This Sunday we ran the first virtual sessions of foss-north. First out were the lightning talks. This was for two reasons – it is the stress case for the …

Fossil fuel investments carry real financial risks. Over the past years, a growing divestment movement of institutional and individual investors represent…

Fossil Free is about leveraging our power where it’s most effective — in our local communities. We join that power together in a connected global movement…

Linux Mint is by far one of the most popular Linux distros on the market, especially among Windows users who are jumping into the Linux bandwagon. This is…

To track the evolution of the FOSS public development instance. This is the place where FOSS projects can create Hosting Request issues, ask for specific …

Biology is a natural science concerned with the study of living things, ranging from microscopic organisms up to the largest known animal, the blue whale.…

The key innovation of the venerable CVS version control system was the ability for two or more developers to make changes to the same file at the same fil…

If you are point-and-click oriented (I am not, but many people are these days), it seems like if you double-click on a Fossil repository file that it shou…

The BRANCH-NAME argument is the name of the new branch and the BASIS argument is the name of the check-in that the branch splits off from. If you already …

A fossil fuel subsidy is any government action that lowers the cost of fossil fuel energy production, raises the price received by energy producers, or lo…

A wholesome Linux newsletter with the latest releases, relevant news, tips and tutorials, trivia and memes, quizzes and deals for desktop Linux users. Tes…

The global state of a fossil repository is kept simple so that it can endure in useful form for decades or centuries. A fossil repository is intended to b…

Christopher F. Foss (born 1946) [1] is a British artist and science fiction illustrator . He is best known for his science fiction book covers and the bla…

Last year at FooCamp I went to a panel about women in tech (I believe I was the only guy) for two reasons: 1) I have no qualms about offending people if I…

End fossil fuel subsidies, the permitting of federal lands for fossil fuel exploration and extraction, and implement a managed phase-out of fossil fuels. …

Welcome! This is a project focused on making accessibility central to free and open source software. Everyone should be able to enjoyably use operating sy…

Unusual fossil shows rare evidence of a mammal attacking a dinosaur image: Fossil showing the entangled skeletons of Psittacosaurus (dinosaur) and Repeno…

Fossil fuels dominate the global power supply because until very recently electricity from fossil fuels was the cheapest. This has changed dramatically. I…

I have news concerning Lodsys because a Michigan company named ForeSee Results Inc. has filed a declaratory judgment suit against Lodsys's four patents wi…

Apple vs. Samsung: list of all 19 lawsuits going on in 12 courts in 9 countries on 4 continents I have finally found a complete list of all lawsuits going…

Thank you for visiting nature.com. You are using a browser version with limited support for CSS. To obtain the best experience, we recommend you use a mor…

The $119 million verdict in the second California case was disappointing enough for Apple when it came down a few months ago and may have played a role in…

"The '580 Patent generally relates to messaging devices that process messages logically for a user in the context of space and time. The patent discloses,…

Thursday, December 9, 2021 By that wordplay I don't mean the order by the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit granting Apple's motion to…

The leading German news agency, dpa , just reported that Apple has been granted a preliminary injunction against Samsung's Android-based Galaxy Tab 10.1, …

Last month, the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit denied Samsung's petition for an en banc rehearing on the question of whether Apple…

Google faces a steep challenge in its defense against Oracle's lawsuit over seven Java patents and some copyrighted material. More than five months after …

But not enough: yesterday, Apple brought a motion for supplemental damages and prejudgment interest. Most of the documents are hidden from the general pub…

Late last night, Samsung filed its opposition brief to Apple's motion for a preliminary injunction in the United States . The main part of Samsung's oppos…

U.S. Patent No. 5,790,793 on a "method and system to create, transmit, receive and process information, including an address to further information" (this…

Apple wins German injunction against most of Motorola's slide-to-unlock implementations I just returned from the Munich I Regional Court , where Presiding…

This blog covers software patent news and issues with a particular focus on wireless, mobile devices (smartphones, tablet computers, connected cars) as w…

Thank you for visiting nature.com. You are using a browser version with limited support for CSS. To obtain the best experience, we recommend you use a mor…

Fossil hunters have found a winning formula for getting media attention: pretend to believe behavior X appeared around the time of the earliest known foss…

