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Alan Cox talks about cooperation with hardware vendors, patent law, microkernels, and GPLv3:
"I think [the MS-Novell deal] is a bad idea and that Novell are going to get stung by the GPLv3, and rightfully so. The license is designed to keep the software free, if it fails to do this then it needs fixing, so GPLv3 hopefully will fix this flaw."
Read more News Source - New Mobile Computing
Publish date - 03:28:33 07/06/08

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Recent Original Stories
A new initiative by the Brazillian government will see low cost KDE based computers on sale throughout the country from next week. The Computers for All scheme will bring "cheap and accessible" computers following a recent law cutting taxes and encouraging affordable financing for low income buyers of computers preinstalled with Free Software operating systems.
Read more News Source - New Mobile Computing
Publish date - 10:58:02 07/05/08

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Recent Original Stories
Friday Several kernel developers issued a position paper criticizing the GPLv3 drafts. That prompted Software Freedom Law Center chairman Eben Moglen to issue a 'renewed invitation' yesterday to kernel developers to participate in the GPLv3 process.
Read more News Source - OS News
Publish date - 02:54:31 07/05/08

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What I Did at VC Camp
In the spring of 2007, Michael Sullivan was trying to figure out how to add some mojo to his startup, Affine Systems. As a graduate student in applied mathematics at Harvard University, Sullivan had cofounded the company in the fall of 2006 with classmate Bobby Impollonia. Working out of their homes, the two computer whizzes had whipped up a software program to let media companies know if their ...
Read more News Source - E-Commerce Times
Publish date - 11:04:38 07/06/08

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Software Companies Allege Law Firm Misappropriated Mortgage Database
Two software companies have sued mortgage-lending law firm McGlinchey Stafford and Youngblood & Bendalin and one of its partners, alleging they misappropriated a database of legal documents to make "millions" in profits in residential loan transactions.
Read more News Source - Law.com via Yahoo! Finance
Publish date - 07:02:47 06/30/08

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"Today the Protocol Freedom Information Foundation, a non-profit organization created by the Software Freedom Law ...
to fully interoperate with the Microsoft Windows workgroup server products and to make them available to Free Software projects such as Samba.
Read more News Source - New Mobile Computing
Publish date - 16:43:03 07/02/08

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Bavarian Police Can Legally Place Trojans On PCs
An anonymous reader writes "The Bavarian Parliament passed a law that allows Bavarian police to place 'Remote Forensic Software' (Google translation) on a suspect's computer as well as on the computers of a suspect's contacts. They may break into houses in secret to install the RFS if a remote installation is not possible; and while they are there a (physical) search is permitted too. The RFS ...
Read more News Source - Slashdot
Publish date - 17:09:28 07/04/08

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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Sat 15th Apr 2006 17:00 UTC
When Sun trumpeted its 'open source DRM' last month, no one at first noticed an unusual name amongst the canned quotes . Lending his support to the rights enforcement technology was Free Software Foundation, Electronic Frontier Foundation board member, and Software Freedom Law Center director, Professor Lawrence Lessig.
Read more News Source - OS News
Publish date - 17:54:17 07/04/08

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Elections workers didn't know about security software
Nearly 700 votes initially went uncounted in the West Palm Beach City Commission race on June 24 because elections workers weren't aware of a new software feature in the vote tabulation system, Palm Beach County Supervisor of Elections Arthur Anderson said Thursday.
Read more News Source - The Palm Beach Post
Publish date - 03:41:19 07/04/08

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BANGKOK, July 2 (TNA) - The Software Industry Promotion Association (SIPA) is confident of the prospects
for Thai software producers to soon be able to increase its share in a market dominated by imports.
Read more News Source - MCOT - English News By Thai News Agency
Publish date - 15:20:24 07/03/08

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Two face jail time in census protest
Both refused to hand in forms because Lockheed Martin won the contract to upgrade Statistics Canada's software
Read more News Source - The Globe and Mail
Publish date - 21:29:12 07/05/08

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Ontario man, Saskatchewan woman face jail time in census protest
TORONTO - At least two people who defiantly refused to complete the 2006 Canadian census in protest of a software contract awarded to an arms manufacturer say they are willing to go to prison over the issue.
Read more News Source - The Canadian Press via Yahoo! Canada News
Publish date - 18:40:29 07/05/08

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