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In the later case, the troll is Unwired Planet, a company that at one time, as Openwave Systems, was a major player in the mobile software world, credited [...] Continue reading A Kodak Moment As Ericsson Feeds A Troll Trying to understand the recent patent licensing deal between Microsoft and Amdocs is like watching a poker tournament, where you never know whether players are bluffing or if they have pat hands. In this case, it appears that Microsoft is bluffing when it comes to Linux. An inspection of the facts, as they are known, indicates the “Linux licensing” element of the story is only more Microsoft FUD–with Amdocs being a willing participant. This isn’t the story of an underdog [...] Continue reading Microsoft and Amdocs: The Linux Connection Is Just FUD Friday FOSS Week in Review Lot’s of stories of interest in the FOSS world this week. Patent issues, of course, dominated the news. In addition, however, a travel site got outed for a OS bias and a hardware manufacturer discovered the hard way that ignoring open source can be costly. We’ll start with the patent news… The Patent Wars Continue I don’t know what we’re going to do about the patent situation. The sensible thing would be to simply change [...] Continue reading Google’s Nexus Tablet; Maddog’s Blog; Patent News & More Friday FOSS Week in Review Gawd, but it’s been a long time since our last FOSS Week In Review. Many might be wondering where we’ve been and what we’ve been doing. Well, it’s a long story. I intend to tell you about it in another article in the next week or so. In the meantime, here’s a few things that caught my eye this week… Ubuntu working with HP on low power server We learned this week that Canonical is [...] Continue reading Ubuntu Works On Green Server, Bad Times At Nokia, Good News On the Patent Front |
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For the last couple of decades we’ve watched as our technology has caught up with the world of Star Trek much faster than Gene Roddenberry could ever have imagined back in the 1960s, when Kirk, Spock and the gang first rode into our living rooms, mostly in “non-living” or “dead” black and white, as not many of us had “living” color back then.
While there’s been a feeding frenzy at Kodak, with a group of tech’s heavy hitters grabbing patents at fire sale prices, Ericsson has been busy making a deal with a troll to do their dirty work for them.