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OIN aims to cut the FAT
# The Open Invention Network announced plans to review the Microsoft FAT
patents at the center of its recent skirmish and settlement with TomTom. have been placed for
prior art review on the Post-Issue …
The open source vendor definition debate rumbles on. How open source could save the US government $3.7bn. Red Hat plans MASS migration to JBoss. Open source content management invades the US. Exploiting the attribution loophole in the GPLv3. And more.
Definition debate rumbles on
Roberto Galoppini joined the open source vendor definition
debate, with a perspective looking at the impact on community
engagement, and also caught up with David Dennis, senior director
of product marketing at Groundwork, about the company’s strategy,
noting that not all open source core vendors are created equal.
Meanwhile Tarus Balog of OpenNMS, who …
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