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  • Software laws 'clarified' by Victorian OSS body

    Open Source Victoria, a government-funded software body, published a briefing paper on Tuesday designed to demystify some of the legal issues surrounding copyrights and patents in the software industry.

  • Linus Torvalds speaks out against EU patent law

    The creator of Linux has urged the EU Council not to adopt a draft directive on software patents as he considers it 'deceptive, dangerous and democratically illegitimate' .

  • Judge slams SCO's lack of evidence against IBM

    A judge in the United States issued a damning indictment of SCO's case against IBM, citing the 'complete lack' of evidence, but did not grant a summary judgement in IBM's favour.

  • Microsoft's Beijing win causes concern

    Microsoft's reported US$3.6m contract win in Beijing has not been met with universal approval in China, where concerns over software from outside are growing.

  • Fact and fiction in the Microsoft-SCO relationship

    The SCO Group's legal actions against Linux have shed light on the inner workings of the open-source programming project and on the operations of a company desperate to survive. They've also created a cottage industry for conspiracy theorists over Microsoft's role in the affair.

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  • Bill Gates and other communists

    Free Software Foundation President Richard Stallman says Microsoft's chairman is blurring the issue of software patents.

  • Microsoft-SCO: Fact and fiction

    Is Microsoft funding the SCO Group's legal fight against Linux? ZDNet hopes to shed some light and answer common questions swirling around the duo's relationship.

  • Linux must be slicker to grab desktop space

    The open-source operating must make key cosmetic adjustments, according to speakers at the Desktop Linux Summit.

  • Mono-man brings .NET to Linux

    Novell's Miguel de Icaza is working on a technology that he says can replicate Microsoft's vaunted software development platform on Linux. Additional reading: The beginning of the end for Microsoft?

  • Ballmer opens up on Microsoft's future

    What is Windows' strongest competitor? Will Microsoft expand successfully beyond the PC? Find out what Steve Ballmer thinks.

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