Archive for August, 2004

The GPL’s Day In Court

Friday, August 20th, 2004

I posted on IBM’s recent motion for partial summary judgment against SCO at bIPlog. Check it out.

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60 Minutes’ Pirates of the Internet

Monday, August 16th, 2004

Sunday night CBS’ 60 Minutes did a ridiculous piece called “Pirates of the Internet” (Arrrggghh!) The story was supposed to be about the challenges the movie industry in Hollywood faces from rampant Internet downloading of movies. Lesley Stahl sat there and didn’t even doubt Peter Chernin, who runs 20th Century Fox, when Chernin was asked [...]

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IBM Should Organize a Defensive Patent Pact

Thursday, August 5th, 2004

In light of the recent report by Open Source Risk Management that 283 granted but not-yet court-validated patents could possibly be used to attack the Linux kernel (pdf), IBM has pledged not to use its patent portfolio against the Linux kernel. That’s nice.
But I want more.
I think IBM should organize a defensive “Patent Pact” [...]

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