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Free software advocates are praising a federal appeals ruling that allows greater protection for open-source software against copyright infringement. The case concerns a company, Kam Industries, that downloaded open-source code for use in a product...

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Microsoft went public on Thursday with a number of proposals designed to overhaul the U.S. patent system and make it better suited to the software industry. Microsoft general counsel Brad Smith presented Microsoft's proposed reforms...

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Open source advocates are forming a protest march in California to attempt to increase support for a legislative proposal they have created, which suggests state agencies be banned from using software which has restrictions on...

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