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• Article | 15/12/2009 Multiple consumer electronics companies hit with GPL lawsuit

  The Software Freedom Law Center (SFLC) has brought a copyright lawsuit against 14 consumer electronics companies for allegedly violating GNU General P...
• Article | 11/12/2009 Repentant Microsoft re-issues Windows 7 tool as open-source

  Microsoft yesterday re-released a Windows 7 installation tool that it admitted included open-source code, and has posted the utility's source code to ...
• Article | 7/12/2009 Lawsuit alleges Palm Pre violates copyright

  Artifex Software is suing Palm over the PDF (Portable Document Format) viewer in Palm's Pre smartphone, it said on Thursday.
• Article | 14/11/2009 Microsoft: Win7 tool includes GPL code; software will go open source

  Microsoft Friday acknowledged that its Windows 7 USB/DVD Download Tool does indeed include open source code. To correct the error, the company next we...
• Article | 11/11/2009 Microsoft yanks Windows 7 tool over open-source code swipe

  Microsoft has yanked a tool it touted as a way for netbook owners to install Windows 7 without a DVD drive after a prominent blogger accused the compa...
• Article | 24/07/2009 Engineer: Microsoft violated GPL before Linux code release

  Code that Microsoft released Monday for the Linux kernel under the General Public License version 2 (GPLv2) was in violation of that license before Mi...
• Article | 22/07/2009 Microsoft makes second GPLv2 release in as many days

  Microsoft has made its second release under the General Public License in two days with software for the open-source online learning system Moodle.
• Article | 21/07/2009 Microsoft frees Linux drivers; other closed-source vendors to step up?

  Microsoft Corp.'s move to release three of its drivers to Linux, however technically modest it may be, could put pressure on other closed-source vendo...
• Article | 21/07/2009 Microsoft stuns Linux world, submits source code for kernel

  In an historic move, Microsoft Monday submitted driver source code for inclusion in the Linux kernel under a GPLv2 license.