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Tax Dodger Microsoft Wants Linux to Pay Microsoft Tax for Storage Devices
Summary: More information about Microsoft’s tax dodging and its renewed push for competitors to pay for exFAT patents ONE OF MICROSOFT’S FORMER members of staff has decided to blow the whistle — so to...
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Microsoft is Apparently Push-polling for Patent Tax on GNU/Linux
Image from Wikimedia Summary: Microsoft is attacking Linux using software patents (with US DOJ approval) while a Microsoft reporter spins the whole situation as “peaceful coexistence” BACK in October...
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FSFE Highlights Brad Smith’s Attack on Free Software, Microsoft Blogs Present...
Summary: Microsoft’s legal team keeps trying to screw Free software and people do notice, then respond IN A prior post on the subject we explained that Microsoft managed to pull out of punishment for...
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European Commission Unable to Defend Free Software from Microsoft Patent Racket
“Microsoft is asking people to pay them for patents, but they won’t say which ones. If a guy walks into a shop and says: “It’s an unsafe neighbourhood, why don’t you pay me 20 bucks and I’ll make sure...
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‘Microsoft Press’ Acknowledges Microsoft’s Free Software-Hostile EU Deal
Photo of Wim Simons and Neelie Kroesnot from the public domain butunder the GNU Free Documentation License(captions added separately) Summary: Another look at a bad EU deal; software patents...
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Neon Challenges IBM’s GNU/Linux Mainframes, EU Challenges IE Bundling, and...
Summary: Expansion of some news picks from Groklaw, ranging from Neon news to the European Commission, Microsoft, Mono, and Moonlight IBM has been charged with “anticompetitive” allegations by a...
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“We Need ACTA to Send Microsoft and Linus to Jail”
Summary: Europe is losing its intellectual freedom and sovereignty due to treaties for monopolies, surveillance, and artificial limits on programming THE GREAT REPRESSION that occurs these days...
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Centrify, Microsoft, and Software Patents
Summary: How Centrify is strengthening Microsoft’s patent FUD against GNU/Linux; Microsoft’s patent violations and attacks on GNU/Linux explored further When it comes to Microsoft Active Directory...
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Microsoft Tries to Pollute Standards with Software Patents Where It is Illegal
Summary: In both Europe and in India, Microsoft is trying to exclude Free software with patent tax inside basic interoperability information NEELIE KROES said some controversial things last week [1,...
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What Apple Teaches Us About Mono and Moonlight
Summary: A new story of migration to Microsoft (due to Apple’s reliance on Microsoft) offers an important lesson about the purpose of Novell’s Mono and Moonlight AS we have shown before, Microsoft’s...
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Patents Roundup: Centrify Brings Microsoft Patents to *NIX, Red Hat Denounces...
THIS post will be kept as short and compressed as possible due to lack of time. Centrify Centrify is a company whose genesis we explained before (Microsoft). We do not trust Centrify and its new...
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Kuwait Move From SUSE to Red Hat Shows That Novell and Microsoft Deceive on...
Summary: A migration away from SUSE shows that bindings between Windows and SUSE are not so crucial after all; Microsoft publicly explains reluctance to be interoperable Novell and Microsoft market...
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Advocates of Free/Open Source Software and Standards Do Not Welcome EU ICT...
Summary: The Open Source Observatory and Repository (OSOR) mischaracterises the response of Free/Open Source groups to Neelie Kroes and the Digital Agenda; we attempt to set the record straight OSOR...
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Lawyers Try to Marry Free Software and Software Patents in Maastricht...
Summary: Lawyers in Europe strive to net some extra money by promoting “interoperability” (with software patents) rather than making use of open standards EUROPEAN lawyers are trying to repeat the...
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Microsoft is Not an Open Source Company, It’s a Software Patents Company With...
“Ask the partner to give you heads up on customer situations – bribe them!” –Steve Winfield, Microsoft Summary: How Microsoft’s money and unwatchable influence allow it to subvert laws in foreign...
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Red Hat’s Microsoft Collaboration Without Software Patents; Forrester Bribed...
“Analysts sell out – that’s their business model…” –Microsoft, internal document [PDF] Summary: Red Hat still insists on not paying Microsoft anything for distribution of GNU/Linux; Novell and...
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Microsoft’s Worst Open Source ‘Infiltration’ Ever
“You want to infiltrate those. Again, there’s two categories. There’s those that are controlled by vendors; like MSJ; we control that. And there’s those that are independent. [...] So that’s how you...
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Microsoft Laughs at — Then Deceives on — Interoperability
Summary: Microsoft continues to discriminate against rival platforms, office suites, and the monopolist prefers to withhold information required to make technology work across platforms A WEEK and a...
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Sun: Interoperability More Important Than Patents
Summary: An old position paper from Sun Microsystems helps shows a certain resistance to patents such as those which Oracle uses against Android GROKLAW has some superb coverage of the Oracle vs....
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A Look Back (and Forward) at Friendly Programming
Guest post by figosdev Summary: Historical perspective on computer languages and how to do better I have stayed interested in friendly programming languages for decades now. My favourite language, fig,...
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