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Saving Linux from the lawyers

November 21, 2005 CEO Stuart Cohen talks about OSDL's efforts to head off patent claims against the community-developed operating system. TAGS: patent, Open Source Development Labs, open-source community, Linux, open source, lawyer, developer, IBM Corp., CEO, Microsoft Corp., server, operating system, Microsoft Windows

A patent commons project for open source

August 10, 2005 Open Source Development Labs plans to collate information on patents that have been donated to the open-source community. TAGS: Open Source Development Labs, patent, software patent, open-source community, open source, initiative, intellectual property, IBM Corp., project, Sun Microsystems Inc., developer

Stallman: OSDL patent project 'worse than nothing'

September 19, 2006 Project to fight low-quality patents could make legal terrain tougher for open source, FSF founder says. TAGS: Open Source Development Labs, Richard Stallman, patent, software patent, tagging, art, open source, Free Software Foundation, founder, project, developer, solution

The open-source patent conundrum

January 31, 2005 OSI founder Bruce Perens cautions that the patent picture around open-source software is turning increasingly murky. TAGS: software patent, open-source developer, open source, Open Source Development Labs, patent suit, patent, Sun Microsystems Inc., open-source community, IBM Corp., GPL, Mozilla Corp., developer, Europe, Linux, U.S.

IBM taps open source to improve patent quality

January 10, 2006 Patent king IBM works with the Patent Office and OSDL to increase scrutiny and review of patent applications. TAGS: Open Source Development Labs, open-source community, open source, IBM Corp., patent, initiative, interest

HP: Don't like software patents? Learn to deal

February 15, 2005 Boycotting the patent system means "leaving oneself exposed for absolutely no good reason," says HP's Linux vice president. TAGS: software patent, patent, OSI, Open Source Development Labs, Richard Stallman, open source, intellectual property, open-source software, GNU, Linux, copyright law, vice president, founder, HP, Sun Microsystems Inc., idea

Open-source allies go on patent offensive

August 11, 2005 Red Hat and OSDL's new patent efforts take a different tack in trying to deter some intellectual-property attacks. TAGS: patent, software patent, Steve Mills, open source, intellectual property, Open Source Development Labs, LinuxWorld, ally, Red Hat Inc., IBM Corp., Sun Solaris, open-source software, Linux, threat, San Francisco, programming

Open-source honchos trash software patents

February 2, 2005 "Software patents are clearly a problem," Linux founder Linus Torvalds says at the OSDL Linux Summit. TAGS: software patent, Mitch Kapor, Linus Torvalds, patent, Open Source Development Labs, open-source software, SCO Group Inc., open source, IBM Corp., innovation, Sun Solaris, Linux, founder, chairman, Mozilla Corp., programming
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