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Campaign for Digital Rights responds to patent office paper; Plans protests at party conferences

The Campaign for Digital Rights plans protests of a consultation paper released by the UK Patent Office. The paper details plans to implement the European copyright directive. CDR believes that this legislation is flawed and will have disastrous effects on British research, innovation, music recording studios and software development.

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Regal deploying Linux in hundreds of theaters

Here's another 'big commercial Linux deployment' press release from IBM. This time around, it's Regal Entertainment Group, a large movie theater chain, which is making the leap: it is using some 2400 Linux-based point of sale systems, with the final number expected to grow to around 3500. "Regal is also testing a new, in-theater, Linux-based kiosk that will enable movie patrons to purchase tickets or retrieve tickets purchased from an online service." The POS systems are running Red Hat Linux.

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