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OPEN WORLD FORUM 

OPEN WORLD FORUM
Open is the Future: Open Innovation, Open Enterprise, Open Society
30 September - 1 October 2010, Paris

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OASIS Interoperability Demo Features Eight Open Source and Commercial Implementations of OpenDocument Format (ODF) 1.2 on Desktop, Mobile Devices, and in the Cloud (Sep 06, 2010)

WSJ - BUDAPEST, Hungary, Sep 02, 2010 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- Eight implementations of the Open Document Format (ODF) OASIS Standard were orchestrated in a real-world scenario today at the OpenOffice.org Conference (OOoCon) at the Central European University in Budapest. The OASIS ODF 1.2 Interop showcased both open source and commercial software applications processing ODF documents on the desktop, in the cloud, and on mobile devices.

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Gnu/Linux: Finally, it's really free software (Sep 03, 2010)

InfoWorld - Some ancient source code given away freely by Sun in 1984 turned out to have a non-free-software license all these years, upsetting the licensing purity of glibc and everything built with it. This may come as a shock, but all Gnu/Linux distributions to date have been built with essential software under a license that clearly meets neither the open source definition nor the Free Software Foundations' requirements for a free software license. The tenacity of a Red Hat hacker has finally solved this problem for everyone, however, and I'm proud to have played a part, too.

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SCO gets sale approval (Sep 02, 2010)

The Register - SCO's request to sell off its software business has been approved by the bankruptcy courts. The Delaware court approved the motion to sell SCO's software business leaving a rump company to pursue what's left of its Linux legal action. SCO's Unix is still in use, and still bringing in revenues.

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EU: International team developing open source hospital information system (Sep 01, 2010)

OSOR - An international team of software developers specialising in medical systems is working on a hospital information system. Earlier this month on the OSOR Forge, the project began soliciting others to join the team. "If you are willing to participate in this great community, there are plenty of things to be done, from translation, quality control, adding new functionality to localization."

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Co-founder of Microsoft sues tech giants (Aug 31, 2010)

Washington Post - Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen lobbed a patent violation lawsuit at some of Silicon Valley's most prominent companies on Friday, accusing them of using ideas hatched at one of his former businesses. Allen's now-defunct company, Interval Licensing, is suing Apple, Google, Facebook, Yahoo and seven other firms, accusing them of infringing on four of its patents related to Internet search and e-commerce. According to the suit, Interval is asking for an injunction against the companies to prevent further infringement.

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MPEG-LA video codec to stay free for end users (Aug 31, 2010)

ZDNet - The MPEG Licensing Authority patent pool has announced that its AVC portfolio licence will remain free indefinitely for video that is free to end users. The AVC portfolio licence covers the H.264 codec, a digital video coding standard used by technologies including YouTube and Vimeo. The MPEG Licensing Authority (MPEG-LA), which licenses the AVC portfolio, said in a press release on Thursday that video which is free to end users — known as Internet Broadcast AVC Video — would not require royalties.

...In May, Google announced a competing video format, WebM, which was both open source and royalty-free. Despite much speculation at the time that WebM's video coding standard, VP8, would infringe MPEG-LA's patent pool, there have been no formal claims to that effect.

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