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May 22nd, 2010 
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Wouldn’t you know it, directly on the heels of Google’s announcement of its WebM royalty-free video codec, and the release of its underlying V8 technology under an open source license, the patent and lawsuit drums are rumbling in the distance. According to reports , MPEG LA, the organization that controls the H.264 video standard, is exploring creating a patent pool license for VP8
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Not Everybody Supports Google’s Open Video Moves
Posted in Open Source News 
Tags: apple, disagreement, online, opera, organization, patents, Proprietary, support-spreads, video, video-format, webm, week 
No Comments » April 8th, 2010 Admin
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IBM has made lots of friends in the open source community by pledging a fraction of its patent portfolio to the defense of open source projects, and by pouring billions of dollars into development of open source and marketing Linux and other open source solutions. Does that give IBM a free pass to attack an open source project, or are FOSS advocates justified in turning on Big Blue for one action against a history of open source support? IBM is one of a a handful of companies that have committed patents to the Open Invention Network (OIN) and promised not to go after open source projects that may be infringing on those patents.
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Taking IBM to Task on Patents: What’s Useful and What’s Not?
Posted in Open Source News Tags: competition, Development, hercules, microsoft, oin, Open, patent-trolling, patents, software-titans, troubled-novell, villain, villain-as-soon No Comments » March 10th, 2010 Admin
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Former Sun Microsystems CEO Jonathan Schwartz only recently announced his departure from Oracle, following its acquisition of Sun, via a quirky haiku posted on Twitter, and now he is providing juicy details of his historical run-ins with technology heavyweights. Schwartz was always well-known as a blogger during his tenure at Sun, and he now writes on a blog titled ” What I Couldn’t Say.
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Former Sun CEO Takes Tech Titans to Task Over Patent Trolling
Posted in Open Source News Tags: artists, bill gates, gates, great-artists, linux, patents, steve-jobs, sun micrososystems No Comments »
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