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FSF submits comment in USTR Special 301 Review
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Brett Smith
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Feb 17, 2010
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I want you to help answer licensing questions
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Oct 11, 2006
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The Compliance Lab could use a few good volunteers.
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Every situation is different
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Oct 10, 2006
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May 17, 2010 04:44 PM
How does the Compliance Lab work? Well....
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Yes, DRM is inherently evil
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Sep 29, 2006
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May 17, 2010 04:44 PM
People keep saying DRM isn't inherently evil. Why?
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It's not just TiVo locking down their hardware
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Nov 10, 2006
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May 17, 2010 04:44 PM
More and more devices require that their firmware be signed.
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OSI and FSF Send Joint Position to Department of Justice
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Jan 20, 2011
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The Open Source Initiative (OSI) and Free Software Foundation (FSF) have sent a joint position statement to the United States Department of Justice (DOJ), urging it to scrutinize Novell's proposal to sell patents
to the newly-formed CPTN Holdings. Both organizations believe that CPTN Holdings may use these patents to attack free, libre, and open source (FLOSS) software. The full text of the statement follows.
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FSF Advocates Free Software for U.S. IPEC Joint Strategic Plan
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Apr 12, 2010
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Apr 12, 2010 03:24 PM
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FSF speaks against patent and DRM provisions at Trans-Pacific Partnership negotiators' meeting
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Brett Smith
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Sep 16, 2011
The Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement (TPP) is a free trade
agreement currently under negotiation that could require member
countries to enact strict copyright and patent legislation that hurts
free software users and developers. Our license compliance engineer
Brett Smith talked about the FSF's opposition to these terms with
negotiators last weekend; in this blog post, he shares his perspective
on the event.
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Good news about the Novell/CPTN deal
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Apr 22, 2011
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Apr 26, 2011 01:19 PM
Earlier this week the US Department of Justice (DOJ) and German
Federal Cartel Office (FCO) announced a joint decision regarding
Novell's proposal to sell 882 patents to CPTN Holdings, newly formed
by Microsoft, Apple, Oracle, and EMC. The authorities ultimately
approved the sale, but with conditions that prevent the companies from
using the patents to attack free software.
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Over 450 letters sent to the USPTO proposing guidelines to end software patents
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Sep 28, 2010
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Last week, we put out an action item asking people to write to the
USPTO, and explain to them why software should not be eligible for
patents under their forthcoming post-Bilski guidance. To answer the
call, you all sent in more than 450 letters, offering the USPTO all
kinds of legal and practical reasons why they should stop issuing
software patents. This is a tremendous response, and we're very
grateful to you all for participating. Thank you very much!
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