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[News] GIMP PLug-in Attacked with Software Patent

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PATENT OFFICE GRANTS PUBPAT REQUEST TO REEXAMINE WIDELY ASSERTED PHOTOMOSAIC
PATENT: Government Finds 'Sunstantial Questions' Regarding Validity of Patent
Asserted Against Important Open Source Project

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| The Public Patent Foundation ("PUBPAT") announced today that the U.S. Patent 
| and Trademark Office has granted its formal request to review a patent 
| relating to photomosaics (large pictures made up of many smaller pictures) 
| assigned to Mr. Robert Silvers, who has been aggressively asserting the 
| patent against many individuals, small businesses, and even against an 
| important open source software program (GIMP).       
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http://www.pubpat.org/silvers498granted.htm


Recent:

GIMP 2.6.2 Released

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| The GIMP development team has made another bug-fix release in the stable GIMP
| 2.6 series.
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http://www.tuxmachines.org/node/31784
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