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DOJ inquires about Apple's hold on digital music
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| The U.S. Department of Justice has begun asking
| questions about Apple's role in the recent
| scaling back of special music discounts and
| promotions at Amazon, according to two high
| level music industry sources.
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http://news.cnet.com/8301-31001_3-20005973-261.html?part=rss&subj=news&tag=2547-1_3-0-20
Justice Department Asking Questions About Apple Trying To Block Labels From Offering Deals To Amazon
http://techdirt.com/articles/20100525/1856379573.shtml
Apple files for WebKit browser trademark
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| WebKit, the open-source project behind Apple's
| Safari browser, is a pretty obscure name to
| ordinary folks. And perhaps Apple wants to keep
| it that way, judging by Apple's May 18 WebKit
| trademark application.
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http://news.cnet.com/8301-30685_3-20006129-264.html
Nice going after taking away from KDE.
Recent:
GPL Enforcement in Apple's App Store
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| An iPhone port of GNU Go is currently
| being distributed through Apple's App
| Store. However, this distribution is not
| in compliance with the GNU GPL. The
| primary problem is that Apple imposes
| numerous legal restrictions on use and
| distribution of GNU Go through the iTunes
| Store Terms of Service, which is forbidden
| by section 6 of GPLv2. So today we have
| written to Apple and asked them to come
| into compliance. We would be happy to see
| Apple distribute these programs under the
| GPL's terms, but unfortunately, it seems
| much more likely that they'll simply make
| the problem go away by removing GNU Go
| from the App Store.
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http://www.fsf.org/news/2010-05-app-store-compliance/
HTC Takes Revenge; Hits Apple
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| Bruce Perens has written in detail about
| the problems of software patents, âPatents,
| originally created to stimulate innovation,
| may now be having the opposite effect, at
| least in the software industry. Plagued by
| an exponential growth in software patents,
| many of which are not valid, software
| vendors and developers must navigate a
| potential minefield to avoid patent
| infringement and future lawsuits. Coupled
| with strategies to exploit this confusion
| over patents, especially in standards
| setting organizations, it appears that
| software advancement will become stifled
| unless legal action is taken to resolve the
| situation...â
|
| He further wrote ... âPatent royalties tend
| to create discrimination against small-to-
| medium-sized businesses developing any form
| of software, and especially against Open
| Source developers.
|
| The largest businesses in an industry
| generally have patent cross-licenses with
| their peers, and thus they may ignore each
| other's patents while smaller businesses
| have no choice but to license those patents
| if they use them. As a result, there is a
| "tax" upon technology that small businesses
| must pay while the largest businesses are
| exempt.â
|
| Software patents have become weapons for
| companies to fight with each other. This
| not only wastes valuable resources but also
| time of courts. Many activists and experts
| have been raising questions about the
| legality of software patents.
|
| Many countries including India do no allow
| software patents.
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http://www.katonda.com/blog/1143/htc-apple-patent-warfare-time-make-software-patents-illegal
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