Tuesday, June 13th, 2006
I am currently writing an follow-up full length article for OperaWatch on the Mozilla's RSS icon and its licensing. Unlike the previous OperaWatch story, this story is focused less on the Opera/Mozilla interaction and more on the actual RSS icon, its history, licensing issues and opinions of different communities involved. ...
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Monday, June 12th, 2006
My good friend Daniel Goldman posted an interesting story at OperaWatch regarding the fact that Mozilla required a singed agreement from Opera Software before allowing them to use their RSS icon. It appears that Mozilla filed for trademarks on this icon and is planning on enforcing a licensing policy. More ...
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Friday, May 26th, 2006
A while back I wrote about the Forgent JPEG patent and how they are sending demand letters to small companies (I posted a copy here). Now comes word from GrokLaw that most of the patent has been thrown out by the Patent Office as invalid.
No word on whether any of ...
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Friday, March 10th, 2006
Wired ran an article today by Lawrence Lessing singing the praises of a new Microsoft protocol called "InfoCard". I took a quick look at the technical reference and it seems very straight forward AND is all build on a bunch of OASIS and W3C standards for web services. So far, ...
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Tuesday, May 31st, 2005
(This post was part of a separate "Standards Blog" which has been merged into my main blog)
About a month ago I wrote about the Forgent JPEG Patent saga. Recently a faithful reader sent me a copy of a demand letter sent on behalf of Forgent (to a company that shall ...
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Wednesday, May 4th, 2005
(This post was part of a separate "Standards Blog" which has been merged into my main blog)
Slashdot posted a story about the approval of the new OpenDocument standard by OASIS. The actual standard is available in PDF and OpenOffice formats. The obvious focus of this activity is against Microsoft and ...
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Wednesday, April 27th, 2005
(This post was part of a separate "Standards Blog" which has been merged into my main blog)
Last April a company called Forgent Networks initiated 31 lawsuits against various companies using the JPEG format based on an old US Patent # 4,698,672 which Forgent acquired by buying up some other company. ...
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Tuesday, February 22nd, 2005
Groklaw just published an open letter from representatives of the FOSS community directed against a new IPR policy at OASIS. However, I do wonder if there was any discussion behind the scenes at first before taking this step. The IETF just might be next...
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Thursday, January 13th, 2005
Do you like the Opera form autofill feature? What about FireFox's or Google Toolbar's? IANAL, but it might be patented ... by Microsoft, Apple and Intel. Take a look at the following three patents:
6,651,217 - "System and method for populating forms with previously used data values"
6,192,380 -"Automatic web based form ...
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Saturday, December 25th, 2004
(This article was published at Circle-ID)
As the year comes to a close, it is important to reflect on what has been one of the major actions in the anti-spam arena this year: the quest for email authentication. With email often called the "killer app" of the Internet, it is important ...
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Saturday, December 4th, 2004
Just ran across a Linux program that aims to be a Visual Basic-replacement for Linux - Gambas. Haven't played with it yet but it looks very promising especially the fact that it is syntax compatible with VB6. I wonder if Microsoft cares enough to stop them considering that VB6 probably ...
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Saturday, December 4th, 2004
Some time ago I mentioned a new political action comitee called "IPAC" focused on addressing some of the problems with the current IP laws. They just opened a blog which seems to be an interesting read.
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Saturday, November 6th, 2004
According to a post to the IETF's IPR list and an eWeek story, Microsoft maybe asserting IP rights over basic Internet protocols:
Has Microsoft been trying to retroactively claim IP (intellectual property) rights over many of the Internet's basic protocols? Larry J. Blunk, senior engineer for networking research and development at ...
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Monday, October 25th, 2004
(This entry has been Slashdotted and published on Circle-ID).
With the closure of IETF's MARID group a month ago, many of us have left Microsoft's Sender-ID standard for the dead. After being rejected by the Apache Foundation and the Debian Project over licensing issues, and causing the closure of MARID for ...
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Monday, October 18th, 2004
I ran across a story at NewsForge describing a new Political Action Comitee (PAC) called iPAC for influencing the current intellectual property issues. Their principles sound pretty good to me but it remains to be seen how much impact they will make:
1. Creators of ideas and inventions have the right ...
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Wednesday, October 13th, 2004
Slashdot is reporting on a new Microsoft patent that covers client-side data processing using drop-down menus, alphanumerical input boxes, check boxes, radio buttons, sliders, arrays, stacks, queues, linked lists, and decision trees. That's right boys and girls - no more sortable DHTML tables, or any kind of fancy DHTML manipulations ...
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Saturday, September 18th, 2004
My former co-chair as the ASRG, John Levine, published an analysis of Sender-ID�s patent application. Along with other opinions offered in the MARID WG, it seems that the patent may very well cover SPF Classis which only does MAIL FROM checking. Considering that Paul Vixie�s and David Green�s drafts predate ...
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