09.24.10 “Alliance for Education [Used to Fabricate the Astroturf “Our Schools Coalition” [For] Reforms That the Gates-puppet Alliance is Pushing”]

09.24.10 Novell Down 7% Today, Buyers Deemed Unsuitable, and Sale Value Estimated at $2.8 Billion

09.24.10 Apple, Oracle, and Software Patents of Convenience

09.24.10 Who Put Vista 7 Back in HP’s Slate Strategy?

09.24.10 Who Needs Windows Back Doors When It’s So Insecure?

09.26.10 Tax-Exempt Gates Family Still Lobbies to Tax Its Peers Even More

09.26.10 What Canonical Can Improve

09.28.10 LibreOffice is Launched, Offering Independence from Oracle

09.28.10 USPTO Receives Overwhelming Opposition to Software Patents

09.28.10 Mono Liars

09.28.10 Novell News Roundup: GroupLink, Bahrain’s MOSD, Messaging Architects, SAP, and Training in India

09.28.10 Update on Novell and SCO Asset Sales

09.28.10 Windows Insecurity Becomes a Political Issue

09.30.10 Strong Momentum in the Fight Against Weak Patents

09.30.10 Not So Keen on KIN2K (Vista Phone 7) and Why Windows Will No Longer Matter in a Mobile Future

09.30.10 Novell Vice President Becomes VMB_ware Channel Director Amid Acquisition Plans, IDG Propaganda Begins

09.30.10 How ActiveX Crushed GNU/Linux Adoption in Korea

09.30.10 LibreOffice Has the Potential to Altogether Replace Oracle OpenOffice.org (OOOo)

09.30.10 Novell Crash Disrupts Campus and British Department for Health Dumps Novell

09.30.10 As Patent Extortion Increases, Best Strategy May be to Have Patent Trolls Sue Software Monopolies

10.01.10 Apple is a Tiny Niche on the Desktop

10.01.10 New Examples of Gates Foundation Proximity to Government, Big Banks, Monsanto

10.02.10 Hewlett-Packard Very Likely to Turn More Hostile Towards GNU/Linux

10.02.10 The Redmond-Associated Press is Promoting Mono

10.02.10 Windows, Stuxnet, and Public Stoning

10.02.10 NHS Opens a Door to Free Software This Month

10.03.10 SUSE is Getting More Restrictive and Virtualisation-centered Ahead of Expected Sale to VMB_ware

10.03.10 Details Needed About New Red Hat-Acacia Patent Settlement (Updated)

10.03.10 BBC Cannot Call out Windows

10.04.10 GNU Telephony Addresses President Obama

10.04.10 Best of ‘The Source’: Outercurve, LibreOffice, Mono, and Novell’s Sale

10.04.10 Mobbyists Love Mono

10.04.10 ¿Por qué importan libertades civiles – una carta abierta a la administración de Obama

10.05.10 Apple Gets Its Software Patents Lesson in Texas

10.05.10 Windows Users Still Under Attack From Stuxnet, Halo, and Zeus

10.05.10 Patent System Gone Crazy: Patents on Paris Hilton’s Hair, Thanks to Maximalists

10.06.10 Update on Android Lawsuits

10.06.10 Red Hat Needs to be Transparent and Explain the Acacia Settlement

10.07.10 More Indications That ‘Sales’ of Vista 7 Are Worse Than Sales of Vista

10.07.10 Mobbyists

10.07.10 Please Tell the Open Web Foundation That It Is Not Compatible With Software Freedom

10.07.10 More Software Patents Stockpiling at Facebook

10.07.10 Patents Roundup: Opposition to Software Patents and General ‘Ownership’ of Software Ideas

10.08.10 Apple Distorts the Media

10.08.10 European Parliament Swallows the RAND Poison Pill

10.08.10 Novell Has Lost Money for 3 Straight Years, But CEO’s Bonus Still Grossly Inflated

10.09.10 English and Spanish Versions of FSF Post on Vista Phone 7

10.10.10 OpenSUSE’s Former and Existing Community Managers Promote Mono Patent Trap

10.10.10 EU Concerns Highlight Need to Remove Windows From the Network

10.10.10 Apple hypePhone Harms Civil Rights, Ruins Lives in China

10.12.10 Bill Gates Buys ABC (News/TV), Schools

10.12.10 Guest Article: Windows NT and the Deepwater Horizon

10.12.10 Windows Worms Allegedly Crash Satellites Now, Proceed to More Damage in More Countries

10.12.10 Belgian EU Presidency and BSA Threaten Europe’s Digital Future With Software Patents

10.12.10 Novell is Very Focused on Fog Computing So Far This Month

10.13.10 Mono is Not a GNU/Linux Project and It Keeps Feeding Those Who Bite the GNU/Linux Hand

10.14.10 Mono as a Whole Appears to be a Patent Trap

10.14.10 Legitimisers of Software Patents

10.14.10 “Novell is UNIX” But Who Buys Novell?

10.15.10 Novell Persists With Non-Free Software Focus

10.15.10 With Patent Quality This Low, Who Needs Any?

10.16.10 Another $400 Million Down the Drain

10.16.10 To Mono Leadership/Development Team, “A Mono Success Story of Biblical Proportions” Means No GNU/Linux Support

10.16.10 Links: Vista 7 Failures

10.16.10 The Cost of Working Alone (100% Proprietary) and Offshoring

10.17.10 Unsubstantiated Takeover Rumours

10.19.10 BSA Lobbying Against Standards in Europe is Old News

10.19.10 Ramifications for Steve Ballmer After Ray Ozzie Metaphorically Falls on His Sword

10.19.10 Attacks on Software Freedom Usually Mean That It is Winning

10.19.10 Human Rights Require Software Freedom

10.19.10 “OMGUbuntu Makes a Dig at Mono?”

10.20.10 Bruce Schneier: “Keeping Control of Your Source Code Didn’t Magically Make Windows Secure”

10.20.10 Mobbyists and Lobbyists (Notably BSA) Marginalise Free Software in Europe Using Lies About RAND

10.21.10 Narendra Sisodiya Takes on AICTE for Support of Foreign Software Monopolies

10.21.10 Apple Copies GNU/Linux (Poorly), Then Spreads FUD About It, Receives More Backlash

10.22.10 Battling the BSA Hydra – Interpretation and Spanish Translation

10.22.10 Eye on Novell: Identity Manager 4 and Only More Proprietary Software

10.22.10 Stephen Elop Says No New Linux Phones From Nokia This Year, Talks About Cross-platform Qt

10.22.10 EMC/VMB_ware Still in “Exclusive Talks” to Buy Novell’s SUSE

10.23.10 Bill Gates #3 Man in United States Government, Permanently?

10.23.10 Java Founder Calls Steve Jobs a Liar, Gets Attacks by Apple’s Mob

10.23.10 From Copyrights to Patents: How Software Patents Became the Top Linux Issue

10.24.10 ACCESS Co. (Source of Mobbyism and Attacks on the Free Software Foundation) Linked to Acacia

10.24.10 Evidence That Apple May be Behind GNU/Linux in the Desktop Market (Internationally)

10.24.10 Bill Gates Takes Over Schooling Systems With Help From Oprah, NBC, Other Press for Hire

10.25.10 GNOME and Mono Meet Through Zeitgeist

10.26.10 Eye on Apple: Where Do You Want Not to Go Today?

10.26.10 Allegation: Novell Has “Profit Motive for Pushing Mono Everywhere”

10.27.10 Urban Dictionary Defines Mobbyists

10.28.10 Gemalto Works With Apple Immediately After Suing Android/Linux

10.28.10 The High Price of an Apple and the Cost of Name Monopolies (Trademarks)

10.28.10 El Dictionary Urbano Define Mobbyist (Mobbyists – Español)

10.28.10 ODF Alliance Newsletter: October 2010

10.28.10 The Source on Rejecting Mono, Which Earns a Room at FOSDEM 2011

10.28.10 Crisis of OpenSUSE in Novell/VMB_ware Hands

10.29.10 Reader’s Story: Facebook Censorship

10.30.10 When Up is Down and Left is Right Bill Gates Fights Against the World’s Richest People

10.31.10 US Government Wrestles With Patent Dilemmas

11.01.10 Good News, Bad News From OpenLogic

11.01.10 Motorola Lawsuit Against Apple Was “Preemptively Launched”

11.01.10 Miguel de Icaza Was Wrong About Silverlight and .NET

11.02.10 Zeitgeist-Sharp Brings Mono to GNOME

11.03.10 With the Patent Office, State Serves Corporations, Not People

11.05.10 Federal Government Less Patents-Friendly Than USPTO, Apple’s Embargo Attempt (With Patents) Fails ITC Judgment

11.05.10 Apple is Kicking Out Free Software and Getting Sued

11.05.10 Banshee (MCP-Excluded Mono Trap) is Not Yet in Next Ubuntu, There is Still Time to Stop It

11.06.10 Michel Barnier Still Confused, Spreading Misconception About Patents and ”Competitiveness“

11.06.10 Another Example of IDC Giving Bogus (Meaningless) Numbers and Mary Jo Foley Failing to Report the News

11.06.10 Examples of Stories That Techrights Got Right Well Before the Rest of the Internet/Press

11.07.10 TechBytes Episode 2: Ubuntu’s One Way, Silverlight Goes Dark, and GNU Octave Discovered

11.08.10 What Alfresco and Android Can Teach About Ubuntu

11.08.10 Commentary: In Romania, the Government Serves Just Windows Users

11.08.10 Novell’s Chief Marketing Officer John Dragoon Does Not Understand Novell Critics, Rewrites the Past Instead

11.08.10 Newly-elected UK Government Hopes to Imitate the United States With Software Patents

11.08.10 Apple EULA is Still Not Compatible With the GNU GPL

11.10.10 New Ph.D. Thesis Shows How Finnish Government Moved to Free/Libre Software

11.10.10 KINect’s Fate Could be Similar to KIN’s

11.10.10 Novell’s Hallmark of a Company That’s Already Dead

11.11.10 Acacia Slanders GNU/Linux

11.11.10 Facebook is Now Officially a Patent Bully

11.11.10 Mono Advocacy is Deluded, Avoids the Facts and Personally Attacks Critics Instead

11.11.10 The Original SCO Keeps Delaying Bankruptcy Hearings

11.12.10 Security Problems in iOS and Windows

11.12.10 Time to Throw in the Towel on Zune, Which Becomes a Public Embarrassment

11.12.10 EU Plan to Potentially Welcome Software Patents is Finally Defeated

11.14.10 TechBytes Episode 7: FUD From The Economist, New Releases, and Linux Eureka Moment at Netflix

11.14.10 The W3C and Fake Authority

11.15.10 Why Sites Like Groklaw Are Important

11.15.10 Steve Jobs and Larry Ellison Get Even Closer After Attacking the Linux-based Android Using Patents, Google Becomes Software Patents Foe

11.15.10 TechBytes Episode 8: Linux Mint Special With Gordon Sinclair (ThistleWeb)

11.16.10 India Says No to RAND and Europe Should Pay Attention

11.17.10 TechBytes Episode 9: The Potentially Permanent Return of ThistleWeb

11.18.10 Why Windows Phone 7 Shows That Windows in General is Collapsing

11.18.10 Eye on Security: BBC Propaganda, Rootkits, and Stuxnet in Iran’s Nuclear Facilities

11.20.10 OpenSUSE Left Behind While GNU/Linux Still Flies Ahead

11.20.10 Poll: 25% of BetaNews Readers Are Desktop GNU/Linux Users

11.20.10 Escribiendo a los EstadoUnidenses

11.20.10 Seattle Times Uses Copyright Law for Censorship, to Defend Steve Ballmer

11.20.10 Brand Dilution: “Seattle Creates Their Own ODF”

11.21.10 India dice No a la RAND y Europa Deben Prestar Atención

11.22.10 It’s Not SCO Versus Novell, It’s SCO and Novell

11.22.10 Novell’s Sales Director for Australia and New Zealand Apparently Quits

11.22.10 Has Pulse Arrived Only to be Buried? Now Renamed Vibe

11.23.10 Apple Expected to Have Antitrust Trouble as Anticompetitive Practices Carry on

11.23.10 End of Novell – The Morning After

11.23.10 Novell Buys Keynote

11.27.10 Apple Uses Patents to Shut Down Competitors and Om Malik is Pimping Patents

11.27.10 La India Enseña a Occidente Cómo Lidiar con los Monopolios Intelectuales

11.27.10 Windows is Being Devalued

11.27.10 IBM and Tandberg Abuse Software Patents by Using Them to Rip Off Real Innovators

11.27.10 Eye on Patents: Broken System as Shown by New Evidence

11.27.10 India Teaches the West How to Deal With Intellectual Monopolies

11.27.10 Windows Kernel Vulnerability for Thanksgiving, Insecurity Used for Surveillance Again

11.28.10 James Love Shows That Gates Foundation is About Marketing and News Distortion for Bill’s Agenda

11.28.10 New Push for Software Patents in Europe (Innovation Union) While UK’s Tim Berners-Lee Opposes (F)RAND

11.28.10 TechBytes Episode 13: Copyfight, Wikileaks, and Other Chat

11.29.10 Novell’s Last Week – Part VII: NOVL Goes Dark as Many Lawsuits Filed by Shareholders

11.29.10 TechBytes Episode 14: Software Patents in Phones, Android, and in General

11.30.10 Eye on Security: Vista 7 is ‘Secure’, They Promised

12.01.10 TechBytes Episode 15: Google Chrome OS, Windows Refund, and Side Topics Like Wikileaks

12.02.10 Sales of Vista Phony 7 [sic Pathetic Compared to Linux]

12.02.10 Bad Decision Made at Canonical Regarding Media Player

12.03.10 Linux Gets the ‘Wikileaks Treatment’ From Apple

12.03.10 South Tyrol (Italy) Might Make Free Software Mandatory

12.03.10 TechBytes Episode 16: Bribes for Reviews, GNU/Linux News, and Wikileaks Opinions

12.04.10 Apple is Bullying Competitors — Including Linux — Using Software Patents

12.04.10 Large US Corporations Push for Software Patents Through South Korean FTA

12.04.10 Canada’s Monopoly Enforcement Exported by Hollywood and Amazon

12.04.10 It’s Not About Linux on the ‘Desktop’

12.04.10 Patent Bullies Watch: Jay Walker, Wi-Lan, Intel-Nvidia

12.04.10 The Supreme Court Gets Another Chance to Kill Software Patents in the United States

12.06.10 Fake Numbers and Possible GPL Violations at Goldman Sachs

12.08.10 Using Financial Blackmail to Convince Spain to Allow Software Patents to Enter Europe

12.08.10 Vista 7 is Still Scarcely Adopted and Reportedly Broken

12.09.10 Canonical is Hiring Mono Developers, Losing COO

12.09.10 Vista 7 Refunds: Unbundling Proponents Are on a Roll

12.10.10 Richard Edelman — Like Richard Berman — Destroys Society for Profit

12.11.10 TechBytes Episode 18: Chrome OS, Sharing, Freedom, and Wikileaks

12.13.10 Apple Repeats Old Mistake by Neglecting Execution, Emphasising Patents

12.13.10 McCreevy’s Successors Are Getting Their Way With Software Patents in Europe

12.13.10 FSFE Scrutinises European Governments for Stance on Proprietary Software in Procurement

12.13.10 Chronology of Techrights Focus and Plans for 2011

12.14.10 Next Windows Release is Windows 6.2 (Vista is 6.0)

12.15.10 OpenSUSE’s Future Still Debated, Not Seen Clearly

12.15.10 Misc. Novell News: Proprietary Products Galore

12.15.10 SAP Uses SUSE to Compete Against Novell and Promote Proprietary Software

12.15.10 Patent Trolls Paul Allen and Jay Walker Will Carry on Trolling

12.16.10 Red Hat Employees Accuse Mac Asay of Lying About GPLv3

12.18.10 Precisión En TechRights

12.18.10 TechBytes Episode 20: GNU/Linux Gamers Pay More for Games, Other Discussions

12.20.10 LibreOffice Finds Some Patent Assurance in the OIN

12.20.10 TechBytes Episode 21: Copyright Abuses, Agitators and Trolls, Starting a New Site

12.21.10 Apple Attacks Free Speech by Removing Wikileaks, Just Like Amazon

12.21.10 Fresh Allegations That Gartner is Corrupt and Magic Quadrant Positions Are ‘for Sale’

12.21.10 2006 Déjà Vu: OpenSUSE FAQ as Damage Control

12.21.10 Groklaw Lashes Out at Novell for Promoting OOXML (With Lock-in and Patent/RAND Traps)

12.22.10 Patent Cronyism

12.22.10 Novell’s Last Moments of Public Humiliation

12.23.10 ES: Compadrazgo de Patentes

12.23.10 “Software Patents to Get Their Way in New Zealand”

12.27.10 Freedom is Not Free

12.27.10 The Future of Embedded is Linux, Not Windows

12.27.10 ES: La Libertad No Es Gratis

12.27.10 Apple and Bill Gates Serve Power, Serve Themselves, Harm the Population

12.27.10 Netflix Considers Dumping Silverlight

12.27.10 Russia’s Federal Agency for Technical Regulation and Metrology Approves OpenDocument Format as National Standard

12.27.10 TechBytes Episode 22: Freedom Debate and Picks of the Year

12.28.10 ES: Apple y Bill Gates Servicio del poder, Servirse A Sí Mismos, Perjudicar a la Población

12.28.10 ES: La Voz de Traición

12.29.10 Inkululeko Technologies — Once Funded by the Shuttleworth Foundation — Has Gone Rogue

12.29.10 Quote of the Day: Facebook Tracks Everyone, Then Sells the Data

12.29.10 Groklaw Warns Against OpenSUSE and Novell Layoffs Foreseen

12.29.10 Worst of 2010 Awards

12.30.10 Proprietary Software + Windows = VoIP System Down for Everyone

01.02.11 TechBytes Episode 23: Failuresfest and 2011 Predictions

01.03.11 Raw Interview With Linux Format Magazine

01.04.11 ES: Entrevista Exclusiva con la Revista Linux Format

01.04.11 Bill Gates Forms Government Connections to Avoid Paying Tax and Further Exploit the System

01.04.11 OpenSUSE’s Future is Doubted Even by OpenSUSE Sympathisers

01.04.11 Vista 7: The Illusion Finally Breaks

01.05.11 2010: When GNU/Linux Remained/Became Better Than Vista 7

01.05.11 Change Happens (Consensus Regarding Mono)

01.06.11 ES: Techrights es un Esfuerzo de Grupo

01.07.11 Teach for America, Inc. (TFA) a New Gates Euphemism for Indoctrinating American’s Next Generation

01.07.11 Education Scandal Leaves Melinda Gates Out of the Washington Post

01.08.11 Mono Boosters in Ubuntu Have Conflicts of Interest, LibreOffice Under Similar Threat

01.09.11 The New York Times Advertises the Gates Foundation

01.09.11 ES: Escándalo en Educación – Melinda Gates fuera del Washington Post

01.09.11 ES: El New York Times Hace Propaganda a La Fundación Gates

01.09.11 ES: Teach for America, Inc. (TFA), Un Eufemismo de Gates para Adoctrinar a la Nueva Generación de Estado Unidenses

01.10.11 Gates Foundation Pays More Blogs Like GOOD, Blog4GlobalHealth, and Crosscut to Promote Its Agenda

01.10.11 Open Source Community Harmed by Acquisition

01.10.11 Bill Gates Pays National Television (This Time PBS) for Self-Serving Propaganda

01.10.11 Bill Gates Pays Millions to AllAfrica (“Largest Electronic Distributor of African News and Information Worldwide”) to Push His Agenda

01.11.11 ES: Bill Gates Paga Millones a AllAfrica (“más grande del Distribuidor Electrónico de Noticias de África y de la Información en Todo el Mundo”) Para Impulsar Su Agenda

01.11.11 The Legacy of BECTA

01.11.11 ES: Fundación Gates Paga Más Blogs como GOOD and Blog4GlobalHealth, CrossCutt Para Promover Su Agenda

01.11.11 ES: Bill Gates Paga a La Televisión Nacional (Esta vez PBS) Para Propaganda de Auto-Servicio

01.11.11 VLC Saga Shows Danger of Apple’s Binary Wall

01.12.11 OMG!Ubuntu! Likes Mono

01.12.11 ES: El Legado de BECTA

01.12.11 Vista Phony 7 is Broken, Cracked

01.12.11 Tales of Fedora and Windows

01.12.11 When Even Paul Thurrott Complains About Windows, Something is Terribly Wrong

01.13.11 Bill Gates Becomes Economist for the United States of America

01.13.11 Gates Foundation is Not African But Speaks and Decides for Africa

01.13.11 Microfinance the Lesser-known Dark Side of the Gates Foundation

01.13.11 Upon Exit, Ronald Hovsepian and Co. May ‘Loot’ Novell One Last Time

01.14.11 ES: Fundación Gates No Es Africana, Sino que Habla y Decide por África

01.14.11 EMC, IBM, HP, and SAP Dump the BSA

01.14.11 Fake Number of Vista Phony 7 Sales Gets Reported

01.14.11 ES: Bill Gates Se Convierte en Economista de los Estados Unidos de América

01.14.11 Linux Mint Founder Does Not Follow Ubuntu’s Banshee Travesty

01.14.11 TechBytes Episode 25: Mono, Ubuntu, Android, and More

01.15.11 Reviewers, LG and Dell Show No Love for Vista Phony 7 Just Yet

01.16.11 Iran Shows the Downside of Using Proprietary Software

01.16.11 Co-founder of Novell Sells His Company

01.16.11 Mono in ‘Damage Control’

01.16.11 Novell Gradually Loses What’s Left in Mail and Collaboration

01.16.11 Novell Does More Harm Than Good at This Stage

01.16.11 Ubuntu Has No Open Respect, Needs Introspection

01.18.11 Oracle and SAP Get a Lesson About the Harms of Patents

01.18.11 Controlling Software, Controlling Minds, Controlling Nations

01.18.11 Big Blue’s Winter of Shame

01.18.11 Mageia Joins the Open Invention Network (OIN) as Linux Consortia Grow

01.18.11 “Micro-Patents” a Euphemism for Destructors of Innovation

01.18.11 TechBytes Episode 26: £98 GNU/Linux Computer, Stuxnet’s Government Roots, and More

01.19.11 Apple’s CEO Leaves Just as Apple Probed for Monopoly Abuse

01.19.11 PatentFairness.org: “The Patent System Today Discourages U.S. Job Growth.”

01.19.11 Latvian Government Departments “Must Accept Documents in ODF”

01.19.11 Patents Roundup: A Quick Look at Europe

01.19.11 Another Software Company’s CEO (Named Steve) Expected to Leave

01.20.11 Amid Risk of Disappearance, Novell Pays to Lie About Red Hat and Rivals, Uses Mono Similarly

01.20.11 ES: Control del Software, Control de las Mentes, Control de las Naciones

01.20.11 ES: PatentFairness.org: “El Sistema de Patentes Actual Desalienta El crecimiento de empleo en los EE.UU.”

01.20.11 Monofree Helps Remove and Block Mono, Just Like Mononono

01.20.11 ES: Patentes Resumen: Una Mirada Rápida a Europa

01.21.11 OOXML a Descent Into Dark Ages in Today’s Age of Collaboration

01.21.11 Larry Page Should Start by Abolishing Software Patents

01.21.11 In Defence of OIN and Android

01.22.11 ES: No Hay FUD* Como un FUD Antiguo

01.22.11 Government Procurement Should Exclude Patents-riddled ‘Standards’

01.22.11 “What on Earth is Happening to The Economist These Days?”