When I read Google's response, I was unsurprised and underwhelmed. I tweeted this assessment: #Google response to #Oracle #Java lawsuit over #Android den…

This blog covers software patent news and issues with a particular focus on wireless, mobile devices (smartphones, tablet computers, connected cars) as w…

The headline of this post would have begun with " Northern DisGRACE of California " or " Total Disaster of California " if I didn't have the greatest resp…

Nokia just announced the settlement of its wide-ranging patent disputes with Apple that kept various courts in the United States and in Europe busy and in…

Last week, the Financial Times reported that Apple is at loggerheads with Motorola Mobility, RIM and Nokia over a proposed standard called "nano-SIM", a f…

Between the FTC and the DOJ, it's actually the latter that is addressing App Store issues. It would be great if the former at least recognized that Micros…

Pressure mounts on EPO president and administrative council over suspension of patent judge About a month ago, the Administrative Council of the European …

This blog covers software patent news and issues with a particular focus on wireless, mobile devices (smartphones, tablet computers, connected cars) as w…

About a week ago, IFI CLAIMS Patent Services published its new ranking of the 50 companies awarded the most US patents in 2010 . Microsoft is still the nu…

Apple amends complaint against Samsung, asserts more intellectual property rights against more products Apple has already put its inevitable defeat agains…

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The so-called data protection officer of the EPO signed off on keylogging, hidden cameras Given Germany's experience with totalitarian surveillance states…

During this month of August, Oracle's lawsuit against Google is mostly about Google's renewed attempt to have Oracle's copyright infringement allegations …

Fossil fuels supply about 85% of the world's primary energy, and future use would not appear limited by availability of reserves, especially of coal. Rath…

With their California trial approaching fast, Apple and Samsung made filings during the last few hours that shed light on what's at stake and on why the p…

On August 5, 2015, the Central Reexamination Division of the United States Patent and Trademark Office issued a non-final action in the reexamination ( re…

Microsoft had previously waived its right to oppose three Sony motions for an extension. But when Sony wanted a fourth extension, Microsoft's position app…

German court might ban iPhone and iPad again within a few months -- same Moto patent as last time At the Mannheim Regional Court, I just attended the pron…

As a follow-up to yesterday's post on a continuing strike by European Patent Office examiners , I went to watch today's Munich demonstration. I figured I'…

This blog covers software patent news and issues with a particular focus on wireless, mobile devices (smartphones, tablet computers, connected cars) as w…

The FOSS community suffers deeply from a fundamental paradox: every day, there are more lines of freely licensed code than ever in history, but, every day…

Observe the deploy logs for your app from the "Monitoring" tab. While the app is deployed, you'll see a log that contains your defualt admin password tha…

The Fossil Lake deposits of the Green River Formation of Wyoming, a remarkable early Eocene Lagerstätte (51.98 ±0.35 Ma), have produced nearly 30 bat foss…

In January 2019, Indeed launched a new program that democratizes the way we provide financial support to open source projects that we use. We call it The …

Advertising and mass communication on behalf of the fossil fuel industry, the industry most scientists say is a central culprit of climate change. In shor…

More than $2 billion was spent on lobbying climate change legislation in the United States from 2000 to 2016, with the fossil fuel industry, transportatio…

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The fossil fuel industry benefits from subsidies of $11m every minute, according to analysis by the International Monetary Fund. The IMF found the product…

Last month, BP and Royal Dutch Shell announced their support for shareholder resolutions calling on them to commit to reduce heat-trapping emissions, inve…

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The Carbon Capture, Utilization and Storage R&D program advances safe, cost effective, capture and permanent geologic storage and/or use of CO2. The techn…

The wave of legal challenges that is washing over the oil and gas industry, demanding accountability for climate change, started as a ripple after revelat…

Trillions of dollars of known and extractable coal, oil and gas cannot be exploited if the global temperature rise is to be kept under the 2C safety limit…

The world’s fossil fuel producers are planning expansions that would blow the planet’s carbon budget twice over, a UN report has found. Experts called th…

Free and open-source software (FOSS) is software that is available under a license that grants the right to use, modify, and distribute the software, modi…

This Sunday we ran the first virtual sessions of foss-north. First out were the lightning talks. This was for two reasons – it is the stress case for the …

