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Facebook blocks Pirate Bay

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The world's most popular social community website, Facebook, recently decided to block all links to content on The Pirate Bay, the most popular BitTorrent tracker.

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Windows 7 - could have been called Vista SE

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Occasionally I go nuts and decide to see if the people at Microsoft have aped anything good from OS X or Linux, or gotten it right if they did. With all the hubbub about Windows 7, I decided to give it a try, and I was less than amused.

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Microsoft Pays Ziff Davis to Promote Windows Vista

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Ziff Davis, a supposedly objective publisher, is publicly promoting Microsoft products for the company's dollars

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Did Novell Hijack a Linux Foundation Panel?

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Microsoft enters the Linux Foundation's event and Novell dominates a panel (40% of which are paid Novell employees)

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Microsoft, Novell and Xenocode (Former Microsoft Employees) Join Forces and Spread Silverlight

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THE Novell-Xenocode connection is a reality that we've covered or shown in [1, 2, 3, 4, 5]. More recent posts also explained that Xenocode is a sort of an offshoot of Microsoft, whose employees it accommodates [1, 2, 3, 4].

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Insecurity Through Obscurity

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Windows renders E-mail chaotic and the U.S. electrical grid gets cracked. Nothing beats a brand-new explanation from Microsoft itself about the impact of its poor security skills, which continue to this date.

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Microsoft’s Latest Assaults on GNU/Linux, Free Software, and Open Standards

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Facing sheer pressure, Microsoft goes out of its way to harm its competition

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Microsoft Breaks the Law in Germany and Gets Convicted, Fined

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The German competition authority, the BundesKartellamt, has fined Microsoft €9m for colluding with retailers to set the price of "Office Home and Student 2007".

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The Role of Mono and Moonlight Revisited

http://boycottnovell.com

It's time certain pro-MONOpolists faced the fact that Mono only exists to serve Microsoft. Take away Novell employees' contractual obligation to follow the company's agenda, and suddenly Mono becomes redundant.

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Novell Joins Microsoft Seminar While Microsoft Hits Red Hat with “IP” Slurs

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Microsoft's and Novell's sharedlove is their jealousy/hatred of Red Hat. The same old story seen and told in people's inboxes and the news.

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Microsoft Uses Novell, Likewise, and Ignorance to Market Its Products

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Another look at the ways in which Microsoft markets itself with the help of former employees and submissive companies

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Eye on Apple: This is Open?

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New evidence that shows Apple's poor attitude towards openness/freedom

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Microsoft Uses Pseudo “Open Source” to Fight Against GNU/Linux and the GPL

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Microsoft deceives on "open source" and uses it to exclude or to poison (with software patents) GNU/Linux

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Why is Microsoft afraid to use the 'L' word?

http://blogs.zdnet.com

In discussing the motivation behind its newly launched Windows Server 2008 Foudation product, there’s one word the folks from Microsoft were loathe to mention: Linux.

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Authorities in China and Australia ‘Sell’ Their Children to Microsoft

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It's no hoax: “They’ll get sort of addicted, and then we’ll somehow figure out how to collect sometime in the next decade.” -Bill Gates. WELL, what can we say? Like most such deals, it smacks of collusion or dumping, sometimes even bribes like Live@Edu, public looting, or even addiction techniques like the *Spark programmes.

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