01.22.11 TechBytes Episode 27: Linux Phones, Pardus, Trusting One’s Government-funded Distribution, and Much More

01.22.11 SCO, CPTN, and UNIX

01.23.11 The “Mono Lobby” Explained by Neil Richards

01.23.11 Adrian Malacoda on Apathy Towards Mono

01.24.11 Keeping Unity Mono Free

01.24.11 New Allegations of “Fraud” Around Gates Foundation Funding

01.24.11 ES: Grupos de Presión por Patentes en Europa

01.25.11 OEMs to Potentially be Forced to Unbundle Windows as Forced Vista 7 ‘Sales’ Lead to Class Action Lawsuit

01.25.11 Patent Lobbying in Europe

01.25.11 Sockpuppets and Nymshifting

01.26.11 Doubts in OpenSUSE

01.26.11 Should Techrights Watch Facebook?

01.26.11 OOXML in Australia a Novell/GNOME Deja Vu

01.26.11 Patent Cartels Galore: RPX IPO, Acacia Moves Racketeering Operation to Texas

01.26.11 From UNIX Battles to .NET Battles

01.27.11 ES: Las Compras del Sector Público Deben Excluirse las “Normas” Atiborradas de Patentes

01.27.11 ES: Michael McLoughlin, Kevin McBride, y Florian Müller

01.27.11 Los Cárteles de Patentes A Monton: Movimientos de RPX, IPO, y Acacia. La Operación del Crimen Organizado se Mueve a Texas

01.27.11 Xandros Server is Allegedly Dead

01.28.11 Environmentalists in China Denounce Apple

01.28.11 Patents Roundup: Coverage From the United States, China, Vietnam, South Pacific, and Europe

01.28.11 Eric S. Raymond and John C. Dvorak Declare the Death of Vista Phony 7

01.28.11 Techrights Member Explains Smear Attacks on the Site

01.29.11 LibreOffice Clarifies OOXML Situation and Role of Novell’s Influence

01.29.11 In Search of a New Cash Cow and Common Carrier

01.31.11 The Era of Windows is Ending

01.31.11 Novell’s Last Month

01.31.11 Possible Connections Between Departure of Eric Schmidt (Former CEO of Novell) from Apple and Google to Complaints

01.31.11 TechBytes Episode 29: KDE, Other Desktop Environments, and Programming

02.03.11 “The Goal of Likewise Was to Go Into Mac/Linux Enterprises and Convert Their Directory Servers into MS ActiveDirectory”

02.04.11 ES: Bill Gates Promueve los Monopolios de Patentes

02.04.11 ES: La Reforma de Patentes de los EE.UU. Probablemente Siga Adelante y las Patentes de la UE se Puedan dar en unos Días Más

02.05.11 US Patent Reform Likely to Go Ahead and EU Patent Might be Days Away

02.05.11 Bill Gates Promotes Patent Monopolies

02.05.11 Banshee’s Developer Quits Novell

02.05.11 Google is Starting to Fight Against Software Patents

02.05.11 Novell Influence in LibreOffice Still an Apparent Problem

02.05.11 Wakeup Call for the British Government Regarding Threats of Proprietary Software

02.06.11 Mass Exodus From Novell Products

02.06.11 The UNIX Battle Moves to Former SCO Executives (Who Own unXis Domains)

02.06.11 Groklaw: OpenSUSE Board is Run by Novell Appointment of the Chairperson

02.07.11 Grounds for Antitrust Case Against Apple

02.08.11 With Novell’s Intervention, MeeGo Now Poisoned by Mono

02.08.11 How Debian-type Centralisation Made GNU/Linux Very Secure

02.08.11 How Bill Gates Got Control of a Budget of $500 Billion Per Year (Taxpayers’ Money)

02.09.11 New Zealand and Europe Should Both Actively Fight Against Software Patents

02.10.11 USPTO Has Patents Blocking American Innovation, Brainwashed European Minority Wants to Emulate This Mess

02.10.11 Eclipse Foundation Director: “Software Patents Are Basically a Bad Idea”; IBM Still Celebrating Patents

02.11.11 ES: ¿Cómo Bill Gates Ganó Control de un Presupuesto de $ 500 Mil Millones al Año (dinero de los contribuyentes)

02.11.11 ES: Nueva Zelanda y Europa Deben Luchar Juntos Activamente Contra las Patentes de Software

02.11.11 ES: Llamada de Alerta Para el Gobierno Británico Respecto a las Amenazas del Software Propietario

02.12.11 BBC Newsnight on Digital Security

02.12.11 Vista 7 Patches Break Crucial Software

02.13.11 ES: ¿Cómo la Centralización tipo Debian ha Hecho a GNU/Linux MUY SEGURO

02.13.11 TechBytes Episode 31: Nokiasoft and Computer Games

02.13.11 Jim Skippen to Make the Software Patents Mess Worse in Canada, Elsewhere

02.14.11 Whitewashing Inherent Windows Flaws

02.14.11 SCO is Having Money Issues

02.15.11 When Windows Kills

02.15.11 ES: El ‘Nuevo Nokia Es Un Problema de Patentes en Europa

02.15.11 The ‘New Nokia’ is a Patent Problem in Europe

02.16.11 Motorola Dumps Windows, Opposite of Nokia

02.16.11 Politically-motivated Proprietary Software

02.16.11 Stephen Norris Comes Back as SCO Dodges Another Bankruptcy Hearing

02.16.11 Ostracise Miguel de Icaza Like Stephen Elop Should Have Been Ostracised From Nokia

02.16.11 Zune is Now Dead, At Least As a Brand

02.17.11 Nicolas Sarkozy ‘Pulls a Kissinger’ on Steve Ballmer

02.17.11 Proprietary Software Turns Society Against Itself

02.17.11 Vista Phony 7 a Disaster to Developers, Verizon Gives It Thumbs Down

02.19.11 Eye on Apple: Privacy Problems, Anticompetitive Behaviour, and Retaliation Against Modders

02.20.11 Novell is Being Ditched

02.20.11 “Shares of Novell Rank the Lowest in Terms Of EPS Growth in the Systems Software Industry”

02.20.11 Where Novell Staff Goes After Abandoning Novell

02.21.11 Fox ‘News’: Serving Koch Brothers, Serving Bill Gates

02.21.11 Promoting OpenSUSE is Not the Same as Promoting Mono

02.21.11 Novell Keeps Amassing More Software Patents, Feeding a Rogue System

02.21.11 Novell on Fog Computing, Wikileaks

02.22.11 When Intellectual Monopolies Become Criminal

02.22.11 Facebook: Leveraging Free Software, Promoting Proprietary

02.22.11 TechBytes Episode 32: Desktop Environments, Computer Games, Android and Ubuntu as the ‘New Linux’, Copyright Mentality

02.22.11 Vista Phony 7 is Just a Very Costly Experiment

02.23.11 ES: Cuando los Monopolios Intelectuales se Conviérten en Criminales

02.24.11 OOXML is Running Out of Space, ODF Plugfest UK Opens

02.24.11 Eye on Apple: Losing to Linux, Facing Unrest and Probes

02.25.11 Stephen Elop is Bricking Nokia

02.25.11 The Main Difference Between Real PCs and Proprietary Systems

02.26.11 ES: Bill Gates Esta Matando el Periodismo, Reemplazándolo con Egoístas Relaciones Públicas PR

02.27.11 Linux is the Future of Mobile, Already a #1 Player

02.27.11 Patents Roundup: Europe’s Mistake With the EU Patent, SCOTUS, Patent Trolls, and Collusion

03.02.11 BSA is Lobbying (and Lying) to Exclude Software Freedom From the British Public Sector

03.02.11 IEEE is Still Against Scientists, Protects Monopolies Instead

03.04.11 MSBBC Finally Calls Out… Android (to Scare People)

03.04.11 ES: El Departamento de Justicia de los EE.UU. Investiga al Cartel MPEG Mientras que IBM se Distancia así Mismo de los Defensores del Cartel

03.04.11 US Justice Department Takes on the MPEG Cartel as IBM Distances Itself From Cartel Defenders

03.04.11 When Software Patents Defenders Change Their Minds

03.04.11 ES: Cuando los Defensores de las Patentes de Software Cambian de Opinión

03.06.11 TechBytes Episode 33: Patent ‘Thieves’ and News That Deceives

03.13.11 ES: La Alianza Empresarial de Software (BSA) Cabildea (y miente) Para Excluir el Software Libre en el Sector Público Británico

03.14.11 Techrights is Up, But Here’s What Else is Up

03.14.11 TechBytes Episode 34: Done on a Dongle

03.15.11 Interlude: Promoting Ideas, Not Companies

03.16.11 Triumph Against Software Patents in Europe as EU Treaty Brought Up

03.18.11 ES: Triunfo Contra las Patentes de Software en Europa Como fue Creado el Tratado de la Unión Europea

03.19.11 TechBytes Episode 35: You Can’t Please Some People

03.20.11 Today’s News is PR

03.24.11 ES: Las Noticias Actuales Son Relaciones Públicas

03.25.11 Boycott BT

03.30.11 The FFII Reports Bad Faith at the European Patent Office

03.31.11 Software Freedom Perspective: 2006-2011

03.31.11 Tribute to Schroder and Unanswered Questions

04.01.11 Market of Firefox (Free Software Poster Child) is Increasing While Windows Market is Decreasing

04.02.11 Novell Leeching More, Creating Less

04.02.11 Bill Gates and Nathan Myhrvold Find New Ways to Extort the Competitors, Using Patents

04.02.11 ES: Perspectiva de la Libertad del Software: 2006-2011

04.02.11 The FFII Undresses the European Union

04.02.11 ES: La FFII Desviste a la Unión Europea

04.03.11 ES: Bill Gates y Nathan Myhrvold Encuentran Nuevas Maneras de Extorsionar a los Competidores, Usando Patentes

04.03.11 TechBytes Episode 36: “Come to Take Me Away”

04.04.11 Advice to Google: Stop Organising Patent Offices

04.04.11 Software Patent Supporters Among ‘Us’

04.04.11 TechBytes Episode 37: Escaping the Soaps

04.05.11 When All Else Fails, They Use Patents Against Linux

04.05.11 Links /4/2011: Mourning Mozilla Messaging, Celebrating Simple Java API for ODF

04.06.11 On the Internet, Nobody Knows You’re a Mercenary

04.07.11 Why OpenSUSE 11.5 Might Never Come

04.08.11 ES: Los Activistas Políticos Necesitan Linux Segunda Parte

04.08.11 ES: Los Activistas Políticos Necesitan Linux

04.08.11 In Defence of Groklaw

04.08.11 Romanian Government: Programs Are Better With Source Code

04.09.11 Debian 6 Claimed to be Harmed by Mono, Ubuntu Suffers From Banshee Problems

04.10.11 Novell’s Patents Will Harm GNU/Linux, Proving That Everyone’s Software Patents Are Bad

04.10.11 The Androidisation of GNU/Linux

04.11.11 TechBytes Episode 38: Thanks for Reaching Out

04.12.11 UnXis Does Not Have Unix (and Why We Still Need Groklaw)

04.12.11 Why Google Should Yank MonoDroid

04.13.11 Elop-led Nokia and Bill Gates Lobby Europe Amid New Push Ushering in Software Patents

04.13.11 Jay Walker is a Patent Troll, Imitates the Paul Allen Model

04.15.11 Discouragement by Association

04.15.11 Taking Techrights to the Next Level by Adding Video and Covering SCO

04.15.11 Ubuntu Without the Mono

04.16.11 Moving Closer Towards Operating Systems Unbundling in Europe

04.16.11 Articles of ZDNet UK

04.17.11 TechBytes Episode 40: Video Begins at 40

04.18.11 Klaus-Heiner Lehne Blasted for Conflict of Interest, Florian Müller Shares His Interests

04.18.11 ES: Klaus-Heiner Devastador Conflicto de Interés, Florian Müller Comparte Sus Intereses

04.18.11 OpenDocument Format in Indonesia and OOXML in Court

04.18.11 Losing the Battle Against Software Patents?

04.19.11 Windows is the Next NetWare

04.19.11 ZDNet Censors Comments Editors Disagree With

04.20.11 Apple’s Anti-Linux Patent Lawsuits Give Another Reason for Concern Over CPTN

04.20.11 Sources of Endlessly-repeated Lies About GNU/Linux

04.20.11 Lies About SCO

04.21.11 Software Corruption Leads to Protests in India, Again

04.21.11 What ORNL Should Learn From CERN: Use GNU/Linux on Desktops

04.21.11 The World According to ZDNet: Vista 7 a Whole Area of IT

04.22.11 comScore Miscounts Linux

04.22.11 Steven Lundberg Uses Gymnastics in Logic in Order to Sell Software Patents

04.24.11 Shades of SCO in Action Against Android

04.24.11 TechBytes Episode 41: Going Rusty

04.26.11 The Lobby Against Linux

04.26.11 Windows Sales Keep Declining and “Windows Ecosystem is Broken”

04.26.11 Why Google Will Invalidate Linux-Hostile Patents

04.27.11 Patent Question Becoming Central in the Software Freedom Debate

04.27.11 Groklaw to Novell Upon the Company’s Death: “You Really Let the Community Down.”

04.28.11 Attachmate and Mono

04.28.11 Fake Patent Reforms and Abolition of Software Patents

04.29.11 OEMs Should Bundle GNU/Linux as Windows Declines, Attracts Malware

04.29.11 John Dragoon is Leaving Novell Amid Fallout

04.29.11 TechBytes Episode 42: Bandwidth, Android and Patents, Games, and Computer Nostalgia

04.29.11 Video: Pieter Hintjens and Others on Software Patents in Europe

05.02.11 In Its Last Days Novell Still Marketed Proprietary Software, Not Free/Open Source Software

05.02.11 Computer Weekly Writes About “Susceptibility of That [OOXML Process to Corruption”]

05.02.11 What Happens to OpenSUSE and Novell’s Software Patents Now?

05.03.11 Novell is Similar to Nortel

05.03.11 Patent Threat to GNU/Linux a Top Issue to Address

05.03.11 Mono Development Canned (Updated: Everyone Laid Off)

05.03.11 Acacia Extorts Red Hat Again

05.04.11 Good Week for Techrights

05.04.11 Inside the Minds of Patent Lawyers and Monopolists

05.04.11 TechBytes Episode 43: At Home With Jono Bacon, Ubuntu Community Manager

05.07.11 TechBytes Episode 44: The Four Horsemen Reunited; Fedora Ambassador Interview

05.08.11 Eulogy for Novell

05.08.11 Signal Versus Noise

05.08.11 Novell by Any Other Name

05.08.11 Windows Killer Feature: It Kills GNU/Linux Partitioning

05.09.11 IBM and Google Still Not Committed to Crushing Software Patents

05.09.11 The Threat of Mono on Android and on Ubuntu is Not Totally Gone Yet

05.09.11 Season of Renames

05.09.11 Proprietary Software Against Civil Rights

05.10.11 Novell’s Legal Cases in Attachmate’s Hands

05.10.11 ES: IBM y Google No Mantienen El Compromiso de Triturar las Patentes de Software

05.10.11 Huffington Post Helps Belittle Android Using Falsehoods

05.10.11 Novell Was Not Paying Federal Tax

05.10.11 ES: Novell No Ha Pagado Impuestos Federales

05.10.11 Steve Ballmer as King of Novell

05.11.11 News Reporters Bribed to Spread Google FUD

05.11.11 ES: El Huffington Post Ayuda a Menospreciar Android Usando Falsedades

05.11.11 ES: El Software Propietario Contra los Derechos Civiles

05.12.11 People Who Left SUSE Because of Novell’s Atrocious Patent Deal

05.12.11 Vista 7 Top ‘Feature’ is Access to Intruders

05.12.11 Bedrock Loses as Linux Emerges Victorious

05.13.11 ES: La “Función” Principal de Vista 7 Es Permitir el Acceso a Intrusos

05.13.11 Patent Defence Cartels Versus Abolishing Software Patents

05.14.11 It Can’t Be Just a Theory When There is Admission and Proof (Anti-Google Smear Campaign)

05.14.11 Thanks to Groklaw | Gracias a Groklaw

05.14.11 Windows is Getting Less Secure Over Time While GNU/Linux Grows Bigger

05.15.11 ES: Windows es Cada Vez Menos Seguro a Través del Tiempo Mientras que GNU/Linux Crece Cada Vez Más

05.15.11 ES: Los Defensa de los Cárteles de Patentes vs. La Total Supresión de Patentes de Software

05.15.11 TechBytes Episode 45: Skype, Facebook, and Weekly Musings

05.15.11 TechBytes Episode 46: GNU/Linux in Germany, Android’s Openness, and More

05.15.11 Patents Roundup: Kodak Dinosaur Wins Against Apple, Patent Trolls Attack the Small Guy, and USPTO Does Nothing Right

05.16.11 ES: No Es Sólo Una Teoría Cuando Existe la Admisión y Prueba (Campaña de Desprestigio Contra Google)

05.16.11 A Bright New Future for Groklaw Under Mark Webbink’s Leadership (Updated)

05.16.11 ES: Resumen de Patentes : El Dinosaurio Kodak gana contra Apple, Trolls de patentes Atacan al Tipo Pequeño, y la USPTO No Hace Nada Bien

05.17.11 ES: Un futuro brillante Para El Nuevo Groklaw bajo la dirección de Mark Webbink (Actualizado)

05.17.11 OpenSUSE Status: Not Good

05.17.11 It’s All Down to Patents Now

05.17.11 ES: Ahora Todo Se Resume a Patentes!

05.17.11 Xamarin Analysed

05.18.11 hypePhone Developers Should Blame Apple for Lodsys Patent Attack, for Funding Nathan Myhrvold’s Cartel

05.18.11 Beware Fog Computing/Proprietary Software Peddlers Disguised as ‘Open Source’

05.20.11 Bill Gates Started the World’s Biggest Pyramid Scheme With Patents

05.20.11 It’s Not a Virus If the User Needs to Actually Install It

05.20.11 Europe’s Peanut Gallery Wants Software Patents

05.21.11 TechBytes Episode 47: Unity With the Wife

05.22.11 Eric Doyle: Novell’s Bright Hopes for SUSE Failed to Shine

05.22.11 What Happens to the Novell Boycott

05.22.11 Hovsepian, Russell, O’Keefe, Shah, Hale, Kavanagh, Semel, Ebzery and Many Others Leave Novell

05.22.11 Producing TechBytes

05.22.11 Novell’s Takeover Smells Ever More Dodgy as Wizard Parent LLC Provides Shady Financing

05.23.11 Lodsys Shows That Apple Does Not Care About Developers

05.23.11 The Elephant in the Patents Room

05.23.11 Patent Lawyers Boast New Tricks for Patenting Software

05.24.11 Doubts About the Future of Open Source Under Attachmate

05.24.11 Software Patents Spread Like a Plague Owing to US-based Multinationals

05.25.11 ZDNet Spins the Spreading of Free Software as a Loss to Free Software

05.25.11 DistroWatch: Fedora Keeps Mono in Rawhide

05.25.11 Even Patent Lawyers Struggle to Defend the Broken Patent System

05.26.11 As Mono Runs Out of Money Developers Avoid It

05.26.11 ES: El Gallinero de Europa Quiere Patentes de Software

05.27.11 OpenSUSE in the Mist of Novell PR and Trademarks

05.27.11 TechBytes Episode 48: Will The Real Steve Ballmer Please Step Down?

05.27.11 What Has Happened to The Guardian?

05.27.11 ES: ¿Qué ha Pasado con The Guardian?

05.28.11 Introducing Eduardo Landaveri, Administrator of the Spanish Portal

05.28.11 ES: La BBC Sobornada por Bill Gates

05.29.11 BBC Bribed by Bill Gates

05.31.11 Still No Commitment to OpenSUSE, Just Proprietary Software From Attachmate

05.31.11 Linus Torvalds Reiterates His Hatred of Software Patents

05.31.11 Peer To Patent: A Lawyers’ Solution to a Lawyers’ Problem

05.31.11 Why Europe Must Prepare to Abolish and Block All Software Patents

06.01.11 IBM PR is ‘Shaping’ the News (and Asks to Remain Secret)

06.01.11 IBM Takes ODF to Another Level

06.01.11 ES: Intercambio de Patentes: ‘Una Solución a un Problema de Abogados’

06.01.11 ES: ¿Por qué Europa debe Prepararse Para Aboler y Bloquear Todas las Patentes de Software?

06.01.11 Pressure is Mounting for All Software Patents to be Tossed Out, Even in the United States

06.01.11 There is No Windows 8, It is Vista With New Tweaks

06.01.11 European Court of Justice and Baroness Wilcox Could Learn From Spain, Italy

06.01.11 ES: El Tribunal Europeo de Justicia y la Baronesa Wilcox Podrían Aprender de España e Italia

06.02.11 IBM Needs to Explain Office Suite Patents (and How Bill Gates Was Attacking Interoperability With Lotus, Using Patents Against OpenOffice.org)

06.02.11 ES: La Presión Crece Para Que Todas las Patentes de Software Sean Invalidadas, Incluso en los Estados Unidos

06.02.11 SCOTUS Helps the Monopolists, Not the Citizens of the United States (Again)

06.02.11 “Windows 8 Sounds Like It’s Basically Windows Phone 7 on a PC”

06.03.11 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)

06.03.11 IBM Brings OIN-Like Mentality to Europe

06.03.11 ES: SCOTUS Ayuda a los Monopolistas, No a Los Ciudadanos de los Estados Unidos (nuevo)

06.03.11 TechBytes Episode 49: Linux – To Boldly Go…

06.03.11 Tim O’Reilly (US): “We Need Some Serious Reform on Software Patents.”

06.05.11 TechBytes Episode 50: With Rusty Again, Challenging FUD

06.06.11 Github is Gaining Based on Proprietary Data

06.06.11 The Register is Distorting Authors’ Headlines

06.07.11 Novell GroupWise Dumped, What About WordPerfect?

06.07.11 FSFE Head: “US Department of Justice Finally Seeing Software Patents as Threat to Competition?”

06.07.11 OpenSUSE Stuck (Progress Report About the Project)

06.07.11 ES: IBM Trae la Mentalidad Semejante al OIN a Europa

06.07.11 Reader’s Thoughts: The Linux/UNIX and ARM World

06.07.11 ES: Tim O’Reilly (EE.UU.): “Necesitamos una Seria Reforma de Patentes de Software.”

06.07.11 Laid Off Novell Staff to Find Jobs in More Ethical Places

06.08.11 New Reality Distortion, Same Florian Müller for Taxing Linux

06.08.11 Flaws and Back Doors Behind the Proprietary Software Curtain

06.09.11 European Commission Wants to Pay Commissions to the United States

06.10.11 SCOTUS Reinforces Its Position of Hostility Towards Science and Technology

06.10.11 Q&A With Puppet Labs’ James Turnbull Regarding Pro Puppet

06.10.11 Government Procurement in the UK

06.10.11 Europe’s Software Patents Problem Summarised

06.11.11 Apple Runs Out of Ideas, Harms Developers, and Faces Antitrust Problems

06.11.11 Patents Roundup: Unconstitutional Patent Reform, SCOTUS Ruling on i4i and University Patent Rights, More Calls to Abolish Software Patents

06.12.11 Painting Tax With a ‘Charity’ Brush

06.13.11 Mozilla Staff Explains That Net Applications Gives Skewed Firefox Measures

06.13.11 ES: Las Compras del Sector Público en el Reino Unido

06.13.11 ES: Pintando al Impuesto con un Pincel de Caridad

06.13.11 France and the United Kingdom Want to Drown in Software Patents Sea of Risk

06.14.11 How to Advocate for GNU/Linux to Become Dominant Platform (Across Different Levels of Scale But Especially Desktops)

06.14.11 ES: Patentes Resumen: Una reforma inconstitucional de Patentes, la Sentencia de Scotus Sobre i4i y los Derechos de Patentes de la Universidad, Más Llamadas por la Abolición de las Patentes de Software

06.15.11 TechBytes Episode 51: Nokia and Apple, GPL’s Importance, Silverlight’s Death, and Copyrights Unrest

06.16.11 SME Innovation Alliance is Against SME Interests

06.16.11 ES: Resumen del Problema Patentes de Software de Europa

06.16.11 Winning When Techrights Becomes Unnecessary

06.17.11 OpenSUSE is Drying Up in Attachmate’s Hands

06.17.11 ES: La Supuesta Alianza Para la Innovación de las PYMEs Están Contra los Intereses de las PYMES

06.17.11 Mitch Lemons and Other Novellers Leave the Company

06.17.11 What Novell Founder Drew Major is Up to

06.18.11 Foggy and Binary Future (If Any) for Mono

06.18.11 Patent Policy Controlled by Giants Like GE and Apple, Not the Public

06.18.11 New Zealand Beats Software Patents Legality

06.18.11 The Indoctrination of Engineers by Patent Lawyers and Monopolists

06.19.11 FFII Warns About Latest Patent Threats in Europe

06.19.11 Gartner Group Partly Owned by Bill Gates and Other Business People That Gartner Covers

06.19.11 Linux-Hostile Patent Lobbying Disguised as Analysis

06.19.11 MyDoom Misdirection and Disinformation About GNU/Linux Desktops

06.19.11 ES: Nueva Zelanda Golpea la Legalidad de las Patentes de Software

06.20.11 ES: La FFII Advierte Sobre las Ultimas Amenazas de Patentes en Europa

06.20.11 Lobbyists Against GNU/Linux Increasingly Use Patents as Weapons

06.20.11 ES: La Política de Patentes Es Controlada Por Gigantes como General Electric y Apple, NO el Público

06.20.11 Software Patents Hurt uTorrent, GoDaddy, Internet Phones, and More

06.20.11 ES: El Adoctrinamiento de Ingenieros por Abogados de Patentes y Monopolistas

06.21.11 USPTO is Driving Away Businesses to Countries Like New Zealand, US-based Multinationals Attack New Zealand With Imperialistic Patent Lobbying to Assimilate Policies

