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Microsoft has come to the defense of Visual Studio users facing lawsuits from a company that claims the application development software violates its patents on Web services.

Two years ago, Microsoft and Novell inked a landmark deal on patents and Linux-to-Windows interoperability.

Microsoft and Novell issued an announcement on Tuesday marking the two-year anniversary of their controversial agreement surrounding Linux patents.

Groklaw: "Continuing our series on the In Re Bilski ruling [PDF], here is Judge Mayer's dissenting opinion as text, the one that points out how utterly damaging all business methods patents are."

Groklaw: "First, in a simplified nutshell, here is what Bilski means to everyone: You can't get patents any more on a pure mental process.

You can no longer patent a process that you can think through all in your mind. In other words, abstract ideas are not patentable."

internetnews.com: "Transmeta, the chip maker that once challenged Intel with its low-power x86-compatible processors and once employed Linux creator Linus Torvalds for some time, has put itself up for sale."

Partial notes from opening keynote Investing around $3B in research-related activities; 1200 patents 50 acquisitions over last 5 years; 1 out of every 3 employees are non-Oracle - went from 40K to 85K employees ...

It looks like U.S. International Trade Commission judge Carl Charneski has managed to cause quite a stir in the GPS industry this month, with him first ruling earlier this month that chipmaker SiRF infringed on ...

Nexaweb Sun KEYNOTES: GraphOn Sues Google & YouTube for Patent Infringement This One Charges Google's Base, AdWords, Blogger, Sites and YouTube Online Services with Trespassing On Four GraphOn Patents By: ...

Darl McBride: You just don't get it! That was Caldera at the time. As acompany we didn't know we were infringing Streams.

When we bought thecopyrights and patents from Santa Cruz we realised we then owned streams. AsSCOG, we didn't want to release streams under the GPL.