Specsavers sees clear benefits in open source
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| It has become a commonplace perception that the UK is rather unenlightened
| when it comes to open-source software.
|
| [...]
|
| While the Guernsey-headquartered company relies on Windows desktops, it uses
| open-source software elsewhere in the business, including Scalix, an
| enterprise email and groupware server that runs on Linux. In-store terminals
| use an in-house application, Socrates, that runs on embedded Linux, and
| Specsavers operates Red Hat Enterprise Linux servers alongside Windows and
| proprietary Unix.
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http://resources.zdnet.co.uk/articles/casestudy/0,1000001994,39303425,00.htm
CEBU TARGETS HIGHER EARNINGS FROM SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT
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| The summit would have speakers from Cebu and other countries, who would
| discuss issues such as open source applications, infrastructure and technical
| success factor, challenges and risks of open source, and best practices for
| open source governance.
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http://www.tradingmarkets.com/.site/news/Stock%20News/1118137/
Related:
Lawmaker blasts U.K. government on Microsoft policy
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| "A member of Parliament of the United Kingdom has launched a stinging
| attack on the U.K. government's IT strategy, saying that it has given
| Microsoft too much control.
|
| John Pugh, who is a member of Parliament, or MP, for Southport and a
| member of the Public Accounts Committee, was speaking in an
| adjournment debate on Tuesday that he had called. The aim of the
| debate, he said, was to explore the alternatives to using Microsoft
| software, including open source."
|
| [...]
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http://www.news.com/Lawmaker-blasts-U.K.-government-on-Microsoft-policy/2100-1012_3-6212721.html
http://tinyurl.com/2ashm2
Interview with Richard M. Stallman
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| It is important to know this because we will always face pressure, from those
| who are powerful and would like to take away our freedom, to surrender our
| freedom—and they frequently offer us something attractive in exchange. For
| instance, B’liar wanted to abolish the Rights of Englishmen, and to serve his
| American master, Bush, faithfully; so he offered Britons “protection” from
| this or that, plus the imagined idea that he influences his master on their
| behalf through the “special relationship”.
| ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
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http://www.freesoftwaremagazine.com/articles/interview_with_richard_stallman
Patents on Computer-Implemented Inventions: UK Courts Inching Towards EPO
Positions?
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| As a consequence of this particular piece of UK case law, the UK Patent
| Office UK-IPO had established a practice of flatly rejecting patent claims to
| computer program products contrary to the practice of the EPO. Last year,
| five companies, namely Astron Clinica Limited, Cyan Holdings Plc, Inrotis
| Technologies Limited, Software 2000 Limited and Surf Kitchen, Inc., INTERNAL
| LINKhad appealed against this restrictive practice.
|
| Now, and this seems to be quite surprising, the table appears to be turned
| again: On the well-known EXTERNAL LINKIPKat Blog, EXTERNAL LINKMr David
| Pearce reports that the Honourable Mr Justice Kitchin has ruled yesterday
| that the current UK Patent Office practice of flatly rejecting patent claims
| to computer program products is wrong.
|
| [...]
|
| Mr Pearce characterises himself as being quite amazed by the judgment because
| before the recent judgement he had been convinced that, under the system of
| UK case law, there was no room for manoeuver after Aerotel/Macrossan, and he
| asks the important question as to whether the UK-IPO can simply all go back
| to falling into line with the EPO, or if they will judge that this one is
| worth going further on.
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http://www.ipjur.com/2008/01/patents-on-computer-implemented.php3
High Court allows computer program patent claims
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| In conclusion then, Kitchin J found that the appeals should be allowed. Each
| application concerned a computer related invention where the examiner had
| allowed claims to, in effect, a method performed by running a suitably
| programmed computer and to a computer programmed to carry out the method.
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http://ipkitten.blogspot.com/2008/01/high-court-allows-computer-program.html
Court gives hi-tech companies the power to patent software
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| Hi-tech companies will be able to patent software programs after a key court
| decision that may move the UK closer to Europe in its treatment of
| computerrelated inventions.
|
| The High Court yesterday said that the Patent Office was incorrectly applying
| the law in automatically rejecting claims for computer programs, in a case
| brought by four small British businesses.
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http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/4732f070-cbb2-11dc-97ff-000077b07658.html
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