06.21.11 The End of Novell Marketing and Dispersion of OpenSUSE Community

06.21.11 US Chamber of Commerce Patent Lobbying, Redmond Patent Troll, and the Fight Against RAND

06.22.11 Bill Gates-funded BBC Does Not Name That Web Browser

06.23.11 The Linux Foundation Needs a Rethink About Software Patents Stance (Currently Represents Multinationals, Not GNU/Linux Users/Developers)

06.23.11 All Your Fruit Are Belong to Apple

06.23.11 ES: Promotor de Ogg Contraataca Contra el Cartel de MPEG-LA

06.24.11 ES: La Fundación Linux Necesita Replantear su Postura Sobre las Patentes de software(actualmente representa a las multinacionales no a GNU/Linux y los usuarios/desarrolladores)

06.24.11 ES: Los Grupos de Presión Contra GNU/Linux Cada Vez Más Utilizan las Patentes Como Armas

06.26.11 Software Patents Depress Progress, Shows James E. Bessen of Boston University

06.26.11 Techrights Was Right About Mono Being Open Core, Now Miguel de Icaza Admits It

06.26.11 TechBytes Episode 52: Desktop Environments and the Demise of Ubuntu

06.27.11 What Attachmate Does (or Does Not Do) With OpenSUSE, SCO Case

06.27.11 Government of India Increasingly Groks GNU/Linux

06.27.11 Software Patents Face New Challenges as FTC Notified, Bilski Case Invoked, and Re-examinations Carried Out

06.28.11 ES: Las Patentes de Software Detienen el Progreso, lo Muestra James E. Bessen de la Universidad de Boston

06.28.11 “Using .NET is Like Fred Flintstone Building a Database”

06.28.11 ES: Las Patentes de Software Frente a Nuevos Retos la FTC notificada, el caso Bilski invocado, y Re-examinación Realizadas

06.29.11 MonoDroid and MonoTouch Are Assimilation to .NET

06.29.11 New Zealand’s Patent Law Has Room for Improvement

06.29.11 The SUSE Experiment Lives On For Now

06.29.11 Got Virus? GNU/Linux Can Fix That.

06.29.11 ES: Tienes un Virus? GNU/Linux lo Arregla

06.30.11 Xamarin/Mono Already Abandoned by Developers

07.01.11 Software Patents: A Personal Perspective (Part 2)

07.02.11 Web Plug-ins Dealt a Blow

07.05.11 Patents Providing Protectionism, Not Beneficial Protection

07.06.11 Software Patent Holders Who Wish to Kiss Goodbye to Software Patents

07.06.11 Red Hat President: Novell would “try to switch them to the stuff that wasn’t open source.”

07.06.11 TechBytes Episode 53: WebOS, Universal Laws, and Tablets

07.06.11 TechBytes Episode 54: Patent Extortion, Economy Shifting, Tablets Lacking

07.06.11 Thoughts on Novell – Part II

07.07.11 Internal Market Commissioner Michel Barnier and Polish Presidency Named and Shamed for Patent Policy

07.07.11 Don’t Support Mono

07.10.11 “Developers Against Patents” to Start Attacking Patent Trolls; World Wide Web Threatened by Apple Patents

07.10.11 What We Can Do to Improve Things

07.10.11 Xen-pocalypse

07.10.11 Xamarin Has a Trademarks Problem

07.10.11 Boycott Novell Concluded

07.10.11 Novell Pays Ponemon Institute, LLC, to Help Generate Fake News

07.10.11 United States May Join Canada in Challenging Nortel’s Patent Sale to Linux Foes

07.12.11 Why We Need to Pressure Google Into Putting an End to Software Patents

07.12.11 IDG Uses Fake ‘Panel’ to Create Linux-hostile Bias

07.13.11 Ken Muir (Vice President) Leaves Novell

07.13.11 Regulators in the US/Canada Authorise Linux-hostile Patent Cartel, Google Must Help Abolish Software Patents Now

07.14.11 Novell Business is Lost Following the Staff Loss

07.14.11 Sale of Linspire to Xandros Gets the Unofficial OK After Years in Court, Xandros Sells Scalix

07.15.11 Europe Patent Law Under Pressure, APRIL Gets Increasingly Involved

07.15.11 Google Should Invest Wealth in Reformists, Not Patent Lawyers

07.15.11 ES: Los Reguladores de EE.UU./Canadá Autorizan al Cartel de Patentes Hostiles a Linux, Google Debe Ayudar a Abolir las Patentes de Software Ahora

07.16.11 USPTO Drives American Software Developers Away to Other Countries

07.17.11 ES: La Ley de Patentes de Europa, Bajo presión, APRIL Participa Cada Vez Más

07.17.11 ES: Google Debe Invertir Riqueza en los Reformistas No en los Abogados de Patentes

07.18.11 Linux FUD and Android FUD

07.18.11 Google’s Business Model and the FUD About It

07.18.11 Software Patents Might Inevitably Die as Economic Impact is Realised

07.19.11 ES: Inevitablemente, las Patentes de Software Podrían Morir Cuando Su Impacto Económico es Dado a Conocer

07.20.11 Apple’s Not-So-Many Anti-Android (and Linux-Hostile) Patents Seen as Invalid, Google to Help Eliminate a Couple

07.20.11 What Next for US Patent Law?

07.20.11 US Patent Cartel Recognised, Legally Challenged, Software Patents Gradually Die

07.21.11 Windows Still Designed for Insecurity

07.21.11 Tell Google Not to Buy Software Patents

07.22.11 Windows Servers Die, Windows Business is Down

07.22.11 Remnants of Novell

07.22.11 ES: La USPTO Alejar a Empresas a Países Como Nueva Zelanda, Multinacionales Con Sede en Estados Unidos Atacan a Nueva Zelanda con Cabildeo de Patentes Imperialistas Para asimilar sus Políticas

07.22.11 Source Code Advantage of SUSE Blurred by ‘Cloud’ (Fog Computing) Promotion

07.24.11 TechBytes Episode 56: GNU/Linux Versus Mac OS X

07.24.11 ES: El Cartel de Patentes de los EE.UU. Reconocido, Impugnado ante los tribunales, las Patentes de Software Mueren Gradualmente

07.25.11 100,000,000 Reasons to Boycott SUSE

07.25.11 Google is Looking to Join the Patents Cartel to Defend Android

07.25.11 Mainstream Press is Turning Against Software Patents

07.25.11 Sponsorships of OpenSUSE

07.25.11 GroupWise Abandonment Continues

07.25.11 Rage Against the Masochist

07.25.11 Windows is Losing Ground, Linux-Hostile/Intolerant Service Pack Kicks In

07.25.11 Novell Remembered as One of Several Proprietary Software Companies Where Products Die

07.30.11 Weekend Links 2011/07/30 – Amazing New OLPC and Patent Insanity

07.31.11 Links White Spaces, Police Hacking, Pollution and Censorship

08.06.11 TechBytes Episode 57: Desktop Choice is Grand

08.07.11 Apple is Increasingly an Embargo Company, Not a Technology Company

08.07.11 Gianugo Rabellino Helps the Attack on Software Freedom

08.07.11 European Procurement Rules Need Review for Built-in Bias

08.07.11 .NET Gets Called a Mistake, But Not in Xamarin

08.08.11 US Moves Towards Limiting Software Patenting, Germany Remains Confused About EU Patent Laws

08.08.11 Myhrvold’s “Criminal Enterprise”, Detkin’s Criticism of Extortionists and Terrorists (Which He Himself Became)

08.10.11 Apple is Killing Jobs, Killing Products

08.10.11 Latest Evidence That the USPTO is Morbidly Ill, Costing the Economy; Real Reform Likely

08.11.11 The UK Shares Romania’s Pain as Free Software Excluded From Public Services

08.12.11 Links – Nokia Dying, Astroturf as Warfare, Protest as Hacking, Big Pollution.

08.12.11 Global Dimming for the Cult of Patents

08.12.11 Germany Does Badly Regarding Software Patents

08.12.11 The Real Issues, Not Gossip

08.13.11 After Icahn Entryism, Motorola Too Considers Strategy of Extorting Linux Phone Makers

08.13.11 Links – WebODF, Murdoch’s Legacy and some Patent Anti-Trust

08.13.11 Bill Gates Uses Influence Over Washington Post, GOOD and Other Publications He ‘Sponsors’ to Privatise Education, Promote His Patent Monopolies

08.14.11 Gates Monitor: February 2011 on Bill Gates-Funded Lobbyists Who Drive US Education Agenda

08.15.11 Links – Wind and Nuclear Power, Bing, Patents and other Pollution

08.16.11 Apple Fabricates ‘Evidence’ to Ban Linux Devices

08.16.11 Despite Google’s Validation of Patents, the Fight Against Software Patents Carries On

08.16.11 Links – More Google/Motorola/Android, Wind Power, Wealth and Political Power

08.17.11 A Demise of the Patent Plot Against Linux

08.17.11 Boycott Novell Deja Vu

08.17.11 Techrights in the Mainstream

08.18.11 Amid Equilibrium in Patent Deterrence, Apple’s Patent Attacks on Linux a Sign of Losing

08.18.11 Another Novell Product Dies: Vibe Runs Out of Pulse

08.18.11 Links – HBGary Astroturf and Lodsys Accused

08.18.11 Novell Dumped in Australia

08.19.11 Arguments That Google’s Motorola Move Was Defensive (Amid Bidding War)

08.20.11 Apple Caught Lying to Judges Again, Using Fabricated Evidence. Time to Fine/Ban Apple?

08.20.11 Links – More on the Demise of webOS, SpyPhone and Facebook Busted

08.20.11 The Era of Software Patents May be Ending Gradually. It Was Terrible Whilst It Lasted, Agree ‘Mainstream’ Sources.

08.21.11 Bill Gates Buys More Blogs and Papers, Creates Puppet Group “Teaching First” to Lobby the Press

08.21.11 Open Bugs Day at OpenSUSE, But Biggest Bugs Are Overlooked

08.21.11 Does Anyone Still Use Xandros?

08.23.11 Europe Under Threat From Software Patents Through the Back Door, Warns FSF Founder

08.23.11 Pressure on Authors and Journals/Journalists to Push Bill Gates’ Agenda

08.24.11 BBC’s Reversal of Android Stories Makes Them ‘Publishable’

08.24.11 Backlash Against the US Patent System Grows Amid Google’s Defensive Moves

08.24.11 Links – Deepwater Horizon Spews, Big Boats, RMS on Unitary Patents

08.24.11 New Copyright FUD Against Java/Linux (Android)

08.24.11 Shunning SUSE in FOSS and Linux Events

08.24.11 TechBytes Episode 58: HP’s 180, Google’s New Patents, and the New GIMP

08.25.11 Despite Malicious Lobbying and Legal Attacks, Linux and Android Are Winning

08.25.11 Steve’s Duopoly Against Linux

08.25.11 Links – Wikileaks Betrayed, Germany’s East Texas, Spying

08.27.11 Astroturf Alert: “Vibrant Schools Tacoma Coalition” and “Alliance for Education” Directly and Indirectly Funded by Bill Gates to Lobby for Privatisation (Profit!)

08.28.11 Cablegate Reveals US Pressure for EU Patent (Unitary Patent) Alongside ACTA, More Pro-Patents Lobbyists Observed

08.28.11 Attachmate Lets Novell Products Rot

08.28.11 Newsweek Exposes Education System Takeover by Bill Gates et al.

08.28.11 Having Trashed Novell, Paul Singer Moves on to Brocade

08.28.11 Patents Wrath Escalated to President Obama

08.29.11 Links – Cisco and L’American Censorship, Edelman Spam, and China Syndrome

08.29.11 “Windows Servers and Workstations are Vulnerable” (Updated)

08.31.11 July 2011 Interview With Muktware

08.31.11 Links – US DOJ Opposes ATT/TMobile Merger

08.31.11 OpenSUSE in 2011

08.31.11 GNU/Linux is Secure From Copyright Slander, But Not From Patent Extortion

09.01.11 FFII Approached for Opinion on Ill Approach Towards Patents in Europe

09.02.11 When Patents Attack: Facebook is One of the Attackers

09.02.11 Developers Who Leave SUSE/Attachmate

09.02.11 Missing the Point about Burnout

09.02.11 Next on the Agenda: Researching Cablegate

09.03.11 Apple Tries Claiming That It Owns Android

09.04.11 Africans Insulted by Philanthrocapitalism

09.04.11 Windows is Not a Choice

09.05.11 As Attachmate Distances Itself From SUSE, Commitment to UNIX Copyrights Doubted

09.05.11 Links – Web Stats, Mego Petrospective, Tracking Company Busted, MPAA Exposed.

09.05.11 What We Learn From Novell’s Patents

09.05.11 Shrinking of Novell

09.05.11 TechBytes Episode 59: Privacy, Tablets, and Dream Studio

09.06.11 Mono for Android is Proprietary, Even Tomdroid Dodges It

09.07.11 Econoff

09.07.11 Cablegate: Kyiv Embassy Cites Bogus Numbers From the BSA

09.07.11 Government Married to Mega Corporations, No Genuine Patent Reform Planned yet

09.07.11 Boycott Novell and Attachmate

09.07.11 Wikileaks Cablegate: We’re Only Getting Started

09.08.11 The Demise of Apple-labelled Foxconn Devices

09.08.11 Monocalypse

09.08.11 British Government Under Fire for Ignoring Free(dom) Software, Responds With Face-Saving Promise

09.09.11 Apple Adopts ‘Lunatic Dictator’ Approach

09.09.11 Cablegate: “42 Percent of Argentine Firms Use Linux on at Least Some of Their Computers”

09.09.11 Cablegate Plan

09.10.11 Carol Bartz: Her Job is Done

09.10.11 Cablegate: US Government Assesses Value of New EU Commission to Itself

09.10.11 Cablegate Makes Considerable Difference in IT

09.11.11 Cablegate: US Embassy Recommends That Argentina is Put on Monopolists’ Watch List, Free Software Adoption Noted

09.11.11 Cablegate: “The Free Software Movement is Building Support Within the Government of Brazil and Throughout Brazil”

09.11.11 Cablegate: Gates Foundation Sends Team to Install ‘Free’ Software in the Health Ministry

09.12.11 The Business Deception of Exclusive Monopolies and Shared Monopolies

09.12.11 Attachmate’s Obscurity and Novell’s Continued Demise

09.12.11 Current Patent ‘Reform’ Criticised in the Press, Software Patents Need to Go

09.12.11 The Rise and Fall of Rise and Fall

09.12.11 OpenSUSE is Still Marginal

09.13.11 Google and Commentators Weaken the Popularity of Software Patents, Apple Already Gets Blowback

09.13.11 Global Patent System

09.14.11 The Death of Mono Applications and Similarity to SUSE

09.14.11 Cablegate: Caterpillar Official Cites Bill Gates to Justify Colluding With Oppressors

09.14.11 Mobile Patent Wars Merely a Symptom of a Broken Patent System

09.15.11 Cablegate: Brazil’s “Anti-American Ideology”

09.15.11 Cablegate: Bill Gates Belittles the World

09.15.11 Google’s IBM Patents Feast: Good or Bad?

09.15.11 Links – Copyright Maximalists turn on Libraries, Other Horrors. Will Yang Return to Yahoo?

09.15.11 Cablegate: Government Site in Egypt Launched by Bill Gates

09.15.11 Cablegate: Luis Tascón Accused of Being “Instrument of the (U.S.) Empire” Having Spent a Month “in the Offices of Bill Gates” (Updated)

09.16.11 Patent Systems: So Inherently Corrupt That They Must be Kept Secret From the Public

09.16.11 Cablegate: “IBM Have Advocated That High Quality Software Patents Would Also Have Significant Value”

09.16.11 Improper Conduct Identified as Cause for Disappointing Acceptance of FOSS in EU Authorities

09.16.11 Why Public and Private Records Keeping Systems Should Use Free Software.

09.17.11 Impact of America Invents Act on Patent Trolls

09.17.11 GTK 3-Sharp and Gstreamer-Sharp

09.18.11 Links – Copyright Theft, Trolls and Asus Returns to GNU/Linux

09.19.11 USPTO’s Violation of the First Amendment, Competition Laws, and Spirit of Creation

09.20.11 Windows Server Lost the Internet and So Will Windows (on the Desktop/Mobile)

09.21.11 Cablegate: More Coming Soon, Impact Still Expanding

09.21.11 ‘Linux’ Patent Deals Might be FAT, an Abuse Through FUD

09.21.11 Patent Reform and Android

09.21.11 Another Bessen Study Estimates Cost of Patent Trolls at Around $500,000,000,000

09.21.11 Vista 8 Bribes (5,000 ‘Free’ Tablets) Are Already Dumped for Cash

09.24.11 Links – Wintel OEM Revolt., Various Environmental and Civil Issues.

09.24.11 With Failure to Reform USPTO, Grim Future for Patent Systems Worldwide

09.24.11 SUSE Delays

09.24.11 TechBytes Episode 61: Sebastian on Mageia and the GNU/Linux Desktop

09.25.11 Windows Phone 7 Will Die With Silverlight

09.26.11 Obama Can Determine If Software Patents Go Away or Go Global

09.27.11 Novell/Attachmate Emphasises Fog Computing/Hypervisors Rather Than Open Source

09.27.11 GroupWise is Doomed

09.27.11 Attachmate Too Passive as Novell Products Dissolve

09.28.11 Links, Facebook and Boot Aggression Round Up. Spectrum Shortage Lies.

09.29.11 Patent Trolls Demystified and Patent Reform Demanded

09.30.11 Undereducated by the Billions: Steve Jobs Steps Closer to Bill Gates’ Front Groups for Ed Hijack

09.30.11 Keeping on Top

09.30.11 Software Patents Elimination a Top Priority in the United States

10.01.11 Android is Free, Even if Android Phones Are Not

10.03.11 TechBytes Episode 62: I Told You So

10.04.11 Links Gates and Allen Corruption, $35 Indian Tablet

10.04.11 When Phones Become Just a Big Pile of Patents

10.06.11 Update on Tuxera and Novell

10.06.11 Next Windows Becomes a Mess to Developers (ISVs) and OEMs

10.07.11 Steve’s Job

10.09.11 OpenSUSE Wants Donations, Loses Volunteers Force

10.09.11 Links – Brazil Defies ACTA, Creeping Biometrics Use

10.09.11 Halliburton and the UN (World Intellectual Property Organisation): Patent Globalisation, Monopoly Maximalism, and Software Patents

10.09.11 Thomas Biege Leaves the SUSE Security Team

10.09.11 .NET Does Not Want to Die Just Yet

10.10.11 TechBytes Episode 63: Enter KDE

10.11.11 Patents Roundup: Backlash, WIPO, Facebook, and Acacia Attacks Linux/Android

10.12.11 Updates on the Patent Fight Against Google

10.13.11 TechBytes Episode 64: From Russia to Bristol

10.14.11 Links – Lots of bad deals made behind closed doors.

10.15.11 Europe Gets Soft on Patents

10.15.11 OpenSUSE Misuses or Overuses the Word Open

10.18.11 Bill Gates Expected to be Dragged Into Court for Business Crimes Against Novell

10.20.11 Patents Roundup: Apple Crybaby, SCOTUS Failure, and OpenSim Concerns

10.22.11 Survey: In 2 Years, Vista 7 Enters Just a Quarter of Businesses

10.23.11 Patents Roundup: Apple Control Freak, Patents as a Business Model, and Oracle vs. Android

10.23.11 Steve Jobs and His War on Linux, LSD Addiction, and ‘Theft’ of Credit for UNIX, Java, Xerox Inventions

10.25.11 Badge of Dishonour for Apple, Even Dilbert Grows Tired of It

10.25.11 NNDB on Gates Foundation Connections

10.26.11 Links

10.27.11 Feeding the Mentally Ill

10.28.11 Apple Lost Respect

10.28.11 When Novell Staff Becomes Technology Writer

10.29.11 Apple’s Products Are Far From Perfect

10.29.11 SCOracle: Possibly Many Years in the Making, Linux Innocence Upheld

10.31.11 Shocker: Man With First Software Patent Defends Software Patents

10.31.11 Harming Society One Patent at a Time

11.01.11 Latest Analysis of Patent Assault on Linux

11.01.11 New Zealand’s Software Industry is Against Software Patents

11.01.11 The End of SUSE Flavours

11.01.11 It is About Patent Wars and Attribution, Not Death

11.02.11 Mono Bug Persists in Ubuntu GNU/Linux

11.02.11 Links – E-Tyranny Acts

11.02.11 TechBytes Episode 65: End of the Season

11.02.11 New Flaws in Windows Kernel and the Borderline Impossibility of Post Mortems

11.03.11 Patents Roundup: Software Patents, Patent Trolls, Reexaminations, and Apple

11.04.11 ‘Owning’ Language

11.04.11 Pirate Party of Australia Lashes Out at Software Patents

11.04.11 Breaking: Ubuntu is Dumping Mono, Mono Applications

11.06.11 Links – Education update, Anti-Trust and Privacy

11.07.11 Attachmate/Novell: Videos, GroupWise, and Abandonment

11.07.11 SUSE Gets Lost in the ‘Cloud’

11.10.11 Apple’s Latest Attacks and Problems Clearly Show That Apple is Losing

11.10.11 Patent Law Corrupted by Billionaires and Their Lobbyists

11.10.11 Pogson: Has EDGI Been at Work? (Again)

11.11.11 Nothing Truly Unique in OpenSUSE 12.1 Compared to Fedora 16 and Ubuntu 11.10

11.11.11 Patent Lawyers Compare Patent Monopolies to Children

11.11.11 Techrights and Boycott Novell Turn 5, Boycott of SUSE Persists

11.12.11 “Patent Judges Want the Last Word Over Patent Law in Europe”

