I’ve spent the past few years asking the software development community, ”Why can’t we all get along?” I became increasingly optimistic after Microsoft’s General Counsel, Brad Smith, announced Microsoft’s intention to start improving relations. At ACT’s Intellectual Property & Technology Summit in 2005, he said that, "We’re going to have [...]
Today, the United States Department of Commerce took another concrete step toward making ICANN fully independent as the technical manager of the Internet. Washington – Today the United States Department of Commerce announced its support for the .com domain name registry agreement between the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and [...]
Microsoft and Novell announced a collaborative effort. Whoa, this is big news! Windows and SuSE Linux, proprietary and open source, Microsoft and Novell -- working together? Well, yes, according to a recent announcement. And for this collaborative effort to have even been formalized, a required element was some intellectual property [...]
Washington – Today the Association for Competitive Technology (ACT) commended Microsoft and Novell for announcing an important partnership agreement that puts customers and innovation before licensing ideology. The wide-ranging agreement will undoubtedly move the industry further toward a new level of cooperation between open source and proprietary businesses. ACT president [...]
In what will hopefully be a sign of things to come, Microsoft and Novell took an important step toward bridging the divide between the open source and proprietary software communities today. The companies agreed to a wide ranging partnership that includes an extremely important patent licensing deal that will give [...]