Under threat of daily fines from the EU, Microsoft delivers the required
protocol documentation on the last possible day:
http://www.theinquirer.net/default.aspx?article=35936
IBM's take on the MS/Novell deal is "Microsoft is coming to terms with
the fact that Linux is an unstoppable force in the marketplace":
http://www.linux-watch.com/news/NS4468266798.html
Microsoft's "free" licence on the Office 2007 user interface prohibits
sub-licencing, and use in products competing with Microsoft's:
http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20061122235224396
Microsoft loses a patent case in South Korea, over its use of
language-switching technology patented there in 1997:
http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20061127-8297.html
Starting in June 2007, PCs in French deputies' offices will be loaded
with the Linux OS and OpenOffice/Mozilla productivity software:
http://news.com.com/French+parliament+dumping+Windows+for+Linux/2100-7344_3-6138372.html
LSI Logic are granted a patent on the doubly-linked list. We're patently
crazy today:
http://www.patentstorm.us/patents/7028023-fulltext.html
A good explanation as to why Microsoft's Zune music players are selling
"about as fast as an elephant with arthritis":
http://www.itwire.com.au/content/view/7489/983/
Poms will no longer need a licence for CB radios, and can use
short-range FM transmitters on their iPods as of 8th December:
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/11/23/micropower_transmitters_legalised/
And finally. McDonalds patents making sandwiches. I kid you not. The
Earl of Sandwich must be rotating in his box:
http://www.metro.co.uk/news/article.html?in_article_id=26183&in_page_id=34
News collated from various sources by Vik Olliver for Diamond Age Solutions Ltd. The views presented in this document are the personal opinion of the collator, and should not be taken as any more than that.