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Defending the Free Linux World
2014-12-20 00:03:12| TechNewsWorld
The Open Invention Network, or OIN, is waging a global campaign to keep Linux out of harm's way in patent litigation. Its efforts have resulted in more than 1,000 companies joining forces to become the largest defense patent management organization in history. The Open Invention Network was created in 2005 as a white hat organization to protect Linux from license assaults.
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U.S. court rules for groups defending historic site from coal mining
2014-08-26 21:42:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: A U.S. appeals court ruled Tuesday in favor of environmental groups fighting to protect the site of a historic 1920s-era labor battle between miners and companies in West Virginia from being destroyed by modern-day coal mining. The Sierra Club and a coalition of local historical associations sued the government for removing the Blair Mountain Battlefield in southern West Virginia from the National Register of Historic Places in 2009, a move the group said would open up the area to large-scale...
HRC linked to law firm defending Exxon Mobil against anti-gay allegations
2014-06-29 04:51:14| Chemicals - Topix.net
A board member for the Human Rights Campaign works for the law firm that defended Exxon Mobil against charges of anti-gay bias.
NYC jury hears tape defending 9/11 terror attacks
2014-04-22 04:43:56| Energy - Topix.net
A man who has accused "X-Men" director Bryan Singer of sexually abusing him when he was a teen has also sued a former TV programming executive and two other industry figures.
Defending the Earth from asteroids with high-powered nuclear explosions
2014-02-19 16:31:25| Extremetech
Professor Bong Wie's team at the University of Iowa has drawn up a plan to stop an asteroid from giving planet Earth a really bad day, but will we short-sighted humans ever build it?
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