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Samsung to Make Microsoft DRM Stronger, Just as It Made Microsoft’s Linux Racket Stronger

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Samsung Electronics signs a DRM deal with Microsoft, on top of the Linux patent deal

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If you want porn get an Android

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If you want pornpgraphy, then get an Android phone, not an iPhone -- that's what Apple boss, Steve Jobs is saying in the latest in the steady stream of personal responses to come from his hands. Jobs was writing to a customer asking about the circumstances of Apple's decision to reject political satirist, Mark Fiore's iPhone app last week.

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Excluding software patents will stifle innovation

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"Excluding computer software from the Patents Bill is a mistake and will stifle innovation", says Chapman Tripp Partner Matt Sumpter. "I'm astonished that the Commerce Committee is recommending this change and hope that the Government will reconsider because the arguments against it are very strong", he said.

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IDG ‘Forgets’ to Name Microsoft for Bending “Open Source”

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Companies which are faking/misusing “Open Source” are named and shamed, but Microsoft, which violated the GPL several times last year and casts “Open Source” as “Open APIs”, gets a free ride

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New Papers Explain the Harms of Software Patents

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Critics of the misguided scope of patents point to scholarly work that arguably supports the abolishment of software patents; Pirate Party UK promises to abolish software patents

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Company That Pays Microsoft for Unknown Patents in Linux Joins the Linux Foundation

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The IBM-led Linux Foundation allows Microsoft to make money from Linux by accepting another member which engages in this questionable practice

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Microsoft is Not Promoting the Open Source Community, It’s Just Exploiting It

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Embracing, extending, and extinguishing something is hardly a case of promotion, but gullible minds remain

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Microsoft and Novell Overwhelm Linux Collaboration Summit

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Microsoft and Novell are omnipresent on the panels at the Linux Collaboration Summit; Microsoft's MVP Jason Hiner spreads Ubuntu disinformation again, through Tech Republic and ZDNet

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“MS Sending Its Business Partners (Like in OOXML) in New Zealand to Push for Software Patents”

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Microsoft appears to be sending lobbyists like CompTIA or business partners to lobby for software patents all around the world

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‘Little Microsoft’ Accuses Red Hat

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Putting a "Microsoft tax" on proprietary GNU/Linux is still a priority which Novell perceives as sufficiently worth pursuing, even if it means daemonising Red Hat for sympathy

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Apple Treats Mono Like It Treats Flash; GNU/Linux Should Too

http://techrights.org

Apple is not interested in "foreign" APIs entering its environment, so why do GNOME-based distributions of GNU/Linux tolerate Mono, which squarely corresponds to Microsoft's APIs and makes Microsoft stronger?

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M$ refused Machinarium on XBLA because it has a Mac and Linux version ?

http://www.joystiq.com

Joystiq contacted Amanita Design founder Jakub Dvorský for to clarify the situation. "They told us, 'It's not Microsoft-exclusive, we don't want it.' They didn't cite the Mac and Linux versions [as reasons for the refusal] but it's quite clear that's the reason," Dvorský told Joystiq via email.

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Linux users are hate filled criminal hackers

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I seem to be pushing a few buttons recently. My last article incensed one anonimati so much that they were moved to actually send me a private email about it.

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Open-source Sugar snared by Jobsian code block

http://www.theregister.co.uk

Open-source CRM developer SugarCRM has been snared by the dark, so-called brilliance of Apple's whip-tongued chief executive Steve Jobs.

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Microsoft Plays the Open Source Software Game

http://www.serverwatch.com

Microsoft has been busy these past few days reminding the world that it really is an organization of monstrous proportions and its tendrils reach from the humblest consumer desktop right up to the level of super-computing.

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