IBM Archive
IBM was mentioned in the following past articles.
12.08.06 ECMA Open XML Approved Despite IBM Objection
05.04.07 Speculation: IBM Will Buy Novell
05.12.07 Novell Sidles with IBM’s Rival, Repeats Mistakes
08.13.07 IBM’s Perspective on the Novell/Microsoft Deal (Video)
08.19.07 Sun, Red Hat, Microsoft, and Novell: Whose Side is IBM on?
08.31.07 Another Classic Case of Patent Trolling (Microsoft Gets Stung) (Updated)
09.27.07 OpenDocument News: ODF at Sun, Google, IBM, and Novell
10.24.07 Microsoft Hit by a ‘Company… Solely Focused on Commercializing its Patent Portfolio’
12.20.07 More Lawsuits and Attacks by Proxy, Courtesy of Microsoft
12.22.07 Gaining Advantage Through Acquisitions, Deals, Defections
01.02.08 IBMers Stress the Importance of (Truly) Open Standards
01.04.08 Does IBM Keep Patent Trolls on Their Toes by Overwhelming the USPTO?
01.14.08 Patents Roundup: Google, Patent Reform, and “The Eco-Patent Commons”
02.23.08 IBM on Open Source, Standards, and OOXML (Video)
04.05.08 Did Microsoft Attack IBM by Proxy to Restrain OOXML Critics?
04.06.08 “Microsoft Against the World” Turned to “Process of Politicalisation”
04.09.08 OOXML Dirty Tricks Miscellanea: Norway, Misdirection, GPL Exclusion as Standard
06.21.08 Novell, Microsoft… and IBM… Maybe Oracle Too (Part I)
09.02.08 IBM Influence in Novell
09.24.08 ISO Death Watch in the Press: Part Deux
09.25.08 India Might Can ISO; IBM Opposition Backed by LF, Seeks Broader Crowd
11.03.08 Time for IBM to Take the Lead a ‘Pull a re Bilski’ on Software Patents
11.05.08 IBM Vice President: Requires Silverlight? No Thanks.
12.08.08 Memo to IBM: Enough with Software Patents, Please
01.20.09 Has Microsoft Just Invested in Another Lawsuit Against IBM?
02.11.09 Bill Gates et al Lean on Other Companies to Derail GNU/Linux as “Main Stream Operating System”
03.31.09 IBM in Negotiations to Acquire Novell
04.03.09 Microsoft and Novell (Almost Merged) versus IBM and Sun (to be Merged)
04.23.09 IBM Does Not Support OOXML
05.02.09 Novell News Summary – Part II: SLED at H-P, SLES at IBM, and Xandros/Scalix
05.11.09 IBM’s Missed Opportunity to Help Free Software
06.05.09 Patents Roundup: What Bilski Means to IBM, Microsoft; Patent Trolls Still Win
06.09.09 Important Precedence: IBM Threatens to Sue Microsoft Over Propaganda Site
07.21.09 IBM’s Latest Filing Regarding SCO Bankruptcy Mentions “Fraud”
07.30.09 Masters of FUD: Apple, IBM, and Microsoft
08.12.09 Guess Which Software Giant is Promoting Software Patents
09.03.09 Patents Roundup: Patent Propaganda from the BBC, IBM in the Shadows, and Early Mistakes from David Kappos
09.07.09 Patents Roundup: Microsoft. Apple, TiVo, IBM, and Lots More
09.19.09 Patents Roundup: IBM Abuse Carries On, Patent Troll Tracker on Trial, Paltalk Bites Again, and Patent Law Challenged
