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2006-11-13 Welcome to the Old Techrights Archive
2007-03-13 Will Novell Get Access to Microsoft's “Undocumentation”?
2007-03-19 Iowa Memos Provide a Mouthful About Novell and Microsoft
2007-04-11 Novell and Microsoft E-mails: More Blasts from the Past
2007-04-13 Bill Gates, 1999: Giving out the Office 2000 Formats to Competitors Seems Crazy
2007-04-21 Imaginary Software Patents as the Modern Equivalent of Vapourware
2007-04-22 Another Novell Betrayal Story Returns from the Past
2007-04-24 Interoperability in the EU -- Will Microsoft Be Split?
2007-05-11 More Pseudo-grassroots Support for OOXML, Novell Passively Accepts It (Updated)
2007-05-15 OpenOffice.org Talks About Microsoft's “Desperate Act“, Red Hat Not Agitated
2007-06-01 At least 9,000 More Coupons (Quietly) Distributed
2007-06-20 ISO and Office Open XML (OOXML): What REALLY Happened There?
2007-07-10 How Does One Put a Price Tag on GNU/Linux and Free Software?
2007-07-15 Even GPLv3 Skeptics Have Begun to Realise It Has Value and Appreciate Its Effect
2007-08-05 Microsoft Honours Competition...... Not.
2007-08-19 The Novell/Microsoft Deal Dissected
2007-08-20 Microsoft Against Standards: So Many Years, So Little Change
2007-08-27 Why Microsoft's and Novell's Role Cannot be Ignored
2007-09-21 How Novell and Others Were
2007-10-05 Corel Serves Microsoft, But Does it Even Better
2007-10-29 Disinformation on the Rise, Shameless Linux FUD Makes a Comeback
2007-10-30 Studying Exclusionary Deals with OEMs
2007-12-21 Anti-standards Roundup: GNOvell and Microsoft OOXML
2008-01-20 How Jim Allchin, Gartner and Enderle Lied to the Whole World
2008-01-21 Comes vs. Microsoft
2008-01-21 Microsoft's Hall of Shame Sees Light
2008-01-24 Quick Mention: Is Microsoft Begging for Another Antitrust Slap?
2008-01-31 Microsoft: “Evangelism is WAR!” [as Text] (Updated)
2008-02-07 WHATIS: The OpenDocument Foundation
2008-02-22 Silverlight and Mono = DRM and Software Patents
2008-02-22 Windows Vista Shoots More Torpedoes at 'Third-Party' Software, Including Novell's
2008-02-25 Week of Corruptions Begins :: Day 1 :: Microsoft's Letters from the Dead Return
2008-03-07 Quick Mention: Miguel's Eureka Moment
2008-03-08 A Letter from a Reader, About Miguel de Icaza
2008-03-23 Recollections a Year After Comes vs Microsoft
2008-04-01 Hewlett-Packard Does Microsoft's Dirty Job Again, Lobbies for the Monopoly
2008-05-02 What Might Be Behind OpenBSD's Attack Against Peers
2008-05-22 Taking Stock of Microsoft's Vapourware Announcement
2008-06-01 New IRC Channel: #boycottnovell @ FreeNode
2008-06-11 IRC: #boycottnovell @ FreeNode: June 10th, 2008
2008-06-14 The Great Microsoft Innovation Lie (and Software Patent News)
2008-06-18 Microsoft Fights OpenOffice.org and ODF Using FUD, Technical Problems (Updated)
2008-07-25 Microsoft's Dirty ACPI Secrets: It's Back! (Updated)
2008-08-08 Dirty Tricks by Proxy (Against GNU/Linux)
2008-09-07 BSA and Novell ♥ Software Patents, Microsoft
2008-09-07 The New York Times, Hosted by Microsoft Revisionists
2008-09-08 Caldera-Microsoft Exposé Begins
2008-10-08 Latest Evidence of 'Novell | Microsoft Axis'
2008-11-02 IRC: #boycottnovell @ FreeNode: November 1st, 2008
2008-12-28 IRC: #boycottnovell @ FreeNode: December 27th, 2008
2008-12-29 Microsoft and Jimmi Hugh: Wikipedia Censorship or Just Vandalism? (Corrected)
2009-01-01 Microsoft History of Exploiting Free Labour Repeats Itself
2009-01-03 Did Microsoft Scheme Financial Strangulations Against OLPC? (Updated: As Text)
