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AnnouncementsBrief items Linaro Enterprise Group announcedLinaro has announced the formation of a group "to collaborate and accelerate the development of foundational software for ARM Server Linux". The Linaro Enterprise Group (LEG) consists of existing Linaro members ARM, Samsung, and ST-Ericsson, joined by new Linaro members AMD, Applied Micro Circuits Corporation, Calxeda, Canonical, Cavium, Facebook, HP, Marvell, and Red Hat. "The team will build on Linaro’s experience of bringing competing companies together to work on common solutions and enable OEMs, commercial Linux providers and System on a Chip (SoC) vendors to collaborate in a neutral environment on the development and optimization of the core software needed by the rapidly emerging market for low-power hyperscale servers." One would guess that the choice of LEG for the name of an ARM group was not entirely arbitrary.
Apple versus Motorola suit dismissed with prejudiceGroklaw reports that the Apple versus Motorola "FRAND royalty" patent case that was due to start on 5 November in the US District Court in Madison, Wisconsin has been dismissed, with prejudice.
Articles of interest Let’s Limit the Effect of Software Patents, Since We Can’t Eliminate Them (Wired)Richard Stallman shares some ideas to alleviate the patent problem. "The usual suggestions for correcting the problem legislatively involve changing the criteria for granting patents – for instance, to ban issuing patents on computational practices and systems to perform them. But this approach has two drawbacks. First, patent lawyers are clever at reformulating patents to fit whatever rules may apply; they transform any attempt at limiting the substance of patents into a requirement of mere form. For instance, many U.S. computational idea patents describe a system including an arithmetic unit, an instruction sequencer, a memory, plus controls to carry out a particular computation. This is a peculiar way of describing a computer running a program that does a certain computation; it was designed to make the patent application satisfy criteria that the U.S. patent system was believed for a time to require." (Thanks to Paul Wise)
Free Software Supporter -- Issue 55, October 2012Free Software Supporter is the Free Software Foundation's monthly news digest. This issue covers a Spanish translation, GNUs trick-or-treat, nominate free software heros, happy Ada Lovelace Day, MediaGoblin, and several other topics.
FSFE Newsletter - November 2012This edition of the Free Software Foundation Europe's newsletter notes that rooting and flashing your device does not void the warranty in EU. Several other topics are also covered.
Upcoming Events Events: November 8, 2012 to January 7, 2013The following event listing is taken from the LWN.net Calendar.
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