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Google releases near-final Android programming tool view story
1 vote- Submitted by s_lockyer
- 1 day ago
- (http://news.cnet.com/8301-1001_3-...)
Google on Monday released the first beta version of its software developer kit (SDK) for Android phones, a significant step in the company's hope for "open" phone technology.
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Legal milestone for open source view story
1 vote- Submitted by s_lockyer
- 3 days ago
- (http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/techno...)
Advocates of open source software have hailed a court ruling protecting its use even though it is given away free. "The Court has held that free licences set conditions on the use of copyrighted work.."
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OpenXML: Brazil, India, South Africa and Venezuela treated as second class during OOXML standards process view story
1 vote- Submitted by s_lockyer
- 3 days ago
- (http://homembit.com/2008/08/openx...)
Brazil, India, South Africa and Venezuela were treated as second-line countries during the BRM, and together with Venezuela, the four were now treated with irrelevance again.
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Detailed IEC Voting Results on OOXML Appeals view story
1 vote- Submitted by s_lockyer
- 3 days ago
- (http://www.consortiuminfo.org/sta...)
he OOXML appeals brought by Brazil, India, South Africa and Venezuela have been rejected by the Technical Management Board (TMB) and Standardization Management Board (SMB). The IEC voting results are detailed.
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ISO and IEC members give go ahead on Microsoft's OOXML standard view story
1 vote- Submitted by s_lockyer
- 3 days ago
- (http://www.iso.org/iso/pressrelea...)
The ISO and IEC technical boards have given the go-ahead to publish ISO/IEC DIS 29500, Information technology – Office Open XML formats, as an ISO/IEC International Standard after appeals by four national standards bodies failed.
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ISO and IEC reject appeals, approve Open XML spec view story
1 vote- Submitted by s_lockyer
- 3 days ago
- (http://www.computerworld.com/acti...)
The ISO and IEC have rejected appeals from four countries and given final approval to publish the Office Open XML specification as an international standard.
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US court of appeals: violating copyleft = copyright infringement view story
1 vote- Submitted by s_lockyer
- 3 days ago
- (http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/p...)
A federal appeals court has ruled that violating copyleft licenses is copyright infrigement. This strengthens copyleft licenses such as the GPL and Creative Commons licenses.
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Court: Open source licenses are copyright licenses view story
1 vote- Submitted by s_lockyer
- 5 days ago
- (http://government.zdnet.com/?p=3941)
Open source licenses create a condition on the scope of the license – and thus expose violators to injunctions under copyright law – the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit ruled yesterday.
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How poor crypto housekeeping left OpenID open to abuse view story
2 votes- Submitted by s_lockyer
- 6 days ago
- (http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008...)
Researchers discovered the websites run by three OpenID providers - including Sun Microsystems - used SSL certificates with weak crypto keys. Instead of being generated from billions of possibilities, the keys came from a a set of just 32,768 options.
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IBM VP says Office OpenXML a dead end, Microsoft will back ODF view story
2 votes- Submitted by s_lockyer
- 6 days ago
- (http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/p...)
Bob Sutor, IBM's vice president of open source and standards says that industry will regard OOXML as a dead end, and that will force Microsoft to accept ODF. Microsoft recently decided to support ODF in Office which may lead to Microsoft embracing ODF.
