Web browser companies are looking nervously over their shoulders, after a tiny company won US$521m in a patent-infringement suit against Microsoft.
The European Parliament delays voting on a controversial software-patents directive, following protests and criticism by computer scientists and economists.
SCO Group Chief Executive Darl McBride is invoking the Founding Fathers in his company's battle over Unix intellectual property rights.
Open-source advocate Bruce Perens applauds a W3C vote in a controversial patent dispute, but warns corporations are still trying to set up a toll booth on the Internet.
Software patents are slowing innovation, Red Hat Chief Executive Matthew Szulik said on Tuesday.
Microsoft's allegations that open source infringed on its patents may never make it to the courts. So why make such a fuss over the claims?
Szulik says Red Hat won't abuse its clout.
The patent system is supposed to encourage technological innovation. Instead, it rewards those who have the knowledge and resources to work it to their advantage.
Richard Stallman says even if Sun and others follow IBM's lead and started defusing the patent minefield of software development, the battle against software patents must continue.
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Although Sun Microsystems recently made software patents available for use by open-source developers, OSI founder Bruce Perens cautions that the patent picture is turning increasingly murky.
The efforts of Microsoft to pressure the Linux community over alleged and unspecified patents is akin to "patent terrorism", according to a local executive for Sun Microsystems.
Linus Torvalds, who was attending Australia's largest Linux Conference, is worried about how patents will affect the future of Linux.
Members of the Ogg Vorbis project have unveiled release 1.0 of their software, an open-source alternative to the MP3 format.
RealNetworks on Wednesday released the last piece of its three-part open-source code for streaming digital media, but the server code lacks support for the industry standard MPEG-4.
RealNetworks has unveiled a new open-source version of its streaming media technology that supports multiple file formats for audio and video, including those that use Microsoft's Windows Media technology.
Parts of the newest version of Red Hat's Linux software slipped onto the Internet Wednesday, nearly a week before the operating system's official release date, giving glimpses of a product with a new focus on mainstream computer users.
RealNetworks has publicly disclosed the software blueprint to its streaming media technology in an effort to take on Microsoft.
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