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Submission + - MP3's Loss, Open Source's Gain

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nadamsieee

on Tuesday February 27, 2007 @02:32PM

nadamsieee writes: "Eliot Van Buskirk has an interesting piece over at Wired about the fall-out from Microsoft's recent courtroom loss to Alcatel-Lucent over MP3 patents. From the article: "Alcatel-Lucent isn't the only winner in a federal jury's $1.52 billion patent infringement award against Microsoft this week. Other beneficiaries are the many rivals to the MP3 audio-compression format... Now, with a cloud over the de facto industry standard, companies that rely on MP3 may finally have sufficient motivation to move on. And that raises some tantalizing possibilities, including a real long shot: Open-source, royalty-free formats win.""

Submission + - Congress Tackles Patent Reform

Submitted by nadamsieee on Friday February 16, 2007 @03:07PM

nadamsieee writes: Wired's Luke O'Brian recently reported about Congress' latest attempt to reform the patent system. In the article O'Brian tells of how "[w]itnesses at Thursday's hearing painted a bleak picture of that system. Adam Jaffe, a Brandeis University professor and author of a book on the subject, described the system as "out of whack." Instead of "the engine of innovation," the patent has become "the sand in the gears," he said, citing widespread fears of litigation." The House Oversight Committee website has more details. How would you fix the patent system?

Submission + - Questioning the Linux Foundation's credentials

Submitted by nadamsieee on Tuesday February 13, 2007 @02:36PM

nadamsieee writes: Neil McAllister has posted a though provoking article titled Questioning the Linux Foundation's credentials in which he questions the motivations behind the newly formed organization. From the article:

But wouldn't it make more sense to call the merged organization the Open Source and Standards Lab, or the Free Software and Standards Group? Why did they have to go and call it the Linux Foundation?
Neil then goes on to explain what he sees as the dirty truth about the matter.

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