Back in May 2007, Microsoft publicly claimed Free Software Violates Patents! Todd Bishop had a lengthy article on this topic. Now, nearly a year later Microsoft won’t publicly disclose what patents are being infringed by Linux and other open-source programs. Microsoft general counsel Brad Smith was appearing earlier today at the Open Source Business Conference in San Francisco. Todd Bishop had a chance to speak to Smith on the phone about Microsoft’s reason for not listing what patents are being infringed upon: Will we publish, on the Web, a broader list? That is not something that any other company in…
March 25, 2008
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While Mozilla has yet to make a grand announcement, I just checked getfirefox.com and Firefox 2.0.0.13 is listed as the most current version. However, it appear it has yet to be pushed out to the update channels. I fired up a ‘release’ (Firefox 2.0.0.12) build of Firefox 2.0 and just tried a ‘check for updates’ only to be told no updates were found. Yet, this is actually normal as Mozilla can delay the release to the update channels for up to 48 hours. The releases notes have been published, but are partially incomplete (sort of). If you click on the…