2009-01-04 IRC: #boycottnovell @ FreeNode: January 3rd, 2009 - Part 1
2009-01-04 Novell's Mono: Imitating a Failing Technology
2009-01-04 Is Microsoft 'Pulling an EDGI' on Kerala? (Updated)
2009-01-08 Microsoft Vice President Teaches PR People How to Spin Anti-Linux Programme
2009-01-09 Extended Windows 98 EOL to Block Government Migrations to GNU/Linux and Free Software; More 'Donations'
2009-01-10 Microsoft EDGI: How It Works
2009-01-10 Microsoft's Dumping Strategy Versus GNU/Linux (EDGI Continued)
2009-01-11 Microsoft on “Maintaining Gap vs Linux” Using “Patents“, “Children’s Software“
2009-01-12 How Microsoft Really Feels About .NET in Linux/UNIX
2009-01-12 Bill Gates: “Where Are We on This Jihad?” (Against Linux at Intel)
2009-01-12 Microsoft: “Never Leave an Opening for Novell or IBM”
2009-01-13 IRC: #boycottnovell @ FreeNode: January 12th, 2009 - Part 1
2009-01-14 Microsoft's Internal Presentation on How to Fight GNU/Linux
2009-01-14 Microsoft Chief: “Under NO Circumstances Lose Against Linux”
2009-01-15 Microsoft's EDGI in India: Fighting GNU/Linux in Education
2009-01-16 EDGI Finale: Microsoft's “Linux Compete Squad”
2009-01-17 IRC: #boycottnovell @ FreeNode: January 16th, 2009 - Part 2
2009-01-17 The Microsoft-Gartner Deal (Analysts Cartel Part I)
2009-01-18 Microsoft's Jim Allchin: “I am Scared [of GNU/Linux]” (Analysts Cartel Part II)
2009-01-18 Why Microsoft Wants to Put .NET/Mono in Devices
2009-01-19 Gartner Group Corrupted by Microsoft (Analysts Cartel Part III)
2009-01-20 Links 19/01/2009: BETT 2009 Reports, Camp KDE Report
2009-01-20 Jim Allchin: “We Feel a Huge Threat from Linux” (Analysts Cartel Part IV)
2009-01-21 Jim Allchin (2002): “There’s Going to Be a Patent Lawsuit on Linux” (Analysts Cartel Part V)
2009-01-22 IRC: #boycottnovell @ FreeNode: January 21st, 2009 - Part 1
2009-01-22 Microsoft Antitrust: “The Linux Threat on the Desktop” (2006) and Predatory Response
2009-01-24 Microsoft's Plot to Harm Standards, Stifle Cross-Platform
2009-01-24 IRC: #boycottnovell @ FreeNode: January 23rd, 2009 - Part 2
2009-01-24 Guest Post: Adventures in Novell's Moonlight
2009-01-24 The History of Microsoft's Multi-boot Sabotage
2009-01-25 Microsoft Wants Music DRM Renaissance
2009-01-26 Microsoft's “Talking Point” Memo and the Anti-GNU/Linux Studies
2009-01-27 Walt Mossberg and Bill Gates Know Each Other Well
2009-01-28 Antitrust: How Microsoft Schemed to Derail Dell GNU/Linux
2009-01-29 IRC: #boycottnovell @ FreeNode: January 28th, 2009
2009-01-30 IRC: #boycottnovell @ FreeNode: January 29th, 2009
2009-01-30 Microsoft on Intel's Anti-Linux: “Please Keep Confidential. This is a Nightmare”
2009-01-31 Bill Gates on Linux@Intel: “This Huge Driver Group Scares Me.”
2009-02-02 How Music DRM Was Conceived at Microsoft Over a Decade Ago
2009-02-03 IRC: #boycottnovell @ FreeNode: February 2nd, 2009 - Part 2
2009-02-04 IRC: #boycottnovell @ FreeNode: February 3rd, 2009 - Part 3
2009-02-05 IRC: #boycottnovell @ FreeNode: February 4th, 2009 - Part 3
2009-02-05 Bill Gates Admits Microsoft's Failure in Security, Gears Up for DRM
2009-02-06 IRC: #boycottnovell @ FreeNode: February 5th, 2009
2009-02-08 66 Pages of Microsoft Evilness
2009-02-09 Steve Ballmer: “We cannot let intel do chip design on Linux ever”
2009-02-10 Impressed by OpenOffice, Bill Gates Schemes to Use Software Patents Against It
2009-02-10 Stability... and How You Can Help
2009-02-11 Bill Gates et al Lean on Other Companies to Derail GNU/Linux as “Main Stream Operating System”
2009-02-11 Microsoft: Intel Ain't Done Until Windows Can Run?
