Here are some links that I found worth passing on recently. This is not a monthly or even a regular listing; I'll repeat this when I have another ten.
CBR Online quotes senior Microsofthead Steve Ballmer speaking to analysts about their deal with Novell: "I would not anticipate that we make a huge additional revenue stream from our Novell deal, but I do think it clearly establishes that open source is not free," he said, "and open …
On April 15 I reported that the Public Patent Foundation was challenging Microsoft's all-important FAT Filesystem Patent. Today the US PTO agreed that PubPat's challenge had enough merit to prompt a new hearing into whether the Patent in question should be abolished. Score one for the good guys at …
Microsoft has started a campaign to license all implementations of "FAT", the filesystem type used in MS-DOS. This filesystem format is used all over the place, including most media interchange by flash memory cards, USB-based "memory disks", and more. It is also used for floppy …
I urge everyone to support the EFF Copyright Petition. You must have a U.S. mailing address to be a signatory to this petition, since it is addressed to the U.S. Congress, but you can support other worthwhile EFF projects from anywhere.
And since it is the second anniversary of Sept 11, 2001, …
The frivolous lawsuit by SCO against IBM and Linux turned humorous when Bruce Perens revealed that the bits of "stolen" code they showed off were actually taken from V7 UNIX which SCO (when it was called Caldera, Inc.) released for all the world to use for free under a BSD-style license. …
The US Congress is at it again, trying to sell out digital technologies to the interests of the big media vendors like Disney. Fight back!