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The Open Source War is on




By Sébastien ODDOS member of a.d.c.i. - Date : 2011-01-21 - Country : ETATS-UNIS - Subject : Litigations - IP Field : Information Technology


Last week we reported that the transfer of Novell's patents was still pending (see HERE).

This week we learn that the Open Source Initiative and the Free Software Foundations (two organisations fighting for the same cause, but traditionally in very different ways) have joined forces in an attempt to prevent Novell patents falling into Microsoft's hands.

The sale of Novell's patents to a consortium known as CPTN (a group of technology companies including Apple, EMC, and Oracle, headed up by Microsoft) raises fears in the Open Source Community [...]

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