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SFLC News Releases
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News releases from the Software Freedom Law Center.
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Software Freedom Law Center to Announce Opening of Branch in India to Serve Global FLOSS Developers
New Dehli Office Headed by Mishi Choudhary
New Delhi, India, August 27, 2010//The Software Freedom Law Center (SFLC) will announce the opening of its new international organization in India at the upcoming Software Patents and the Commons conference in New Delhi. The expansion will allow the SFLC to continue its mission of promoting and defending Free, Libre, and Open Source Software (FLOSS) on a global scale.
Funding for SFLC, New Delhi, an independent not for profit society registered under the Societies Registration Act, 1860, comes from the SFLC's US donors and from a grant by The Soros Foundation's Open Society Institute with...
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SFLC Seeks Sysadmin
The Software Freedom Law Center is seeking a motivated systems administrator for our small office, where we use only free and open source software. This is a full time position on site at our New York City offices. More details, as well as application instructions, are available in the full position listing. All applications should be submitted no later than August 19, 2010.
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Software Defects in Cardiac Medical Devices are a Life-or-Death Issue, says SFLC's new report.
Research Cites Safety Benefits of Free and Open Source Software in Critical Technology
New York, NY, July 21, 2010//Software vulnerabilities in life-sustaining medical devices such as pacemakers and infusion pumps pose a growing threat to public health, warns a new report published by the Software Freedom Law Center (SFLC).
Killed by Code: Software Transparency in Implantable Medical Devices will be presented at OSCON 2010 on July 23. It addresses the potentially fatal risk of source code defects in implantable medical devices and explores why patients, doctors and the public should insist that free and open source software be the standard
approach. ...
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Software Freedom Law Center Responds to Landmark Supreme Court Patent Decision
New York, NY, June 28, 2010//The Software Freedom Law Center (SFLC) issued the following
statements in response to the Supreme Court of the United
States’ decision on Bilski v. Kappos. [pdf]
Attributable to Eben Moglen: “The landscape of patent law
has been a cluttered, dangerous mess for almost two decades,”
said Eben Moglen, Chairman of the Software Freedom Law Center.
“The confusion and uncertainty behind today’s ruling
guarantees that the issues involved in Bilski v. Kappos will have
to return to the Supreme Court after much money has been wasted and
much innovation obstructed.”
Attributable to Daniel Ravicher: “For over a decade
we’ve seen patents on ideas, thoughts,...
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Motion Against Westinghouse Digital Electronics in GPL Compliance Lawsuit
New York, NY, June 7, 2010//Last week, the Software Freedom Law Center (SFLC) filed a motion for default judgment against Westinghouse Digital Electronics, a defendant in the
ongoing lawsuit concerning GPL violations of the BusyBox software. The motion and the associated documents can be found here.
The lawsuit, initiated in December 2009 on behalf of the Software Freedom
Conservancy and BusyBox developer Erik Andersen, alleges that 14
electronics manufacturers--including Best Buy, JVC, and
Samsung--infringed the copyrights of the BusyBox program by not
distributing it according to the terms of the GNU General Public
License, version 2.
As of this...
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