Possibly interesting links I saw yesterday. The Reg: Creative Commons sued for deception – what happens when a mega corporation uses freely licensed material in a way you wouldn’t like? (The journalist isn’t particularly smart, but the subject is interesting). ECIS’s Thomas Vinje on the EU Microsoft Decision, interview by Sean Daly, and An article Read more »
Possibly interesting links I saw yesterday. Globalisation Institute calls for a ban on bundling MS Windows with computers – this isn’t new for the free software community, but it’s interesting to see an outside group making the same argument. The Confusion of Tongues – an essay by Bruce Perens about the flaws in the EIF Read more »
Possibly interesting links I saw yesterday. Daniel Lyons of Forbes admits that he was wrong about SCO, and that Groklaw was right – after four years Stallman’s account of being in Peru during last month’s earthquake The Dutch government has committed to using OpenDocument format from January 2009 onwards A list of GNU software releases Read more »
When Monday’s anti-trust verdict was announced, the FSFE and Samba team talked to the gathered journalists and then sat down for a group interview with Sean Daly. That interview is on Groklaw now, and I think it came out very well. There’s Carlo Piana and Georg Greve for FSFE and Jeremy Allison and Volker Lendecke Read more »
FSFE’s official response to this morning’s ECJ’s ruling is now online: “Microsoft can consider itself above the law no longer,” says Georg Greve, president of the Free Software Foundation Europe (FSFE). “Through tactics that successfully derailed antitrust processes in other parts of the world, including the United States, Microsoft has managed to postpone this day Read more »
The EU Court of First Instance has published their ruling on their website: The Court Of First Instance Essentially Upholds The Commission’s Decision Finding That Microsoft Abused Its Dominant Position Essentially, the ECJ confirms that the EC was correct on both counts (interoperability and tying). For backround information on this case, see: FSFE’s project page Read more »
For anyone interested in Richard Stallman’s talk about copyright (in general, not just for software), here’s a recording from yesterday: Here’s the ogg audio And here’s the page introducing the link