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Submission + - Community Commitment to Open Source Definition (opensourcedeclaration.org)

Submitted by samj on Tuesday October 29, 2024 @09:28PM

samj writes: In light of yesterday's OSAID fork undermining the Open Source Definition, we have prepared this Community Commitment to Open Source Definition declaration reaffirming it, and ask you to sign and share it to protect a quarter century of progress:

We, the undersigned members of the Open Source community, declare that Open Source is defined solely by the Open Source Definition (OSD) version 1.9.

Any amendments or new definitions shall only be recognized if declared by clear community consensus through an open and transparent process to be determined.

Submission + - Intel counter-sued by Psion over netbook trademark (savethenetbooks.com)

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Save the Netbooks

on Sunday March 01, 2009 @05:26PM

Save the Netbooks writes: "We discussed Psion sending C&Ds late last year over international trademarks held on the term "netbook" and Dell accusing Psion of fraud last week. Since then Intel has joined in by suing Psion in federal court and the Save the Netbooks campaign has just obtained a court filing (PDF warning) showing that Psion counter-sued Intel on Friday. They have demanded a jury trial, profits, treble damages, destruction of material bearing the mark "netbook" and the netbook.com domain (among other things), claiming that they are still actively selling netbooks despite also revealing sales figures showing a miniscule market share. It seems that declaring victory may have been a little premature as it will be months before the dispute plays out in court."

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