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Like all the best ideas, it's simple enough. As a business, you publish a statement that you are henceforth licensing any and all patents you own under the DPL and will make such licensing a condition of sale of any of your patents. From that point, without needing to enumerate the patents you own or negotiate terms with any other business, you are entitled to use all patents ever licensed under the DPL by all other businesses. The catch? You may never again use patents offensively against other signatories of the DPL. By this simple step, all patents owned by all DPL signatories are "de-weaponized."

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Research in Motion has long-held a stranglehold on all things mobile with the U.S. DoD. Time goes on, and things change. After being turned down by Apple to have access to the iOS codebase, both the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) and the U.S. National Security Agency (NSA), have announced the release of separately developed hardened versions of the Android operating system (OS) in the past year.

If you have an affected motherboard to the ASPM power regression in the Linux kernel and it's from Gigabyte, don't expect a BIOS update from them to correct the ASPM semantics in the BIOS. Gigabyte recommends you just use Microsoft Windows.

Back in April there was an LLVM European Conference in London where several interesting technical discussions happened. Among the topics covered were auto-vectorization with LLVM, building Linux with LLVM, and using LLVM to improve the performance of OpenCL on CPUs...

Linus Torvalds, the creator of the Linux kernel, has called out NVIDIA for their poor graphics drivers in a public presentation. In the talk he called NVIDIA "the single worst company we have ever dealt with" and ended his green comments with "NVIDIA: F*** YOU!"..

Back in February I mentioned that Xonotic 1.0 was on the Linux gaming horizon following a discussion about the planned milestone back at FOSDEM in Brussels. Xonotic 1.0 has yet to be released, but it's coming closer...

One of the advantages of Unity is the screen real estate optimization it can bring to desktop by combining global menu and window controls on top panel. If you don't like other components of Unity interface like the launcher on left, lenses, dash etc, there is a way to disable them and use a custom dock.

When there are a lot of Linux distros around, most distros are unfortunately very similar in features to each other. However, DreamLinux is quite special, this Debian-based distro is one of the few distros that use Xcfe as the desktop environment and it also has a very unique set of preinstalled applications.

Sina Weibo users accounted for in People app Hot on the heels of Apple’s China love-in at its Worldwide Developers Conference this week, news has emerged that Microsoft is planning to integrate the country’s hugely popular Sina Weibo micro-blogging platform into Windows 8.…

After indie succeses, Linux is finally attracting mainstream game publishers.

Last week I asked What Are The Biggest Problems With Linux? and since then there have been more than 220 responses and tens of thousands of views regarding the biggest issues with Linux...

Sabayon 9 based on the Gentoo Hardened edition brings quite a few changes over in this latest edition of Sabayon Linux.

Nvidia proudly announced yesterday, June 15th, the immediate availability for download of the 302.17 version of its graphics driver for Linux, Solaris and FreeBSD operating systems.

The second issue of the MagPI magazine which is fully dedicated for the Raspberry PI project. In this issue of MagPI, there are many new tutorials for Linux distributions, python tutorials “Python Pit”, basic usage for RaspBerry PI, and the new section command line clinic. Check Download mirrors and quick preview link for the 2nd issue.

No official word has yet to come out, but the GOG.com computer game sale and distribution service looks increasingly likely like it will come to Linux...

Last week's Flash Player update to version 11.3 has proven to be very crash-prone under Firefox 13. Mozilla and Adobe have offered a range of options for resolving the problem, including downgrading Flash

For a variety of reasons business is often seen as antipathetic to copyleft licensing. The GPL - the GNU General Public License - the most popular copyleft licence, sometimes gets a hostile press, often for reasons that don’t reflect its real and positive effects.

In the last seven days: MySQL authentication broken, Bitrig forked OpenBSD, LibreOffice 3.6.0 Beta arrived and OS vendors patched an Intel CPU virtualisation hole. Also, The H took a look at alternatives to the Ubuntu Unity desktop without installing a different Linux distribution

Alexandre Julliard, the leader of the Wine project, announced yesterday, June 15th, that a new stable version of the famous framework used to run Windows applications on Linux, is available for download.