today's leftovers
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Software Patents
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Unified Patents ☛ Competitive Access Systems Linux-related communications patent monopoly challenge instituted
On January 2, 2024, less than three months after Unified filed an ex parte reexamination, the Central Reexamination Unit (CRU) granted Unified’s request, finding a substantial new question of patentability on all challenged claims of U.S. Patent 10,868,908, owned by Competitive Access Systems, an NPE.
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Productivity Software/LibreOffice
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Document Foundation ☛ Czech translation of LibreOffice Impress Guide 7.5
Zdeněk Crhonek (aka “raal”) from the Czech LibreOffice community writes: The Czech team has finished its translation of the LibreOffice Impress Guide 7.5. As usual it was a team effort, with translations by Petr Kuběj, Zdeněk Crhonek and Radomír Strnad.
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New Releases
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Barry Kauler ☛ Things are happening
Just a short post to inform that "things are happening", though I'm not posting much to the blog recently.
Caramel identified a problem with updating, as the year is now 2024. I will get onto that; hopefully soon release a Kirkstone-series for 2024, probably that will be 5.6.6. It will have just a few fixes.
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SUSE/OpenSUSE
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Dominique Leuenberger ☛ openSUSE Tumbleweed – Review of the week 2024/01
Dear Tumbleweed users and hackers,
Welcome to the year 2024! I hope you had a great start and did not get too anxious about the few snapshots you received during the last two weeks. I’m sure many of you had better things to do than running zypper dup on their machines. Since I was having some days off myself, I missed the weekly review of week 2023/52 – so I will include this here as well. I will cover the six snapshots 1222, 1225, 1226, 1228, 0103, and 0104, which have all been released since my last reviews. 0104 is hot off the press!
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Canonical/Ubuntu Family
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Ubuntu ☛ Ubuntu Blog: Hey Hi (AI) in 2024 – What does the future hold? [Ed: Canonical drowning in Microsoft buzzwords and hype; as one might expect from today's Canonical]
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Server
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Ruben Schade ☛ Moving my [server] VM to Brisbane
Work launched a new data centre PoP in Brisbane late last year. Free hosting is a perk of the job, and one I definitely abuse (cough).
As a thank you, I thought I’d take the opportunity to move my stuff up there as an eating one’s dog food exercise. My family and I lived up there for about 18 months when I was a kid, so it’s also kinda fun knowing I’ll soon have some bits and bytes kicking around up there again.
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