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Nokia: Linux kernel may use our patents
May 26, 2005
Finnish company is the latest to begin offering intellectual-property protections to open-source programmers.
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Flaw in Linux kernel allows attack
December 2, 2003
The Debian Project warns that a flaw in the Linux kernel helped attackers compromise four of the open-source software project's development servers.
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Report: Microsoft says open source violates 235 patents
May 14, 2007
Top Microsoft lawyer alleges in a magazine interview that the Linux kernel and OpenOffice.org violate hundreds of the company's patents.
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Patent problems pester penguin
August 5, 2004
Free Software Foundation counsel Daniel Ravicher says a broken patent system is in urgent need of repair.
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Experts say Microsoft's patent quest won't go far
May 16, 2007
It's unrealistic for Microsoft to expect open-source groups to actively seek out patent infringements, experts say.
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Linux guru warns on security of open-source code
October 26, 2006
Veteran developer Alan Cox cautions that hackers are trying hard to break open-source code and that many projects are far from secure.
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GPL getting tougher on patent deals
March 28, 2007
Version 3 to block next Microsoft-Novell handshake? Latest draft aims to "prevent such deals from making a mockery of free software."
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'Second Life' software becomes open-source
January 8, 2007
Outsiders will be able to modify the viewer software; Linden Lab plans to follow suit with the server software, too.
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