09.22.09 Patents Roundup: Intellectual Monopolies Under Attack, IBM and Patent Trolls Get Miserable
09.24.09 IBM Pressured to Help Advance Desktop GNU/Linux in the West
10.09.09 The Microsoft Lobby and Heavy Investments Put IBM in Antitrust Probe
12.24.09 Patents Roundup: IBM Patents Patent Harvesting, Bilski Still in IBM’s David Kappos Hands to Decide
01.01.10 Bernie Marren is Not a Patent Troll, He is a Patent Toll
04.06.10 IBM’s Day of Shame
04.06.10 IBM on Withdrawing Microsoft’s OOXML
04.07.10 IBM Will Never be the Same After Taking Software Patents Out of Its Holster
04.22.10 IBM Might Pay Microsoft Even More for Imaginary Software Patents (in Linux) Through SUSE/Novell
04.24.10 Novell News Summary – Part II: Novell and IBM in Studio
04.25.10 IBM Should Have Gone With rPath
06.26.10 Why is Florian Müller Sometimes Promoting Microsoft’s Agenda? (Updated)
06.29.10 IBM’s Black Helicopters
08.06.10 Groklaw Responds to Latest FUD from Florian Müller
08.21.10 Campaigner for Hire Blames IBM for Air Crash
10.31.10 With Software Patents “Microsoft Claims to Own the Whole Field of Syncing E-mail Between a Cloud and a Device.”
11.05.10 Patent Trolls Including Microsoft’s Co-founder Are Attacking, IBM is Not Really Defending (Unless IBM is Attacked)
12.08.10 ICOMP is Another Microsoft Drone Like TurboHercules
01.18.11 Big Blue’s Winter of Shame
05.09.11 IBM and Google Still Not Committed to Crushing Software Patents
05.10.11 ES: IBM y Google No Mantienen El Compromiso de Triturar las Patentes de Software
05.22.11 Microsoft is in a Freefall, IBM Surpasses it in Value
06.01.11 IBM PR is ‘Shaping’ the News (and Asks to Remain Secret)
06.01.11 IBM Takes ODF to Another Level
06.02.11 IBM Needs to Explain Office Suite Patents (and How Bill Gates Was Attacking Interoperability With Lotus, Using Patents Against OpenOffice.org)
06.03.11 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)
06.06.11 The Register is Distorting Authors’ Headlines
09.16.11 Cablegate: “IBM Have Advocated That High Quality Software Patents Would Also Have Significant Value”
12.29.11 Cablegate: State Governments in India Prefer Open Source Code
12.30.11 Cablegate: BSA Smears Sri Lanka’s Government for Moving to Free/Open Source Software
01.13.12 With IBM Executive Running the USPTO, IBM Tops Patent Monopolists List
08.25.12 IBM, Microsoft, and the BSA Promote Software Patents in New Zealand Behind the Scenes
06.18.13 Microsoft is Not Done With SCO Yet
09.20.13 IBM: Using GNU/Linux to Sell Hardware, Still Defending and Promoting Software Patents
10.18.13 IBM Does Not Deserve That Much Credit for Power Systems Agenda
01.06.14 Microsoft and IBM Still Lobby for Software Patents in the US
03.07.14 IBM Not the Only ‘Sugar Daddy’ of GNU/Linux
03.12.14 IBM Turns Into More of a Patent Troll Amid Layoffs, Gradual Demise of Real Products
08.05.15 IBM is Still Hoarding Patents, Even Software Patents
10.30.15 IBM Bemoans the Collapse of Software Patents in the US and Wants US Congress to Intervene for ‘Certainty’
02.24.16 IBM and Other Giant Multinationals Upset That Software Patents Are Increasingly Rejected in the US, Now India
02.28.16 IBM y Otras Multinacionales Gigantes Molestos Porque las Patentes de Software Están Siendo Rechazadas Cada Vez Más en Los Estados Unidos, y Ahora en la India
