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Wi-Fi Patent Victory Earns CSIRO $200 Million 267

Posted by samzenpus on Thursday October 15, 2009 @01:05AM from the pay-up dept.

bennyboy64 writes "iTnews reports the patent battle between Australia's CSIRO and 14 of the world's largest technology companies has gained the research organization $200 million from out of court settlements. CSIRO executive director of commercial, Nigel Poole, said the CSIRO were wanting to license their technology further, stating that he 'urged' companies using it to come forward and seek a license. 'We believe that there are many more companies that are using CSIRO's technology and it's our desire to license the technology further,' Poole said.'We would urge companies that are currently selling devices that have 802.11 a,g or n to contact CSIRO and to seek a license because we believe they are using our technology.'"

Submission + - Enforcing the GPL on software companies? 1

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Piranhaa

on Saturday June 21, 2008 @09:40PM

Piranhaa writes: "I currently use an IPTV box that runs software by Minerva Networks. It seems when you ssh into the box, you are greeted with a BusyBox v1.00 (ash) shell. It's clearly running a flavor of Linux (uname -apm outputs: Linux minerva_10_0_3_99 2.4.30-tango2-2.7.144.0 #29 Wed Mar 16 16:16:16 CET 2005 mips unknown). However, when you look at their website (http://www.minervanetworks.com/) that there is no publicly available source code. Since the GPL in both BusyBox and the Linux kernel require that the individual(s) that use and distribute the binaries of this software to make it available to everyone, what would one do in order to enforce this? I've personally emailed and left voicemails with no reply."

Comment Re:XP, duh (Score 1) 608

by wbmccrea on Thursday May 30, 2002 @05:03AM (#3607915) Attached to: My Distro...

How are the HTTP headers going to give a more accurate percentage of *nix users vs windows users? How many of us read /. from work (and are stuck using windows machines at work)? How many of us have both windows and *nix machines at home, and read/post from whatever machine they're sitting in front of at the time?

As an example, right now (from the HTTP headers) I'd be tagged/logged as posting from "Some Browser/42 [fu] (not OS/2 3.0; X; ?????????)" eventhough I'm surfing from a win2k box, running Mozilla 1.0RC2 and going through an ad-blocking proxy server then through my RedHat 6.? NAT box.

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