2009-02-12 Bill Gates: “Intel should not just treat us as one of many”
2009-02-14 IRC: #boycottnovell @ FreeNode: February 13th, 2009 - Part 2
2009-02-16 IRC: #boycottnovell @ FreeNode: February 15th, 2009
2009-02-16 Novell the Biggest Loser in New Red Hat-Microsoft Virtual Agreement
2009-03-02 GNU/Linux Market Share: Why Gartner and IDC Must be Ignored
2009-03-12 Microsoft's AstroTurfing, Twitter, Waggener Edstrom, and Jonathan Zuck
2009-03-17 IRC: #boycottnovell @ FreeNode: March 16th, 2009 - Part 2
2009-03-31 IRC: #boycottnovell @ FreeNode: March 30th, 2009 - Part 2
2009-04-10 IRC: #boycottnovell @ FreeNode: April 9th, 2009 - Part 2
2009-04-10 Did Novell Hijack a Linux Foundation Panel?
2009-04-11 Leaked Microsoft Memo: How Microsoft Changes the Prices at OEMs to Block GNU/Linux Sales
2009-04-15 Antitrust Memo Shows How Microsoft Patent Encumbrances Are Used to Harm GNU/Linux
2009-04-15 Microsoft's Older Crimes Against Web Browsers Return, Microsoft's New Attacks on JavaScript Revisited
2009-04-18 Post #6,001
2009-04-19 Should Boycottnovell.com Homepage be Changed?
2009-04-20 IRC: #boycottnovell @ FreeNode: April 19th, 2009 - Part 1
2009-04-29 IRC: #boycottnovell @ FreeNode: April 28th, 2009 - Part 3
2009-05-02 Microsoft's PR Department (Waggener Edstrom) Patents AstroTurfing-related Methods
2009-06-03 What Microsoft's Anti-Linux Taskforce in Wal-Mart Teaches Us About Sub-notebooks
2009-06-06 Microsoft Stalks Its Competitors, Offers Them Money to Defect
2009-06-16 Reader's Article: What Makes Microsoft's Business Unethical
2009-06-17 How Steve Ballmer (and Colleagues) Deliberately Sabotaged OS/2
2009-06-18 Microsoft on Competition: “We Need to Create the Reputation for Problems and Incompatibilities to Undermine Confidence”
2009-06-21 Microsoft's Nathan Myhrvold on How “to Freeze the Market at the OEM and ISV Level”
2009-06-23 Bill Gates: “Our Most Potent Operating System Competitor is Linux”
2009-06-23 Bill Gates Mocks Free Software by Substituting “Proprietary” With “Commercial”
2009-06-24 Bill Gates on C# as “Key Element in Preventing Commodization by Linux”
2009-06-25 Bill Gates: “We Should Look at Even Patenting the Things That We Do Add to Help Office”
2009-06-25 Microsoft on “Embrace and Extend”, the “Windows API Franchise”
2009-06-25 Bill Gates' “Security as a lock in” Memo (to Discriminate Against Non-Windows Operating Systems)
2009-06-26 Nathan Myhrvold/Bill Gates Use “Embrace and Extend” Against “Mak[ing] it Easy for People to Do Competitive Operating Systems”
2009-06-27 T3 Receives Millions from “Unnamed Entity” After Microsoft Investment, to Attack GNU/Linux on Mainframes
2009-07-09 Microsoft Confirms Mono is Not Safe, Stallman Agrees
2009-07-12 Mono Roundup: Microsoft Following, Deception, and the Moonlight 'Extend' Phase
2009-07-13 Leaked 2002 Document: Microsoft Compares Windows XP and Office to GNU/Linux and StarOffice
2009-07-15 Leaked Microsoft Slides (2003): How to Win Against GNU/Linux
2009-07-16 Update on Novell and Microsoft's Virtualisation Pact
2009-07-16 Microsoft Exploits Feynman Lectures to Spread Lock-in, Does the Same in HPC
2009-07-16 Microsoft’s Brad Silverberg: “Please Make Sure This Request Doesn't Get Filled.”