11.13.11 BBC Takes More Money From Bill Gates, Then Advertises for His Agenda

11.13.11 Steve Ballmer and His Wife Connie Join Gates and Co. in Their Crusade Against Public Education

11.14.11 Ballmer: Android “Just a Press Release”

11.14.11 Bogus Patents as the Last Resort

11.16.11 Links – Coordinated attacks against Occupy protests, SOPA, No Porno-Scan for EU.

11.17.11 Cost of Patent Trolls Studied as Acceptance of USPTO Falls, Developers Complain Even in Press Releases

11.17.11 Amazon Regrets Software Patenting

11.17.11 New OpenSUSE is Released, But It’s Nothing Like It Used to Be

11.17.11 EDGI Versus Google

11.18.11 Links – SOPA round up.

11.19.11 Patent Trolls Thrive in the United States, Europe Can Keep Them Away

11.19.11 Big Figures for Big Impact: Academics Versus Lobbyists

11.22.11 Links – baton and pepper spray review, patent medicine and non free software costs

11.23.11 Crime in Xbox Land

11.23.11 Bill Gates Lies to the Court to Dodge Competition Rules Violations

11.23.11 SUSE Became a Niche Product/Market

11.27.11 Patents Roundup: Broken System as the News Attests to the Failure

11.28.11 Android/Linux Not a Security Concern, Windows Definitely and Demonstrably Remains #1 Target

11.28.11 More Novell Staff is Leaving as Novell Products Get Ditched by Customers

11.29.11 IEEE Celebrates Patent Monopolies (Including Software Patents) While Patent Trolls Carry on

11.29.11 SUSE Got Worse Over Time

11.29.11 ‘Pulling an ACTA’ to Legalise Software Patents in Europe

12.01.11 Broken Patent System

12.01.11 Gates Foundation Downplays and Intercepts Unwanted Communication

12.01.11 The Rise of Linux and Google

12.06.11 CarrierIQ Exposes the Flaws of “Best Tool for the Job” Pragmatism

12.08.11 Links – SOPA and NDAA round up.

12.10.11 Links – Education Watch, SOPA’s Honest Intentions, B&N Anti-Trust news.

12.12.11 Links – Bill Gates the Chinese Nuclear Engineer, Medical Method Patents, Anti-Trust and PR

12.12.11 The Non Free Future of Windows

12.12.11 The Age of Speaking Out Against the Patent System

12.14.11 Open Washing the Tivoization of Windows

12.14.11 Software Patents in the EU Become a Central Concern Again

12.14.11 SUSE in Clouds, OpenSUSE in Marketing Mode

12.15.11 Apple’s Patent War on Linux Turns Back Against Apple, Which Allegedly Resorts to Using Patent Trolls

12.15.11 When OOXML Attacks Free Software

12.15.11 Xamarin and Novell: The Sagas Continue

12.18.11 Quick Mention: Ryan’s Blog

12.18.11 Updates on Novell and Other FOSS Taxers

12.20.11 Latest Examples of Patents Culture Takeover

12.21.11 From SUSE and Novell Straight to Fog Computing

12.21.11 Latest Patent Attacks on Linux/Android and Why They Matter

12.23.11 Apple Does Malicious Stuff With Patents as More Courts Sidle With Linux/Android

12.24.11 Links – Pollution, Censorship, Education and Civil Rights Watch

12.26.11 Should We Organise an Apple Boycott?

12.27.11 The Exodus of Novell Executives and Life After Novell

12.27.11 Novell Products Dumped Quickly

12.27.11 Bill Gates Labelled “Public Health Dictator”

12.28.11 Cablegate Comes Back to Techrights

12.28.11 Cablegate: US Government Talks About Providing Free Software that Helps Chinese Netizens Overcome Filters

12.28.11 European Commission Betrays the European Public With Stance on OOXML and Unitary Patent

12.28.11 Cablegate: US Government Implies Proprietary Software Leaves Digital Footprint

12.28.11 Bill Gates Keeps Getting Richer and Gaining More Lobbying Power

12.28.11 Patent Lawyers Push for Software Patents, Poorly

12.28.11 EPO and Other Lawyers-dominated Circles Push for Software Patenting

12.28.11 USPTO Ridiculed

12.29.11 Cablegate: Examples of Indonesia Developing Free/Open Source Software

12.30.11 Cablegate: Venezuela’s Move to Free/Open Source Software “Expected to Reduce the Demand for U.S. Software Products”

12.30.11 Cablegate: BSA Smears Sri Lanka’s Government for Moving to Free/Open Source Software

12.30.11 Cablegate: Business Software Alliance (BSA) Pretends to Speak for Open Source, MPA Creates Imaginary Links to Crime

12.30.11 Cablegate: Peru’s Migration to Free/Open Source Software

12.30.11 Cablegate: President Chavez Smeared for Favouring Free/Open Source Software, Venezuela Added to Shame List

12.30.11 Cablegate: Brazil and Ghana Want Free/Open Source Added in World Summit on the Information Society, US and Australia Oppose

01.01.12 OpenLogic Enters the Fog

01.01.12 The Better Side of Novell

01.04.12 Starting 2012 With Patent Extortion and Litigation

01.04.12 Royal Mail Should Migrate to GNU/Linux

01.06.12 In the Age of Defective Patent Systems, Google Receives Patents to Defend Android From Lawsuits

01.09.12 Software Patents and Bribes Against Android/Linux

01.09.12 Counterfeiting Versus Free Software in Kenya

01.09.12 Links – Kindle, Nook, OLPC and Anti-Trust. Please petition Obama to Veto SOPA.

01.10.12 Openwashing Linux Tax: OpenSUSE and Tuxera

01.11.12 Linux/Android Still Faces Proxy Challenge

01.11.12 Danish Presidency Wants to Open Europe to Patent Trolls and Software Patents, Italy Reportedly Surrenders

01.13.12 BBC Deletionism of Open Source

01.13.12 Apple Cult Defends Android-Hostile Cult Leader, Engages in Extortion of Android and Shops, Gets Sued for It

01.13.12 Legislators Can’t See the Elephant in the Room

01.14.12 Links – A quick SOPA Update – they don’t hear you.

01.17.12 Links – More Sopa, TV Whitespaces under attack.

01.18.12 2012: Post-Novell Careers and Moves

01.18.12 Death of Novell and Legacy That Remains

01.18.12 Xamarin and Mono Out of the Radar’s Range

01.19.12 Linux Has Advantage in Mobile Devices

01.19.12 Oracle is Retreating From Android Patent Case After Steve Jobs’ Death

01.19.12 Journalists Become Paid PR Agents for SUSE and Other Clients

01.20.12 Links – quick SOPA/PIPA update, Hanford, UEFI, and Apple owns your work.

01.21.12 OpenSUSE and SUSE: Shutdown, Removals, and New Software for Macs

01.21.12 Regulators Paranoid About Android, Miss the Real Issue

01.23.12 EULA and Lawyers — Not Engineering — Define Today’s Technology Winners

01.24.12 Links – Lots of Censorship and Astroturf. SOPA/MegaUpload Backlashes Bring Informed Opinion into the Political Process.

01.24.12 Apple is Sued for Anti-competitive Practices; The Court Sees Patent Lawsuits/Actions by Proxy

01.25.12 Automating Bad Ideas

01.27.12 Intel, a Promoter of Software Patents, Buys Software Patents

01.29.12 Teachers Still Suspended and Writers Removed for Standing up Against Bill Gates’ Abuses

01.29.12 Links – Please sign the Avaaz petition against ACTA.

01.29.12 The ‘Filthy Rich’ ‘King Gates’

02.01.12 Bill Gates and Rupert Murdoch Liaise to Take Over Minds of Children

02.01.12 EU Unitary Patent: Status Update

02.01.12 Bill Gates is Hijacking Open Source While Attacking It Using Lobbyists, Patents, and Patent Trolls

02.01.12 Greg Kroah-Hartman Exits SUSE

02.01.12 When Lawyers Run the System It Becomes Dependent on Them

02.01.12 Links – More censorship attacks, US Telcos try to knife TV Whitespace Baby

02.01.12 The Gates Foundation is Still Hijacking the Voice of the Poor and Effectively Runs Paid Advertisements Inside ‘News’

02.03.12 Longtime SUSE Executive Holger Dyroff Moves on, SUSE in a Bad State

02.05.12 Apple, Which Started Patent Wars, Gets What It Deserves

02.05.12 Backlash Against Bill Gates’ Lobbying for Patented Life

02.05.12 Unitary Patent and the Emergence of More Junk Patents

02.06.12 Bill Gates Indoctrinates Youth in the United States and India, Critics Speak Out

02.07.12 Links – MSNokia Passes Blame, Bill Gates pushes GMOs, Open Access news

02.10.12 Links – Anti-Trust Roundups – Yahoo, Nokia, Barns and Nobel

02.14.12 Patent Forecast Improves for Android/Linux

02.15.12 Links – Education Watch, BBC Apologizes for Selling Out, BP Oil Lingers

02.15.12 Tim Berners-Lee Finally Takes Action Against Patents on the Web

02.17.12 Harming the GPL With Doomsday Predictions and FRAND

02.19.12 Apple Versus Google When the Patent System Approves ‘Slide to Unlock’ as a Monopoly

02.20.12 Data From Black Duck Challenged Again

02.20.12 Patent Parasites and the Bubble of Software Patents

02.22.12 Patents Roundup: Oracle Lessens Android Demands, Red Hat Suggests Cure to Trolls, Debian Adopts New Patent Policy

02.22.12 FOSS-Hostile Patent Policies in Europe and the FFII’s Response to That

02.22.12 When Proprietary Software Companies Speak for Open Source

02.25.12 SUSE: Brain Drain, Partners Down the Drain

02.25.12 Open Logic for Proprietary Thinking

02.25.12 Making GNU/Linux More Expensive With Lawsuits and FRAND/RAND

02.27.12 Apple’s Lawsuits Against Free Software Show Hypocrisy

02.29.12 Your Government is Offline

02.29.12 Windows Phones Become Extinct

03.01.12 Google Helps EPO Manage Monopolies, Unitary Patent Aided

03.01.12 Principals Say No to Gates’ Occupation of US Schools

03.05.12 Novell’s Buyer, Attachmate, is Financially Troubled

03.05.12 Reuters Explains How Foundations Like Gates Foundation Are Used to Evade Tax

03.05.12 Links – Censorship, Email and Anti-Science

03.05.12 President José Manuel Barroso Does Not Understand Patents; Time to Fight the Unitary Patent Like We Fought ACTA

03.05.12 Novell Decommissioned

03.05.12 Bill Gates Pays League of Education Voters, Stand for Children for Lobbying, Wolfram for Self-Serving ‘Study’

03.05.12 Patents Roundup: Hype, Critics, and Threat to Linux/Android

03.05.12 True Desktop Market Share for GNU/Linux

03.07.12 Apple Wants ‘Linux Tax’, OIN Still Unable to Do Much

03.07.12 When OpenSUSE Falls

03.08.12 A Year After Novell’s Sale

03.08.12 Patents Roundup: Android, FRAND, and Patent Hype

03.10.12 A Chance to End Software Patents in the United States

03.10.12 Windows Mobile Death and Wiped Data, Applications

03.13.12 Update on Patents Versus Android/Linux, New Rants Against Software Patents

03.13.12 Apple Likes to ‘Steal’ Stuff

03.15.12 Apple: When ‘Fans’ Are Simply Bribed, Too

03.15.12 Mozilla and Others Still Lead Opposition to Software Patents

03.19.12 Android/Linux is Taking Over Tablets

03.19.12 Vista 8: Slammed Already

03.21.12 Smoking Gun From Bill Gates

03.21.12 Links – Man Flies like a Bird, Education Watch, Privacy and US Network Neutrality

03.21.12 Threat of Software Patents Coming to Brazil

03.22.12 Nokia Inevitably Realises Linux is Better Than Windows

03.22.12 Vista 8: The Disaster Starts Now

03.24.12 Despite Moles, Patents, and Lawsuits, Linux-based Platforms Rule Mobility

03.28.12 Press Covers Software Patents Amid Their Possible Elimination

03.29.12 Blackboard is Buying Out the Competition

03.29.12 Windows Phones: Still Dying While Linux is Thriving

04.01.12 Links – An Outbreak of Laws to Justify the Worst Spying. Exposed Racism and Pollution

04.01.12 Xamarin to Dump Mono, Repackage C# for GNU/Linux Instead

04.02.12 Auctioning Patent Weapons That Attack the Public and Are Funded by the Public

04.07.12 SUSE: Still Repackaging Other People’s Works, Taxing Them

04.10.12 Links – New and Old Censorship, Anti-trust, Privacy Violations and Pollution.

04.11.12 The Economist Throws FUD at OLPC Again

04.11.12 Patent Threats to Linux

04.12.12 Journalism and SUSE, Samba

04.13.12 TechBytes Episode 67: Nokia Down, Android Up

04.13.12 C# Going Nowhere Fast, Xamarin Doesn’t Care

04.17.12 Patent Trolls Funded by the French Public

04.19.12 Links – CISPA threatens US Citizens. Death to Word

04.20.12 Larry Ellison as Ignorant as His Best Friend Steve Jobs About Java, Android

04.20.12 Florian Müller: Liar/Spinner for Sale, But He is Not Alone

04.20.12 Patent Pledges Are Pointless, Here’s What Red Hat Can Learn From Twitter

04.20.12 Links – CISPA = (SOPA + US PAT RIOT ACT)**3 Privacy and Censorship Round Up

04.21.12 SUSE Watch Ends

04.21.12 The Software Patents Lobby Goes Global, Faces Antagonism

04.26.12 Links – ACTA/CISPA Update, Other Crimes, Corruption and Failure.

05.08.12 LInks – Oracle’s war on Google falters.

05.11.12 OpenSUSE Run, Promoted by Paid Staff, Not Community

05.12.12 Xamarin is Still an Anti-Java Company

05.14.12 Links – TPP Meeting Infiltrated, More Protest Needed.

05.14.12 Patents Are Never ‘Open Source’

05.19.12 BSA and IDC Systematically Lie to the Public, Distort Press Coverage

05.21.12 Links – Explorer Goes Down, Oracle Judge is Coder

05.21.12 Articles Against Software Patents and Patent Trolls

05.26.12 When Windows Runs Only on Old Form Factors (Desktops)

05.26.12 Activism Against Software Patents and Patent Trolls

05.26.12 Gates Watch

05.30.12 Moonlight is Dead

06.02.12 Death of Moonlight Celebrated by Linux Bloggers

06.02.12 Net Applications: The Mathematics Failing

06.05.12 Taxing the Competition

06.07.12 Windows Update Cracked

06.09.12 Aiding Criminals

06.10.12 Update on Patent Lawsuits Against Android and Google

06.11.12 Linus Torvalds Disputes Security of UEFI

06.11.12 Linux World Domination

06.13.12 GoTransit forces PRESTOCARD on transit commuters

06.13.12 Red Hat Was Wrong About UEFI, Failed to Ask the Users

06.13.12 FUD Campaign Against Android

06.16.12 As Hardware Prices Fall, Windows Becomes Far Too Expensive to Compete With Linux

06.16.12 Apple Presses Hard for Android Bans While Android Leapfrogs Apple in Tablets, Not Just Phones

06.19.12 BSA Meets GNU/Linux in Europe, Confiscates PCs

06.19.12 Bizarre and Dangerous Patents

06.20.12 Links – NATO protest slapdown, Nokia collapsing.

06.20.12 OpenSUSE: It’s the Final Meltdown

06.20.12 The Alternative Press Explains What the Gates Foundation Et Al. Are Doing

06.20.12 Vista 8 Fails Miserably in Official Demo (Video)

06.22.12 Ubuntu and UEFI

06.24.12 SUSE Community Acknowledges Stagnation

06.24.12 Techrights and Patents, Antitrust

06.26.12 Apple’s Patent Cases Against Android Continue Falling Apart, Oracle Tries Again

06.26.12 Vista 8 Will Drive More OEMs to GNU/Linux

06.29.12 MOSAID Apparently Extorts Linux, Red Hat Embraces Secrecy Again

07.01.12 Apple Bans Android/Linux Imports, Linux Foes Pretend to be FOSS Players

07.01.12 Gartner Group Boosts Vista 8 on Devices

07.01.12 The FSF Moves From Petition to Recommendations Regarding UEFI Fight

07.03.12 Apple’s (and MPEG-LA’s) Fight Against Diversity

07.03.12 Coverage of the Free Software Foundation’s Response to UEFI

07.03.12 Banking Sector Suffers From Patents Too, Goldman Sachs Getting Well Armed With Patents

07.05.12 Moodle and Moles

07.05.12 Canonical and Red Hat Receive Negative Publicity Over Submissive UEFI Choices

07.05.12 Features of Vista 8 Focused on Errors, Antifeatures

07.07.12 Calls for Apple Boycott Follow Ineffective Android Ban Attempts; Judge Compares Apple to Animals

07.07.12 FSF and FSFE Both Speak Out Against UEFI; Ubuntu Drifts Away From FSF, Whereas Debian Comes Closer to FSF

07.07.12 Bill Gates Criticised by Childhood Friend, Gates Foundation Criticised in Site It Funds

07.07.12 Nokia Shies Away From Direct Patent Extortion of Android

07.10.12 Apple Suffers Boycotts From Own Followers Due to Patent Aggression

07.10.12 Growing the FOSS Fear Industry

07.10.12 Education Agenda and Public Policy Hijacked by Bill Gates

07.10.12 Call for Action Against Software Patents in Europe

07.12.12 The End of the Road for Windows Amid Losses, Security Flaws, and Unstoppable Android Expansion

07.12.12 Debian Follows the FSF’s — Not Red Hat’s — Footsteps Regarding UEFI

07.15.12 Patent Lawsuits Against Linux, Android; Call for Pressuring of Politicians

07.15.12 TechBytes Episode 68: Solo With Patents, Apple Bans, and Android World Domination

07.17.12 Gartner Attacks Free Software and Transparency in Government

07.17.12 TechBytes Episode 69: Richard Stallman on Restricted Boot (UEFI), Coreboot, GRUB, and Boot Freedom

07.17.12 UEFI Problems Addressed by Linux Developers, Not Distributions

07.18.12 Bill Gates Lobbies for Monopoly on Crops, Gates-funded BBC Advertises It

07.18.12 FOSS Hostility in Network World (IDG)

07.18.12 Restricted Boot Arguably Fought Against by Linux, Not Just GNU

07.20.12 Oracle Spreads GNU/Linux FUD

07.20.12 Red Hat Does Not Want to Defend Its Position on UEFI

07.20.12 The Patent Wars Deepen

07.23.12 Android Devalues Windows and Has Apple on the Ropes

07.23.12 Linux Foes Make Money From Linux

07.23.12 The Skype Interception Campaign

07.23.12 World Wide Web at Risk Due to Software Patents

07.24.12 TechBytes Episode 70: Richard Stallman on How Browsers and Social Networking Sites Facilitate Surveillance

07.25.12 FUD Busting is Back at Groklaw

07.28.12 Apple is Already Beaten by Android, Resorting to Litigation and Disinformation

07.28.12 The BSD World Antagonises UEFI While Red Hat Aids It, OpenBSD Leader Criticises Red Hat

07.28.12 GNU/Linux Can Beat Windows in the Gaming Front

07.28.12 Elop Kills Another Linux-based Platform While Using Patents Against a Third One (Android)

07.29.12 Vista 8 Will Fail, Expect Bribed-for ‘Reviews’

07.31.12 Apple Increasingly Relevant to the War on Software Patents and Linux Domination

07.31.12 New FUD Against Android Comes From BT

08.02.12 SUSE: Ambitious Claims, But Short on Delivery

08.02.12 Apple Resorts to ‘Emergency’ Action to Block Linux Devices With Software Patents

08.02.12 The Art of Pro-Apple FUD Against Android

08.05.12 Apple Uses Koh for Android/Linux Embargo Strategy

08.05.12 OpenSUSE to Have Release Soon

08.05.12 Patent Trolls and Their Favourite Weapon, Software Patents, Could Face Death

08.06.12 Vista 8′s Catastrophic Arrival Will Make GNU/Linux a Superior Gaming Platform, Claims Creator of Minecraft, Not Just Valve

