According to CNET News, the U.S. Appeals Court for the Seventh Circuit recently declared that the “GPL and open-source have nothing to fear from the antitrust laws”. The court’s verdict came in response to a federal complaint charging IBM, Red Hat and Novell with conspiring to thwart competition in the [...]
BBC News published an interesting article today on new US Treasury Secretary Hank Paulson’s intention to review financial market rules. According to the BBC, Paulson wants to achieve a regulatory balance that is “agile” and “responsive to changes in today’s marketplace”. Paulson also aims to make changes to the way [...]
It's been over a week now and it's interesting to meter the reaction to the Microsoft and Novell deal. Popular, mainstream reaction has been generally positive -- this could create a win/win for the companies, and consumers will benefit form the partnership. But for those more steeped in the open [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]