In the Middle East, Microsoft has started a heavy campaign against software piracy which is forcing companies to use only its genuine software, but the opposite is also happening as many others are switching to Free Software.
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Microsoft is Chasing Google Not Just in Search But Operating Systems and Office Suites Too
A glimpse at what Google's advancement in the market is doing to Microsoft, the company that attacks Free software more than any other company (or all of them combined)
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Paul Rübig on ACTA
A European parliament member explains rather poorly his reasons for suffocating the market
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Update on Microsoft-Staffed Patent Troll and Its Lawsuits Against GNU/Linux
The Acacia troll, a firm which is suspected to be batting for Microsoft, is still harassing GNU/Linux vendors
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Centrify, Microsoft, and Software Patents
How Centrify is strengthening Microsoft's patent FUD against GNU/Linux; Microsoft's patent violations and attacks on GNU/Linux explored further
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MS on Linux-based Windows Clones: “We’d Have to Look to the Protection Offered Under IP Law”
Lessons for Novell and other Mono proponents in light of Microsoft's response to Ylmf OS
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All Quiet on the CodePlex Front as 100 Day Mark Passes
As you may recall, Microsoft announced back on September 10 that it had launched a new, open open source organization called the CodePlex Foundation. It also pledged to announce a new board within 100 days - which passed without comment 11 days ago.
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Microsoft’s Racketeering with Patents and Abolition of Software Patents Reexamined
Why Microsoft's "extortion" is a serious offence that mustn't be overlooked; How Free software deals with software patents at present
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Is OpenOffice.org a Threat? Microsoft Thinks So
One of the unusual aspects of open source is the fact that the software development philosophy spills over into the way that the project is run. This means that how and why things are done, and by whom, is plain for all to see. Contrast that with Microsoft.
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Apple Helps Microsoft Attack Google’s Linux While Google Spreads GNU/Linux, ODF
Mishmash of news; Apple's helping hand to Microsoft is reappearing now that GNU/Linux and ODF gain traction, partly thanks to Google
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Alexis de Tocqueville’s Microsoft-Funded Anti-Linux Paper Gets Leaked
The slanderous paper from a so-called "Think Tank" is available for people to assess; Groklaw goes through Microsoft's dirty laundry
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Is OpenOffice.org a Threat? Microsoft Thinks So
[…] this reveals something incredibly important about the current thinking at Microsoft: that OpenOffice.org now figures almost as largely in the competitive landscape as does GNU/Linux, and the fact there are no less than *13* “district Linux and Open Office Compete Leads” focussing on what is described as "one of the biggest issues" for no less a person than Steve Ballmer.
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ISO Should Withdraw OOXML After Microsoft and Alex Brown Lied About Patents
With the ending of the i4i case OOXML should be removed from ISO and cease to be used
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Companies That Facilitate Microsoft’s Linux Extortion Still Close Partners of Microsoft
The attack on the freedom of Linux continues to appear to be coming from Microsoft allies, not Linux companies
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Evangelism is War – The Mono/Moonlight Agenda
I was going over an old Groklaw posting that got me thinking about Microsoft and it’s .NET Agenda. I decided to do more research and took a look at the Comes vs Microsoft documents again but from the perspective of the current Mono issues. I am even more convinced that Mono and Moonlight do nothing but help Microsoft win against competing platforms.
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