08.06.12 TechBytes Episode 74: Charles-H. Schulz on ODF, OOXML, and LibreOffice

08.07.12 Kodak Shows What Happens to Patents Amid Corporate Deaths

08.07.12 Android/Linux in the Age of Patent Trolls, Software Patents, and Frivolous Litigation

08.08.12 Boycott Sharp

08.08.12 OEMs Already Dislike Vista 8

08.13.12 Bill Gates is Openly Promoting Patent Trolls Which Attack Linux

08.13.12 Vista 8 is Trying to Compete With Android

08.13.12 Judge Koh Bamboozled by Apple to Block Computing Freedom, Should Penalise Apple for Contempt of the Court

08.13.12 SCO Said to be Dead (Liquidation Bankruptcy)

08.13.12 TechBytes Episode 75: On TechBytes, Techrights, and Site News

08.15.12 Windows is Implied

08.17.12 New Actions Against Software Patents

08.17.12 Yarro’s Money Goes to the Abyss

08.17.12 The Early Demise of Vista 8 and the Obsolescence of UEFI

08.19.12 Vista 8 Expected to Fail Based on OEMs

08.20.12 Android Litigation Update

08.21.12 Game Makers Form Collective Backlash Against Vista 8

08.21.12 Android FUD Watch: Paul Goldstein From Stanford Paid by Oracle

08.23.12 Vista 8 Will Fail for Businesses, Says Dell

08.24.12 Longtime Lobbyist Reported to the FTC for AstroTurfing Practices

08.25.12 Vista 8 is Worse Spyware Than Predecessors

08.25.12 Slashdot and CBS/CNET Help Promote Patent Trolling

08.25.12 Jury Expected to Drop Apple’s Claims Against Android Into the Bin (Updated)

08.27.12 Apple Has Woken Up Opposition to Software Patents, Itself

09.25.12 Trolls in a State of Denial

09.25.12 Ubuntu Acknowledges UEFI Mistake by Taking FSF Advice

09.27.12 Europe and New Zealand Share a Software Patents Problem As Such

09.27.12 Nokia Might Dump Windows, Embrace Android Soon

09.30.12 After the Apple-Samsung Ruling

10.01.12 Government of Germany Should Ban Internet Explorer for Crimes, Lock-in, Not Just Security

10.06.12 Minecraft’s Vista 8 Disdain Caught by the Media

10.06.12 Google Betrays Open Document Standard, Spreads Proprietary Format

10.06.12 SCO Has Less Than $100,000 Left

10.06.12 Patent Trolls and Parasites

10.08.12 Patent Trolls Slammed by Inventors

10.09.12 Leftover Links for October 10, 2012

10.09.12 Contact European Parliament Members Today to Stop Software Patents

10.09.12 Nokia Abandoned While Its Patents Are Passed to Trolls

10.11.12 The Press Turned Against Patents

10.11.12 Patent Storms Motivate a Rethink

10.12.12 Intel Turns to Linux Through Android

10.12.12 Even Patent Maximalists Sometimes Complain About Software Patents

10.14.12 Opposition to Software Patents and Trolls in the Press

10.16.12 Apple Aggression Against Linux Continues to Motivate Patents Abolition

10.19.12 Moves to Block Patent Trolls Would Benefit From End to Software Patents

10.21.12 Canonical Does Not Want Critics, Mono Boosters Return

10.21.12 European Debate on Patents Should Borrow Lessons From Apple vs. Samsung

10.21.12 Vista 8 Drives Away OEMs, Linux to Gain

10.21.12 Patent Debates After the Apple Debacle

10.23.12 GPLv3 Was on Target

10.24.12 Apple Attacks on Android (and Linux) Continue to Summon Patent Nemesis

10.24.12 IntraLinks Absorbs Novell Executives

10.25.12 Apple Cannot Win Outside the US

10.25.12 Vista 8 is Heading for the Garbage Can, Suggest Early Reports

10.26.12 Patent System Needs a Rethink, Apple Continues to Harm the Whole Industry

10.27.12 Cisco’s CEO Would “Completely Throw out Everything” in the US Patent Process, “and Start From the Beginning”

10.27.12 Android is Wiping iPhone and iPad Out, Soon to Become Most Used Operating System

10.31.12 Linux Heavyweights Speak Out Against Patents

11.02.12 Ubuntu Decided to Stay With GPLv3 After Public Backlash

11.03.12 Caveat in British Standards Policy

11.05.12 Apple Hides Apology

11.05.12 FRAND Trials in the US Kept Secret

11.05.12 Patent Reform Widely Promoted in the News

11.06.12 Apple Loses Battle Over Smartphones Patent Tax (or FRAND)

11.06.12 Bruce Perens Accuses Black Duck of B.S. on GPL

11.06.12 TechBytes Episode 77: Greedy Car Thieves (GCT) and More

11.07.12 CA Becomes Patent Aggressor

11.07.12 Guest Post on Patent Collusion

11.08.12 Vista 8 AstroTurfing Not Enough, Other Tactics Used

11.09.12 Linux is Not Enough

11.09.12 Apple in Patent Race Against Google, Not Just Android Backers

11.09.12 Apple Sues Google and Android Over Patents

11.10.12 Software Patents Harm Society

11.10.12 Apple in Trouble in US and UK Over Deception, Required to Compensate Samsung Financially

11.11.12 Secret Patent Deals With Apple

11.13.12 Patent Fronts Against Google

11.13.12 MobileMedia Ideas is a Patent Troll

11.14.12 IBM Propaganda for Software Patents Rebutted by Masnick

11.14.12 Speculations That HTC Pays Apple Not Verified, Said to be Bogus, and May Only be Anti-Android FUD

11.14.12 Skype Cracked, All User Accounts Are Vulnerable (Updated)

11.15.12 Vista 8 Too Much of a Resource Hog for Tablets, Takes Up an Expensive 16 GB of Space

11.15.12 Rotten Patent System Not Just a Bad Apple, CCIA Seeks Change

11.18.12 Groklaw Says Apple Cannot Sue Over Android as a Whole, Reuters Disagrees

11.19.12 Holding Back Standards Adoption in Europe

11.19.12 Vista Phone 8 as Bad as Vista 8

11.19.12 Europe to Push for Unitary Patent (Software Patents Loophole) at 7 PM CET Tonight

11.21.12 Freiburg Should Use ODF Only, Just Like Portugal

11.21.12 Regulators Target Patent Trolls But Lose Sight of Patent Cartels

11.21.12 HTC’s CEO Confirms Our Assertion That Apple Android Tax Was Just FUD

11.21.12 Kappos/IBM Part of the Patent Monopolies Disease, Enabling Cartels

11.21.12 Vista 8 Drives Windows Users to Other Operating Systems

11.22.12 Culture of Litigation Versus Business, Innovation, and Production

11.23.12 European Free Software Activists Fight Against Software Patents Loopholes: Unitary Patent and FRAND

11.28.12 SUSE Fans Walk Away, Tuxera Linux Tax Still Abound

11.29.12 David Kappos Leaves as He Loses the Debate and Software Patents Lose Legitimacy Among Public Figures

11.29.12 UEFI Apologists Versus Germany’s Government Judgment on UEFI Insecurity

12.02.12 Fighting Software Patents in the US While SCOTUS Already Moves to Validate Gene Patents

12.02.12 Guest Post: UEFI’s Effects on the User

12.03.12 Android Brought Linux World Domination. What Next?

12.03.12 Apple Trial Against Android Devices Resumes This Week

12.05.12 Apple to Reveal Secret Settlement (Patent Extortion) Details to Comply With Judge’s Demands

12.05.12 Supporting UEFI in 2012 is Like Supporting OOXML in 2007

12.09.12 The Story Behind Criticising Ubuntu’s Privacy Settings

12.10.12 Stop Software Patents in Europe, Polish Government May Already Repeat Its Anti-ACTA Action

12.11.12 Apple’s Android Lawsuits, Extortion, and Inevitable Market Declines

12.11.12 USPTO Sued as the System Collapses Under the Weight of Trolls, Monopolists, and Lawyers/Politicians

12.11.12 Vista 8 Continues to Fail, But Succeeds at Suppressing GNU and Linux Installs

12.13.12 Silverlight Rumoured to be Taking Silverlight-based Sites Down With It

12.15.12 MPEG Cartel Stabs Apple in the Back

12.15.12 Windows (All Versions) Allows Remote Spying on the Mouse, Down to 20% Market Share

12.16.12 Patent Trolls Face More Opposition as Their Share of Lawsuits Increases

12.28.12 Mark Cuban Gives Big Boost to Software Patents Abolition Movement

12.31.12 EU Commission Gets It Wrong on Apple, ITC Continues to Serve Apple

01.01.13 Groups of Lawyers Will Not Solve the Patent Problem

01.01.13 2013: The Age of Linux-Hostile PCs

01.04.13 Free Software Foundation (FSF) Seeks Funds to Help Those Who Cannot Use GNU and Linux on New PCs Due to UEFI

01.04.13 Patent Extortion and Litigation Become a Proxies Maze

01.04.13 US Media Bias in Android Patent Cases

01.06.13 FRAND is Fraud, Anticompetitive

01.08.13 Guest Post: Windows RT – Jail Breaking!

01.09.13 Novell Board Sued for Selling Out

01.10.13 FRAND Quite Likely the First Casualty at USPTO, Not Patents (Directly)

01.12.13 Reports About Novell Board Getting Sued

01.12.13 Android-backing Ericsson Feeds Patent Aggressor Openwave

01.16.13 FFII Challenges Software Patents in Europe, DOJ Does the Same in the United States But With a Twist

01.16.13 New Fedora Suffers From UEFI While Desktops Suffer Steep Decline and Sales Drop

01.16.13 Voices Being Hijacked by Patent Lawyers and Proprietary Software Companies

01.19.13 All Your Rectangles Are Not Apple’s

01.19.13 Vista 8 is Dying With the Desktop Based on More Data Points, Security Issues Persist

01.23.13 Apple’s Strategy Against Linux and Android is Failing

01.23.13 The Register on Vista 8

01.23.13 USPTO ‘Debate’ Already Rigged by Patent Lawyers

01.24.13 Action by Proxy

01.24.13 Bill Gates “Uploaded a Virus he Had Written and Caused the Entire Network to Crash.”

01.25.13 Apple Deposed for Abusing Rights

01.25.13 $125 to Remove Vista 8, Which One Already Paid For

01.27.13 Former Open Source Novell Manager Pessimistic About SUSE

01.29.13 Attack of the Proxies

01.31.13 Apple Uses Patent Law to Drive Down Wages, Block Linux, Inflate Prices

01.31.13 Even Mossberg Does Not Like Vista 8

02.01.13 USPTO in Doubt

02.05.13 USPTO Shows That It Wants to Go Global

02.07.13 Boycott Dell

02.07.13 Mono Dries Up

02.07.13 Adventures in UEFI Mischief and Selective Criticism of Google

02.09.13 Canonical Neglects Tomboy (Mono)

02.10.13 Patent Lawyers Love the Status Quo, Hate GPLv3

02.18.13 Steve Jobs’ Litigation Legacy Leaves Apple Well Behind

02.19.13 USPTO a Driver of Patent Trolls, Drives Innovation and Sharing Out of the US

02.19.13 USPTO Selling Lives

02.23.13 Boycott Nikon

02.25.13 Torvalds Curses Over UEFI Stupidity, Gets Upset at Red Hat (Updated)

02.26.13 Latest Articles About Software Patents

02.26.13 Uniloc is a Nasty Patent Troll and It Attacks Android/Linux Developers (Updated)

02.27.13 Vista 8 Still Massively Rejected

03.01.13 FRAND Challenged by CCIA Amid FRAND Pressure From Anti-Android Camp

03.01.13 Novell a Zombie Brand

03.02.13 Dubious Editorial Control in ZDNet

03.06.13 Challenging Patent Law and Companies That Are Not Obeying Common Law

03.06.13 How to Resolve the Troll Problem

03.08.13 FreeBSD Makes UEFI Mistake

03.08.13 Google/Android Extorted Through MPEG-LA

03.10.13 When OEMs Slam Vista 8, Say It’s Worse Than Vista

03.11.13 Groklaw’s Good Suggestions for the USPTO, China Follows USPTO’s Mistake

03.11.13 Galaxy S Series Cannot be Stopped by Apple, iPads and iPhones Nearly Banned as a Result of Apple Provocation

03.12.13 2014 Will be Great for Linux-based Devices and GNU/Linux Distributions

03.14.13 Android/Google Under Patent Attacks, Calls for Other Companies to Stop the Patent Litigation Frenzy

03.18.13 The FTC is About Pretending There is Regulation

03.18.13 UEFI War on Linux: Not as Simple as Disabling Restricted (‘Secure’) Boot

03.18.13 UK to Mandate Free/Open Source Software in Public (Taxpayers-Funded) Sector, Now is the Time to Guard Rules From Proprietary Software Lobbyists

03.22.13 More Propaganda Films From Bill Gates Target ‘Education’ While His Education Lobby Expands to the United Kingdom

03.22.13 Philips Behind Intertrust, Patent Aggressor

03.24.13 Software Patents and Thickets in Asia, Europe

03.24.13 Boycott Nokia for Attacking Free Software, FFII’s President Suggests

03.24.13 Why Samsung Hardware With UEFI Boot Gets Bricked by Linux

03.24.13 OOXML in Norway and Sarkozy-Gates Corruption Over OOXML Return to Discussion Amid Bribery Stories

03.25.13 Systemic Corruption, Secrecy, and Discrimination in Patent Systems

03.26.13 Opposition to Nokia is Building Up as Anti-Android/Linux Patent Agenda Gets More Pronounced

03.28.13 Windows Commits Suicide With Blue, Old Interface to be Deprecated, Then Buried

03.28.13 Awareness of UEFI Restricted Boot Injustice Raised

03.29.13 Software Patents: Incompatible With and Antithetical to GNU/Linux

03.31.13 UEFI Continues to be a Headache for GNU/Linux Users

03.31.13 Rackspace and Red Hat Battle Against Vile Troll (‘Uniloc USA’) Can Help Weaken Software Patents in the US

04.01.13 Vista 8 is Killing Dell

04.03.13 Apple’s Case Against Android May Collapse as USPTO Reaffirms Incompetence

04.03.13 Having Been Attacked by Battery Life Patents in Europe, Google Pursues Battery Life Software Patents

04.03.13 Ford Still an Open Source Frod

04.03.13 Not April 1st: Vista 9 Vapourware is Born

04.04.13 GNU and Linux: It’s Not Just About Attribution But Also Philosophy

04.06.13 Missing the Real Problem With Patents in the United States

04.07.13 UEFI Restricted Boot No Longer Valid for Security, Keys Leaked

04.07.13 Red Hat et al. (Including Android’s Guardian) Complain About Companies That Attack FOSS With Patents, Apple Sites Quote ‘FOSS Patents’ Spin on Yet Another Loss Against Android

04.08.13 Gagging Critics: Bill Gates Bribes Crosscut for Favourable Coverage and Immediate Censorship, Then Abducts It

04.08.13 Bill Gates is Occupying the Department of Education, Education Press, Education Forums/Debates, and Ultimately Politicians

04.08.13 War is Peace, Diversity is Fragmentation, Versatile is Difficult

04.08.13 Patents on DNA and Molecules (or How Bill Gates is Still Making Billions of Dollars)

04.09.13 Those Who Push for Patent Reform and Those Who Protect Protectionism

04.11.13 Fighting the Patents Industry Which Focuses on Software

04.13.13 Apple Now a Leading Opponent of Linux, Due to Patents in Particular

04.13.13 The Notion of “Software Patent Trolls”

04.14.13 Vista 8 is a Failure Which the Free Software Foundation Capitalises on

04.19.13 Electronic Frontier Foundation, Google, Red Hat et al. Should Work to Eliminate Software Patents, Not Just Patent Trolls

04.21.13 The Steep Decline of the Patent System: Scope Expanded While Barriers Lowered, USPTO Promotes Yet More Patenting

04.21.13 Behind the Patent Deal With Foxconn, a Conspiracy to Harm Android is Possible

04.24.13 Google Should Condemn CISPA

05.03.13 Proprietary Software Companies Cannot Speak on Behalf of FOSS, So Why Groom and Cite Them?

05.04.13 The European Patent Office is Breaking the Law Regarding Software Patents, German Parliament Finally Complains

05.04.13 Software Patents Are Core Issue, But New Obsession Names Just Patent Trolls as the Issue

05.06.13 BT Attacks SIP — Not Just Android/Linux — With Software Patents

05.06.13 Press Continues to Focus on Patent Trolls Rather Than Patent Scope and Software Patents

05.07.13 Gates, Ballmer, and Zuckerberg Lobby Together Against Public Interests, Relying on Corruptible Officials

05.08.13 Losing Sight of the Real Problem With the Patent System

05.09.13 New Zealand (NZ) Commerce Minister Craig Foss Flip-Flops on Software Patents After Public Backlash

05.11.13 While New Zealand (NZ) Stomps on Software Patents High US Court Helps Legitimise Them, Again

05.12.13 Software Patents May Have Just Died in the United States, According to Some Pundits and Experts

05.12.13 Todd Simpson From Mozilla Joined an Angry Patent Troll, IBM Tries to Warp Debate About Software Patents to Focus Just on Trolls

05.14.13 Software Patents Reality Distortion Field

05.17.13 EFF, Newegg, and the Canadian Patent System All Take a Stance Against Software Patents

05.20.13 Ongoing Focus on Patent Litigation and Patent Trolls Reduces Focus on Software Patents

05.21.13 Does Bill Gates Try to Flush GNU/Linux Down the Toilet in Kerala?

05.22.13 Bill Gates Enters Financial Centres With His Goons Becoming US Budget Chief, Top Bankers

05.23.13 WebM is No Ogg, It is Not Freedom-Respecting Anymore, Even in Countries That Have No Software Patents

05.23.13 CAFC Decision Still Overridden by Overzealous Patent Lawyers in the Press, The Guardian and Other Corporate Press (CBS and AFP Included) Still Guard the Establishment

05.26.13 Techrights Advises UEFI Forum to Withdraw ‘Secure’ Boot Support

05.26.13 Patent Racketeering Not the Same as Upholding Copyright Law/ToS

05.26.13 Copyrights and Patents for Competitive Manipulation by Proxy

05.27.13 ‘Defensive’ Software Patents Useless Against Patent Trolls

05.28.13 US Congress Should Stop Targeting Symptoms and Instead Tackle the Real Problem, Patent Scope

05.28.13 The Economist Slams Vista 8

05.30.13 Fake ‘Studies’ for Vista 8 Grooming and Yet More IDC/IDG Pay-to-Say/Publication Collusion (Yes, Again)

05.30.13 The Free Software Foundation (FSF) Gets the ‘Wikileaks Treatment’ From MasterCard

05.30.13 Australia Steps in the Right Direction With New Document Formats Policy

05.30.13 SFLC Refutes OSI President’s Claim, Says WebM Licence is Still Fine (Updatedx3)

05.30.13 Another Reason to Avoid Hardware With UEFI

06.01.13 Canonical’s Grave Strategic Errors Can Make Ubuntu the Next Linspire (Circa 2007)

06.01.13 Impact

06.01.13 Patent Lawyers Fight to Keep and Facilitate Software Patents Worldwide, Using Misinterpretation, Distraction, and Loopholes

06.01.13 More Government Targeting of Patent Trolls, Not Patent Scope

06.01.13 Techrights Calls for Tim Berners-Lee to Drop DRM Support, Regain Control of (Currently Corporations-run) W3C

06.04.13 Canonical’s New Bug #1: Android Has Majority Market Share

06.05.13 Apple, the Bully, Cannot Stop or Even Embargo Android/Linux

06.05.13 Interference With Free(dom) Software Policy in European Governments and Beyond

06.05.13 Obama Administration Goes After Phantom Enemy; Patent Trolls Are a Symptom, Hardly the Only Problem

06.06.13 UEFI ‘Secure’ Boot is Not About Security, Insyde Software’s Business Model is Misguided and Dangerous

06.07.13 Bill Gates Lobbying Australia, Rewriting History, Distorting Facts, Trying to Raise Taxpayers’ Money for His Profitable Investments

06.07.13 Bill Gates is Buying Out Education and Academia Using New Lobbies/Proxies Like Common Core and ResearchGate

06.07.13 It’s Official: New Leaks Show US Government Using Fog Computing and Proprietary Computing Culture to Illegally Eavesdrop on Everyone Around the World

06.07.13 Digital Freedom in the Age of War on Dissent

06.07.13 The Good News: White House Knows the Patent System is Broken. The Bad News: It Does Not Understand Why.

06.09.13 Software Patenting Under Attack in Germany

06.10.13 PRISM Lite: Bill Gates and Rupert Murdoch Collecting Information About Everybody’s Children

06.10.13 White House Should Go After the Trolls’ Ringleaders, Not Just Patent Trolls

06.10.13 Novell’s Acquirer Says the Brand Was Tarnished

06.11.13 Obama Administration Misuses the ‘T Word’ (Troll) to Dodge Serious Issues

06.11.13 CNN: Where Agenda and Lobbying Trump Facts and Justice

06.14.13 As the Battle to Legitimise Software Patents in New Zealand and Europe Carries on, New Systemic Corruption Found

06.15.13 Still Missing the Point of Patent Scope (Patents on Mathematics and Nature) as the Problem in the United States

06.15.13 Bill Gates Looking for Profit in Privatised Oppression in the United Kingdom and Elsewhere

06.18.13 Boycott Best Buy

06.21.13 Bill Gates Marginalises Teachers and Harvests Schools’ Data for Profit at Expense of Privacy

06.23.13 Kindly Remind President Obama to Shut Down (Potentially Mass-Arresting) Massive Trolls Like Intellectual Ventures and End Software Patents

06.24.13 More Grooming of Patent Trolls in Slashdot

06.24.13 Project Chess Teaches Us That the Government is Indeed Listening to Skype Calls

06.27.13 Back Door Access Discovered in Backup Servers of HP, Showing Urgent Need to Dump Proprietary Software

06.27.13 TechBytes Episode 79: Richard Stallman Speaks About Back Doors

06.28.13 Extortion Using Patents Increasingly Recognised as an Issue, Even by the FTC and SCOTUS

06.28.13 Corporate Debates About Patent Trolls Versus Debates About Patents (or Software Patents in Isolation)

06.29.13 2013: When Apple Realised That Patents Just Don’t Work

06.29.13 CBS is Censoring Its Writers’ Articles, Not Just Polite Comments It Disagrees With

06.29.13 Europe is Moving to Freedom-Respecting Software After the PRISM Scandal

06.30.13 Bill Gates’ For-Profit AstroTurf in Africa, Promoted by Gates-Funded ‘News’ Sites

07.01.13 CAFC Impedes Progress and Helps Extortion Against Linux/Android

07.01.13 Software Patents and the FTC’s Red Herring

07.01.13 The British Military Gives the United States Back Doors Into All of Its Computers

07.07.13 Lawsuit Filed Against Gates Agenda of Privatising Public Schools for Profit and Corporate Indoctrination

07.09.13 When Antitrust Complaints Achieve Software Freedom

07.09.13 Europe Should Embrace Operating System ‘Ballots’ to Prevent Compulsory Sales of NSA Back-Doored (Windows) Computers Ripe for Espionage

07.10.13 Too Many Lies From Florian Müller

07.10.13 The Patent Lawyers in the EU and NZ Must Not Decide on Patent Policy Including Software Patents

07.10.13 Intellectual Ventures Pays for Another Propaganda Campaign Advocating Patent Trolls

07.10.13 What Did Theodore Moustakas Actually ‘Invent’ and Why Does He Paint Boston University ‘Patent Troll’?

07.11.13 Free Software a Primary Litigation Target

07.11.13 Rethinking the Impact of Patents on Innovation

07.14.13 Blackboard Does to Moodle What Oracle Does to MySQL

07.14.13 Patent Troll: I Am Not a Troll

07.15.13 Bill Gates Sets Up/Institutionalises GMO Monopoly in Africa, Still Bribes Officials Who Implement His Policies (Feed His Investment), Prepares GMO Doomsday Plan

07.15.13 Another Back Door Found in HP Servers (LeftHand)

07.16.13 Latest Debian GNU/Linux Installs Gnote When Mono is Removed

07.16.13 Entryism Threats From Bill Gates and His Successor (Now in HP’s Board)

07.17.13 Why Free/Libre Software Should be Promoted Using Privacy Arguments, Too

07.17.13 TechBytes Episode 83: Richard Stallman on Data Collection and Encryption

07.19.13 The Foot in Stallman’s Face: Bill Gates Still Redefines Free Software

07.22.13 Android, Free Software and GNU/Linux Necessitate Death to Software Patents, Not Patent Settlements

07.22.13 No Imminent Plan to Fix the Patent System in the US, Just to Make it More Convenient for Megacorporations and Plutocrats

07.25.13 No Such Thing As a “Bad” Software Patent, They’re All Bad

07.25.13 Debate About Patents Focused Only on Trolls

07.26.13 Boycott UEFI

07.26.13 Bill Gates et al. Turn Schools and Universities Into Private Corporations

07.26.13 Motorola Patent Thicket a Response to Patent Aggression by the Real Offenders That Want to Destroy Android/Linux

07.28.13 Bill Gates Becomes Much Richer While Advocating Austerity for Those Whom He Loots

07.29.13 In Debating Patents, Avoiding the Excessive Focus on Patent Trolls

07.30.13 EDGI Dumping Giant Accuses Linux/Android (Free/Libre Software) of Dumping

07.30.13 Another Major Blow to Apple as ‘Pinch to Zoom’ Patent Dies, US Government Pays Attention to Patent Aggression by Giants

07.30.13 The Calls to Fire Steve Ballmer

08.03.13 Who Focuses on Patent Trolls and Who Targets Real Reform or Advocates Elimination of Software Patents?

08.03.13 UEFI a Complication That Almost Nobody Needs

08.05.13 More Patent Lawsuits Target GNU/Linux, Response Includes Calls to End Software Patents

08.07.13 Using Windows With TOR is Like Wearing Makeup to Dodge CCTV

08.09.13 More OEMs Turn to Linux-based Platforms Because Dependence on Windows is Killing Them

08.09.13 US Government Should Kill Bill’s and Nathan’s Criminal Patent Racket and Pyramid Scheme, Intellectual Ventures

08.10.13 Windows XP Getting No More Security Patches Not the Big Issue Because It Already Has Back Doors

08.11.13 UEFI Sucks, Suggests a Growing Consensus

08.12.13 Groklaw Slams the US Legal Framework for (Mis)Handling of Patents

08.15.13 The Origins of the Leak of Samsung’s GPL Code Mishandling

08.15.13 Vista 8 to be Released Again, UEFI Still Included

08.16.13 The World’s Biggest Patent Troll (and Racketeering/Pyramid Scheme Operation) Grows Closer to the Gates Foundation

08.16.13 The NSA Can Now Ping to Death Windows-running PCs

08.16.13 Using Blackberry Patents Against Android/Linux Not a Far-Fetched Strategy in the Nation of Software Patents

08.17.13 Success: Samsung’s GPL Violation and Subsequent Leak Officially Mean exFAT Driver is Being Made Free Software

08.17.13 Reminder of Patent Lawsuits From Proxy Entities

08.20.13 Actions of US Government Shut Down Groklaw Pre-emptively; Observing the US’ Sanctions Economy and the Danger of Expansion to Europe

08.20.13 The Conservancy Behind Samsung’s Decision to Embrace GPL After Violating the GPL

08.22.13 Blackberry Patents Emerge as New Threat in Patent Stacking and FRAND Attacks on Free Software

08.24.13 The NSA ‘Violates’ Society Worldwide, But We Need to Fight It, Not Surrender to It

08.26.13 The Desktop Dream and GNU/Linux Domination Through Mobile Adoption of Linux

08.27.13 Working With GNU/Linux Gives You Work

08.28.13 Techrights in 2013-2014 (Eighth Year)

09.11.13 Guest Article: Unlock the PC from the Operating System

09.17.13 Media Focus in the US is on Patent Trolls, Patents on Software Hardly Even Mentioned Anymore

09.20.13 Big Money in FUD Against Free/Libre Software Licensing

09.20.13 IBM: Using GNU/Linux to Sell Hardware, Still Defending and Promoting Software Patents

09.20.13 Net Neutrality is Under Attack in the US (Verizon Strikes Again), Neelie Kroes Helps Abolish Net Neutrality in Europe

09.20.13 The Linux Foundation’s Big Lie: ‘Linux’ is 22 Years Old

09.23.13 KDE Enters the Era of 5

09.23.13 SUSE Drops LibreOffice Backing

09.24.13 With Government Support, GNU/Linux is Growing in the City of Munich, the Argentinian, Chinese, British Markets

09.24.13 Degree of Freedom — Not Wealth — Should be Measure of GNU/Linux Success

09.25.13 GNU/Linux Rapidly Becoming a Gaming Platform of Choice, Offering Better Performance

09.25.13 Linux Back Door Question Revisited in the Age of Government Surveillance Crimes

09.26.13 Former Novell Staff Still Pushing the Linux Foundation Into Restricted Boot Territory, Ignoring the Real Threat (Back Doors)

09.26.13 People Trust Mozilla, Show Confidence Regarding Security and Privacy

09.27.13 Stephen Elop Outright Lied When He Said He Was Not a Trojan Horse, Reveal New Documents

09.27.13 Mir Adoption is Inevitable

10.03.13 Patent Reform Drafted, Addressing Wrong Matters, Unlikely to Resolve Litigation Epidemic

10.03.13 Don’t Buy GNU/Linux, Tizen, or Android From Samsung

10.07.13 Convicted Monopolists Call Software You Develop and Give for Free ‘Anti-competitive’

10.07.13 Audiocasts/Video Shows About GNU/Linux: Down But Not Out

10.07.13 Tim Berners-Lee Loses a Lot of Credibility Around the Web

10.07.13 With Intellectual Ventures, the USPTO Becomes Basis for Pyramid Scheme, FTC Investigates

10.07.13 How Windows Limitations Actively Cripple GNU/Linux, Hindering Its Superior Features Set

10.08.13 The Arch Family Has a New Release, Flexibility the Key

10.08.13 Latest Disruptions in Databases Favour Free/Libre Software

10.08.13 Privacy and Security in the Age of Criminal Activity Perpetrated by the NSA, CIA, and FBI

10.08.13 Pardus Linux is Still Alive and Spreading Further in the Form of Pisi

10.14.13 Techrights Was Right About Skype All Along

10.14.13 GNU is Big in Top500.org

10.18.13 The US Navy Moves to GNU/Linux

10.18.13 Alternatives Needed to the Existing Internet, Which Turned From Tool of Self Expression and Creativity to Surveillance and Oppression

