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Open Source Start-Up Complains About IBM To EC->

Submitted by AlexGr
AlexGr writes "Maureen O'Gara In Open Source Magazine: TurboHercules SAS, the Paris-based concern started last year to commercialize the 10-year-old open source Hercules mainframe project, filed a formal antitrust complaint against IBM with the European Commission Tuesday.
The little company says IBM is blocking it from selling its open source solutions.
TurboHercules last year asked IBM to license z/OS to customers for use with Hercules at prices and on conditions set by IBM provided they were fair and reasonable. That was last July. It took IBM four months to answer. In November IBM's mainframe CTO Mark Anzani rejected the request and accused Hercules of infringing IBM's intellectual property."
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Cellphones

Owners Smash iPhones To Get Upgrades, Says Insurance Company 406

Posted by timothy
from the dog-ate-it dept.
markass530 writes "An iPhone insurance carrier says that four in six claims are suspicious, and is worse when a new model appears on the market. 'Supercover Insurance is alleging that many iPhone owners are deliberately smashing their devices and filing false claims in order to upgrade to the latest model. The gadget insurance company told Sky News Sunday that it saw a 50-percent rise in claims during the month Apple launched the latest version, the iPhone 3GS.'"
The Internet

Facebook Is Used As a Mug Book to Catch Suspect->

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Billosaur
Billosaur writes "CNN is reporting on the case of a Georgetown student, the victim of an attack near the university campus, who used Facebook to id his attacker. The unnamed victim was attacked by a person yelling homophobic epithets, and suffered cuts and bruises to the face and a broken thumb. He went on Facebook to see if he could identify his attacker, and upon finding someone who resembled the attacker, turned the information over to the police. Eventually the police created a photo lineup of possible suspects, and the victim was able to pick his alleged attacker, Phillip Anderton Cooney, from it. Cooney was arrested and has been charged with a bias/hate crime, increasing the potential penalty if convicted."
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Windows

Class-Action Suit Claims Many PCs Not Vista-Ready

Submitted by Endo13
Endo13 writes "From an article on technewsworld.com: "A consumer in Washington state has filed a class action lawsuit against the Redmond giant, claiming that "Windows Vista Capable" labels were placed on a large number of PCs that can only run the more bare bones version of the operating system, Vista Home Basic. The suit asks for over $5 million in damages.""
The Courts

SCO Attacks PJ of Groklaw

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Litigious Bastards
Litigious Bastards writes "SCO has just filed court papers saying that they were unable to subpoena PJ of Groklaw. While they quietly disseminated rumors via shills like Dan Lyons of Forbes that they were attempting to subpoena PJ, and apparently sent their crack team of process servers out looking for random people named Pamela Jones, it would appear that they were unable to locate the bright yellow envelope labeled "Email PJ" on the Groklaw website to ask for directions to serve her in person."

RMS Explains GPLv3 Draft 3 139

Posted by ScuttleMonkey
from the discussion-drafts-doing-their-job dept.
H4x0r Jim Duggan writes "A transcript is now online of a talk Richard Stallman gave in Brussels earlier this week about the discussion draft 3 of GPLv3. Among other things, he explained how it will address the Novell-MS deal, from Novell's point of view and from Microsoft's, and he explained how the tivoisation clause was narrowed to make it more acceptable in the hope that it will be used by more people. After the talk he also gave an interview, and yesterday, draft 2 of LGPLv3 was released."

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