2009-07-19 Microsoft Product Manager: “Screw Sun, cross-platform will never work. Let's move on and steal the Java language.”
2009-07-22 Microsoft, “Bambi”, and the “Alien OS” Riddle
2009-07-26 Antitrust: How Microsoft Came up with Windows Bundling
2009-07-27 Antitrust: How Microsoft Used Kickbacks (“Referral Programs”) to Advance Its Inferior Products
2009-07-27 New Index Pages
2009-07-29 How Microsoft Uses Linux Conference Sponsorships to Advance Its Agenda
2009-07-31 Bill Gates Wants to Maximise “Patented Stuff”
2009-08-02 Comes Antitrust: Microsoft's Attack Plan on GNU/Linux and Today's Lessons
2009-08-04 Microsoft .NET Tries to Piggyback OLPC, Novell Helps the Same Cause
2009-08-05 Why GNU/Linux is Microsoft's #1 Desktop Threat, Shareholders Are Finally Being Informed
2009-08-06 Microsoft Should be Reported to the ASA/Equivalent for “TCO”, Benchmark Frauds, Fake OEM “Recommendations”
2009-08-06 Microsoft Confirms Existence of Anti-GNU/Linux Teams
2009-08-17 How Bill Gates Denied Access to Office File Format Documentation to Stifle Competition
2009-08-21 Microsoft Hijacks Maharashtra's Education, to Teach Many Children How to Smoke Windows
2009-08-25 Comes: Microsoft's Anti-GNU/Linux Presentation and Explanation of Bribery
2009-09-01 Comes Antitrust: Microsoft McCarthyism Exposed
2009-09-04 Microsoft's Joachim Kempin: “AS LONG AS IT DOES NOT RUN ON Vl[R]GIN PCs I AM AT LEAST SEMI HAPPY”
2009-09-04 Telstra and Microsoft Make it Official: Microsoft Enters Telstra's Board
2009-09-12 Nicholas Negroponte Blames “Giants Who View Children As a Market”
2009-09-14 Comes Antitrust: How Microsoft Schemed to Destroy Borland (Like It Did Yahoo!)
2009-09-15 Microsoft Badmouths Linix [sic] in 1998, Envisions a “Nightmare”
2009-09-17 Microsoft's Nathan Myhrvold in 1998: GNU/Linux is a “Serious Competitor”
2009-09-20 Microsoft Compares Its Monopoly to the Older Telephone Monopoly
2009-09-21 Microsoft and the OLPC Strategy, as Interpreted by a Reader
2009-10-02 Another Microsoft Product Gets Buried: Recite
2009-10-06 Miguel de Icaza Compares Richard Stallman to George Bush
2009-10-15 Jeremy Allison Recommends Passing Mono Software to Basket of Proprietary Software
2009-10-22 Microsoft Employee Wants the Company to Fire 20,000 More Staff
2009-10-25 OEM Documents Which Microsoft Labels “MICROSOFT SECRET”
2009-10-29 Comes: Microsoft's Push-Polling in Order to Exclude Rival Web Browsers from Windows
2009-11-02 Response to The Guardian's Boosting of Vista 7 (Including Transcript)
2009-11-06 What Microsoft's Brad Silverberg, Bill Gates, and Al Capone Have in Common
2009-11-12 Microsoft's Partner Group Manager Reveals the Obvious: Windows is a Ripoff of Rivals
2009-11-19 How Denmark Avoids a “Scientology Cult” in IT
2009-11-20 Novell Wants to Change Perception
2009-11-25 Microsoft Paid Caldera $280,000,000 and Made Incriminating Evidence Go “Poof!”
