Using examples from the past week alone, we show and we explain in simple terms how Microsoft is taking over “Open Source” using former employees, existing partners, Novell staff, and naïve/careless people who allow this to happen
Read more »Microsoft Hijacks “Open Source” From GNU/Linux Just Like It Hijacked “Standards”
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Apple Now in ‘Embargo Mode’ Against Android (Linux)
Apple's use of the USITC loophole leads to embargo-based pressure against a distributor of phones with Linux in them
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The importance of Document Freedom Day explained by Microsoft
These are only a few of the many resources that you can use to understand how important DFD is for you, even if, personally, you don't care at all about computers. The rest of this page, instead, explains how even a job offer from one of the greatest enemies of Document Freedom, Microsoft, proves the same point.
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Apple, MS, and Intellectual Ventures Versus Android, Which Finds New Home at Telstra
The story of Apple, Microsoft, and about 1,100 patent-trolling satellite firms, which Apple, Bill Gates, and Microsoft are sponsoring (via Intellectual Ventures)
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If You Distrust Mono, you're a “MS Hater”, “Paranoid” or a “Conspiracy Theorist”
Microsoft's obey-or-be-ostracised method for daemonising and thus silencing opposition expands to GNU/Linux through former employees and other collaborators
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Microsoft and Its Patent Trolls Remain #1 Threat to Free Software
How Microsoft, its offshoot Intellectual Ventures, and to a lesser degree Apple (which invests in Intellectual Ventures) harm Free software through the courtrooms
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Microsoft Obeys Communism, Not Capitalism
Microsoft's tax evasion in the United States expands (robbing the American populating), whereas Chinese rules that suppress the population are upheld
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BrainShare 2010
Coverage of key items from the past week's Novell event in Salt Lake City
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Microsoft Extends Commitment to Open Source?
Microsoft continues to express its commitment to open-source software, most recently at EclipseCon and the Open Source Business Conference.
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Kuhn Back in FSF Board of Directors, Addresses Cheap Shots from Microsoft MVP de Icaza
News about the FSF, Mono, Novell, Microsoft and the attempted move by some of the latter to embrace "open core" at the expense of Free software
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Facebook Threatens Greasemonkey Script Writer
This time, it's Facebook, which is apparently trying to bully the maker of a Greasemonkey script that cleans up your Facebook live feed by removing annoying app notices (such as all the crap your friends are doing in Farmville and Mafia Wars).
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The Mono Mystery That Wasn't
"And I think that Microsoft really missed a big opportunity. .NET would be in a lot more places if there had been no problems with Mono."
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Ex-Member of EU Parliament Describes MS “Coup in Process” in the EUCommission
Microsoft's entryism in the European Commission is explained by David Hammerstein and other developments in Europe serve as a practical reminder
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Microsoft’s Security Failures Help GNU/Linux
The idea of live CDs running GNU/Linux is promoted by realisation of Windows’ fundamental flaws
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Deletion of Damaging Article About Mono Explained
Why the article that exposed Miguel de Icaza's views was removed and why his defense of spin on these views is utterly flawed
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