One of the technologies I am waiting for would allow me to effect transactions without giving over vast quantities of personal data. After all, what companies really need to know are: can I pay, and do I have the necessary qualities (age, residence) I claim to have. They don't need to know a vast range of irrelevant *details* about me.
Read more »Microsoft Pays for Linux Phones to Redirect Users to Microsoft
Microsoft spends a lot of money ensuring that it becomes the only gateway to misinformation to more people, even users of Linux
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Microsoft MVP Miguel de Icaza Leaves CodePlex Foundation Board
Creator of land mines for the Free desktop ends his time at Microsoft's group and returns to more risky activity
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Vulture Fund Rumoured to be Planning to Break Novell Apart, Vultures Deny the Claim
Disagreement between the press and the hostile acquirer as to whether or not Novell would stay in tact
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Latest SCO-Novell Drama in a Nutshell
How SCO orchestrated attacks on Groklaw and other takes on the trial against Novell
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The Microsoft Elephant in the Open Source Room
Assorted new reports about how Microsoft abuses "open source" to gain control of it, change its direction and goals, or even to misuse the label to promote proprietary software that harms standards and promotes patenting of software
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Apple Makes Toys, GNU/Linux Still Ahead of It
News about Apple's primitive products (from a technical perspective) trying to catch up with their Linux-powered counterparts
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Apple’s and Microsoft’s Patent Attacks and Why the Linux Foundation’s Response Disappoints
A great number of new articles about the effects of Apple, Microsoft, and Intellectual Ventures (funded by Apple, Microsoft, and Bill Gates) on Free software
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Groklaw: Microsoft “Wants to Do More Novell-style Patent Deals”
Reactions to Microsoft's attempt to devour Free/open source software with Windows and software patents; Apache given as example of projects at risk
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New Theory That Microsoft Played Role in Apple’s Lawsuit Against Linux and Against Google
Some news sites have begun suggesting that since Microsoft would benefit from Apple's aggression, then Microsoft could also be involved in it
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Mono and Novell Influence Increases in the GNOME Foundation
Incorporation of Microsoft into GNU/Linux (especially GNOME) continues unabated
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Microsoft ‘Pulls a SCO’ in India (Against GNU/Linux)
Poor Microsoft complains about a "mainframe monopoly" which does not run Microsoft Windows and the same strategies it used in Europe are being extended to India
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Microsoft Happy About Apple’s Invocation of Software Patents Against GNU/Linux
Mobile Linux proceeds from one victory to another while Apple and Microsoft pointlessly attack with software patents
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ACTA Booster Luc Pierre Devigne Redefines Open Standards (With Software Patents Included)
The European Commission turns its back on open standards that anyone can accept; ACTA and the Digital Economy Bill show a legal land grab by corporations
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Does Microsoft Tinker With the Search Bar in Firefox?
A reader alleges that Microsoft is playing dirty on Windows in order to suppress the use of Google (assuming AVG agreed to reroute traffic to Microsoft via Yahoo!)
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