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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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“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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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85% of Microsoft Patent Filings Are for Software Patents

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New figures explain why Microsoft is lobbying so hard for software patents all around the world

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Latest Anti-Linux FUD: No Young People Allowed

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The popular press and trade journals summarise the Linux Collaboration Summit using some quote about kernel hackers being increasingly-senior people (as one just ought to expect given the age of this project)

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Botched antivirus knocks out 10% of Coles registers

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We pay out M$ taxes every time we buy a can of baked beans. Everything in supermarkets would be cheaper if they used Free Software.

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IBM Might Pay Microsoft Even More for Imaginary Software Patents (in Linux) Through SUSE/Novell

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More evidence that IBM is indifferent if not somewhat complicit when it comes to Microsoft's patent racket

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Entryism Watch: Novell Employee Not Confirmed in OpenOffice.org Role

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Novell's Thorsten Behrens is rejected overwhelmingly by figures of OpenOffice.org

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