It's a familiar story. Microsoft does a secret deal with a company over patent licences. Almost no details are provided about which patents, how much money has changed hands, or why, except for one vaguely worded press release that talks about how such secret deals benefit the customer through openness and innovation.

Two of Microsoft's partners are assisting its fight against GNU/Linux, which Ballmer labels biggest competitor

Microsoft is dumping 'free' software on the Philippines to suppress Free software adoption

Report from a Microsoft-Intel meeting leads to Gates' fear of Linux .

Antitrust case produces a document (set of E-mails) which shows how Microsoft reacted to Dell's GNU/Linux fever

Novell is still pursuing intellectual monopolies and Apple threatens to use them to attack Linux-based products from Palm

RMS: « The Clown regime is trying to sneak through a law to allow the government to collect, and centrally store, any information about anyone. »

«...It is this prospect that alarms critics of Google's ambitions. Peter Brown, executive director of the Free Software Foundation, a charity defending computer users' liberties, did not dispute the convenience offered, but said: "It's a little bit like saying, 'we're in a dictatorship, the trains are running on time.' But does it matter to you that someone can see everything on your computer?