company.
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http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/stallman-mec-india.html#speech
Related:
FSF Says GPLv3 Means Microsoft Patent Protection for All
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| Microsoft's covenant not to sue users of Novell's SUSE Linux
| Enterprise will be extended to all General Public License v3
| users as soon as Novell includes GPLv3 code within its Linux
| distribution, according to the Free Software Foundation.
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http://www.computerwire.com/industries/research/?pid=E86B6EA6-EC51-43DF-A305-9939E5829EFC
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| [Allison: ] "Yes, that's true, actually. I mean I have had people come
| up to me and essentially off the record admit that they had been
| threatened by Microsoft and had got patent cross license and had
| essentially taken out a license for Microsoft patents on the free
| software that they were using [...] But they're not telling anyone
| about it. They're completely doing it off the record."
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http://linux.slashdot.org/linux/07/02/11/1443211.shtml
Novell: 'No One Can Stop Us From Selling Linux'
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| It was reported that those changes would preclude the inclusion of Linux in
| third party distribution deals such as the one Novell recently signed with
| Microsoft and "ban" Novell from selling future versions of Linux.
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http://www.informationweek.com/story/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=197003452&cid=RSSfeed_IWK_All
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