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Read more »Microsoft Lobbyist Jonathan Zuck Infiltrates EU Summit on Intellectual Monopolies
Even European events are being 'tainted' by Microsoft cronies that present and moderate sessions
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Does OpenSUSE Board Member Shelter Microsoft’s Patents?
Questions about Novell's (and OpenSUSE's) attitude towards software patents
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What the Bilski Ruling Might Mean to Software Patents, Microsoft
An assorted set of analyses of the state of software patents in the United States
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The One Thing That Novell’s Go-OO Gets Right
The Novell-developed Go-OO removes DRM code from OpenOffice.org
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Microsoft slugs aged care centres
MICROSOFT will rip an estimated $70 million out of the aged care sector's IT budget over the next 18 months as it forces users to pay full commercial rates for previously discounted software.
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Eye on Microsoft: Foggy Clouds, Counterfeiting, and Security Problems
Microsoft's problem with competition on the cloud, zero cost at China, and botnets
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“I’ve Heard Creditable Reports of Microsoft Offering XP at No Cost to OEMs”
Mark Shuttleworth claims that Microsoft may be giving Windows away to fight GNU/Linux (on sub-notebooks)
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Patent Problems: Google Unresolved, Bilski Resolved, EPO to be Resolved?
Google's policy on patents remains troublesome; Bilski and EPO roundup
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Microsoft: 800 lb. Guerrilla
Microsoft gets more aggressive against Apple, the authorities, and Google
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Microsoft Polices Coverage of Vista 7 by ‘Kicking Out’ Disobedient Journalist
Microsoft blacklists a journalist for being unkind to its product
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It's Time for a FOSS Community Code of Conduct
Personal abuse, quotes taken out of context, misrepresentations, outright lies -- if you have any visibility in the free and open source software (FOSS) community, the chances are that you regularly face all these kinds of attacks.
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Silver Lie is Still an Open-Source Lie
The campaign to market Silverlight as "open source" (falsely so) is continuing
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Dell, Please Fix Your Ads… and Your Web Site
Dell puts Windows recommendation on an advertisement for GNU/Linux; wrongly tags Vista-only machine as "Ubuntu"
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