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Hace mucho tiempo en una empresa que estaba en la ruina, a alguién se le ocurrió como último recurso liberar el código fuente de su archiconocido navegador Netscape para hacer frente al

The board of the Open Source Initiative has approved two Microsoft licenses that allow proprietary source code to be shared, a move that is likely to inspire protests.

Microsoft says software that's licensed under GPLv3 isn't covered by the patent protection deal it recently signed with desktop Linux distributor Linspire.

In fact, I believe that Microsoft is doing this patent stuff because they want to ease into distributing GNU Linux themselves, and they want to be the market leading GNU Linux distro. They really kind of are forced to do it. GNU Linux and FOSS are eroding

I'm being buried alive in email about the Fortune article about Microsoft's patent saber rattling, which I thought so unimportant I put it in News Picks earlier. Here's why I'm not unduly worried so far. My reasons for not worrying

In practice, then, Microsoft's position is that no one may sell an operating system without Microsoft's permission (or unless you've amassed enough patents that Microsoft can't risk a patent war with you).

The patent agreement struck between Novell and Microsoft is a divisive agreement. It deals with users and creators of free software differently depending on their "commercial" versus "non-commercial" status, and deals with them differently depending on wh