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The Courts

Man Sues Rockstar Saying GTA:SA Is Based On His Life 124

dotarray writes "From the article: 'Rockstar Games are no strangers to legal action, but it doesn't come stranger than this. An American model, Michael Washington (known as "Shagg") is suing the publisher — as well as parent company Take Two Interactive — because they based Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas on his life.'" It's a good thing Washington never learned the infinite ammo cheat.
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Zombie Pigs First, Hibernating Soldiers Next 193

ColdWetDog writes "Wired is running a story on DARPA's effort to stave off battlefield casualties by turning injured soldiers into zombies by injecting them with a cocktail of one chemical or another (details to be announced). From the article, 'Dr. Fossum predicts that each soldier will carry a syringe into combat zones or remote areas, and medic teams will be equipped with several. A single injection will minimize metabolic needs, de-animating injured troops by shutting down brain and heart function. Once treatment can be carried out, they'll be "re-animated" and — hopefully — as good as new.' If it doesn't pan out we can at least get zombie bacon and spam."
Patents

Submission + - Microsoft readies patent battle with OSS

Fred Oliveira writes: "Forbes has an in-depth article about Microsoft's plan to go to war with open source software over what they argue are over 235 patent infringements. Clearly just another step in the big ladder of "we don't know what we're doing, so we sue out of cluelessness", but it looks like the gents in Redmond are serious this time."
Microsoft

Submission + - Microsoft Wants Royalties From All Linux Users

An anonymous reader writes: According to CNN Money and other sources, Microsoft claims that Linux infringes on over 200 of their patents and they fully intend to protect their intellectual property.
Patents

Submission + - Microsoft takes on the free world

k-hell writes: "Free software is great, and corporate America loves it. It's often high-quality stuff that can be downloaded free off the Internet and then copied at will. It's versatile — it can be customized to perform almost any large-scale computing task — and it's blessedly crash-resistant. A broad community of developers, from individuals to large companies like IBM, is constantly working to improve it and introduce new features. No wonder the business world has embraced it so enthusiastically: More than half the companies in the Fortune 500 are thought to be using the free operating system Linux in their data centers. But now there's a shadow hanging over Linux and other free software, and it's being cast by Microsoft (Charts, Fortune 500). The Redmond behemoth asserts that one reason free software is of such high quality is that it violates more than 200 of Microsoft's patents."
Microsoft

Submission + - Microsoft claims Linux violates over 200 patents

An anonymous reader writes: Fortune Magazine has an article which states that FOSS developers and distributors could soon face a patent litigation blitzkrieg from Microsoft, which holds over 200 patents that the company claims Linux violates. The article further states that the recent Novell-Microsoft patent deal is a de facto admission of infringement — is anybody surprised?

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