Mark Shuttleworth reflects on the Ubuntu trademark policy.
"We should legislate that developing, distributing, or running a program on generally used computing hardware does not constitute patent infringement."
Google clobbers Cyanogen's modded builds. Interesting. This article has both good links to all the key points and articles and good commentary
Nice writeup of the MS/TT settlement with an important focus on the GPLv3 and what it can do for us
"Trying to shift the burden of proof back onto themselves, I asked why they don't contribute to the open-source projects from which they derive so much value. Many indicated that it's too hard to contribute back to open-source projects due to internal legal issues and the high bar to knowing how to contribute. They suggested that they would instead prefer to pay the open-source companies to do that work for them."
Weird. In a good way! The NY Times and John Markoff seems to have made an about-face in their representation of free software. Awesome
