Another timely reminder emphasising the need to dodge ambiguous terms that are easier to exploit
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Novell Gives Money to the Scandalous SYS-CON (Behind Attacks on Groklaw et al)
Novell is providing funds to a very controversial network that distorts the SCO case, defames its critics, and grossly abuses netiquette
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Microsoft Tries to Pollute Standards with Software Patents Where It is Illegal
In both Europe and in India, Microsoft is trying to exclude Free software with patent tax inside basic interoperability information
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Microsoft confirms 17-year old security bug in Windows NT discovered by a Google researcher
Microsoft released a security advisory to acknowledge a flaw that affects every release of the Windows NT kernel, from Windows NT 3.1 up to and including Windows 7.
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Microsoft Word and Office 'sales ban' begins
A ban on Microsoft selling certain versions of its flagship products Word and Office has begun.
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MS Accused of Dumping and Using “Scare Campaign” to Block Existing Migrations to OpenOffice.org
Microsoft is blocking "mass migration of students to OpenOffice" using EDGI and migration of Danish schools to OpenOffice.org using a "scare campaign", according to sources
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Does the Windows ballot screen for choosing a browser represent meaningful progress in Europe?
Thanks to the European Commission's antitrust like activities, European citizens will soon be presented with a ballot choice between twelve browsers when first using a newly purchased computer preloaded with the Microsoft Windows operating system. But is this really progress?
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The end of the iPod, the cult of gPodder and the beacon of freedom
Some people think the iPod and iTunes are podcasting and portable, digital music. Others chafe at the restrictions placed upon the user by Apple. Count me among the latter.
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Thousands of Italians May Sue Microsoft for Forcing Them to Buy Windows
Italy is the latest nations to be going after Microsoft for its market abuses and removal of choice
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Microsoft Might Embrace and Extend SVG
Microsoft and SVG - like many prior fake marriages - may blend very poorly
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OSS Watch Pretends That Microsoft’s Attacks on Free Software Do Not Exist
Criticism of a new writeup from OSS Watch, which grossly whitewashes some of Microsoft's behaviour and instead focuses on PR gestures and corporate spin.
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Microsoft: an end to open hostilities?
First branded as a communist plot, then derided as a form of cancer, before being upgraded to merely a 'grey spectre', free and open source software (FOSS) has had a pretty rough ride from Microsoft over the years. For many in the open source community, the company represents all that is troubling about closed source software development. Recently, though, there have been developments.
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Update on Microsoft-Staffed Patent Troll and Its Lawsuits Against GNU/Linux
The Acacia troll, a firm which is suspected to be batting for Microsoft, is still harassing GNU/Linux vendors
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Paul Rübig on ACTA
A European parliament member explains rather poorly his reasons for suffocating the market
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Microsoft is Chasing Google Not Just in Search But Operating Systems and Office Suites Too
A glimpse at what Google's advancement in the market is doing to Microsoft, the company that attacks Free software more than any other company (or all of them combined)
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