10.18.13 Oracle Hates Free/Libre Software

10.18.13 When Progress is Outlawed

10.18.13 Truecrypt Cannot be Audited Because It’s Proprietary Software

10.23.13 Mozilla Gains More Credibility by Hiring Xiph.org Founder Monty Montgomery

10.23.13 Applications/Games-Related Links for September-October 2013

10.24.13 John Carmack’s Name is Once Again Misused to Bash GNU/Linux

10.24.13 CMSWire Article About DRM in HTML5

10.24.13 GNU/Linux Desktops Continue to Multiply to Appease Users

10.24.13 The World According to Forrester’s Clients: Bashing Apache OpenOffice and LibreOffice

10.24.13 Canonical/Ubuntu-Related Links for September-October 2013

10.28.13 Internet Censor Google Claims to be Fighting Internet Censorship

10.28.13 The NSA Causes an Atlantic Blunder

10.30.13 Apple is the Kingdom of Censorship, Deletes and Silences Even Its Own Fans

10.30.13 Return to GNU/Linux Advocacy

10.31.13 GNU/Linux Efficiency Helps the Environment

10.31.13 Google and Other Internet Giants Lied Because the NSA Gets Data Without Subpoena or Even a Warrant

11.01.13 Apple: Cheap Labour From China, Now Helping China Digitally ‘Conquer’ Taiwan

11.01.13 Jamaica’s Ministry of Health and Interior Ministry of France Pave the Way for US to Embrace GNU-Inspired Software Freedom

11.01.13 Banning Military Use of GPL-Licensed and Other Freedom-Respecting Software

11.01.13 Mobile GNU and Linux: Not Just Android

11.03.13 The Free Software World Helps People Acquire/Regain Privacy

11.03.13 The ‘I Am Edward Snowden’ Defence

11.07.13 UNIX and GNU/Linux: The More, The Merrier

11.07.13 The “Year of the Linux Desktop” Predicted in the Corporate Press

11.07.13 The Latest NSA Ugliness: Skype Gets Worse, Snowden Speaks to Germany, New Zealand Becomes NSA’s Little Brother, and ‘Paedophilia’ Used to Defend the NSA

11.08.13 Crisis Capitalism: Bill Gates and Other ‘Education Oligarchs’ Turn Schools Into their Private, For-Profit Ventures

11.08.13 When it Comes to Trademarks, Canonical is Even Worse Than Novell

11.08.13 Bezos-Owned Washington Post No Longer Has Ombudsman, Revolving Doors Plague the FCC Again

11.09.13 Surveillance on Customers of US-based Companies: the CIA (US Taxpayers) Pay for This

11.09.13 Dice.com-Run SourceForge and Slashdot Are a Dangerous Trap

11.09.13 Explosive New Revelations About Elop’s Role Inside Nokia

11.09.13 The Linux Foundation Emphasises Technical Aspects, Not Freedom

11.11.13 Penguin Pete Quits Advocacy of GNU/Linux and He Isn’t Alone

11.11.13 No More Excuses for Avoiding GNU/Linux

11.11.13 Canonical’s Mistakes ‘Made and Addressed’, Except the Privacy Violations

11.11.13 The End of Windows XP Will Help GNU/Linux

11.12.13 The War is Over: Sharers Won, the Copyright Cartel Resorts to DRM on the Web

11.12.13 Games and Graphics in GNU/Linux: Things Are Quickly Improving

11.12.13 New Evidence of Criminality in Spying Agencies, Going as Far as Exploiting FOSS Sites to Spread Malware

11.12.13 Kaspersky: Russian Nuclear Plant Runs Windows, Gets Infected With Malware Developed by the NSA (Stuxnet)

11.13.13 Google as Flag Bearer of GNU/Linux

11.13.13 Famous Apple User: Every Apple-Related Product I Use Has Been Crippled in Important Ways

11.13.13 Google, Nokia, Samsung and Others Lie About Mobile Back Doors, Other Companies Don’t Even Answer the Questions Because They Are Worse

11.13.13 The UEFI Forum (Intel et al.) is Polluting Linux in the Same Way Corporations Polluted W3C/WWW With DRM

11.13.13 Canonical/Ubuntu News for November

11.14.13 In This Age of Fog/Cloud (Surveillance-Friendly) Computing, Can OwnCloud Be Trusted?

11.15.13 Free/Libre Software Has Conquered the Area of Content Management Systems

11.15.13 Oracle Continues Its Destruction of Free/Libre Software, But Projects Like LibreOffice, MariaDB, and Ceylon Show That Popular Free/Libre Software Just Can’t Die

11.17.13 Boycott Renault for Introducing (‘Innovating’) DRM in Cars

11.17.13 Urgent Need for Copyright Reform

11.18.13 Supporting Supporters of GNU/Linux, Not Just Giant Corporations

11.18.13 GNU/Linux is Taking Over Everything and the Code is Freely Shared

11.18.13 Privacy-Oriented GNU/Linux Advocacy a Priority

11.19.13 GNU/Linux News Sites in 2014

11.21.13 Learning Who Steve Jobs Really Was

11.22.13 Richard Stallman on Splitting Companies

11.23.13 GNU/Linux Has 100% Market Share in Green10 and Top10

11.24.13 Trusting Trust and Trusting Red Hat et al.

11.25.13 Linux in Government and Why There is Still NSA Agenda to Keep Wary Eye on

11.26.13 Another Reason to Boycott Amazon and Dell

11.26.13 Privacy Watch: Almost 100 New Links About Privacy

11.26.13 People’s Voice in the Linux Foundation

11.27.13 KDE 12 Iterations After the 4.0 Release

11.27.13 The Cheapening of ‘Open Source’, Where Source No Longer Means Source Code

11.27.13 NSA Shows Why We Should Abandon All Proprietary Software and Verify Trust

11.28.13 Convicted Monopolist Near Our Children

11.28.13 Jolla/Sailfish is Not Selfish; It’s Quite Freedom-Respecting

11.28.13 This Black Friday GNU/Linux is Preinstalled

11.30.13 The Fiction of ‘Piracy’

12.03.13 Bill Gates Brings NSA-esque Surveillance to Children

12.03.13 Reminder to Corporate Press: PHP is Not Linux

12.04.13 NSA Leaks: Still Yielding New Scandals, But Fewer Than Before

12.05.13 A Western Assault on GNU/Linux Security and Privacy

12.05.13 Custom-built Distributions and the 2,000+ GNU/Linux Distributions Listed by Softpedia

12.05.13 The Copyright Cartel Takes Over Schools to Deceive and Indoctrinate Children

12.06.13 Drifting Away From Copyleft in Databases

12.06.13 Patent Policy Change a Victory for Large Corporations, Real Reform Remains Elusive

12.06.13 To Oracle, ‘Community’ Means Paying Oracle Customers

12.08.13 State-of-the-Art Gaming on GNU/Linux Not Only Possible But Becoming Default Option, Hardware Products

12.08.13 Benefits of Ubuntu’s Derivatives: MATE, Cinnamon, and the Depth Desktop Environment

12.12.13 Avoid Activision, Support Valve

12.12.13 Avoid Oracle’s ‘Unbreakable’ Linux, Support Red Hat Enterprise Linux Instead

12.16.13 NSA Roundup: Latest News in a Nutshell

12.18.13 Another 2 Reasons to Boycott BT: Censorship by Default, Back Doors for the US

12.18.13 Governments Increasingly Leaning Towards Free Software in the Wake of NSA Scandals and Economic Pressures

12.18.13 The Positive Power of Ubuntu GNU/Linux Seen in South Korea

12.19.13 Yes, Chrome OS is a GNU/Linux Distribution and Google is Still Worth Supporting

12.22.13 Theory: What If Search Engines Too Are Partly Subsidised by NSA to Mine Our Minds?

12.22.13 USPTO to be Partly Headed by Google Executive

12.26.13 GNU/Linux Web Site of the Year: LinuxGizmos (Formerly LinuxDevices)

12.26.13 Android Devices Open the Door to GNU/Linux

12.26.13 On Google Chrome, ChromeOS, Chromecast, and the Lesser Benign

12.26.13 Google Should Boycott ECMA, Not Pay ECMA

12.26.13 Urge Hardware Companies to Stop Using UEFI (or Boycott Them), Don’t Work on UEFI

12.27.13 Computing Workload: Get It Off the ‘Cloud’, Quickly

12.30.13 More Reasons to Boycott Apple, Which Abuses Courts, Engages in Competition Crime, and Aids Espionage

12.30.13 Wrapping Up a Year of NSA Disgrace, Propaganda Film Advocating State Abuses Already in Preparation (Starring Benedict Cumberbatch Again)

12.31.13 When GNU/Linux on Desktops/Laptops Starts to Outsell Apple

01.02.14 GNU/Linux Has Taken Over the Industry; Latest FUD is Denying That Something is ‘True’ GNU/Linux

01.02.14 OpenStack Follows the Trajectory of GNU/Linux, Joined Into Linux Protection Programme

01.06.14 Patents Named as One of the Big Issues in FOSS in 2013

01.10.14 Snowden’s Impact Continues to Drive Change in 2014

01.10.14 In Proprietary Software, Back Doors Should be Assumed by Default

01.10.14 Corporate Press is Burying LibreOffice and OpenOffice.org, States Exclude Them

01.10.14 Many New Gaming Consoles Introduced, Running GNU/Linux as Standard

01.10.14 Chromebooks May Have Made 2013 the Year of GNU/Linux on the Desktop

01.10.14 Black Duck Left Headless Again

01.13.14 The Age When Press Organisations Are Run by — Not Just Funded by — Plutocrats

01.13.14 Patents Roundup: Bogus Solution to the Problem FOSS Faces and More Litigation via Proxies

01.13.14 President Obama, Max Baucus, Orrin Hatch, and Dave Camp Engage in Criminal Coverup of Trans-Pacific Partnership

01.14.14 For Systems Administrators, GNU/Linux (and UNIX) Becomes Key Skill

01.14.14 DRM is Not Dying, It is Spreading Like a Virus, Even to the World Wide Web

01.15.14 Links: 2014 Already a Good Year for Android on the Desktop

01.15.14 Lawyers’ Attacks on Free/Open Source Software (FOSS)

01.15.14 Latest Examples of Linux Domination in Devices/Embedded Systems

01.15.14 US Courts Are Cementing the Gradual Death of the World Wide Web (As We Know It)

01.15.14 “Normandy” is Not an Android Phone, It’s an Enhanced Surveillance Device

01.16.14 CESG (UK Government): GNU/Linux the Most Secure Operating System; New Backdoors Released for Windows

01.16.14 Don’t Host GNU/Linux Under Hyper-V or Windows; There Are Back Doors

01.16.14 Patent Troll MPHJ Run by Lawyer Jay Mac Rust, Sending Nastygrams to 16,465 Businesses For Using Scanners

01.17.14 Apple Exploits Children

01.17.14 For Real Security, Use CentOS — Never RHEL — and Run Neither on Amazon’s Servers

01.20.14 Apple is Becoming More and More Like a Patent Troll

01.21.14 NSA Watch: Latest News About Privacy

01.22.14 Heise Breaks Promise: Takes ‘H Online’ Offline, Essentially Deleting Thousands of High-Quality FOSS Articles

01.22.14 Snowden’s Defence, Snowden Q & A, Privacy Advantage in Industry, The Coming End of Facebook

01.24.14 Finding Database Software Without Back Doors

01.24.14 Ubuntu Links: Security, OpenJDK, Mobile, Desktop, and CLA

01.25.14 Mac Asay Needs to Learn What Chrome OS Is

01.25.14 Palm’s Patents Heading Towards Android Backer

01.26.14 Bringing The H Open/H-Online Articles Back Online Without Help From Heise

01.26.14 Never Ever Use Coprocessors for Cryptology, Especially If Implemented in the United States

01.27.14 The Desperate Attempts to Discredit Android

01.27.14 Apple is Rapidly Losing the Smartphones Market, But Don’t Cheer for Samsung

01.28.14 Anti-GNU/Linux Agenda at ZDNet (Part of CBS) Noted Again

01.28.14 Tuxera GPL Violations Alleged

01.29.14 Snowden Nominated for Nobel Prize, Europe Moves Away From NSA, Surveillance ‘Reform’ Revolves Around Useless Figures (Update: Head of GCHQ Steps Down!)

01.29.14 The Latest FOSS FUD Revolves Around Fakes and Bogus Arguments

01.29.14 East Asia is Taking Over More Parts of the Computer Industry, Bringing GNU/Linux to the Top

01.29.14 UK Government Seems to Be Serious About Moving to Free Software and OpenDocument Format This Time Around

01.29.14 New Examples of Collaboration, Freedom, and Transparency at Work

01.30.14 Journalists Report Issues With UEFI, Cannot Install GNU/Linux

01.30.14 This Week’s Big News in Great Britain Shows That Free Software is Doing Great

01.30.14 Almost Nothing Changes With Passage of Hardware Businesses to Lenovo

02.05.14 NSA Watch: More Disturbing Revelations

02.06.14 Mozilla is Preparing More Privacy-respecting (Than Android) Linux-powered Devices

02.06.14 Sure, GNU/Linux is Used Extensively by North Korea, But Why the Hate?

02.06.14 Don’t Let the Corporate Press Portray GNU/Linux as a Loser

02.07.14 Doing Business With Windows Now a Failed Strategy

02.07.14 Android Watch: Android/Linux Endorsed Again by Apple’s Co-founder

02.09.14 Apple Feels the Pinch of Linux and Starts Buying Its Own Stock

02.09.14 Stallman’s Views: 10-Part Series of Opinions on Non-GNU Matters

02.10.14 Privacy Links 10/2/2013: State Surveillance, Private Surveillance, and ‘Dirty Tricks’

02.11.14 Recent News About GNU/Linux on Servers

02.11.14 What Debian Does is a Very Big Deal

02.11.14 A Rare Moment of Sobriety: Paul Thurrott Decides to be Objective

02.11.14 Recent News From the World of Ubuntu

02.12.14 Now Might be a Good Time to Give Arch Linux a Try

02.12.14 GNU/Linux Desktop Environments Continue to Multiply

02.12.14 Skynet Watch: From Targeting Terrorists to Targeting Protesters and From Foreign to Domestic

02.13.14 Dice is Dicing Slashdot to Bits

02.13.14 DRM is Protectionism and Misuse of Laws, Nothing Technical

02.13.14 Mozilla Sells Out

02.14.14 Boycott of Slashdot is Protesting Against Dice Policies

02.14.14 Installing GNU/Linux is Still Hard Due to UEFI

02.14.14 Skynet Watch in the Media (Friday)

02.16.14 Programming News Picks: Focus on Free Software

02.16.14 Great News for Start of the Week: The H is Back!

02.17.14 UEFI Booster Intel Could Not Even Bother Making GNU/Linux Bootable on NUC

02.17.14 Proprietary Software Turns Users Into Informants Against Their Neighbours

02.17.14 The Scam Which is ZDNet/CBS: Not Reporting the Real Crimes

02.17.14 Mozilla Responds to Controversy Over Embedded Ads in Firefox

02.18.14 Patents ‘Reform’ Debate Still Controlled by Corporations, Price of GNU/Linux Servers at Stake

02.18.14 Embedded Computing/Devices Leave Windows in the Dust

02.18.14 Linux in the News: New RC, Steve Jobs’ Offer to Torvalds Recalled, OpenDaylight Summit…

02.18.14 Big Milestones in the World of Android/Linux

02.19.14 Mandriva Family is Doing Fine in Russia and Elsewhere

02.20.14 Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday News: The Descent to Totality

02.20.14 Verizon Makes the Death of Net Neutrality in the US More Official

02.21.14 ‘Cloud’ Watch: ownCloud, CloudStack, OpenStack, Hadoop and More

02.21.14 Death of Privacy: Lync in PRISM, Intel Dodges Questions on Back Doors, WhatsApp Joins PRISM, Censorship/Surveillance

02.21.14 Latest Examples of Public Sector Moves to Free Software

02.24.14 The Increasing Danger of Back Doors in Standards and Binary Blobs

02.24.14 Netflix Killed the Free Web With DRM, Now Kills Net Neutrality

02.24.14 Patent Troll Nokia Pretends to Have Real Products by Ripping Off Android

02.25.14 After Nokia, the Rise of MeeGo Seen in Tizen and Sailfish (But Don’t Use Tizen)

02.25.14 Android/Linux is Smashing Wintel/Atom to Pieces

02.25.14 Being Against Crime is Not Being Zealous

02.25.14 Abuses of Rights: News About Surveillance, Torture, and Assassination

02.25.14 Response to ODF as Government Standard Proposal

02.27.14 Tizen and Samsung

03.04.14 Bill Gates’ Pet Patent Troll (Intellectual Ventures) is Seemingly Collapsing But Trying to Disrupt the Government With a PAC

03.05.14 An Android World: Limitless Expansion in Tablets, Smaller Devices, and New Hardware

03.05.14 Panic Over Transport Layer Security (TLS) Flaw Which is Already Patched

03.05.14 Ubuntu Rising: Desktops, Servers, Phones, and Beyond

03.06.14 A Parade of (GNU/)Linux-powered Mobile Operating Systems

03.07.14 Red Hat Joins the Joke Which is Amazon’s ‘Secure’ Federal ‘Cloud’

03.07.14 Secret Deals — Not GnuTLS — a Threat to GNU/Linux Security

03.07.14 Leaving Windows to Rot

03.10.14 News Roundup: Free Software/Open Source Software

03.11.14 LibreOffice Stories: Birthday, New Release (4.2), Web Site, TDF Board

03.12.14 IBM Turns Into More of a Patent Troll Amid Layoffs, Gradual Demise of Real Products

03.17.14 Open Source Think Tank is Still Not About Open Source

03.17.14 Man With Plenty of UEFI Experience Struggles to Disable Restricted Boot to Install and Run GNU/Linux

03.17.14 Yahoo’s PR Makeover Might Be Precursor of Real Change

03.18.14 GNU/Linux at Google: Android, ChromeOS, Chromebooks, and Chrome News

03.19.14 Covert Apparatus Still Under Fire: Surveillance, Interventions, Drones and Beyond

03.21.14 DRM Watch: Impact on the Web, TPM, Lockdowns, and Games

03.24.14 Business Software Alliance (BSA) Should Snitch on Itself for So-called ‘Piracy’

03.24.14 Document Freedom Day 2014 Imminent and ODF is Doing Very Well

03.24.14 Oracle Releases Java 8 and VirtualBox 4.3.8

03.25.14 As Mozilla CEO, Brendan Eich Can Put an End to Mono and Intrusive Ads in Firefox

03.25.14 OpenDocument Format Celebrated Tomorrow

03.25.14 My Disagreement With the FSF Over UEFI ‘Secure Boot’

03.25.14 Recent FUD About GNU/Linux Security May be Related to Windows XP EOL Propaganda and Adware

03.26.14 Amended Comment Regarding ODF as Document Standard in the UK

03.26.14 Public Services in Europe Are Increasingly Free Software-Based

03.27.14 Chih-Wei Huang is Trying to Start Misguided Antitrust Case Against Android/Linux (Through Google)

03.27.14 Hosting GNU/Linux Under Windows or Hyper-V is Hosting With Back Doors

03.30.14 Android News: Wearables, Tegra, Obama Switch, New Devices, Desktops…

04.01.14 Canonical Breaks Up With Amazon Over CIA Connections

04.02.14 Campaign of Intimidation Against GNU/Linux, Courtesy of US Patent Law

04.02.14 Google and Apple: Doing Evil Together

04.02.14 Occupied by Lawyers It Hired, Google Now Reportedly Promotes Software Patents

04.02.14 No More Opposition to Ubuntu Over Spyware

04.03.14 News Links: Aggression and Surveillance

04.03.14 GNU/Linux Advocacy Needs to Become Stronger in the Face of AstroTurfing

04.03.14 The ‘Powered by Android’ Smear Shows Just How Far Anti-Google Reporting (Perhaps ‘Scroogled’ PR) Goes

04.03.14 Ubuntu is Becoming More Privacy-respecting With Ubuntu One Shutdown

04.03.14 Year of the GNU/Linux Desktop (or Laptop)

04.05.14 Society Still Occupied by Bill Gates and Other Plutocrats

04.05.14 News Links: Human Rights, Surveillance, International Law…

04.06.14 Document Liberation: The Time is Now

04.07.14 Newegg Beats Patent Troll, Sony Becomes DMCA Troll, NSA/PRISM Dropbox Blocks Accounts Based on Suspicion

04.07.14 Windows XP Will Die Today, New Articles Advise Users to Move to GNU/Linux

04.08.14 Press Advocates Migration From Windows XP to GNU/Linux, But Not Strongly Enough

04.08.14 Ubuntu News: Community Management, Convergence, Criticism, and Imminent LTS Release

04.09.14 Season of Disinformation About FOSS, Courtesy of ‘Compliance’ Firms

04.10.14 eGov News: Moves to Free/Libre Software

04.11.14 FOSS News: Latest Developments and Breakthroughs

04.11.14 Miguel ‘Advocates’ GNU/Linux by Bashing it Again

04.13.14 Google’s Linux Revolution: New Gains for Android, Chrome OS (GNU/Linux)

04.13.14 Links: Surveillance, Intervention, Torture and Drones

04.14.14 KDE News: Kubuntu at the Centre Again KDE Applications Updated

04.15.14 After Brendan Eich Comes Chris Beard

04.15.14 Public Institutions Must Dump PRISM-Associated Software

04.18.14 Some Perspective on Heartbleed®

04.21.14 Site Focus for The Remainder of the Year

04.23.14 Patent Racketeering Continues With Nadella: Motorola the Latest to Join the FUD Campaign

04.25.14 FCC’s Tom Wheeler Attacks Net Neutrality, Showing His Previous Promises to be a Bunch of Worthless Garbage

04.27.14 TechBytes Episode 88: Hardware, Games, and Emulation

05.03.14 Novell Continues to Damage GNU/Linux

05.03.14 The Debate About Software Patents is Still Dead Because Large Corporations Killed It

05.03.14 The European Union Legitimises Software Patents by Intervening in Android Patent Case

05.04.14 Apple’s ‘Thermonuclear’ Strategy Backfires as Apple Found to be Infringing Patents That Relate to Android

05.11.14 Non-technical Men in Suits Fight Against ODF and Free Software in the Wake of New British Government Policy

05.11.14 Former CIA Head Says Metadata Kills, So Don’t Use Duck Duck Go (Hosted by the CIA’s #1 Technology Partner)

05.11.14 Moves to Legalise Cracking (by Government) of Windows-running PCs

05.13.14 Dan Goodin’s FUD Campaign Against GNU/Linux Security Just Never Ends

05.13.14 David Kappos Fatally Killed Quality at the USPTO and Killed Fairness in Industries as a Result

05.13.14 The Ugly Propaganda is Back, Openwashing and Cross-platformwashing .NET

05.17.14 Copyrights and Not Just Patents Become a Threat to Free Software, Making Mono More Urgent to Avoid

05.17.14 Mozilla Cannot Claim to Teach People About the Web While Facilitating, Defending and Even Promoting DRM

05.22.14 World’s Largest Population Heading Towards GNU/Linux Because Windows is Not Secure (NSA Trojan Horse)

05.22.14 With Moodlerooms, Blackboard is Almost Killing the Free Software Project (Moodle)

05.24.14 DRM on Text in Mozilla Firefox Not Ruled Out

05.25.14 Don’t Count on Patent ‘Reforms’ in the US

05.28.14 CAFC Historically a Facilitator of Software Patents and Other Abusive Means of Monopolisation

05.28.14 Apple Debacle a Timely Reminder That Any So-called ‘Kill Switch’ is a Dangerous Back Door

05.30.14 WhiteSource is a Trojan Horse

05.31.14 TrueCrypt Too Proprietary to be Secure and Corporate Media Should Stop Blaming Free/Open Source Software (FOSS)

06.04.14 Media Bias Against GNU/Linux, Android, and FOSS

06.04.14 Focusing on the Lesser Dangerous Security Problems

06.05.14 Black Duck a Trojan Horse in the Linux Foundation and Elsewhere

06.05.14 Windows is Dying Quickly, Even on the Desktop

06.07.14 Lots of Coverage About FOSS Bugs, No Coverage About Intentional ‘Bugs’ (Back Doors) in Proprietary Software

06.14.14 Small Bugfixes Become Big News in the Age When Fear (of FOSS) Sells

06.15.14 Professor Diane Ravitch Calls for Investigation by Congress of Bill Gates’ Latest Offences

06.18.14 Dan Goodin/Condé Nasty Cannot Recognise Real Security Threats, Preferring to Focus Only on Bugs in FOSS

06.20.14 ‘Active Management Technology’ is Quite Likely a Back Door, Along With Intel’s UEFI

