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Microsoft Settles Patent Claim Over Wireless Networks
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| Microsoft Corp., the world’s largest software maker, settled a lawsuit with
| Australia’s science agency over a patent used for wireless local area
| networks.
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| Microsoft and the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research
| Organisation, or CSIRO, didn’t disclose terms of the settlement in a filing
| April 10 in federal court in Tyler, Texas. CSIRO claimed Microsoft had been
| wrongfully using the patent, while the software maker sought a ruling of
| noninfringement for its networking wireless technology, which includes an
| adaptor for the Xbox video-game system.
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http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601081&sid=a0C40Xt3zU7E&refer=australia
Microsoft settles patent claim over wireless networks
http://businessmirror.com.ph/component/content/article/52-technology/8907-microsoft-settles-patent-claim-over-wireless-networks.html
US jury orders Microsoft to pay $500m to Australian inventor
http://www.brisbanetimes.com.au/technology/us-jury-orders-microsoft-to-pay-500m-to-australian-inventor-20090416-a7o2.html
Microsoft should call itself a "pirate".
Related:
Teacher fined for Microsoft piracy
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| Putin has described the case as "utter nonsense" and former Soviet
| President Mikhail Gorbachev even asked Microsoft co-founder Bill
| Gates to intercede on the teacher's behalf.
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http://www.cnn.com/2007/TECH/05/07/russia.microsoft.reut/index.html?eref=rss_tech
Microsoft Exec Admits That Company Benefits From Piracy
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| Jeff Raikes, head of the company's business group, said at a
| recent investor conference that while the company is against
| piracy, if you are going to pirate software, it hopes you pirate
| Microsoft software. He cited the above reasoning, noting that
| users of pirated Microsoft software are likely to purchase from
| the company later on.
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http://techdirt.com/articles/20070312/165448.shtml
Russian schools abandon Windows after piracy scare
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| Microsoft says that the incident has nothing to do with them, but it
| appears that Russian schools in the area are so scared about being shipped
| off to a Siberian Gulag, that they are buying Linux gear instead.
|
| [..]
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| According to Karpushin, schools would start using freely distributed
| software like the Linux OS, Russky office and Open office desktop apps,
| Ekho Moskvi reports.
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http://www.theinquirer.net/default.aspx?article=37460
Microsoft snubs Gorbachev over piracy plea
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| However Microsoft has said it did not bring the case against Ponosov,
| this was done by the public prosecutor's office in Russia.
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http://www.theinquirer.net/default.aspx?article=37449
Linux and Windows in Russian schools
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| I just noticed this blog entry (in Russian) from an advanced Linux
| user, where he offers free help to every teacher (or their boss)
| who'd like to start teaching Linux, and gives a few links to
| other such projects, such as "The winter Linux school for teachers"
| (in Russian) organized by ALTLinux together with a few other
| institutions. A few other projects do exist. Hopefully, such
| projects, together with the "antipiracy" campaign will lead to
| more Linux and open source in Russian schools.
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http://blog.linuxtoday.com/blog/archives/070130-080943.html
Russian Government Will Migrate to OpenSource
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| Russia decided to follow after EU countries, where opensource
| solutions are more spread then in Russia. Currently, some Russian
| companies can offer their own Desktop Linux OS (the major companies
| are ASPLinux, ALTLinux, Linux-Online and LinuxCenter).
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http://danays.blogspot.com/2006/12/russian-government-will-migrate-to.html
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