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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.

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

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.

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

Has M$ inadvertently short-changed their patent rights?

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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).

Patents and constitutional rights:

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