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Microsoft has agreed to pay IBM US$ 775 million in damages, according to this news story.
The damages are a result of alleged harm primarily to IBM's OS/2 and SmartSuite businesses (and consumers).
In addition, Microsoft will extend $75 million in credit for Microsoft software to IBM. (IBM must consume some Microsoft software for its own business needs.) Thus the total settlement value is $850 million.
At this writing IBM stock is trading up about 1.25% on the news.
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So before you wonder what this has todo with OS/2 ?Everything!!! OS/2 has a lot to thank about open source software. For example Mozilla, Thunderbird, Firefox (the GCC compiler with which the previously mentioned programs are compiled) are all open source applications. www.os2voice.org runs Apache as a webserver, ported from Linux and open source (like many other websites in the OS/2 community). Not just small companies can be effected by software patents but also free software ( the amount of software patent lawsuites keeps rising each year especially in the US!)
This is a dramatic call. I have been to Brussels on behalf of Mensys. Europe is on the brink on making an important dission about the future of its IT sector. As was discussed yesterday at a meeting organised in the European Parliament in Brussels. "Is the USA reforming its broken patent system ?" The answer is yes. There is a big chance that US politics is looking at what Europe will do.... Its time to send a very CLEAR message, its 5 MINUTES TO 12.
If you think that you contribution does not count ? It does count! FFII is one of the main organizations behind the very succesful lobby against software patents. They are succesful to large extend because they try and mobilize as many people as possible. As reported here.
"Vote for Buzek-Rocard amendments!
The Software Patents Directive, as approved by the European Council of
Ministers, would codify US-style Software Patents in the European Union.
If that happens, software developers will no longer own what they write
and can be sued for selling or distributing their own software. If you
don't inform your parliament, mega-corporations are doing the job for you:
"The European Parliament is filled with lobbyists of Microsoft, Eicta,
CompTIA and so on. There are 30 to 40 lobbyists permanently roaming the
halls." (in Eweek, 21 June (http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1759,1829955,00.asp))
So how can you help ? Primarly is you have a website that is visited frequently put the protest front page online. The webdemo basicly starts right now and runs until the 6th of July.
Does it help this webdemo ? In 2003 a LARGE webdemo of websites that where closed (that could be effected by software patents) created much media coverage. So every website counts! I have also seen this in Brussels, your VOICE does not count In 2003 & 2004 FFII has proven this several times!
If you are a small European company you can send a signed fax! More details about the webdemo and the fax you can send can also be found here.
So before your head really starts to spin what's the background on this? For some years this heated debate on software patents has been running and this vote on the 6th of July is an important vote (yes the parliament vote on this already, but they now need to do it again). BTW please don't ask me to explain how Brussels works, its quite complex :-).
After this vote the process is not over. However the core message is that a set of amendments on the Council text are required. At this moment lobby groups related to large companies like Microsoft have send parties to Brussels that are saying they represent small and medium sized companies want software patents.
More information here
But they are not representing us :-( So make your voice heard with the webdemo or a fax (if you are small company).
Thank you for your time and support!
If you have any questions let me know.
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2005-06-24 14:35:09 -- Eugene Gorbunoff [ecomstation.ru]
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The first results of collected information:
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The conferece will occur in Russia, "Maple mountain" sanatorium, 16.-18. September 2004.
Read more at the homepage of the conference (russian language).
The program of the previous (2004) year was:
- Stanislav Radchenko (the history of OS/2; OS/2-solution to automize small trade company; automation of treatment quality examination, forecasting and learning);
- Victor Smirnoff -- DCPack (clipboard convertion tool; for users and developers);
- Vadym Rumyantsev -- usage of OS/2 in space branch and as base for mainframe's command set emulator;
- Evgeny Kotsuba -- OS/2 in laser industry (cutting; stereolitography), MesaGL/2 library (OpenGL);
- Oleg Stolyarov -- Current IBM technologies;
- Eugene Kazarinov -- OS/2 technologies in billing system used by famous moscow internet provider;
- Sergey Posohov -- OS/2 as a tool to control/edit popular business directory "Moscow Business Telephone Guide";
- Joseph Jhrago -- OS/2 in oil industry; XObject WPS-class;
- Vladimir Natrov -- processing of telemetric information in power system of Volgograd region;
- V.N.Novoseltsev (member of the Russian Academy of Science) -- Trade-offs, senescence and premature deaths in drosophila.
