Gartner measures "market share" in a way that favours proprietary software, by definition
Read more »Gartner Still Thinks People Only Ever Buy GNU/Linux
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Proprietary Software Encourages Breaking of the Law
How non-Free software can criminalise a lot of people, whereas Free software begs to be used by people and even spread further
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MSBBC Continues to Abuse GNU/Linux Users While Promoting MS Products (at Taxpayers’ Expense)
The BBC - now filled with former Microsoft executives - is still blocking Free software users from content that they have already paid for and at the time time it is promoting lagging products from Microsoft
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Doing the Microsoft Shuffle: Algorithm Fail in Browser Ballot
t was a Microsoft concession to the EU, to provide a randomized ballot screen for users to select a browser. However, the DSL.sk test suggested that the ordering of the browsers was far from random.
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Browser Ballot Critique
Press coverage about the "browser choice" update and further confirmation that Microsoft is cheating and escaping cheaply
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What Microsoft Could Learn from Avatar
When a movie is as successful as James Cameron’s movie Avatar has been, Hollywood takes notice. We can assume that other studios and directors have taken copious notes on how to clone this generation’s answer to Star Wars (or at least we can be sure the movie studios will try).
Read more »Microsoft’s Extortion Battle Against GNU/Linux and Lawsuits by Proxy Against Google
More details about the Amazon patent deal; Microsoft confirms role in legal actions against Google and Murdoch joins the cause
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Salesforce CEO: Microsoft is “Somewhat Disgusting”; Microsoft Smears of Free Software Carry on
Tough words about Microsoft's fight against anything other than its own software that it controls entirely
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MS’s Government Insider Wants Mac Users and GNU/Linux Users to Pay MS for Its Incompetence
While Microsoft software comes under another zero-day attack, Microsoft's Charney, who came from the U.S. Department of Justice, wants to introduce Internet usage tax to pay for the inspection and quarantine of Windows zombies
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Apple Chastised Even by Its Own Advocates for Suing Linux Using Software Patents
Apple's highly unnecessary lawsuit has the company suffer wrath and flak, including some from its own supporters
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Improve Internet Health with a Microsoft Tax?
Somebody better tell Microsoft that it's still March, because the suggestion of an "Internet usage tax" to fight Windows-powered botnets must be an April Fool's joke let out a month too early.
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Microsoft Criticised for Trying to Tax UNIX and Linux Users Over Windows Zombies
Microsoft's government insider and executive is told off for his distasteful plan of fighting the plague of Windows botnets at taxpayers' expense
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On Microsoft’s Latest Linux Extortion in Japan and Apple’s Linux Extortion in China
Microsoft to be paid for Linux-powered products from I-O Data and Apple wants "Linux tax" (from Android) too
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Microsoft embraces another Linux company
Another day, another company developing Linux-based tech falls into line with Microsoft's intellectual property wonks. Japanese Flash maker I-O Data Device Inc has agreed to cough up an undisclosed sum of cash to Microsoft under a Linux software deal. This is the latest such agreement Microsoft has made with a tech company that uses Linux in its products.
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Microsoft's Linux Patent Scare Trumps SCO
Microsoft has a bone to pick with Linux and open source software. Since at least 2007, Microsoft has been stating that open source software somehow infringes on Microsoft's intellectual property.
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