3998855
submission
Jacques Chester writes:
The Australian government's research body, the CSIRO, has won a settlement with HP over wifi-related patents it lodged in 1996. The settlement is part of the CSIRO's lawsuit against a group of companies it claims are infringing: Intel, Dell, Toshiba, Asus, Netgear, D-Link, Belkin, SMC, Accton, 3-Com, Buffalo, Microsoft and Nintendo. This could mean that billions of dollars in royalties will soon be getting paid to one of the world's best scientific research organisations, potentially funding more research in astronomy, biology, physics, medicine and many other basic science and development projects. For once it looks like the 'little guy' is getting what's due. Let's just hope that the Australian government doesn't pinch the royalties come budget time.
3998063
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suolumark writes:
The CSIRO has won what could be a landmark settlement from Hewlett Packard over the use of patented wireless technology. The settlement ended HP's involvement in a four-year lawsuit brought by the CSIRO on a group of technology companies, in which the organisation was seeking royalties for wi-fi technology that is used extensively on laptops and computers worldwide.
CSIRO spokesman Luw Morgan earlier said legal action was continuing against 13 companies: Intel, Dell, Toshiba, Asus, Netgear, D-Link, Belkin, SMC, Accton, 3-Com, Buffalo, Microsoft and Nintendo.
3040733
submission
SF:ryan_wesley writes:
The initial refactoring of the FreeMind code is complete. A diagram of the new high level design can be seen here:
http://freeplane.wiki.sourceforge.net/work+packages
With a quality report here:
http://freeplane.sourceforge.net/stan/freeplane/
The latest code can be downloaded from SVN:
https://freeplane.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/freeplane/
Suggestions, ideas and comments are welcome.
