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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:In Germany? by flyingfsck · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Give them crap in all of Europe? Note that the world is rather larger than the USA...

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  2. Re:Cross-Licensing by c0lo · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Is the poster arguing we should eliminate the patent system?

    I don't know about original poster, but my argument would be on the line of eliminating patents for software. Copyright and trade-secret should be more than enough for software (even disregrading what the trademark can do: see the faec... errr.. pardon me... facebook I meant)

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  3. Re:Ahem. by Daniel+Dvorkin · · Score: 5, Insightful

    The summary does not state that this is what the listed companies are doing; it states that this is what OSI is worried they're doing. It's a small but critical difference. And the linked OSI statement explains quite succinctly why they're worried about this.

    You can quote anything out of context to make it sound ridiculous.

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