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Microsoft pushes for single global patent system

A senior lawyer at Microsoft is calling for the creation of a global patent system to make it easier and faster for corporations to enforce their intellectual property rights around the world. Read more »

Stallman warns of Mono 'risk'

GNU project founder Richard Stallman has called on developers to pull back from Mono, arguing that increasing use of the open-source toolset could prompt legal action by Microsoft. Read more »

IBM joins the 'cloud computing' bandwagon

IBM on Monday launched a major initiative into 'cloud computing', a current term for internet-based services, in an effort it hopes will challenge the early lead of cloud pioneers such as Amazon and Google. Read more »

Stallman warns of cloud vendor lock-in

Free Software Foundation founder Richard Stallman this week said cloud computing was "stupidity" that ultimately would result in vendor lock-in and escalating costs. Read more »

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Stephen Fry kicks off GNU's 25th birthday party

The Free Software Foundation is beginning celebrations of 25 years of GNU with the release of a video presented by actor and comedian Stephen Fry. Read more »

Gates is gone but the fight goes on: Stallman

To pay so much attention to Bill Gates' retirement is missing the point. What really matters is not Gates, nor Microsoft, but the unethical system of restrictions that Microsoft, like many other software companies, imposes on its customers. Read more »

Stallman: Linux used to track Londoners

Free-software advocate Richard Stallman has spoken out against the association of open-source software with London's "unethical" Oyster-card system. Read more »

OpenBSD 4.3 released

An update to the popular Unix-like distribution includes new security features, drivers, software packages and bug fixes. Read more »

Sun sheds light on its open-source future

Simon Phipps, Sun UK's chief open-source officer, surveys the open-source landscape and reaffirms his company's commitment to open-software development. Read more »

Affero: A new GPL for SaaS

The Affero General Public License, a new variation of the seminal General Public License (GPL) specifically for one situation the regular GPL doesn't address, is now final. Read more »

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Features (14)

Interview with Dr Andrew S Tanenbaum

Nick Gibson caught up with Dr Tanembaum after his keynote address at linux.conf.au and spoke about microkernels, MINIX and what's coming up on the horizon. Read more »

The open-source techie who means business

Alan Cox, one of the most respected figures in the open-source community, talks about GPL 3, software patents, the kernel development process and Linux on the desktop. Read more »

In defence of freedom

The principles are the same, but technology has moved on significantly in the 15 years since the release of GPL 2. Read more »

What if? an alternative history of tech

Michael Kanellos imagines a world where Apple licenced the Mac and wrestling is a corporate sport. Read more »

Developer spotlight: James Gosling

We recently caught up with James Gosling, the creator of Java about his new role at Sun, software patents, the open source movement, and the future of Java. Read more »

Sprucing up open source's GPL foundation

Modernisation is coming to the General Public License, a legal framework that supports a large part of the free and open-source software movements and that has received sharp criticism from Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates. Read more »

Q & A with Linus Torvalds

When Linus Torvalds successfully harnessed the talent of thousands of programmers to create Linux, the operating system that arguably suffered most was Sun Microsystems' Solaris. Read more »

A patently bad idea?

So you've developed software that is going to change the world only to discover another company holds the patent for your idea. Are patents protecting or destroying the software industry? Read more »

Developer Spotlight: Richard Stallman

Builder AU recently caught up with RMS to talk about his achievements, the Free Software movement and his concerns with the US-Australian Free Trade Agreement. Read more »

Who wrote Linux?

Recent disputes over the authorship of Linux are missing an extremely obvious point. Has nobody noticed? Read more »

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Blog (5)

Microsoft prescribes more REST

Staff [blogs:syslog] -- Details have begun to emerge about the next versions of Visual Studio and Windows Server this week -- and the message from Redmond is to REST up Read more »

When software becomes an entertainment report

Staff [blogs:syslog] -- This week's roundup covers Microsoft no longer being interested in Yahoo, Stallman suggesting that foil be used to stop RFID chip reading and something about the iPhone. Read more »

Is public domain software open-source?

Staff [blogs:syslog] -- When writing earlier this week about Adobe's sponsoring of the SQLite project, I ran into a complicated issue: is software released into the public domain also open-source software? Read more »

GPL 3 -- a bridge too far?

Staff [blogs:syslog] -- Now it's time to create a new phrase: "free as in free software," meaning the freedom to make adversaries of potential partners -- the kind of freedom one has when one's work must be carefully excluded from other people's projects. Read more »

Get Ready for This

Brendon Chase [blogs:codemonkeybusiness] -- It seems software developers are quite a musical bunch. Microsoft have a band called "band on the runtime" which play cover songs like "VB.NET" to the tune of the Villiage People's YMCA, and Richard Stallman sings his woeful Free Software song. Read more »

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    In a split decision by the judges, the winner of the W3C/WHATWG video codec consensus is H.264, taking home the future of video playback on the internet while loser Ogg goes home with nothing but thoughts of what might have been. Read more »

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    Google launches and app store, while Mozilla plans to re-write its open-source license. More of this week's news in the Roundup. Read more »

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