2009-11-26 Salivating Over Silverlight
2009-11-26 Reader's Article: Vista 7 Versus Vista
2009-11-26 Novell Supports GNU/Linux-Hostile Software, NASA Excludes With it After Microsoft MoU
2009-12-07 Microsoft Press Deceives the Masses About Windows
2009-12-14 American EDGI Comes to Missouri, Microsoft Crimes in Iowa Produce Coupons
2009-12-21 Gates Successor May Leave, Steve Ballmer Expected to be Kicked Out Too
2010-01-04 Microsoft Bribes to Make Education Microsoft-based
2010-01-10 Estimation: 30% of IT Patent Lawsuits Come from Patent Trolls, Microsoft Continues to Evade Patent Law (i4i)
2010-01-16 Reader's Article: Alternate Time-lines
2010-01-17 Meeting With Steve Ballmer Led Anti-GNU/Linux Executive to Quitting
2010-01-18 With Mono Clearly on Microsoft's Side, Another Call for Ubuntu to Move Mono to 'Restricted'
2010-01-22 Microsoft Attacks Linux-powered Devices with Patents Once Again, Unprovoked
2010-01-23 Arianna Huffington and the Gates Family Make a Killing
2010-01-25 $180,000,000 in Microsoft Crime Money Comes to Iowa (and Memories of $700,000,000+ RealNetworks Settlement)
2010-01-27 Microsoft, Intel, and White-collar Crime
2010-01-28 Microsoft Makes Questionable Deals in Kuwait, Malta, and Ireland
2010-02-02 Microsoft Exposé Taken Up a Notch
2010-02-03 Microsoft's Lawsuit Against Google and What It Teaches Us About Mono
2010-02-04 What Microsoft's Attack on GNU/Linux at HP Teaches Us
2010-02-04 Microsoft Whitewashes Criminal History in the Press and Attacks the GPL Using Allies
2010-02-05 Microsoft Exodus Continues as Another Vice President Jumps Ship
2010-02-07 Microsoft Shows Yet Again That It is Allergic to GNU/Linux
2010-02-09 Eye on Microsoft: Signs of Game Over
2010-02-10 Georgia, Kentucky, Colorado, and Sunderland Receive the Microsoft EDGI Treatment
2010-02-17 Comes vs Microsoft Case Shows How Microsoft Actively Attacked Innovation
2010-02-17 Windows Phone 7 Falls on Its Face and Microsoft Still Wants Patent Royalties on Linux Phones
2010-02-19 The “Microsoft Everywhere” Vision of Novell
2010-02-21 Microsoft Lawyer: Microsoft “Covers up Alleged Misconduct, Mischaracterizes Evidence [...] Protects the Perpetrators and Retaliates Against Victims.”
2010-02-26 Microsoft Unleashes the Hounds on Google While Abusing the Law With Warrantless Spying
2010-03-10 Bill Gates and Steve Jobs Extortionists With Software Patents
2010-03-17 Microsoft -- Like Gates Foundation -- Still Uses Own 'Studies' for PR and Lobbying Purposes
2010-03-29 Microsoft Services Cyber Crime
2010-04-09 More of Microsoft Sought to Manage Yahoo! (Coup D'état)
2010-04-16 Quote of the Day: “Truth is Sunlight to the Microsoft Vampire”
2010-04-19 Microsoft Malaysia and Malaysian Apologists Lobby Against Malaysia's Independence
2010-05-05 “The fight has been around a long time, now the target of Microsoft is Theora”
2010-05-19 Microsoft AstroTurf May be Linked to the Notorious
2010-05-25 Microsoft Attacks Linux Competition Using Lawsuits and Threats (With Software Patents), Pays Acacia/IP Innovation After Anti-Linux Lawsuit
2010-05-30 Bill Gates' Reputation Laundering is Good Investment for Microsoft Corporation
2010-06-06 Microsoft: “Find a Way for [CompuAdd] to Recoup What They Have Paid to DRI, Then License with MS so That Not a Single DRI Machine Ever Ships”
2010-06-12 Latest Examples of Microsoft's “Embrace, Extend, Extinguish” (EEE)
2010-06-16 United States of Microsoft?