06.20.14 The Corrupt Court Which Brought Software Patents to the United States is in a State of Crisis, Should be Disbanded

06.22.14 As Expected, SCOTUS Decision on Software Patents Already Distorted by People With Pro-Patents Agenda

06.24.14 For Gamers, Not Only ‘Xbox’ Franchise is Dying But Also Windows

07.03.14 US System Manipulated to Financially Punish Free Software

07.05.14 Bill Gates Deeply Corrupt Not Just in Education Sector

07.05.14 Publicly-funded NHS Would Enjoy Symbiotic Relationship With Free — as in Freedom — Software

07.06.14 Bill Gates Pushed Out of States by Better Informed Teachers

07.10.14 OpenDocument Format (ODF) Still Alive and Kicking

07.13.14 Wirelessly-Controlled Contraceptives and Other Villainous Bill Gates Initiatives

07.13.14 Cronyism at Play: European Hostility Towards Free/Libre Software Despite Espionage and Moles

07.16.14 Software Patent Applications Already Being Rejected in the US Owing to SCOTUS Ruling, Some Patent Lawyers Are Fuming

07.20.14 Attacking FOSS by Ignoring/Overlooking Issues With Proprietary Software

07.20.14 Matt Levy From Patent Progress (and CCIA) Does Not Really Want Patent Progress

07.20.14 Linux Foundation Welcomes Patent Aggressor Red Bend Software

07.26.14 FUD Entities Entering the FOSS World

07.26.14 Groklaw Back in the Wake of ODF in the UK?

07.30.14 Ruling Against ‘Abstract’ Software Patents is Already Derailing Patent Attacks on Linux and Free Software

08.03.14 Windows Will Go Extinct in the Back End and the Desktop

08.04.14 Bill Gates Now Bribes NBC in Exchange for Favourable (and Profitable) Coverage

08.05.14 “Patent Progress” Now Acting as a Front of Large Corporations (CCIA), Tells Michelle Lee (USPTO Deputy Director) About Trolls But Not About Software Patents

08.06.14 Symantec Deserves a Ban in China for Not Reporting US Government Back Doors

08.13.14 Fraud in the USPTO and CAFC Helped Apple Launch Frivolous Patent Lawsuits Against Linux/Android, Based on New Withdrawals

08.13.14 Reader’s Article: Skype Spying Reaches New Levels of Blatant

08.13.14 The Problem is Software Patents (and Scope), Not Patent Trolls Who Abuse Them Just Like Large Corporations

08.18.14 Gartner Group Advocates Using Defective Software With Back Doors

08.19.14 Gates Foundation CFO Quits and Debate About Revolving Doors Recalled Amid Systematic and Shrewd Bribery of Public Officials

08.20.14 On BlackBerry and Other Patent Trolls

08.28.14 Free/Open Source Software (FOSS) Companies Versus FOSS Moles (VMware, Sonatype, Xamarin)

09.01.14 Moving Away From Windows to GNU/Linux and the Abandonment of Windows as the Modest Proposal These Days

09.04.14 Bill Gates’ God Complex: Common Core a One-Man Campaign of Greed and Control

09.06.14 New Article Explains How Bill Gates Prevents Schools From Moving to GNU/Linux and Free Software

09.16.14 Another Reason to Boycott Intel UEFI

09.17.14 OpenSUSE’s ‘Assurances’ Are Classic MBA School Hogwash

09.18.14 The Death of Software Patents is Already Killing Some Major Patent Trolls

09.22.14 More of Bill Gates’ Investments in GMO and Mass Indoctrination Under the Disguise of ‘Donations’

09.27.14 Bill Gates’ Privatisation Crusade

09.29.14 More Good News About Demise of Software Patents and Along With Them, Consequently, Patent Trolls

10.13.14 SCOTUS May Soon Put an End to the ‘Copyrights on APIs’ Question While Proprietary Giants Continue to Harass Android/Linux in Every Way Conceivable

10.14.14 Corporate Media Confirms the Demise of Software Patents in the United States; Will India and Europe Follow?

10.16.14 Another Fresh Blow to Software Patents (and With Them Patent Trolls)

10.16.14 Vista 10 is Still Vapourware, But We Already Know It Will Increase Surveillance on Its Users and Contain Malicious Back Doors

10.20.14 Is It Google’s Turn to Head the USPTO Corporation?

10.21.14 India May be Taking Bill Gates to Court for Misusing His So-called ‘Charity’ to Conduct Clinical Trials Without Consent on Behalf of Companies He Invests in

10.21.14 The Problems With Legal Workarounds, Patent Scope, and Expansion of Patent Trolls to the East

10.25.14 City of Berlin Does Not Abandon Free Software, It’s Only Tax Authorities

11.01.14 SCOTUS Decision Affects Not Only Patent Trolls

11.10.14 Patent Reform Subversion After Republican (GOP) ‘Win’ in US Senate

11.15.14 Will Write for FUD (Against FOSS)

11.23.14 Boycotting Micro Focus International

11.26.14 Message to the Corporate Media: Bill Gates is Not an Ebola Expert

11.26.14 Gagging Critics: Micro Focus-Run SUSE Bribes Journalists in Exchange for Positive Coverage

11.29.14 The NSA’s Openwashing Efforts Assisted by Apache

11.29.14 The Latest Bug Door in Windows ‘Patched’, But the Patch Breaks Systems

12.09.14 Protests Against EPO Corruption Approach 1,000 in Attendance

12.11.14 Rolling of Heads Likely Imminent at EPO

12.12.14 US Patent Reform (on Trolls Only) More or Less Buried or Ineffective

12.14.14 Software Patents Are Dying in the US, But Patent Lawyers Refuse to Admit It

12.16.14 Keeping Software Patents Out of Europe Following the Demise of Software Patents in the US

12.16.14 Bill Gates’ Pet Troll Intellectual Ventures is Collapsing as Founder Quits

12.30.14 Binary ‘Security’ Vastly Inferior to Free Software Patching

12.30.14 Black Duck Debunked Again, Data Asserted Invalid

12.30.14 Our Richard Stallman Interviews in 2012-2014

01.01.15 The Threat of Mono is Not Entirely Over Yet

01.02.15 Growing Resistance to Software Patents in the US While USPTO Expected to Review Subject Matter Eligibility

01.03.15 Bill Gates Buys the System, Writes Cheques to the White House

01.03.15 Despite Controversy and Backlash From Scientists and Human Rights Activists, the Gates Foundation Continues to Promote Private Prisons and GMO Ventures That It Profits From

01.03.15 Thousands of Child Rape Photos Traded Out of Bill Gates’ Mansion

01.06.15 Boycott Tuxera File Systems

01.06.15 2014 Brought Good News Regarding Software Patents, Other Types of Patents Remain Untouched

01.06.15 With Chromebooks Abound Windows is No Longer Competitive

01.07.15 Intellectual Property Judges’ Association (IPJA) Speaks Out Against EPO Tyrant Battistelli

01.10.15 Software Patents in an Age of Political Corruption and Corporate Domination

01.10.15 The Art of Lying About Android’s (Linux-based Platform) Growth

01.11.15 The EPO Connection Now a Liability as Administrative Council Has Become a Laughing Stock, Jesper Kongstad to be Targeted by EPO Staff Protests

01.17.15 Myths and Hype About Patents

01.20.15 Failure of the EPO Can Derail the Trojan Horse of Software Patents and Patent Trolls

01.28.15 Qualys Starts Self-Promotional FUD Campaign, Naming a Bug That Was Already Fixed 2 Years Ago and Distros Have Covered With Patches

01.29.15 Corporate Media, Led Astray by Patent Lawyers, Continues to Distort the Reality of Software Patents Post-Alice

02.01.15 Marketing Illusions Shattered: Vista 10 is Not ‘Free’ and Not Even a ‘Free’ Upgrade

02.01.15 Crushing Software Patents and Patent Maximalism in the US Still Not the Goal of Political Actors

02.07.15 Parasitical Firms Like Black Duck Exploit Bugs With Branding to Market Nonfree Services/Software

02.09.15 The ‘Innovation Act’ is Not Patent Reform, It’s Corporate Amendment Strengthening Patent Regime

02.09.15 The Pro-Software Patents Lobby Continues Trying to Rewrite Outcome of Alice v. CLS Bank Case

02.14.15 Obsession With Branded Bugs in Free Software, Not Bugging by Proprietary Software

02.17.15 Intel Continues to Attack Software Freedom Through UEFI

02.19.15 The Old Obsession With Patent Trolls Continues to Distract From Debate About Software Patenting

02.24.15 The EFF Back to Tackling Software Patents, Not Just Patent Trolls

03.25.15 Another Reason to Boycott UEFI: Back Doors or Crackers

03.26.15 The EPO’s Dutch Scandal Leaves Battistelli and His Cronies on the Run

04.03.15 FUD Alliance: VeraCode Co-founder Joins Black Duck

04.08.15 The EPO is Becoming More Like the USPTO Under Benoît Battistelli’s Greed-Driven Reign

04.12.15 No, Panasonic Did Not Open-Source Anything (Another Example of Openwashing for PR)

04.12.15 Yes, Software Patents Are Dying, But Media Continues to Be Dominated by Those Denying it For a Salary

04.12.15 The ITC’s and US Media’s Surprisingly Soft Treatment of Patent Bully Apple

04.12.15 European Unitary Patent Decision Due 5th of May

04.14.15 OnePlus (or OnePlus Customers) Should Wipe CyanogenMod From Existing Devices and Install Something Else

04.17.15 Black Duck’s Latest Self-Promotional Propaganda (for Proprietary Software) Still Fools Journalists

04.21.15 HBO Helps Shift Debate Over Patents to ‘Trolls’ (Scale), Not Scope

04.21.15 Software Patents Are Still Menacing to Free Software: OIN Expands Scope, HEVC Adds to MPEG-LA Burden/Tax, Google and Facebook Give in on Patents

04.22.15 The Dying Debate Over Patent Scope (Including Software Patents) Replaced by ‘Trolls’ (But Not the Biggest Ones)

04.24.15 Real Patent Reform Will Not Come From Biggest Backers of GNU/Linux, Not Even Google

04.27.15 The Unethical Business of Selling Fear of Free/Libre Software Bugs (Black Duck, Sonatype, and Symantec)

04.29.15 Windows Recipes for Disaster (Met Police and Fukushima)

04.29.15 ‘Visual Studio Code’: Not News, Not Free, Not Open Source

05.03.15 PATENT Act a ‘Reform’ for Big Corporations, Hence Does Not Address the Core Issues, Including Patent Scope and Massive Patent Aggressors

05.13.15 Open Source Revisionism of GNU and Free Software History

05.14.15 VENOM® is Not a Serious Bug, It’s Just a Marketing Campaign From CrowdStrike

05.14.15 New Windows Ransomware: No Branding, Not Even a Mention of Windows

05.18.15 Even Converting an Image to Greyscale is Now a Patent

05.19.15 The PATENT Act, Distraction of Trolls, and Lobbying for Software Patents by Protectionists

05.21.15 Windows is a Franchise in Demise, Don’t Believe the Hype

05.25.15 Large Corporations Call the Shots in US Patent Reform

05.26.15 Patent Scope at the EPO is Totally Out of Control, UPC Will Make Things Worse

05.27.15 Yet Another Major Security Deficiency in UEFI

05.28.15 British Government May be a Step Closer to GNU/Linux (on the Desktops, Not Just Servers)

05.28.15 Censorship on Reddit Has Gotten (Condé) Nasty and Silent, Even Actively Silenced

05.29.15 Patents Are Not Source Code

05.29.15 White House Intervention Harms Android and Every Software Developer on the Planet

05.31.15 McAfee Associates Free Software and Anonymity With Crime

06.04.15 Pretending That Windows is Secure and ‘Open’ Using the ‘Transparency Centre’ Farce

06.07.15 Debunking the Idea of ‘Secure’ Windows (or Proprietary Software, by Extension)

06.08.15 Demise of Software Patents and Refusal of the Patents ‘Industry’ to Accept That

06.08.15 Vista 10 (aka Windows 10) is Just Vapourware

06.12.15 Trapping GNU/Linux in Proprietary Software Environments (Hosts)

06.14.15 Abandoned Software is Not ‘Open Source’, Especially Software Tied to Proprietary Platforms Like Windows

06.14.15 EPO Data Protection Officer ‘Just a Dictator’s Minion’, Approved Keyloggers and Hidden Cameras

06.17.15 A Glance at Free/Libre Software Foes With Their Software Patents

06.18.15 IDG’s Jihad Against Free/Libre Software Perpetuates Myths About Software Security (Through Obscurity)

06.18.15 French Newspaper Les Echos Censors Criticism of Benoît Battistelli and the EPO (Updated)

06.19.15 Kaspersky Lab Hypocritical on Patents

06.20.15 After Alice Case ‘Judges Invalidated Patents Wholesale’

06.24.15 Not Only is Vista 10 Not Free, It is Getting More Expensive, According to the Taiwanese Press

06.25.15 An Estimated 1,000 EPO Staff in Munich Demonstrated Against EPO Management Yesterday Afternoon

06.26.15 Proprietary Software on Top of Proprietary Software (AV on Windows) Only an Illusion of Security

06.29.15 Patent Trolls in the Post-Alice World

06.29.15 Google’s Fight to Keep APIs Free is Lost, Let’s Hope Google Continues Fighting

07.01.15 The Shameless Campaign to Paint/Portray Free Software as Inherently Insecure, Using Brands, Logos, and Excessive, Selective Press Coverage

07.06.15 Corporate Media Should Stop Grooming Black Duck by Calling it ‘Open Source’ and Repeating Its Lies

07.06.15 Patent Propaganda, Glamourisation, and Erosion of Citizens’ Rights in the Process

07.08.15 Openwashing of Proprietary Software With Back Doors

07.14.15 As Demise of Software Patents (and More) in Line With Alice/Section 101 Accelerates, Hashtag #AliceStorm Introduced to Highlight Examples

07.14.15 Governments-Connected ‘Hacking Team’ Targets UEFI, Reveal Leaks

07.16.15 In the Media and in Politics, Everyone Talks About Patent Trolls, Not Patent Scope

07.16.15 Openwashing Visual Studio and Oracle’s Worrisome Embrace of Mono Rather Than Java

07.20.15 Software Patents Are Still Being Demolished by US Courts, Google Makes Prior Art Searches Simpler

07.21.15 Vista 10 Media SPAM is Getting Pretty Bad, and It’s Not Even Released Yet

07.21.15 The Technology Sector in the US Has Gotten Fed Up With Apple’s Patent Aggression Against Android/Linux

07.22.15 Terminology of Patent Lawyers and Pro-Patents Media Serves to Mislead the Public

07.23.15 Spinning Proprietary Software Dangers as Dangers of Free/Libre Software

07.23.15 GNU/Linux Circles Ought to Stop Promoting Visual Studio, Which is Neither Cross-Platform Nor Free Software

07.25.15 Vista 10 (Windows 10) Has NSA Back Doors and Front Doors

07.25.15 Vista 10 Not Ready, But Released Anyway

07.26.15 HEVC Cartel is Not News, Only the Names of Backers and the Costs Are New

07.27.15 Patents in the Android World Further Complicate Freedom in This Linux-Powered Platform

07.27.15 Corporate Lobbyists Including Koch-Connected Front Groups Attack Real and Perceived Patent Reform in the United States

07.28.15 Not Only Vista 10 Crashes a Lot, Any .NET Application Does Too (Updated)

07.28.15 MPEG-LA is Preparing New Patent Obstruction (Called DASH) Against Free Software, OIN Grows

07.28.15 New Zealand’s Media Gets History Wrong on Software Patents

07.28.15 Corporate Media Finally Finds Out That Vista 10 Crashes a Lot

07.30.15 Surveillance Machine With a Keylogger: Vista 10 Will Spy on the User (Over the Internet) Even While Playing Games

07.30.15 Vista 10 Very Buggy Upon Release, Just as We Have Repeatedly Warned for Weeks

07.31.15 Vista 10 Inherently Criminal: Vandalising the Competition (Dual Boot, Rival Web Browsers, Online Services)

08.04.15 Free Software is Commercial

08.05.15 Vista 10 is Worse Than Spyware, It Adds People’s Computers to a Botnet

08.06.15 Software Patents Gradually Getting Crushed, Even in the United States

08.10.15 Finjan, Cisco, JDate and Other Companies Acting Like Patent Trolls; New Threats to Linux

08.13.15 Cisco: When a Patent Troll (by Some Criteria) Claims to be Against Patent Trolls, Has Much Left to Prove

08.13.15 Privacy Controls in Vista 10 Are Decorative, Not Intended to Help Guard Privacy

08.16.15 Vista 10 Inherently Broken, Anti-Competitive (Against GNU/Linux and Free Software), Privacy-Infringing, and Definitely Not Secure

08.17.15 Patents Roundup: Patent Reform, Google’s ‘Startups’ Ploy, JDate, Fitbit, Cisco, and UPC in the UK

08.20.15 After OOXML Propaganda, New Assocham Propaganda Calls for Back Doors, Spyware and Other Malicious, Self-defeating Traps Inside Government of India

08.20.15 Black Duck Still Destroying, Lying, Rewriting History

08.20.15 Blackmail and Lies From the Press and the Government of New Zealand Attempt to Sell to the Public a Deal That Broadens Patent Scope

08.21.15 Company of Hype and ‘Fanbois’ Continues Its Patent Attacks on Android/Linux

08.21.15 Who’s Obsessing Over Patent Trolls in Latest ‘Reform’ Efforts? Larger Patent Trolls Such as Xerox

08.25.15 Market Share Estimates Confirm That Vista 10 Failed in a Major Way

08.29.15 Apple’s Patent Cases Against Android Are Falling Apart, as Acknowledged Even by the Anti-Android Lobby

09.01.15 Calling Proprietary Software, Software Patents, Lock-in (Like OOXML) and DRM ‘Open’

09.01.15 Recycled Old News About Vista 10, Stressing That Not Only ’10′ is Spyware But All of Windows is

09.04.15 Patents Roundup: Apple Versus Android/Linux, Leigh Rothschild Versus Everyone, Patent Lawyers Versus Patent Reform and Progressivism

09.08.15 Free Software Establishments in India Fight Back as Efforts to Spread Software Patents Are Reported

09.10.15 David Kappos From IBM and the USPTO is Still Lobbying for Software Patents, This Time With a New Glorified ‘Paper’

09.11.15 The Shameless Openwashing of Rebranded Internet Explorer, ‘Edge’

09.14.15 Patents Roundup: Europe’s and India’s Software Patents Affair, US Continues to Demote Software Patents With Alice Case

09.21.15 IBM is Again Attacking Free/Libre Open Source Software by Pushing for Patents on Software

09.23.15 Changes at Techrights

10.01.15 Black Duck Continues to Pile FUD on Free/Libre Software

10.05.15 With Software Patents in Europe (and Pushes for the Same Thing in Australia and India) Patent Trolls Now Come to Europe, Attack Android/Linux

10.05.15 Dr. Ingve Björn Stjerna Explains Why the UPC (“Unitary Patent“ System) is an Undemocratic Sham Whilst UPC Silently Advanced by Patent Lawyers and Politicians

10.07.15 Hypocrite Forks the Linux Kernel Because of Cultural Characteristics That He Himself is Guilty of

10.07.15 OIN Turns 10, IDG Floods the Web With Puff Pieces That ‘Normalise’ Software Patents

10.08.15 NASA Gives Back What It Took Away in the Form of Patent Monopolies for Private Gain

10.09.15 Responses to Software Patents in India Though Guidelines for Examination of Computer Related Inventions

10.09.15 Mobile Linux (e.g. Android) Still a Victim of Software Patents, No Peace in Sight

10.11.15 Leaked: EPO Prioritises Work for Large Foreign Corporations, Discrimination Not Accidental But Centrally Planned

10.13.15 Patent Trolls Roundup: MPHJ, Kyle Bass, Acacia, Intellectual Ventures, Unwired Planet, Core Wireless, Vringo, and Unified Patents

10.13.15 EPO Management Lobbies for the Unitary Patent (UPC) and Uses This to Advance Software Patents in Europe

10.14.15 Clare Curran (New Zealand Parliament) Pressures Her Government to Reveal Whether TPP Acts as a Trojan Horse for Software Patents

10.14.15 EPO Says Crushing Patent Neutrality is a Good Thing® Because Authenticity of Self-Incriminating EPO Document Cannot be Denied

10.14.15 EPO Completely Loses It and Starts Banning Even More Sites Ahead of Today’s Demonstration, UPC Proceeding Behind Closed Doors

10.20.15 Narendra Modi Must Immediately Block Software Patents to Save India’s Software Industry

10.20.15 The University of Wisconsin’s Lawsuit Against Apple Should Alarm Everyone, Not Just Apple Proponents

10.21.15 Red Hat Makes an Error by Liaising With Proprietary Software Firm and Source of FUD, Supposedly for ‘Security’

10.21.15 Slate Magazine Explains Why Excessive Patenting is a Bad Thing, Gives a Cautionary Tale for EPO and Others

10.27.15 Board of Appeal Thwarts a Software Patent Application in the EPO, From Company Indirectly Connected to the EPO

10.28.15 Apple Makes Use of Alice v. CLS Bank (Alice/§101) to Invalidate Software Patents, But ITC Pretends Nothing Happened

10.28.15 Secret Deals at the EPO Discredit Europe and Need to Stop Immediately

10.28.15 Apple’s Shameless Privacy Lies: The Fiction of Apple as the Very Opposite of What It Does

10.30.15 IBM Bemoans the Collapse of Software Patents in the US and Wants US Congress to Intervene for ‘Certainty’

10.30.15 Private Eye Covers the EPO Scandals, Says EPO Hired ‘British Snooping Firm Global Risk Consultants’

11.03.15 More European Politicians Take on the EPO for Ignoring the Rule of Law

11.03.15 Vista 10 and Other Spyware Not a Choice But Imperative for People Who Stay With Windows

11.04.15 GNU/Linux and Free/Libre Software Dominance: What It Comes Down to is Patents

11.05.15 The EPO’s Investigative Unit Exposed: Part III

11.06.15 IP Dealmakers Forum Brags About Having the World’s Largest Patent Troll as Keynote Speaker

11.06.15 So-Called ‘Trade’ Treaties Like TPP and TTIP Threaten to Legalise Software Patents in Europe and Even Effectively Ban Software Freedom/Copyleft

11.07.15 Major Technical Support Departments Discourage People From Adopting Vista 10, Even Suggest Deleting It

11.09.15 Wanted: USPTO Whistleblowers

11.10.15 The Bureaucratic Nonsense That Came Out of Benoît Battistelli and Jesper Kongstad at EPOPIC

11.10.15 Mozilla Follows Red Hat’s Misguided Strategy of Trying to Fight (Software) Patents With Patents Rather Than Invalidate Them

11.12.15 Techrights Turns 9

11.12.15 Trading Technologies is Stockpiling Software Patents, Surprised When These Are Challenged After Alice/§101

11.13.15 Linux Voice Stresses the Importance of the Software Patents Question in Relation to Free Software

11.14.15 Firms of Patent Lawyers Continue Their Battle to Restore Software Patentability in the United States

11.14.15 Red Hat and BlackBerry: Companies That Use Linux But Also Hoard Software Patents and Use These Against Rivals in the Linux Space

