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    Open-source bias cheered, booed in planned EC rules review 07/07/2009 04:52:00

    Industry groups criticized and praised on Monday what they consider is a bias in favor of open-source software in the European Commission's plans to update the rules governing industry standard technologies.
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    No more police raids: China and Europe agree to talk 10/03/2009 02:00:00

    There was no dawn raid by police to seize patent-infringing MP3 players at this year's Cebit trade show -- but behind the scenes, haggling over technology licensing continued.
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    Nokia: Open source developers should play by our rules 20/06/2008 09:42:40

    I was a little surprised to hear Nokia vice president of software Ari Jaaski's comments last week. Not long ago, Nokia got off to a great start by embracing open source for its mobile device business. But now, according to Jaaski, it's the open source developer community that needs to adapt to the ways of commercial software vendors, not the other way around.
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    Will proposed treaty make border agents copyright cops? 02/06/2008 09:09:27

    An Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA) under quiet negotiation by several countries including the US and Canada is raising concern in some quarters after a leaked document, purportedly offering more details on the nascent agreement, was posted on the Internet.
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    More electronic companies going green, says Greenpeace 10/04/2008 08:09:52

    While more IT companies are now taking significant steps toward going green, there is still a lot of work to do to protect the environment, says Greenpeace International, an environmental activist group.
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    Stallman: If you want freedom don't follow Linus Torvalds 12/09/2007 12:00:00

    "Please don't call GNU 'Linux'," says Richard Stallman, the founder of the Free Software Foundation. In this interview, he also asks readers whether they will fight for freedom or be too lazy to resist.
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    SCO Group: Mini-Me trying to be Darth Vader 15/08/2007 07:29:52

    Sometime before March 2003 The SCO Group decided that making products that people might want to buy was passe and decided to get into the "business" of filing lawsuits instead. Their first target was IBM but they soon expanded their scope to take on the entire open source community and scores of businesses actually trying to do things that benefited society. It's been a long road since then but the end is now in site - the end of The SCO Group that is.
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    Qualcomm talks tough on patents, 4G 11/05/2007 14:39:34

    The race to define and build next-generation broadband wireless networks is in full swing. And though Qualcomm doesn't like to use the 4G (fourth-generation) term, the company -- a key supplier of chip technology for today's 3G (third-generation) networks -- is already moving to stake its claim in the emerging market for super-fast wireless services.
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    Study: Big benefits from reduction of software piracy 09/12/2005 07:28:42

    A 10-point drop in the estimated 35 percent global software piracy rate would create 2.4 million jobs and US$400 billion in economic growth over four years, according to a study released by a software trade group Thursday.
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    IIPA estimates US global piracy losses at $9.2B in 2002 14/02/2003 14:02:16

    The U.S. economy lost US$9.2 billion through copyright breaches in foreign countries in 2002, the industry body International Intellectual Property Alliance (IIPA) reported Thursday.
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    Authors encouraged to publish online 13/03/2000 16:49:58

    Australian authors will soon be able to publish works straight onto the internet without fear of copyright infringement, says Australian Society of Authors chair, Libby Gleeson.
 
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