patents

NY Times: "Nathan Myhrvold, chief of Intellectual Ventures, says patent holders are being treated unfairly."

WorksWithU: "...as Ubuntu moves increasingly into government and the workplace, patent and licensing issues are becoming more and more important for many Ubuntu users."

Groklaw: "Eureka! You could sell the patents to patent trolls, and let *them* be the bad guys. Is that not perfect if you are evil? Not that Microsoft would ever be evil."

PCWorld: "Patent trolls, known more formally as non-practicing entities (NPEs), are companies that exist merely to own patents so they can sue companies for violating them."

WSJ.com: "In an effort to avert any legal threat that might discourage the adoption of Linux, a group of Microsoft rivals is about to acquire a set of patents formerly owned by the software giant."

Law.com: "Patent-hoarding giant Intellectual Ventures has long beat the drum that it doesn't file lawsuits. But now Intellectual Ventures has started selling some of its 27,000 patents to people who aren't afraid to sue..."

The Register: "Microsoft's earned the respect of certain sections of the open-source community for its engineering work around open-source and Linux."

Standards Blog: "The other reason I haven't yet written is equally simple: the latest skirmish that i4i won in Texas really doesn't matter very much."

BBC News: "The three patents outline an "author interface" for distributing alerts and messages from a single sender to many recipients. "

OnePeople: "In other words, they are putting every producer and broadcaster (which includes individuals) of video on the web in a position where they must pay rent to the MPEG LA consortium."