03.03.16 Shortly After Massive Layoffs ‘King of Patents’ IBM is Using Software Patents to Sue Much Smaller Companies
03.07.16 Avoid IBM Until It Rescinds/Retracts/Reverses Its Weaponisation of Software Patents
03.19.16 IBM is Still Pushing for Software Patents Not Only in India But Also in the United States
03.21.16 IBM Todavía está Impulsando por Patentes de Software No Sólo en India Pero También en Los Estados Unidos
05.05.16 IBM Comes Under Growing Scrutiny for Increasingly Acting Just Like a Patent Troll Amid Layoffs
07.16.16 With ‘Friends’ Like IBM and Its ‘Open’ Invention Network We Legitimise Software Patents Rather Than End Them
08.26.16 Good Job, David Kappos, Says the ‘Boss’ (IBM)
12.29.16 Software Patents Continue to Collapse, But IBM, Watchtroll and David Kappos Continue to Deny and Antagonise It
01.10.17 Patent Maximalism on Display: Patent Aggressor IBM Celebrated in the Media
01.12.17 Software Patents Still Promoted by IBM and Its Lobbyist (and Former Employee) David Kappos, in Defiance of Much-Needed US Patent Reform
02.06.17 IBM is Attacking Patent Reform and is Lobbying for Resurgence of Software Patents
02.12.17 After Ruinous Kappos (Former IBM) Tenure at USPTO the Big Blue — Along With Front Groups — Muscles Its Way Into US Patent Policy
02.14.17 IBM Has Become an Enemy of GNU/Linux and a Loud Proponent of Software Patents
03.03.17 IBM is a Massive Patent Bully That Amasses Software Patents, So Invalidation or ‘Sharing’ of One Single Patent Misses the Point Entirely
05.14.17 IBM and Its Revolving Doors Lobby Are Plotting to Undermine Supreme Court Rulings to Restore Patentability of Software
06.25.17 IBM, Apple and Facebook Pursue Software Patents in India in Defiance of the Ban
08.31.17 IBM Helps a Microsoft-Connected Patent Troll Create Another Trolling Branch, Known as Finjan Blue
09.24.17 IBM and IPO Continue Working Behind the Scenes to Undermine Alice and Promote Software Patents
09.26.17 Dying Computer Giants Turn Patents Into an Extortion Racket
12.03.17 Famed Journalist Dan Gillmor Calls IBM the Inventor of Patent Trolling
12.13.17 IBM’s Manny Schecter is Wrong Again and He is Attempting to Justify Patent Trolling
01.03.18 IBM Has Become Almost Indistinguishable From the Patent Trolls It Passes Patents to (Finjan for Example)
01.13.18 Top Rank at USPTO Goes to the Biggest Patent Bully, IBM
02.05.18 The Efforts to Work Around 35 U.S.C. § 101 and Why IBM is So Afraid of § 101
02.15.18 IBM is Getting Desperate and Now Suing Microsoft Over Lost Staff, Not Just Suing Everyone Using Patents
02.27.18 IBM Has Become More of a Patent Broker Rather Than a Genuine Technology Company
03.13.18 IAM and IBM Want Lots of Patent Litigation in India
06.03.18 IBM and Its Terrible Software Patents, Which Are Disguised as ‘AI’, ‘Cloud’, and More Recently ‘Blockchain’
07.26.18 Microsoft Patent Trolls and IBM Against 35 U.S.C. § 101 and for Software Patents, Blackmail
07.29.18 A Call to Boycott IBM Over Its Serial, Systematic Acts of Patent Aggression Using Dubious Patents in Large Quantities
08.02.18 IBM’s Patent Aggression Celebrated by Law Firms, Condemned by Technical People
08.27.18 IBM Publicity Stunts Which Strive to Portray This Patent Bully as Generous, Playful and Fun
