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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., Europe, Linux, U.S.

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., Sun Microsystems Inc., project, 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, Free Software Foundation, open source, founder, project, developer, solution

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, GNU, open-source software, intellectual property, Linux, copyright law, vice president, founder, HP, Sun Microsystems Inc., idea

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, Open Source Development Labs, open-source software, SCO Group Inc., IBM Corp., innovation, Linux, Sun Solaris, chairman, founder, Mozilla Corp., programming

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, open source, software patent, Steve Mills, intellectual property, Open Source Development Labs, ally, LinuxWorld, Red Hat Inc., IBM Corp., open-source software, Sun Solaris, threat, Linux, San Francisco, programming
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