Novell vice-president Miguel de Icaza has dismissed Microsoft's bid to sell patents that could be used to attack Linux, saying it was not a problem as the patents were now in good hands.
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De Icaza makes light of Microsoft bid to sell anti-Linux patents
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Microsoft Wins Free Software-Hostile Deal in Europe, Its Front Group ACT Pleased
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By pushing law-enforcing action to the end of term, Microsoft has successfully bamboozled the Commission
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Microsoft Still Creates Barriers to ODF
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OpenDocument Format (ODF) suffers more interferences and interruptions from Microsoft and its followers
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This takes the cake (and make mine chocolate!)
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I heard recently, and could not really believe it until I saw it, that Microsoft was encouraging people to throw "Tupperware(R) parties" at their homes in order to launch the new version of Microsoft's products. That is right...plain old down-to-earth "homies" extolling the virtues of quickly going to Vista...er...ah...Windows 7.
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Stallman Challenges Microsoft's CodePlex Foundation
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Free Software Foundation's Richard Stallman recently brought Microsoft's newly instituted CodePlex Foundation to task in his blog. The CodePlex Foundation's Miguel de Icaza, also mentioned in the blog, has since mounted a defense.
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Miguel de Icaza Compares Richard Stallman to George Bush
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Novell's VP carries on spinning to discredit the father of Free(dom) software
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Microsoft Windows Zombies Take Down Free Software Services Hosted on Amazon
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Bitbucket goes offline due to a distributed denial of service attack (botnets)
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Microsoft Spreads Intellectual Monopoly Law in Europe and Arab States; EFF Takes on Acacia
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The Community patent keeps marching, Jean-Philippe Courtois lobbies for the Lisbon Treaty, and Microsoft brings intellectual monopolies to The League of Arab States
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IBM has claimed that software patents help free software !
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"This page documents companies whose main business is not free software, but who try to claim to represent free software so they can push a pro-software-patent agenda..."
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Microsoft Dodges Patent Law Again, Moblin and Patents Revisited
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Microsoft shows that patent law continues to be a single-edged sword hurting the small inventor; what software patents mean to Intel and Moblin
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Novell Removes GIMP, Adds Proprietary Software
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Novell gives a bad name to GNU/Linux on sub-notebooks by doing the job poorly
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Now It’s Groklaw’s Turn
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Groklaw comes under fire for speaking about taboo areas; More examples that are given here are a case of spin and authors not sticking to facts.
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Microsoft and English-speaking Countries
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In Australia, the government and Microsoft rub each other's back and in the United Kingdom Free software is still discriminated against
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Google Cracks SharePoint and Office Lock-in, Microsoft Still Morbidly Obsessed with GNU/Linux
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Google creates more funnels to lead away from Microsoft software and formats/protocols; Microsoft takes aim at GNU/Linux
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Microsoft Might Support Intel’s Moblin to Make GNU/Linux More Microsoft Dependent
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The prominent role of Silverlight in the Intel-Microsoft collaboration leads to a new set of questions
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