10.03.18 Today’s IBM is Acting Like a Patent Troll and Arming Active Patent Trolls, Just Like Microsoft Does
11.04.18 Software Patents Proponents Abound: IAM, IBM, Kappos, OIN and Microsoft
12.03.18 The Intellectual Property Owners Association (IPO) and IBM Are Part of the Software Patents Problem in the United States
12.13.18 Latest Talk From IBM’s Manny Schecter Shows That IBM Hasn’t Changed and After the Red Hat Takeover It’ll Continue to Promote Software Patents
01.15.19 IBM, Which Will Soon be Buying Red Hat, is Promoting Software Patents in Europe
03.04.19 With IBM’s Absorption of Red Hat Now Confirmed, at Least by Stockholders, IBM Has Shown No Intent/Plan to Stop Lobbying for Software Patents and Blackmailing With These
08.15.07 Finland and New Zealand’s Fight Against Vendor Lockin; IBM Set to Release Lotus 8 with ODF Support on Friday
08.17.07 OOXML/ODF Watch: FFII’s Pieter Hintjens, Sun’s Michael Brauer, and IBM’s Bob Sutor
09.10.07 IBM Adds More Force to ODF; The OOXML Plot Dissected Further
10.20.07 Novell Still Behind Red Hat and IBM in Terms of Linux Contributions
10.24.07 Quoteworthy Analysis: Acacia, Europe, the GPL, IBM, Microsoft, Red Hat, and Novell
11.14.07 ODF Becomes a Reality in South Africa, IBM Pushes on With ODF Apps
11.15.07 Microsoft Lobbies for OOXML Through Proxies, IBM Does Its Own Legwork
11.27.07 IBM’s Standards Vice President Asks About Mono-free Linux
01.22.08 Microsoft et al Caught Trolling — Lying About IBM and OOXML
01.23.08 Quick Mention: No Mono for IBM’s Standards Vice President
02.04.08 IBM and Microsoft Share the Same Problem That They Hide
06.03.08 Novell and IBM Again: Open Collaboration Solution?
06.22.08 Novell, Microsoft… and IBM… Maybe Oracle Too (Part II)
07.09.08 IBM Gets Its Microsoft-taxed GNU/Linux for the Mainframes
10.03.08 A Question About Patents: IBM, OIN, Linux Foundation, and Novell
11.22.08 Do-No-Evil Saturday – Part II: SUSE at Wyse, IBM; Linspire Tiff; Some Turbolinux
01.12.09 Microsoft: “Never Leave an Opening for Novell or IBM”
03.06.09 Patents Roundup: TomTom, Microsoft, Patent Trolls, Red Hat, IBM, Google, Bilski and Reform
03.30.09 Microsoft Pays Professor to Write a Paper Against IBM’s GNU/Linux-Powered Mainframes
05.06.09 Embrace, Extend, and Microsoft Wants to Toss IBM Out of ODF
05.08.09 Microsoft Fragments ODF While Trying to Paint it as “IBM Thing”
05.30.09 Patents Roundup: IBM/Dojo, Patent Punishments, and Europe’s Race to Community(-Hostile) Patent
07.16.09 Patents Roundup: Peer-to-Patent Annual Report; FFII, FSFE and IBM Weigh in
09.28.09 IBM Blasts Microsoft for Spreading “Fabricated” Figures
11.11.09 IBM and Open Forum Europe Address European Interoperability Framework (EIF) Fiasco
12.19.09 Novell News Summary – Part II: SLES in IBM Mainframes and HP, Other Ballnux Distributions (Bada)
12.21.09 Neon Challenges IBM’s GNU/Linux Mainframes, EU Challenges IE Bundling, and Microsoft Helps Push Mono and Moonlight Into GNU/Linux
12.31.09 David Kappos Can Reprimand IBM for Mocking the USPTO’s Intelligence
01.14.10 GNU/Linux (or Google and IBM) is Replacing Microsoft
02.15.10 Patents Roundup: IBM Helps Software Patents Spread to India and Gets Sued for Patent Violations; ELSE Joins LiMo Patent Pool
