Quote: "Intellectual property attorney and open source advocate Larry Rosen has issued a call to action to the free and open source software communities on what is yet another battle against "reasonable and non-discriminatory" patent standards.
The offending body this time is the Organization for the Advancement of Structured Information Standards (OASIS), a consortium of big tech companies including Dell, IBM, Oracle, and Novell; big end users like General Motors, Xerox, and the American Bar Association; and universities and government agencies." Link: http://trends.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=05/02/22/2027219 IBM? Novell? Committed to F/OSS my ass, the bottom line always comes first with the corps. Note the lawyers are in there like a fly on shite too, lot's of potential litigation there, eh? -- JoeHill / RLU #282046 / www.freeyourmachine.org 20:59:45 up 2 days, 23:02, 7 users, load average: 0.00, 0.03, 0.00 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++ "President Bush is asking Congress for $80 billion dollars to rebuild Iraq. And when you make out that check, remember there are two L's in Halliburton." -- David Letterman
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