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Links 18/10/2014: New ELive, Android Expansion
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Another Fresh Blow to Software Patents (and With Them Patent Trolls)
Another new development shows that more burden of proof is to be put on the litigant, thus discouraging the most infamous serial patent aggressors and reducing the incentive to settle with a payment out of court
Links 16/10/2014: New Android, SSL 3.0 Flaw
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How the Corporate Press Deceives and Sells Microsoft Agenda
Various new examples of media propaganda that distorts or makes up the facts (bias/lies by omission/selection) and where this is all coming from
Vista 10 is Still Vapourware, But We Already Know It Will Increase Surveillance on Its Users and Contain Malicious Back Doors
The villainous company which makes insecure-by-design operating systems will continue to do so, but in the mean time the corporate press covers only bugs in FOSS, not back doors in proprietary software
Links 15/10/2014: KDE Plasma 5.1 is Out, GOG Reaches 100-Title Mark
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With .NET Foundation Affiliation Xamarin is Another Step Closer to Being Absorbed by Microsoft
Xamarin is not even trying to pretend that separation exists between Microsoft and its work; yet another collaboration is announced
The EPO's Protection Triangle of Battistelli, Kongstad, and Topić: Part VI
Jesper Kongstad, Benoît Battistelli, and Zeljko Topić are uncomfortably close personally and professionally, so suspicions arise that nepotism and protectionism play a negative role that negatively affects the European public
Corporate Media Confirms the Demise of Software Patents in the United States; Will India and Europe Follow?
It has become increasingly official that software patents are being weakened in the United States' USPTO as well as the courts; will software leaders such as India and Europe stop trying to imitate the old USPTO?
Links 14/10/2014: CAINE 6, New RHEL, Dronecode
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Microsoft's Disdain for Women Steals the Show at a Women's Event
Steve Ballmer's successor, Satya Nadella, is still too tactless to lie to the audience, having been given --through subversive means -- a platform at a conference that should have shunned Microsoft, a famously misogynistic company
SCOTUS May Soon Put an End to the 'Copyrights on APIs' Question While Proprietary Giants Continue to Harass Android/Linux in Every Way Conceivable
Google takes its fight over API freedom to the Supreme Court in the Unites States and it also takes that longstanding patent harassment from the Microsoft- and Apple-backed troll (Rockstar) out of East Texas
Patent Lawsuits Almost Halved After SCOTUS Ruling on 'Abstract' Software Patents
The barrier for acceptance of software patent applications is raised in the United States and patent lawsuits, many of which involve software these days, are down very sharply, based on new figures from Lex Machina
Links 13/10/2014: ChromeOS and EXT, Debian Resists Systemd Domination
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Links 12/10/2014: Blackphone Tablet, Sony's Firefox OS Port
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Links 9/10/2014: Free Software in Germany, Lenovo Tablets With Android
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Links 8/10/2014: A Lot of Linux+AMD News, New ROSA Desktop Is Out
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Lawyers' Propaganda About Software Patents and a New AstroTurf Entity Called Innovation Alliance
Patent propaganda and deception from patent lawyers (among other parasites such as patent trolls) continues to flood the Web, intersecting with reports that prove them totally wrong
How Microsoft Handles Disasters: Grace Hopper Conference Has Been Infiltrated by "Microsoft Disaster Response"
Free/Open Source software (FOSS) must be a disaster to Microsoft's bottom line because Microsoft is sending "Microsoft Disaster Response" to infiltrate and disrupt a conference about women in FOSS
Links 8/10/2014: Gummersbach Moves to GNU/Linux, Docker Acquires Koality, KDE Frameworks 5.3
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Links 7/10/2014: CAINE 6.0, PC-BSD 10.0.3
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Benoît Battistelli's Balkan Standards in EPO: Part V
How the European Patent Office facilitated the inclusion of previously-connected elements that are best known for misconduct and dirty politics
Symptoms of Post-x86 Era: Even Intel Apologists Turn Against Bribes-Dependent Intel While Microsoft Continues to Deceive Journalists on Patents in Order to Create a Scare
The Wintel press, which is bribed by companies that it covers, is challenged by prominent developers and Microsoft continues to plant its patent propaganda in the Wintel-centric (and paid) press
Microsoft Reinforces Its Criminal Organisation Status by Bribing and Corrupting More Officials, Even in Europe
More criminal activity from Microsoft in Romania and a new TV programme that sheds light on Microsoft's dirty assault on Free software in France
Links 6/10/2014: Linux 3.17, OpenELEC 4.2.1, FreeBSD 10.1 RC1, Debian 8.0 Beta 2 Released
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Links 4/10/2014: WebOS is Back
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Corporate Media Repeats Microsoft Propaganda About Patents by Claiming Microsoft Makes Billions From Android
Microsoft is spreading the myth that Android is not free (and is in fact very expensive) while its staff and boosters continue to deceive the public in other ways
Software Patents' Demise Includes Exceptional Defeat for Microsoft-Connected Trolls, But Bar Still Lowered for Patents
The USPTO continues to lower the bar for patents' acceptance, but on the other hand, many software patents are increasingly being rejected at the courts
The Capture Continues: Yet Another Microsoft Marketer Gets Hired by CBS for ZDNet 'Reporting'
Unembarrassed about its sheer bias, the CBS network continues to offer propaganda and placements for a fee (even after Gamergate) and it hires people from the corrupt company (Microsoft) they will soon cover
Links 3/10/2014: 700 GNU/Linux Games in Steam, Hamburg Greens Want Free Software
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