rPath does a disservice to itself and to many others by assisting the company which openly attacks GNU/Linux, on which rPath's business is based
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Attempts to Push Mono Into Awn
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A popular Mono-free "dock" application for GNU/Linux faces attempts to put C# applets in it
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Microsoft’s Got Nothin’ – The Patent “War” Against Linux
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In the last three years, Microsoft claims to have entered into over 600 licensing agreements with companies small and large over alleged patent violations in "Linux".
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Software Patents Rumble: Apple, Microsoft, Nokia, and GNU/Linux
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Why Apple, Microsoft, and Nokia are an active threat to GNU/Linux and to a software patents-free world where people can view films, for example, without paying some aggressive cartel
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Why Microsoft is Still the Biggest Enemy of “Open Source”, Not Just GNU/Linux
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A look at how Microsoft and its former employees/current partners have been subverting the “Open Source” label while redefining what it actually means
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Air Force may suffer collateral damage from PS3 firmware update
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When Sony issued a recent PlayStation 3 update removing the device's ability to install alternate operating systems like Linux, it did so to protect copyrighted content—but several research projects suffered collateral damage.
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Microsoft is Against Open Access, Pro DRM
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Microsoft makes the contents of the British Library (shown above) hostage of DRM, limits distribution of material that can be distributed infinitely for the betterment of all society
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Australian Wikileak founder's passport confiscated
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Julian Assange, the Australian founder of the whistleblower website Wikileaks, says he had his passport taken away from him at Melbourne Airport and was later told by customs officials that it was about to be cancelled.
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Microsoft et al. “Embrace and Extend” That Whole “Open Thing”
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The characterisation of patent bullies as friends of "Open Source"; more lip service to them from the Gartner Group
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Apple Lies About “Open Source” (and More on Apple/Microsoft AstroTurfing)
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John Sullivan shows how/why Apple is being dishonest about its relationship with “Open Source”; a glimpse at how perception management at Apple and Microsoft actually works
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Novell’s Marketing Team is Promoting Vista 7 (Again) and Speaks About Viral Marketing
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Novell markets Microsoft software along with its own and Novell's CMO talks about experimentation with viral marketing
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The ultimate iPad - for $200,000
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A gold-coated exterior, with a diamond encrusted Apple logo, conceals the world of DRM and proprietary garbage that lurks within. You can't judge an iPad by its cover!
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Bad Apple, Part I: Is Apple Trademark-Bullying Linux Competition, Again?
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WePad mysteriously renamed "WeTab"; and reasonable speculation grows that Apple had something to do with it
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Bad Apple, Part II: Apple Carries on Armament With Software Patents, Harms Firefox
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As Apple's fight against Linux continues, new lawsuits against Apple arrive, new patents are granted, and Theora is affected too (Mozilla employees who uses Macs ought to rethink their choice of relationships)
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Protecode is FUD and It’s Proprietary
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A company on the block warns about "Linux licences" being all scary and dangerous (and Protecode offers the "medicine" to them)
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