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  • Software Freedom's latest target is medical devices

    Heart disease patients like Dick Cheney are vulnerable to buggy software and hack-attacks aimed straight at the devices implanted near their hearts. Open source could offer hope.

    Blog posts | July 28, 2010 5:34am PDT

  • TomTom surrenders to Microsoft in patent fight

    With TomTom unwilling to go beyond what is in Microsoft's press release, it seems pretty clear the company has surrendered to the company's patent demands. A TomTom spokesman confirmed to me just...

    Blog posts | March 30, 2009 11:44am PDT

  • Open source patent law panhandling

    TomTom lacks the financial resources to defend itself. Stand-alone GPS systems aren't that great a business, the real potential here being GPS as a technology platform, enabling other functions....

    Blog posts | March 5, 2009 7:30am PST

  • Just don't call it trolling, Verizon

    Once it has reduced its liability to the minimum its lawyers are comfortable with, Verizon will settle. Expect that to happen long before this hits a courtroom.

    Blog posts | December 7, 2007 11:04am PST

  • Mixing GPL and BSD code just takes care

    If you can keep someone on your team who is obsessive compulsive to ride herd on those with attention deficits, you're far less likely to find your whole team in court later on.

    Blog posts | September 28, 2007 6:48am PDT

  • GPL will get its day in court

    The Software Freedom Law Center says it has filed the first ever U.S. copyright infringement lawsuit based on the GNU General Public License. The Software Freedom Law Center (SLFC) said Thursday...

    Blog posts | September 21, 2007 7:53am PDT

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