11.16.15 The EPO is Criticised Again for Serving the Monsanto (and Syngenta) Agenda

11.17.15 Another French Tragedy: Only the Insane Would Put Windows in Airports

11.19.15 Ignore the Noise in Corporate Media; Visual Studio is Still Proprietary (for Windows) and Will Remain Proprietary

11.23.15 HeBS Digital and Black Duck Press Releases Treated Like Articles, Used to Muddy the FOSS Waters

11.25.15 The Broken Window Economics of Patent Trolls Are Already Coming to Europe

11.28.15 The Serious Implication of Controversial FTI Consulting Contract: Every Press Article About EPO Could Have Been Paid for by EPO

11.29.15 East Texas and Its Cautionary Tale: Software Patents Lead to Patent Trolls

11.30.15 Media Alert: IAM ‘Magazine’ Does Not Protect Sources

12.02.15 Punto Informatico (Italian Media) About EPO’s Legal Bullying Against Techrights

12.04.15 EurActiv’s Puff Piece for EPO (Amid High-Budget Media Blitz) Reveals Just How Clueless and Tactless the EPO’s President Really is

12.05.15 How Patent Lawyers Cover Alice v. CLS Bank (Alice Case/§101)

12.05.15 European Private Office (EPO) Increasingly the Subject of Media Scrutiny Despite Huge Spendings on Reputation Laundering

12.06.15 More Than 2,000 People, Including Directors, Said to Have Protested in Munich (About HALF of All EPO Staff Including The Hague Protest)

12.06.15 Staff Union of the EPO Responds to Benoît Battistelli’s Alleged Defamation of Staff Representatives

12.06.15 Suppression of Voices Critical of the European Patent Office (EPO)

12.07.15 FRAND Tax, Patent Trolls as Satellites of Large Patent Aggressors, EPO Puff Pieces, and Another Imminent EPO Protest

12.08.15 Hypocrite in Chief: Benoît Battistelli Compares Staff Union to ‘Mafia’

12.09.15 Software Patents and EPO Coverage

12.11.15 Series Teaser: EPO President Battistelli’s Relationship With Power

12.12.15 New Private Eye Article Says EPO “Doesn’t Actually Deny That There’s a Fast-Track Project Allowing Big Firms to Queue-Jump”

12.12.15 A Day After Massive EPO Protest Benoît Battistelli Tries Using Money to Appease Staff

12.13.15 Keeping the European Patent Office (EPO) Out of Politics Amid the EPO’s Campaign to Deceive the Media, Politicians

12.14.15 The Open Invention Network and Software Patents

12.14.15 Watch Out For the EPO-SUEPO Parity Spin

12.15.15 Battistelli’s Vision of UPC is Closer Contract With Major Applicants (Abroad), Contrary to European Interests

12.16.15 Great News: Software Patents Stopped in India, For Now…

12.16.15 New WIPO Figures Reinforce Reality Where More Patents Needn’t Imply More Innovation, Just Lower Standards

12.19.15 EPO Pays FTI Consulting (Nearly a Million Bucks), Which Pays IAM for Pro-UPC Propaganda Event

12.19.15 Patent Maximalism and the Patent Trolls Epidemic Which It Leads to Not a Problem for Patent Lawyers

12.20.15 Software Patents Are Being Defeated to the Detriment of Large Multinationals, Their Patent Lawyers, and Patent Trolls Who Piggyback Them

12.21.15 The Forgotten History of IAM ‘Magazine’ as EPO Management’s Megaphone and EPO Union Basher

12.22.15 The Collapse of Patent Maximalism: Latest Major Setbacks for Software Patents and Patent Trolls

12.23.15 The Demise of Software Patents in Australia and the Unites States Worries Patent Lawyers

12.26.15 EPO Whistleblowing: How (Not) to Use Machines at the Office

12.27.15 Battistelli’s Proposed Changes to Pensions “Difficult to Understand”, “Liable to Cause Instability”, Without Consultation or Justification

12.28.15 EPO a “European Institution Which Does Not Fall Under EU Law”

01.01.16 Meeting the EPO’s PR Team and Learning Its Dirty Tricks

01.03.16 What the European Patent Office (EPO) Looks Like to European SMEs

01.03.16 Como miran los Pequeños y Medianos Negocios a la Oficina Europea de Patentes

01.04.16 Design Patents (e.g. Sliders) Are Becoming as Much of a Problem as Software Patents

01.05.16 The European Patent Office (EPO) Has Become a Propaganda Mill After the FTI Consulting Deal

01.06.16 Now It’s Just Patent Lawyers (and Their Rich Clients) Against Everybody Else, Seeking to Maximise Protectionism

01.07.16 Diseño de Patentes (Cerrojos) Se estan Convirtiendo en un Problema Como las mismas Patentes de Software.

01.08.16 Actualmente Sólo Abogados de Patentes (y sus Multibillionarios Clientes) Contra Todo el Mundo Buscán Máximizar Proteccionismo

01.08.16 Patent Lawyers Continue to Spin Grim News About Patents (UPC, Lawsuits Peak, Patent Raids) as Good News

01.10.16 Technology Companies at CES Lash Out at the USPTO for Enabling ‘Extortion Rackets’

01.11.16 Abogados de Patentes Continua to Circular Tenebrosas Noticias Acerca de Patentes, UPC, Demandas a Granel, Ataques de Patentes Como Buenas Noticias

01.12.16 Why the Corporations-Leaning US Political System Does Not and Will Not Help Resolve the Patent Chaos

01.12.16 Transparency is Sunlight in the Kingdom of the EPO Vampires

01.13.16 Compañías Tecnológicas en la CES Atacan a la Oficina de Patentes y Marcas (USPTO) por Habilitar a los ¨Extorsiónadores de Patentes¨

01.13.16 Germany Needs to Respect the European Patent Convention and Stop Issuing Software Patents, Also Reject UPC

01.14.16 Resistencia a Vista 10 Crece Con la IMPOSICION de ‘Upgrades’, Muchos Sugieren GNU/Linux como Alternativa

01.15.16 ¿Porqué el Systema Político de los Estados Unidos inclinado hacia las CORPORACIONES NO Ayudara a Resolver el Caos de Patentes

01.16.16 Transparencia es Luz del Sol en el Reino de los Vampiros de la OEP

01.17.16 Team Battistelli Has Brought Dirty Politics to the EPO, Pension Cuts May be “Blatantly Illegal”

01.17.16 Unitary Patent (UPC) Highlights Reality Behind the EPO’s Management and Its Multinational/Overseas Bosses

01.20.16 La Corte Unitaria de Patentes (UPC) Resalta la Realidad Detrás la Gerencia de la OEP y sus Jefes de las Multinacionales del Extranjero

01.20.16 EPO/FTI Consulting-funded Event for UPC Will Be Stuffed With Mega-corporations from the United States

01.24.16 Patent Lawyers and Their Sites/Media Still a Barrier to End of Software Patents and Patent Wars

01.24.16 Software Patents and Patent Taxes: How 100 Grams Worth of Components Can Cost as Much as $1000

01.24.16 Eventos de Consultantes Promovido para la Corte Unitaria de Patentes por la OEP/FTI, Estará Repleto de Mega-Corporaciones de los Estados Unidos

01.26.16 The EFF-Recommended Advice on Patents From Juelsgaard/Stanford Law School Potentially Worse Than Useless

01.26.16 The United States’ Patent System Lets Software Patents Rot, as Patent Trolls Take Over the System and Unrest Grows

01.27.16 Los Abogados de Patentes y sus Sitios/Medios de Comunicación Todavía Son una Barrera para Terminar las Guerras de Patentes

01.28.16 Many Software Firms No Longer Bother With Software Patents, Especially After Alice

01.29.16 EFF: “Software Patents Ruin Everything”

01.30.16 The Greedy USPTO Leaves Loopholes, “Per Se”, for Patenting of Software in the United States Despite the Alice Case

01.31.16 EFF: “Las Patentes de Software Arruinan Todo”

01.31.16 La Avara USPTO deja Ambiguedades, ¨Per Se¨, para el Patentamiendo de Software en los Estados Unidos A Pesar del Caso Alice

02.03.16 The Most Detailed Explanation (Yet) of What’s Wrong With the EPO

02.04.16 Readers’ Article: A Strange Conspiracy of Silence in the German Media (Part I)

02.04.16 The ‘International’ Trade Commission Imposes/Reinforces Software Patents to Establish Another Embargo

02.07.16 UPC: To Understand Who Would Benefit From It Just Look at Who’s Promoting It (Like TPP)

02.08.16 The Gates Foundation Subjected to Criticism, But Over a Decade Too Late

02.09.16 Even the Legal Community is Upset at Benoît Battistelli for the Damage He Did to the EPO

02.09.16 La Más Detallada Explicación (hasta ahora) de ¿Qué esta mal con la OEP?

02.10.16 La ‘Internacional’ Commisión de Comercio Impone/Reenfuerza Patentes de Software para Establecer Otro Embargo

02.10.16 UPC Nepotism, Political Abuses, and UPC Involvement From the Legal Firm That EPO Hired to Bully Techrights

02.11.16 Nepotismo de la UPC, Abusos Políticos, y el Envolvimiento en la UPC de la Firma ¨Legal¨ que la OEP Contrato para Matonear a Techrights

02.14.16 Patents Roundup: Software Patents, Patenting Loopholes, PTAB, Patent Trolls, and Software Patents Propagandists

02.15.16 With Software Patents, “the [Low Level of the USPTO Has Now Be[en] Reached by the EPO”]

02.16.16 Con Patentes de Software, “el [Bajo Nivel de la UPSTO Ahora Ha Sido Alcanzado por la OEP”]

02.17.16 A Short Visit to Pro-Patents (or Patent Maximalism) Sites of Patent Lawyers and Patent Predators

02.19.16 Patent Trolls and the Rise of Non-Practicing Parasites Not Just in the US But Also in Europe

02.20.16 Business Model of Patent Trolls Terribly Shaken as Their Weapon of Choice (Software Patents) Tackled, New Developments Emerge

02.22.16 Germany, Which Allows People in Europe and Abroad to Patent Software (EPC Shunned), Simply Cannot be Trusted With the EPO and UPC

02.22.16 It’s Official: Death of Software Patents Reaffirmed in India

02.23.16 Los Trolles de Patentes y el Aumento de Entidades No-Practicantes No Sólo en Los Estados Unidos Pero También En Europa

02.23.16 Es Oficial: La Muerte de las Patentes de Software Reafirmada en India.

02.25.16 Patents Roundup: Proxy Lawsuits, SCOTUS on Software Patents, Reform Agenda, and Lawyers Bypassing Alice

02.29.16 The Latest Failed Push for Software Patents in India Shows That People’s Resistance Still is Effective

02.29.16 Why the US Political Debate About Patent ‘Reform’ is Still Deficient and the Legal System Probably Broken Beyond Repair

03.01.16 If This is (Really) the End of SCO, Don’t Forget Who Funded and Supported SCO’s 13-Year-Long Attacks on Linux

03.02.16 EPO at Boiling Point: Why Battistelli is Believed to be Paid About $2,000,000 Per Year and Who Created and Circulated a Letter in His Support

03.02.16 Brace Yourselves for Self-Fulfilling Prophecies: Tomorrow the European Patent Office Will Spread Propaganda Based on Half Truths and Misdirection

03.03.16 In the EPO’s Official Photo Op, “Only One of the Faces is Actually FFPE-EPO”

03.03.16 In the Interests of the Public, India Bans Software Patents and the USPTO Should Follow Suit

03.05.16 Forget Staff Union-busting ‘Strike Ballots’, How About Ballots on Presidential Matters?

03.05.16 Guest Post: What’s the Difference Between a Psychopath and a Sociopath?

03.06.16 The EPO’s Media Strategy at Work: Union Feuds and Group Fracturing

03.07.16 Avoid IBM Until It Rescinds/Retracts/Reverses Its Weaponisation of Software Patents

03.08.16 Claim and Perception: Under Battistelli, EPO More Permissive on Software Patents Than USPTO, In Spite of the EPC

03.08.16 Apple’s Software Patents Tax on Android (Linux) Devices Put in Perspective

03.10.16 Patents Roundup: Patent Trolls, Patent Reform, IAM’s Willful Ignorance, PTAB Paranoia, and Long Briefs

03.11.16 Business Profit Over Science: Patent Scope at the EPO Has Gone So Badly Out of Control That Even the European Parliament is Complaining

03.12.16 Battistelli Acting Like a Politician, Lobbying for UPC All Across Europe and Coming to London Soon

03.12.16 India Got it Right on Software Patents, But Gives Up on Pharmaceutical Aspects

03.14.16 Rodeo de Patentes: Trolls de Patentes, Reforma de Patentes, Ignorancia Voluntaria de IAM, Paranoia de PTB y Bragas Largas

03.15.16 Overthrowing Battistelli Only Part of a Bigger Job (Restoration of Quality and Human Decency at the European Patent Office)

03.17.16 Patents Roundup: EMC, Pure Storage, OpenTV, Apple, Segway, and Alice (Software Patents)

03.17.16 On Bristows LLP and Other Self-Serving Non-Practising Voices for Software Patents and UPC Injustice

03.17.16 Patents Roundup: Software Patents After Alice, Apple and Samsung, Jawbone and Fitbit

03.18.16 En Bristows LLP y Otras Egoístas Entidades no Prácticantes Voces por las Patentes de Software y la Injusticia de la UPC

03.18.16 Redondeo de Patentes: EMC, Pure Storage, OpenTV, Apple, Segway, y Alice (Patentes de Software)

03.18.16 Redondeo de Patentes: SCOTUS, CAFC, y Patentes de Software

03.19.16 Patents Roundup: The Eastern District of Texas, Jurisdiction Changes, Dubious Patents, and Even Sanctions

03.20.16 EFF Wants to Tackle the Patent Litigation Mess But Still Stops Short of Abolishing (or Working to Abolish) Software Patents

03.21.16 Redondeo de Patentes: El Distrito Este de Texas, Cambios de Juridicción, Patentes Dubias, e Incluso Sanciones

03.23.16 Focus on Patent Trolls Persists, With Increasing Use of Euphemisms Such as NPEs and PAEs

03.24.16 Under Nadella, Another Ballmer With a Different Face, Patent Extortion Strategy Against Linux Still Very Much Alive

03.24.16 Software Patents in the US — When Properly Challenged in an Age of Extreme USPTO Leniency — Simply Die

03.25.16 IDG Publishes an ‘Ad’ For Black Duck, But it Looks Like an Article and It’s Inflammatory for Hits (Click Bait)

03.25.16 Patents Roundup: Patent Trolls Groomed by IAM, Reform Strives to Tackle Trolls, NewEgg and LOTNet Explore Alternate Solutions

03.26.16 Corporate Media Lies About ‘Market Share’ of Vista 10 the Same Way It Did About Vista

03.26.16 Battistelli is Trying to Save His EPO Job After Getting Called Out, But Doesn’t Give Back Busted Union Leaders Their Jobs; Strike Imminent

03.26.16 Patents Roundup: SCOTUS, U.S. Code § 101, CAFC, PTAB, and Software Patents in the Far East (Australia, Korea, Taiwan, China)

03.27.16 Bajo Nadella, Otro Ballmer Con Diferente Cara y Muchos Menos Kilos de Peso, La Extorsión de Patentes Contra Linux Esta muy Viva Todavía

03.27.16 Battistelli esta Tratando de Salvar Su Trabajo en la EPO Despues que le llamaron la Atención, Pero no Regresa su Trabajo A los Lideres Sindicales Despedidos; Huelga Inminente

03.28.16 Redondeo de Patentes: Los Trolles de Patentes Acícalados por IAM, la Reforma se Esfuerza para Enfrentárse a los Trolles, NewEgg y LOTNet Exploran Soluciones Alternativas

03.28.16 Patentes de Software en los US – Cuando son Propiamente Desafíadase en una Era de Extrema Leniencia de la USPTO – Simplemente Mueren

03.30.16 IAM ‘Magazine’ Cannot Say ‘Patent Trolls’

03.30.16 Oracle’s Huge Claims Against Linux/Android Demonstrate the Uselessness of OIN

03.30.16 UPC Would Bring Software Patents to Europe and Open the Floodgates to Litigation

04.01.16 Grandes Reclamos de Oracle Contra Linux/Android Demuestra la Futilidad de la OIN

04.01.16 David Kappos Whines About the Supreme Court Shutting the Door on Many Software Patents

04.01.16 La UPC Traería Patentes de Software a Europa y Abriría las Compuertas a Litigación

04.02.16 USPTO Still a Fine Mess, ITC Restricted as Sanctions/Embargo Enforcer

04.02.16 David Kappos Lloriquea Porque La Corte Suprema Esta Cerrándo la Puerta a Varias Patentes de Software

04.02.16 IAM ‘Magazine’ No Puede Decir ‘Trolles de Patentes’

04.02.16 EUIPO and the Shady Relation to the EPO

04.02.16 Software Patents in the United States as Explored in Light of Some of the Latest Cases

04.02.16 UPC Lobbying and Propaganda at the Fordham IP Think Tank (‘Conference’) 2016 in New York, With a Clear EPO Role

04.02.16 VENUE Act Not the Solution and Amid EFF News About Intellectual Ventures and Garfum It’s Time to Tackle Software Patents

04.03.16 EUIPO y sus Sospechosa Relación con la EPO

04.03.16 Patents Roundup: More on Patent Shakedowns, IBM Rejoins the Shakedowns Club With Software Patents, China Worries About Patent Certainty (Too Low a Standard)

04.03.16 Cabildeo por la UPC y Propaganda en el Grupo de Interés Fordham IP (‘Conferencia’) 2016 en Nueav York, Con un Claro Rol de la EPO

04.04.16 VENUE Act No es la Solución en Medio de EFF Noticias Acerca Intellectual Ventures y Garfum Es Tiempo de Enfrentárse a las Patentes de Software

04.05.16 Abolish the Supreme Court and Congressional Take on Patents, Says David Kappos, Just Listen to Mr. Kappos and Reinforce Software Patents

04.05.16 Massive Cases Launched by Patent Trolls in the US Almost Always About Software Patents

04.06.16 Abolir la Corte Suprema y la Toma del Congreso en Patentes, Dice David Kappos, Sólo Escuchen a Mr. Kappos y Refuerzen Las Patentes de Software

04.12.16 GNU/kWindows

04.12.16 Software Patents Hoarders Going Down in the United States

04.13.16 Listening to Patent Lawyers Who Never Wrote Any Code to Decide on Software Patents

04.13.16 Patent Fights Over Reform Focus (Marginalising Small Actors), Courts (Judges) Versus Patent Offices (Large Businesses)

04.13.16 All Software Equivalent to Mental Steps, Reducible to Pencil-and-Paper Work

04.14.16 US Lobbyist for Software Patents, David Kappos, Uses EPO’s Snubbing of the EPC to Spread Misinformation and Patent Monopolies on Software/Algorithms

04.14.16 Patent Trolls in the US, Storm of Patent Litigation Expected in China, and Yahoo’s Patents (Potentially on Sale) Become Subject of Intrigue

04.14.16 Alice (§ 101) So Big a Concern to Patent Lawyers and Software Monopolists That Lobbying Campaigns and ‘Conferences’ Emerge to Crush or at Least Marginalise/Limit the Courts

04.14.16 Codiciósos Acumuladores de Patentes de Software Caen en Picada en Los EE.UU

04.15.16 Escuchando a los Abogados de Patentes Quienes Nunca Escribieron Una Línea de Codigo Decidir en Patentes de Software

04.15.16 Todo Software Es Equivalente a Pasos Mentales, Reducible a Trabajo Con Lápiz y Papel

04.16.16 Criticisms of the Patent System of the United States, Which is Imposed on the Rest of the World Using Corporate Lobbyists and Attracts or Creates Patent Trolls

04.18.16 Say the Truth About the US Patent System, Get Attacked by the Patent Propaganda Machine (Disguised as Press)

04.19.16 The ‘Great Conspiracy’ of Patent Lawyers, Lobbyists and Large Corporations for UPC and for Software Patents

04.20.16 Corporate Lobbying for Software Patents in the United States and Against Alice, Against Patent Reform

04.24.16 [ES Di la Verdad Acerca del Sistema de Patentes de los EE.UU., Conseguiras Ser Atacado por la Máquina Propagandistica de Patentes (Disfrazada de Prensa)]

04.24.16 Patents Roundup: Marijuana Patents, Patent Satellites, Patent Trolls, Wars, and Merchants (Notably Lawyers)

04.26.16 A Farce of a System: How SIPO, USPTO, and Increasingly the EPO Too Turn Into Filing Systems (No Proper Examination/Filtering Required)

04.27.16 [ES Una Fársa de Sistema: ¿Cómo la SIPO, USPTO, y cada vez más la EPO se Convierten en Llenado de Patentes (No Se Requiere Propia Examinación)]

04.28.16 Latest Black Duck Puff Pieces a Good Example of Bad Journalism and How Not to Report

04.28.16 USTR is Trying to Shame and Bully India Into Introducing Software Patents in India

04.30.16 India is Having Another Taste of the Dangers of Western Patents, Must Learn to Reject Software Patents in the Face of Great Pressure

04.30.16 Alice Continues to Smash Software Patents So Patent Lawyers, Monopolists’ Lobbyists Etc. Now Attack the Supreme Court for Doing This

05.01.16 [ES Alice Continúa Quebrando Patentes de Software Asi Que los Abogados de Patentes, Cabilderos de los Monopolistas, Etc. Ahora Atacan a la Corte Suprema por Hacer Esto]

05.01.16 [ES La India Está Teniendo Otra Prueba de los Peligros de las Patentes Occidentales, Debe Aprender a Rechazar Completamente las Patentes de Software en Medio de Gran Presión]

05.07.16 [ES Los Enemigos de Europ: Un Mes Después de Promover la UPC en Londres, Benoît Battistelli y la EPO Hacen lo Mismo en Helsinki]

05.08.16 US Bodies Are Locking Up the Commons and Industry Standards in Patent Enclosures, in Order to Benefit Few Monopolists

05.08.16 India’s Patent Law Under Attack by Software Patents Ambitions; Tata, Wipro and Infosys Among the Culprits

05.09.16 European Digital SME Alliance: Unified Patent Court (UPC) “Unconstitutional”, Harms SMEs, Brings Software Patents to Europe, “Should be Based on EU Law and Not on an International Agreement.”

05.10.16 IBM is Not a ‘Patent Troll’ But Increasingly, Over Time, Troll-Like

05.11.16 [ES La Ley de Patentes India Bajo Ataque de Ambiciónes de Patentes de Software; Tata, Wipro e Infosys Entre los Culpables]

05.14.16 IAM ‘Magazine’: Not Just Paid by the Patent Trolls and Legal Giants But Also Speaking With (and For) Them

05.14.16 [ES La USPTO Sigue Jodiéndo a la Corte Suprema de los Estados Unidos Al Continuar Emitiéndo Patentes de Software que Son Totalmente Fálsas]

05.15.16 With Software Patents Abound, Free/Open Source Software Loses, Patent Lawyers Gain

05.17.16 [ES Al Abundar Patentes de Sofware, Free/Open Source Software Pierde, Mientras que los Abogados de Patentes Ganan Más que Nadie]

05.17.16 Endless Harmonious Self-Congratulatory Praises From Self-Serving Law Firms in the Wake of Just One Pro-Software Patents Decision From CAFC

05.19.16 Australian Productivity Commission’s Research Calls for Ban on Software Patents, Davies Collison Cave Calls for Complaints Against This Finding

05.19.16 CAFC Rules Against Software Patents But Witness With Horror the Silence From Patent Lawyers (Bias by Omission)

05.20.16 USPTO Ignores a Lot of Cases Against Software Patents to Justify Resumption of More Software Patenting

05.21.16 Guest Post: How Vista 10 Imposes Itself on Users of Windows

05.22.16 The Circus of Patent ‘Reporting’ (by Omission) on the Subject of Software Patents in the US and USPTO Bias

05.22.16 IP3 Demonstrates That Today’s Patent Systems Devolve Into a Conglomerates’ Game, Won’t Protect the Mythical Small Inventor

05.23.16 ‘Celebrity’ Patent Trolls and the Elusive Battle Against Patent Trolls (or Eastern District of Texas Courts) Rather Than Software Patents

05.24.16 How the Patent Lawyers’ Microcosm Continues to Boost Software Patents Filth by Misdirecting Readers, Relying on Highly Selective Coverage

05.26.16 Italian Report About EPO Now Available in English