While free software automatically qualifies as a solution to vendor lock-in, monopolistic practices, prohibitive licensing fees, digital rights management, and a variety of other technological issues, the philosophy and ideals it stands for directly conflict with many companies’ traditional business model of selling software licenses.
Read more »The Threat to Software Freedom
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Presentation Slides: Threats to Software Freedom
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Thanks to those who attended the talk earlier tonight. For anyone who is interested, here are the slides of the talk which lasted about 2 hours. There was also video footage taken, but the quality may be too low. We'll find out soon.
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Did Microsoft Threaten to Retaliate Against Dell for Telling the Truth About GNU/Linux?
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After public embarrassment for Microsoft, Dell "censors" its own Web pages that say GNU/Linux is more secure than Windows
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Software patents: Stifling innovation with threats and bluster
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Jobs replied, saying that “[a] patent pool is being assembled to go after Theora and other open source codecs now.” The news spread like wildfire. This episode provides a good example of how software patents harm innovation and why they are ultimately incompatible with Free Software. Any program - Free Software or not - is threatened by patents.
Read more »Apple: Worse for open source than Microsoft?
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Things need to change and Apple needs to be seen for what it really is: a threat to innovation and freedom. For as long as anyone can remember Microsoft has been seen as the primary enemy of free and open source software (FOSS).
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BM: Open Source's Friend? Not So Much Now
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[…] IBM has sent a nastygram to the company TurboHercules, with a “non-exhaustive” list of US patents that it believes “will be infringed” by TurboHercules' code.
Read more »MS Brings MPEG-LA-LA Land to the Web & Threatens GNU/Linux With Software Patent Lawsuits
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Microsoft is trying to sneak patents-encumbered MPEG formats into the Web using Internet Explorer 9 (IE 9); Microsoft threatens (again) to go after Linux legally
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Why GNU/Linux is Microsoft’s #1 Desktop Threat, Shareholders Are Finally Being Informed
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As Microsoft's earnings fall by a third (again), the reasons are being further analysed and Microsoft investors warned
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Is cloud computing a threat to open source?
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Will we break a software stranglehold, only to fall back into the arms of hardware providers?
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Is cloud computing a threat to open source?
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Why the demise of proprietary software is creating a vacuum which is about to be filled... and we may not like it.
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Microsoft Sees Threat From Android Notebooks
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Ballmer and company dig in to stave off Google -- and weigh a Yahoo partnership to bolster their plan.
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