Fossil fuel investments carry real financial risks. Over the past years, a growing divestment movement of institutional and individual investors represent…

Fossil Free is about leveraging our power where it’s most effective — in our local communities. We join that power together in a connected global movement…

Linux Mint is by far one of the most popular Linux distros on the market, especially among Windows users who are jumping into the Linux bandwagon. This is…

To track the evolution of the FOSS public development instance. This is the place where FOSS projects can create Hosting Request issues, ask for specific …

Biology is a natural science concerned with the study of living things, ranging from microscopic organisms up to the largest known animal, the blue whale.…

The key innovation of the venerable CVS version control system was the ability for two or more developers to make changes to the same file at the same fil…

If you are point-and-click oriented (I am not, but many people are these days), it seems like if you double-click on a Fossil repository file that it shou…

The BRANCH-NAME argument is the name of the new branch and the BASIS argument is the name of the check-in that the branch splits off from. If you already …

A fossil fuel subsidy is any government action that lowers the cost of fossil fuel energy production, raises the price received by energy producers, or lo…

A wholesome Linux newsletter with the latest releases, relevant news, tips and tutorials, trivia and memes, quizzes and deals for desktop Linux users. Tes…

The global state of a fossil repository is kept simple so that it can endure in useful form for decades or centuries. A fossil repository is intended to b…

Christopher F. Foss (born 1946) [1] is a British artist and science fiction illustrator . He is best known for his science fiction book covers and the bla…

Last year at FooCamp I went to a panel about women in tech (I believe I was the only guy) for two reasons: 1) I have no qualms about offending people if I…

End fossil fuel subsidies, the permitting of federal lands for fossil fuel exploration and extraction, and implement a managed phase-out of fossil fuels. …

Welcome! This is a project focused on making accessibility central to free and open source software. Everyone should be able to enjoyably use operating sy…

Unusual fossil shows rare evidence of a mammal attacking a dinosaur image: Fossil showing the entangled skeletons of Psittacosaurus (dinosaur) and Repeno…

Fossil fuels dominate the global power supply because until very recently electricity from fossil fuels was the cheapest. This has changed dramatically. I…

I have news concerning Lodsys because a Michigan company named ForeSee Results Inc. has filed a declaratory judgment suit against Lodsys's four patents wi…

Apple vs. Samsung: list of all 19 lawsuits going on in 12 courts in 9 countries on 4 continents I have finally found a complete list of all lawsuits going…

Thank you for visiting nature.com. You are using a browser version with limited support for CSS. To obtain the best experience, we recommend you use a mor…

The $119 million verdict in the second California case was disappointing enough for Apple when it came down a few months ago and may have played a role in…

"The '580 Patent generally relates to messaging devices that process messages logically for a user in the context of space and time. The patent discloses,…

Thursday, December 9, 2021 By that wordplay I don't mean the order by the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit granting Apple's motion to…

The leading German news agency, dpa , just reported that Apple has been granted a preliminary injunction against Samsung's Android-based Galaxy Tab 10.1, …

Last month, the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit denied Samsung's petition for an en banc rehearing on the question of whether Apple…

Google faces a steep challenge in its defense against Oracle's lawsuit over seven Java patents and some copyrighted material. More than five months after …

But not enough: yesterday, Apple brought a motion for supplemental damages and prejudgment interest. Most of the documents are hidden from the general pub…

Late last night, Samsung filed its opposition brief to Apple's motion for a preliminary injunction in the United States . The main part of Samsung's oppos…

U.S. Patent No. 5,790,793 on a "method and system to create, transmit, receive and process information, including an address to further information" (this…

Apple wins German injunction against most of Motorola's slide-to-unlock implementations I just returned from the Munich I Regional Court , where Presiding…

This blog covers software patent news and issues with a particular focus on wireless, mobile devices (smartphones, tablet computers, connected cars) as w…

Thank you for visiting nature.com. You are using a browser version with limited support for CSS. To obtain the best experience, we recommend you use a mor…

Fossil hunters have found a winning formula for getting media attention: pretend to believe behavior X appeared around the time of the earliest known foss…

When I read Google's response, I was unsurprised and underwhelmed. I tweeted this assessment: #Google response to #Oracle #Java lawsuit over #Android den…

