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OSI Refers Novell Patent Deal To Authorities

Posted by samzenpus on from the naming-names dept.

WebMink writes "Worried that the unholy alliance of Microsoft, Apple, Oracle and EMC — hardly known for their collaboration — is establishing a patent troll called CPTN to attack open source software, the Open Source Initiative has announced that they have referred the Novell deal over to the German competition authorities."

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  1. Re:Wouldn't the Sherman AntiTrust Act apply in the by Daniel+Dvorkin · · Score: 4, Informative

    The concept of sarcasm is lost on you, isn't it?

    You also might want to Google for phrases of the form "I for one welcome our new ___ overlords." That would be a start.

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    The correlation between ignorance of statistics and using "correlation is not causation" as an argument is close to 1.