- Oleg Pianykh -- servers of storage, transfer and processing of medical diagnosis images;
- Eugene Gorbunoff -- eComStation/Rus 1.2, SVISTA/2 2004 virtual machine;
- Social events: grassy tea, koumiss (fermented mare`s milk), "Green key" spring, shashlik (mutton grilled on a spit);
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2005-06-06 14:54:09 -- Eugene Gorbunoff [VOICENWS, Christian Hennecke]
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The June issue of the VOICE Newsletter is now available online.
In the latest issue you find:
- How do you get blood from a stone? -- by Mark Dodel
- The OS/2 and eComStation Developer Workshop 2005 in Dresden -- by Robert Henschel
- Scanner use in OS/2 and XFree86 -- by Bryann Melvin
- OpenOffice.org 1.1.4 update -- by Keith Merrington
- DrDialog, or: How I learned to stop worrying and love REXX - Part 14 -- by Thomas Klein
- And of course letters, addenda, tips, and the compiled news of the previous month!
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2005-06-02 00:01:49 -- Eugene Gorbunoff [ecomstation.ru]
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Some interesting urls:
Send us interesting references to articles about eComStation and its technologies!
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2005-05-26 13:10:15 -- Eugene Gorbunoff [VOICENWS]
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Welcome to eComStation and OS/2 conferences:
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2005-05-17 11:25:57 -- Eugene Gorbunoff [eCo Software, news]
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eCo Software company successfully finished the year 2004:
- taxes was paid;
- license payments was paid off;
- all developers got new projects;
- wait for updated software;
We are going to publish the interviews with eCo Software developers about current projects and eComStation perspectives.
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2005-04-20 23:11:16 -- Eugene Gorbunoff [VOICENWS]
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The April issue of the VOICE Newsletter is now available online.
In the latest issue you find:
- Keeping OS/2 up-to-date -- by Christian Hennecke
- Current Printers? One that works, the Canon PIXMA iP4000 -- by Peter Brown
- ClipView 2.9 -- by Keith Merrington
- Stripping Down Adobe Acrobat Reader (tm) for quick loading and browsing -- by Harry Travis
- Samba server for OS/2 -- by Paul Smedley
- Help to keep XWorkplace up-to-date -- by Christian Hennecke
- And of course letters, addenda, tips, and the compiled news of the previous month!
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There have been quite some updates to the developers workshop homepage since the workshop was first announced on February 22nd.
Whatsnew:
If you have not yet bookmarked the Developers Workshop Homepage, here is the URL
See you at the workshop!
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2005-04-18 18:07:29 -- Eugene Gorbunoff [VOICENWS]
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Just a few updates to the new VOICE listing of known OS/2-eComStation User groups.
- Thanks to Per Johansson for notifying us about groups in Norway and Denmark.
- Thanks to Larry Lavins for an update on the Philadelphia Alternmate Systems User Group (PASUG).
- Thanks to Ed Durrant for an update on the OS2UGSA South Australia.
- Thanks to our webmaster Ken Kirchner for adding an online entry form to make it easier for people to send us new entries. You can access the form directly at http://www.os2voice.org/usergroupinfo.html
You can access the VOICE OS/2-eComStation User Group listing at this page. Or from any VOICE web page by clicking on the --User Groups-- link on the left hand navigation menu.