This blog covers software patent news and issues with a particular focus on wireless, mobile devices (smartphones, tablet computers, connected cars) as w…

The headline of this post would have begun with " Northern DisGRACE of California " or " Total Disaster of California " if I didn't have the greatest resp…

Nokia just announced the settlement of its wide-ranging patent disputes with Apple that kept various courts in the United States and in Europe busy and in…

Last week, the Financial Times reported that Apple is at loggerheads with Motorola Mobility, RIM and Nokia over a proposed standard called "nano-SIM", a f…

Between the FTC and the DOJ, it's actually the latter that is addressing App Store issues. It would be great if the former at least recognized that Micros…

Pressure mounts on EPO president and administrative council over suspension of patent judge About a month ago, the Administrative Council of the European …

This blog covers software patent news and issues with a particular focus on wireless, mobile devices (smartphones, tablet computers, connected cars) as w…

About a week ago, IFI CLAIMS Patent Services published its new ranking of the 50 companies awarded the most US patents in 2010 . Microsoft is still the nu…

Apple amends complaint against Samsung, asserts more intellectual property rights against more products Apple has already put its inevitable defeat agains…

We’ve detected that JavaScript is disabled in this browser. Please enable JavaScript or switch to a supported browser to continue using twitter.com. You c…

The so-called data protection officer of the EPO signed off on keylogging, hidden cameras Given Germany's experience with totalitarian surveillance states…

During this month of August, Oracle's lawsuit against Google is mostly about Google's renewed attempt to have Oracle's copyright infringement allegations …

Fossil fuels supply about 85% of the world's primary energy, and future use would not appear limited by availability of reserves, especially of coal. Rath…

With their California trial approaching fast, Apple and Samsung made filings during the last few hours that shed light on what's at stake and on why the p…

On August 5, 2015, the Central Reexamination Division of the United States Patent and Trademark Office issued a non-final action in the reexamination ( re…

Microsoft had previously waived its right to oppose three Sony motions for an extension. But when Sony wanted a fourth extension, Microsoft's position app…

German court might ban iPhone and iPad again within a few months -- same Moto patent as last time At the Mannheim Regional Court, I just attended the pron…

As a follow-up to yesterday's post on a continuing strike by European Patent Office examiners , I went to watch today's Munich demonstration. I figured I'…

This blog covers software patent news and issues with a particular focus on wireless, mobile devices (smartphones, tablet computers, connected cars) as w…

The FOSS community suffers deeply from a fundamental paradox: every day, there are more lines of freely licensed code than ever in history, but, every day…

Observe the deploy logs for your app from the "Monitoring" tab. While the app is deployed, you'll see a log that contains your defualt admin password tha…

The Fossil Lake deposits of the Green River Formation of Wyoming, a remarkable early Eocene Lagerstätte (51.98 ±0.35 Ma), have produced nearly 30 bat foss…

In January 2019, Indeed launched a new program that democratizes the way we provide financial support to open source projects that we use. We call it The …

Advertising and mass communication on behalf of the fossil fuel industry, the industry most scientists say is a central culprit of climate change. In shor…

More than $2 billion was spent on lobbying climate change legislation in the United States from 2000 to 2016, with the fossil fuel industry, transportatio…

To help maintain and sustain this ecosystem, companies and nonprofits alike have experimented with a framework called a FOSS (Free and Open Source Softwar…

The fossil fuel industry benefits from subsidies of $11m every minute, according to analysis by the International Monetary Fund. The IMF found the product…

Last month, BP and Royal Dutch Shell announced their support for shareholder resolutions calling on them to commit to reduce heat-trapping emissions, inve…

As the only self-described democratic socialist in the U.S. Senate and the Democratic presidential race, Bernie Sanders represents a unique figure in Amer…

The Carbon Capture, Utilization and Storage R&D program advances safe, cost effective, capture and permanent geologic storage and/or use of CO2. The techn…

The wave of legal challenges that is washing over the oil and gas industry, demanding accountability for climate change, started as a ripple after revelat…

Trillions of dollars of known and extractable coal, oil and gas cannot be exploited if the global temperature rise is to be kept under the 2C safety limit…

The world’s fossil fuel producers are planning expansions that would blow the planet’s carbon budget twice over, a UN report has found. Experts called th…