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Free software vs. software-as-a-service: Is the GPL too weak for the Web?
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| Your data, their machine
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| Most users of GNU/Linux and free software already understand this—at least in
| a vague, gut sense. But our understanding (if not the principle) is based on
| an unstated assumption. The assumption is this: We are ultimately talking
| about our devices, right?
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http://www.freesoftwaremagazine.com/articles/free_software_vs_software_service
Sun Wins Partial Stay For Re-Exam Of NetApp Patent
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| Portfolio Media, New York (May 27, 2008)--A judge has partly stayed software
| company Network Appliance Inc.'s patent lawsuit against rival Sun
| Microsystems Inc. over Sun's ZFS technology, pending the U.S. Patent and
| Trademark Office's re-examination of one of the patents in the suit.
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http://ip.law360.com/Members/ViewArticlePortion.aspx?Id=57291&ReturnUrl=.
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Recent:
Sun fires another shot at NetApp
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| But perhaps the harshest accusation Sun leveled against NetApp in its latest
| filing came in the opening paragraph of the suit. Chiding NetApp for only
| spending about $390 million on research and development last year and for
| holding “only approximately 200″ patents, Sun declared: “Indeed, rather than
| innovate, NetApp builds on the innovation of others” and “NetApp … uses
| extensive amounts of open source code developed by others, without
| contributing any innovation of its own.”
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http://storage.blogs.techtarget.com/2008/03/27/sun-fires-another-shot-at-netapp/
Novell removes gloves in SCO bankruptcy court
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| In a filing in US Bankruptcy Court in Delaware on Wednesday, Novell objected
| to SCO's motion to reimburse York Capital Management (York) for its expenses
| in making a failed bid to buy substantially all of SCO's few remaining
| business assets. Virtually all of SCO's other creditors objected to SCO's
| motion, too, but Novell's objection is worthy of note for its directness and
| tone of utter disdain.
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| Novell writes of SCO's request: "Last Winter, the Debtors [that's SCO] asked
| for just such relief for [York] in connection with their 'emergency' motion
| to approve bidding procedures for a proposed sale of substantially all of
| their assets to York, but they withdrew the request because they never did
| reach any kind of sale agreement with York. No matter, it seems, for now the
| Debtors seek an expense reimbursement for York anyhow."
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http://www.theinquirer.net/gb/inquirer/news/2008/03/27/novell-takes-gloves-sco
Update on the Sun/NetApp ZFS patent litigation
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| I received this update from Sun Microsystems on Tuesday on the ongoing ZFS
| patent litigation with NetApp. While colored by its source, the news seems
| positive for Sun (and, given the importance of ZFS, for the open-source
| development community). Sun has succeeded in getting the venue changed to
| California and it appears that its public request for examples of prior art
| have yielded fruit.
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http://blogs.cnet.com/8301-13505_1-9835693-16.html?part=rss&tag=feed&subj=TheOpenRoad
Related:
Sun plans to countersue NetApp
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| Consequently, "Later this week, we're going to use our defensive portfolio to
| respond to Network Appliance, filing a comprehensive reciprocal suit. As a
| part of this suit, we are requesting a permanent injunction to remove all of
| their filer products from the marketplace, and are examining the original NFS
| license--on which Network Appliance was started," Schwartz said.
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http://www.news.com/8301-13580_3-9803882-39.html
ZFS Puts Net App Viability at Risk?
http://blogs.sun.com/jonathan/entry/harvesting_from_a_troll
NetApp/Sun lawsuit seen as open-source test case
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| NetApp contends that Sun's ZFS file system technology, which was donated to
| the OpenSolaris.org open-source community earlier this year, infringes on
| seven NetApp patents.
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http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&articleId=9034562
Sun calls NetApp's blog bluff...with open source...in a blog
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| I know nothing about the validity of either side's patent claims. Only a
| judge (or, more likely, a settlement) will elucidate either claim. But I have
| watched Microsoft respond to open source with patent FUD, and I'm willing to
| believe that others will fight back in this same way. I don't know that
| NetApp is--Hitz argues pretty persuasively that there were other reasons
| involved--but I do believe that any company that relies on an old way of
| selling its software needs to respond to the open-source threat.
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| Patent suits are one way to do that. An ugly, and ultimately futile way, but
| a way nonetheless.
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http://news.com.com/8301-10784_3-9772580-7.html?part=rss&tag=feed&subj=NewsBlog
NetApp + Sun = legal havoc
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| Now, this is enough to me. I don't fucking care who is infringing whose
| patents. It's more and more clear that patents (all kind of patents!) don't
| do anything to the benefit of the public. They're not good for the humanity
| at large, but only to lawyers.
|
| And when you see how two major IT actors are trying to make money from
| lawsuits instead of making profit from the technologies they're supposed to
| develop, you have all the rights in the world to think that the current
| Establishment is broken.
|
| Because it is broken. You can see it every day with U.S.-based companies.
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http://beranger.org/index.php?page=diary&2007/09/06/08/55/23-netapp-sun-legal-havoc
A few thoughts on Sun and NetApp
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| According to Raven Zachary at the451 Group, “Hitz told me that this case is
| about NetApp and Sun, not the open source community that has emerged around
| ZFS, and NetApp does not intend to go after the ZFS community.”
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| Until it does so (if it ever does so), to paint its legal claims as an attack
| on open source seems to be to be unfair.
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http://www.businessreviewonline.com/os/archives/2007/09/a_few_thoughts.html
Sun's Chief Open Source Officer Talks Patents
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| The open-source community is very vocal about software patents.
| Sun owns lots of them. Isn't that a contradiction for Sun to
| claim to be an open-source community member yet own software patents?
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| Not at all. Most companies engaging in free and open-source
| software hold software patents?even Red Hat. If you neglect
| patent filing, you risk various perils including others filing
| for patents on the same ideas and being unable to trade
| portfolios when an aggressor comes calling. What matters is
| not whether you hold them but what you do with them.
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http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1759,2135483,00.asp?kc=EWRSS03129TX1K0000616
Jonathan Schwartz on the future of Sun
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| After just over a year as chief executive, Jonathan Schwartz is
| moving into a new phase as the leader of Sun Microsystems.
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http://www.zdnet.com.au/insight/software/soa/Jonathan-Schwartz-on-the-future-of-Sun/0,139023769,339277736,00.htm
http://tinyurl.com/34qfuk
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