2010-06-16 Did Microsoft Threaten to Retaliate Against Dell for Telling the Truth About GNU/Linux? (Updatedx2)
2010-06-29 Manual for Removing Microsoft Trap From Ubuntu GNU/Linux (and Lessons of TomTom and SCO Cases)
2010-07-20 Fading Future of Proprietary Handsets
2010-07-24 Teaching Our Children That Crime Pays Off
2010-07-27 Microsoft Paid Roxanne Conlin a Lot of Money to End the Comes vs Microsoft Case
2010-07-28 Talk in Spanish: Presente y futuras amenazas a la libertad del software
2010-08-24 Google Shoots Itself in the Foot by Patenting Software
2010-09-01 Microsoft is Said to Have Had an Anti-OpenOffice.org Seminar on Monday (Updated)
2010-09-02 Microsoft Saved the Bush Family From Embarrassment
2010-09-06 Glorifying Microsoft Thugs 15 Years (or More) After the Offences
2010-11-14 Cronología de Microsoft Extorsión de Patentes Contra GNU/Linux
2010-11-15 Why Sites Like Groklaw Are Important
2010-12-06 Fake Numbers and Possible GPL Violations at Goldman Sachs
2010-12-13 Chronology of Techrights Focus and Plans for 2011
2010-12-21 [ES] Microsoft, Normas e Incompatibilidad: 1991-2011 - y Una Pistola Humeante de Novell
2010-12-23 EN/ES: Microsoft's OS/2 Attack Plan
2011-01-13 Bill Gates Becomes Economist for the United States of America
2011-01-14 ES: Bill Gates Se Convierte en Economista de los Estados Unidos de América
2011-01-16 ES: Microsoft Explota el Desastre en Haití (otra vez) Para Comercializar SharePoint
2011-01-22 ES: No Hay FUD* Como un FUD Antiguo
2011-01-25 OEMs to Potentially be Forced to Unbundle Windows as Forced Vista 7 'Sales' Lead to Class Action Lawsuit
2011-03-23 'New' Leaked E-mails from Microsoft Show How Microsoft Brands 'PCs' Windows
2011-03-23 Exhibit PXE 6326_C Shows Microsoft Admitting That Windows is Fat
2011-04-05 More Bogus Benchmarks From Microsoft
2011-04-16 Articles of ZDNet UK
2011-04-21 The World According to ZDNet: Vista 7 a Whole Area of IT
2011-05-11 Steve Ballmer as King of Novell
2011-06-01 ES: Cablegate: Gates y Su
2011-06-02 IBM Needs to Explain Office Suite Patents (and How Bill Gates Was Attacking Interoperability With Lotus, Using Patents Against OpenOffice.org)
2011-06-03 ES: La Necesidad de IBM de Explicar Patentes de Office Suite (y cómo Bill Gates Atacó A la Interoperabilidad con Lotus, El Uso de Patentes en Contra de OpenOffice.org)
2011-07-18 Linux FUD and Android FUD
2011-08-18 Microsoft Uses Novell Patents to Not Only Threaten But Also Daemonise Google
2011-09-02 Next on the Agenda: Researching Cablegate
2011-09-20 Techrights and Microsoft
2011-09-23 Microsoft Secrets
2011-09-30 Keeping on Top
2011-10-25 Microsoft's RICO Act Violations Only Supported by Spinners
2011-10-31 Shocker: Man With First Software Patent Defends Software Patents
2011-11-23 Bill Gates Lies to the Court to Dodge Competition Rules Violations
2011-12-14 Botnets Versus Comes Versus Microsoft
2012-03-21 Smoking Gun From Bill Gates
2012-05-29 Time to Refocus on Microsoft's Attacks -- Including by Proxy -- on Free Android
2012-06-24 Techrights and Patents, Antitrust
2012-06-24 Microsoft Attacks Software Freedom in India With EDGI/MoU Manoeuvre
2012-08-05 How Microsoft Expands the Patent Racket Against Android/Linux
2012-08-07 Backroom Deals Gave Microsoft Europe
2013-06-21 Microsoft's Crimes From the 1990s Still Not Addressed
2015-12-07 Microsoft is Once Again Getting Away With Browser Competition Crimes (This Time in Europe)
2016-04-05 “The 'old Microsoft' is still the 'new Microsoft', only the face of the company has changed - CEO and PR.”
2016-04-06 “El Viejo Microsoft es Todavía el ‘Nuevo Microsoft’, Sólo la cara de la Compañía ha Cambiado – CEO y PR.”
2024-08-05 [Video] The Future and the Hope for Gemini Takeover (Because the Web Increasingly Sucks)
2025-11-13 Techrights Protects Against Collective Amnesia (Forgetting History the Rich and Powerful Want Us to Forget or be Misled About)
2025-11-14 Our First Week of Our Twentieth Year