Patents

THE JEW (RaVeN) · Post by **THE JEW (RaVeN)** » Mon Mar 19, 2007 11:48 am

Unused patents?

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070318/ap_ ... ed_patents

Groups ask companies to release unused patents so that entrepreneurs can attempt to make something of them.

THE JEW (RaVeN) · Post by **THE JEW (RaVeN)** » Mon May 14, 2007 9:23 pm

M$ says that Linux violates patents:

http://www.networkworld.com/community/?q=node/15111

............but this site says "that's just old FUD."

http://techdirt.com/articles/20070514/013229.shtml

THE JEW (RaVeN) · Post by **THE JEW (RaVeN)** » Wed May 16, 2007 7:04 pm

Torvald tells M$ to put up or shut up about the patents:

http://www.informationweek.com/news/sho ... =199600443

He says they'll code around any problems and what with IBM owning the majority of patents on what an OS is (though, most likely irrelevant due to age), he dares M$ to prove they're just not saber rattling.

THE JEW (RaVeN) · Post by **THE JEW (RaVeN)** » Thu May 17, 2007 4:17 pm

Mr. Hilf, the director of open source at M$, responds about the patent article and (indirectly) to Linus Torvald:

http://www.pcworld.com/article/id,13194 ... ticle.html

THE JEW (RaVeN) · Post by **THE JEW (RaVeN)** » Mon May 21, 2007 2:09 pm

Has M$ inadvertently short-changed their patent rights?

http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?stor ... 8124020691

THE JEW (RaVeN) · Post by **THE JEW (RaVeN)** » Mon May 21, 2007 9:34 pm

Another POV on the whole M$, GPL3, and voucher thinger:

http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20 ... noise.html

THE JEW (RaVeN) · Post by **THE JEW (RaVeN)** » Mon Aug 13, 2007 7:12 pm

Torvald comments on GPL3 and the M$/Novell agreement:

http://www.linuxworld.com/cgi-bin/mailt ... lw_general

THE JEW (RaVeN) · Post by **THE JEW (RaVeN)** » Fri Sep 07, 2007 5:47 pm

This sounds good at first:

http://www.businessweek.com/ap/financia ... GR90O0.htm

But it will only likely protect corporations that make obscure patents that prevent true inventors from making a buck.

THE JEW (RaVeN) · Post by **THE JEW (RaVeN)** » Thu Oct 11, 2007 10:38 am

M$ says Red Hat will eventually have to pay:

http://www.windowsitpro.com/Articles/Ar ... 97281.html

The author, quite astutely, notes that unless they start naming patents they're no better than SCO. And we all know how that turned out

THE JEW (RaVeN) · Post by **THE JEW (RaVeN)** » Fri Oct 12, 2007 11:45 am

Wow. That was quick:

http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?stor ... 1205044141

M$, under the table, sues Novell and Red Hat.

NOTE: Novell, who made an arrangement with M$, is getting sued. Making deals with the devil still ends you up in the lakes of sulphur.

THE JEW (RaVeN) · Post by **THE JEW (RaVeN)** » Thu Nov 01, 2007 11:01 am

Europe, basically, tells M$ to bugger off when it comes to patent saber rattling:

http://www.itnews.com.au/News/63623,eu- ... -dogs.aspx

THE JEW (RaVeN) · Post by **THE JEW (RaVeN)** » Tue Nov 06, 2007 6:16 pm

If Sun wins its patent case, it will donate part of the earnings to preventing frivolous cases:

http://yro.slashdot.org/yro/07/11/06/0332228.shtml

THE JEW (RaVeN) · Post by **THE JEW (RaVeN)** » Fri Nov 30, 2007 9:27 am

I really think M$ and Autodesk should've won this one:

http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5g21c ... AD8T5M4PG4

Patenting using 2 passwords for installation gets you $140 million? Please.

THE JEW (RaVeN) · Post by **THE JEW (RaVeN)** » Fri Feb 08, 2008 11:43 am

Some university profs are suing Intel over cpu patents:

http://warf.org/news/news.jsp?news_id=221

Essentially, parts which made the Core 2 Duo line so great infringe on their patents (according to them).

THE JEW (RaVeN) · Post by **THE JEW (RaVeN)** » Wed Apr 30, 2008 7:15 pm

Patents and constitutional rights:

http://yro.slashdot.org/yro/08/04/30/0045243.shtml