03.20.10 Novell News Summary – Part II: IBM, Novell, SUSE Appliances, and Ingres
04.03.10 Novell News Summary – Part II: SUSE and IBM Cuddle, Android’s Patent Problem in Asia
04.06.10 IBM Uses Software Patents Aggressively
04.09.10 Why IBM Does Deserve Scrutiny (Updated)
04.14.10 Patents Roundup: IBM, TurboHercules, Microsoft, New Zealand, Palm, and CompTIA
04.16.10 TurboHercules’ Attack on IBM Gains Support From Microsoft Investor/Booster and More
04.17.10 Novell News Summary – Part II: SUSE Reliant on IBM and Verizon, Hosts Proprietary Software or SaaS
04.21.10 OpenDocument Format (ODF) Shows That It Would Have Been Better If IBM Bought Sun
05.10.10 Salesforce CEO Compares Microsoft at Present to IBM in the 80s and 90s
06.10.10 IBM Uses Novell to Take Market Share From Rivals Like Oracle
06.14.10 IBM Alerts IDG About “Microsoft Allegedly Trying to Derail IBM by Using SCO as a Surrogate.”
06.28.10 Recommendations for OIN, IBM, and Florian Müller
07.05.10 “Florian Mueller Appears to be Assigned to IBM Whereas Monty Seems to be Pointed at Oracle.”
07.10.10 Patents Roundup: FFII Founder on IBM, Shazam Has No Case, Microsoft Wants to ‘Own’ Page-flipping, and Software Freedom is Hurt
07.21.10 Links: GNU/Linux Desktop Merits Noted, Canonical Spreads Proprietary IBM Software
07.27.10 Antitrust Attacks on IBM Carried Out by Microsoft and its “Satellite Proxies,” According to IBM
07.28.10 IBM Brags About Software Patents, Just Like Novell
08.16.10 IBM Challenges Gartner Group’s Credibility
09.10.10 01 Communique Uses Software Patents Against Dell, LogMeIn; IBM Still a Mockery of the USPTO Its Employee Runs
10.10.10 What IBM, Apple, and Pharmaceutical Giants Could Learn From Andre Konstantinovich Geim
11.12.10 IBM’s Rob Weir Argues TalkStandards.com is Fronting for Microsoft, Steve Mutkoski (Microsoft) to Lobby for Patented Standards at Transformational Government Workshop