This list is just a starting point. We know there are more OS/2 and eComStation user groups around. So that is where you come in. If you know of an active OS/2 or eComStation User group in your area or have a correction for any information posted on the listing, please use the web entry form (http://www.os2voice.org/usergroupinfo.html ) or email us at os2groups@os2voice.org with the following details (leaving blank unused fields):
Country:
State:
General Locale/City:
Group name:
Brief description of the group:
Contact info:
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Chair/President:
Membership contact person:
Contact email address:
Contact Phone:
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MeetingInfo:
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2005-03-30 12:01:39 -- Eugene Gorbunoff [ecomstation.ru]
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OS/2 (eComStation) is alive while people are using and improving the system. The developers of solutions ensure long life for our operating system because computers with OS/2 make money for their customers year by year. The developers bring new industrial technologies to OS/2, feed support service, fill OS/2 with unique features to keep the solutions competitive.
- Examples of solutions based on OS/2: ATM, sound processing (speech, digital restoration of sound), training devices (astronauts, oilmen), technical appliances (measuring, medical), virtual machines (mainframes, SVISTA), CMMS, restaurants, etc.
- Why should you write the story today?
- You should do this to protect your investments made into OS/2 platform.
- OS/2 users are located in different countries and cities. They will read the story because of OS/2 word :) And spread the information about your company and products among own colleagues.
- The developer of the operating system will get information about your requirements and improve OS to satisfy them.
- Your story gives stimulus to thousands of users, developers and companies.
- It's easy. Solution story is based on usual product flyer.
- Where to collect solutions? www.ecomstation.ru site is hosting Solutions list since 2002. Now it contains texts on russian language only but you can publish german, dutch, english texts there.
- How to write Solutions story? Take the flyer of your product, add Introduction, add one-two paragraphs about advantages of OS/2 usage, add 2 advertisement photos/screenshots, 2 screenshots of back-end demonstating usage of OS/2. Send the story to e-mail: support (at) ecomstation.ru
Welcome to homepage of solutions
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2005-03-16 19:29:41 -- Eugene Gorbunoff [ecomstation.ru]
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The March issue of the VOICE Newsletter is now available online.
In the latest issue you can find:
- Coding for OS/2 - Starting is easier than you think;
- Migrating to eComStation 1.2 -- Chris Clayton shares own experience;
- Ram driving and Zipping-around-the-SCSI-Drive - File transfers with old hardware -- George W. Archer;
- OS/2 WLAN with ASUS WL330g Pocket Access Point -- Daniela Engert joins local network;
- VFAT and USB memory sticks -- Peter Verweij talks about available VFAT drivers;
- And of course letters, addenda, tips, and the compiled news of the previous month!
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2005-03-01 01:12:03 -- Eugene Gorbunoff [http://www.osnews.com/comment.php?news_id=9847]
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Brad Wardell (Stardock) praises OS/2. "So what should the OS vendors be doing? I can think of five things that operating system developers should look at having part of the OS." Read Brad Wardell's editorial here.
- Seamless Distributed Computing
- Seamless Distributed File System Databases
- Global User Management
- Universal environments
- Component Based operating systems
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2005-02-24 16:36:59 -- Eugene Gorbunoff [www.os2world.com]
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So finally here comes the results of the 4th Annual OS2 World Awards with the winners for each and every category.
- Best Commercial Software of the Year: eComStation v1.2 by Serenity Systems (USA)
- Best Individual Software of the Year: DFSee by Jan van Wijk (Netherlands)
- Best JAVA Application of the Year: ZeroToaster MTA by 20/1 Informationssysteme GmbH (Germany)
- Best Site of the Year: netlabs.org by Adrian Gschwend (Switzerland)
- Best Supporting Company of the Year: Innotek GmbH (Germany)
- Best Unix Port of the Year: CDRecord/2, Nick Lepehin (Russia) and Chris Wohlgemuth (Germany)
- Honor Award for Individuals: Scott Garfinkle for OS2 kernals
For the entire list that includes the 2nd and 3rd winner up, please visit this url
Big congratulation to all of the winners!
The OS2 World.Com Award Event, was founded to advance the developent and use of eCS and OS2; foster cooperation among creative developers and users; recognize outstanding achievements; cooperate on technical research and improvement of methods and equipment; provide a common forum and meeting ground.
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