11.27.10 IBM and Tandberg Abuse Software Patents by Using Them to Rip Off Real Innovators
12.02.10 TurboHercules Confirmed to be Funded by Microsoft to Attack GNU/Linux/IBM
12.04.10 With IBM Funding, Microsoft Software Patents Are Targeted by Peer To Patent
01.14.11 EMC, IBM, HP, and SAP Dump the BSA
02.10.11 Eclipse Foundation Director: “Software Patents Are Basically a Bad Idea”; IBM Still Celebrating Patents
02.25.11 When Microsoft and IBM Met Intellectual Protectionism
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
05.05.11 Groklaw Worried About Novell Polluting Ubuntu With Mono, IBM’s Open Source VP Thinks Microsoft Might Scoop Mono
06.03.11 IBM Brings OIN-Like Mentality to Europe
06.07.11 ES: IBM Trae la Mentalidad Semejante al OIN a Europa
09.15.11 Google’s IBM Patents Feast: Good or Bad?
11.14.12 IBM Propaganda for Software Patents Rebutted by Masnick
11.21.12 Kappos/IBM Part of the Patent Monopolies Disease, Enabling Cartels
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
05.20.13 IBM-backed Book on ‘Open Innovation’
05.22.13 IBM Ignores Small Companies’ Interests, Denies Patent Scope is a Problem, Focusing on Its Own Problems (Trolls) Instead
11.21.13 IBM and Microsoft: The AstroTurfing for Software Patents Continues
11.25.13 President of the OSI Calls IBM, Microsoft and Other Companies Patent Trolls, Explains the Role of OIN
12.10.13 IBM and Microsoft Crushed Patent Reform in the United States, Last Resort is SCOTUS Again
01.26.14 IBM Shows That Collaborations With the NSA Are a Company’s Death Knell
02.03.14 USPTO Still a Sham; Microsoft, Apple and IBM Still Part of the Problem and Google/Linux a Common Victim
09.10.15 David Kappos From IBM and the USPTO is Still Lobbying for Software Patents, This Time With a New Glorified ‘Paper’
09.21.15 IBM is Again Attacking Free/Libre Open Source Software by Pushing for Patents on Software
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)
04.11.16 FOSS at Risk From Software Patents, Which Are Still Being Promoted by Bristows, IAM, IBM, and Steve Lundberg (Frequent Villains)
04.12.16 FOSS en Riesgo a Causa de las Patentes de Software, Las que Todavía Siguen Siendo Promovidas por Bristows, IAM, IBM, y Steve Lundberg (Los Villanos Usuales)
04.19.16 Software Patents Decreasingly a Threat in the United States, But IBM and Microsoft Lobby for a Rebound
05.10.16 IBM is Not a ‘Patent Troll’ But Increasingly, Over Time, Troll-Like
06.05.16 IBM, Google and Microsoft Patent Stockpiles Demonstrate That Today’s US Patent System Exists for Billionaires, Not for Inventors
12.12.16 Software Patents Battles: Lobby to Restore US Software Patents, IBM’s and Google’s Positions on the Subject, and Microsoft/Intellectual Ventures With Their Ongoing Attacks on Linux
03.12.17 IBM is Hoarding a Lot of Software Patents But Disguises Them as ‘Cloud’, ‘AI’, and Other Buzzwords
03.20.17 What IAM Says About AST, RPX, Ericsson, and IBM
04.06.17 IBM, IPO, AIPLA, ABA and Other Lobbying/Front Groups of the Patent Microcosm Are Trying to Change US Law for Software Patents
05.22.17 Great News: While IBM et al Try to Undermine Patent Reform the Supreme Court Deepens the Reform in TC Heartland Case
07.02.17 India Continues to Reject Software Patents in Spite of Pressure From Foreign Companies Like IBM
07.10.17 Lobbying Against the US Supreme Court’s Landmark Decision (Alice) by Bristows, IBM, David Kappos, IPO, ABA, AIPLA, Adam Mossoff and Kevin Madigan
07.23.17 IBM and Watchtroll, Together With Microsoft, Among the Driving Forces for Resurgence of Software Patents
09.17.17 Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) Under Attack by IBM and Other Patent Parasites Who Undermine Patent Quality
01.06.18 When All That’s Left is a Bunch of Patents: Stories of IBM, Finjan, Ericsson, and Citrix
01.26.18 How a Microsoft-Sponsored and IBM-Armed Patent Troll Is Used by Lobbyists of Software Patents
02.09.18 Fake ‘Articles’, ‘Debates’ and ‘Webinars’ From Lobbyists Including IBM’s David Kappos, IPO and IPLAC
04.13.18 Samsung is the ‘New IBM’, Sans the Trolling With Patents
07.17.18 Software Patents Royalty (Tax) Campaign by IBM, a Serial Patent Bully, and the EPO’s Participation in All This
07.29.18 Watchtroll Demonstrates Disdain and Scorn for Science and Technology; IBM is Happy to Cooperate
10.30.18 IBM- and Microsoft-Backed Patent Troll Strikes Again and IBM’s Lobbyist for Software Patents Has Just Defended Patent Trolls (Again)
11.21.06 When One Loses, Another One Gains
11.22.06 RedHat Analysis of Novell’s Open Letter to the Community
11.22.06 Yet Another SuSE-Ubuntu Faceoff
11.23.06 Analysing the Rationale for the Deal
11.28.06 Intersection Between SCO and the Novell Deal
12.01.06 Links Roundup Amidst a Two-faced Attitude
12.03.06 Embrace, Extend, Exterminate
12.03.06 SCO’s Role in This Abusive Relationship
12.04.06 More Shuttleworth on Novell-Microsoft
12.09.06 Danaergeschenk
12.12.06 A Coin-in-the-Slot Standards Organization
12.12.06 Windows Users Undisclosed Balance Sheet Liability
12.13.06 An Alternate Theory on Microvell
12.14.06 We Finally Have a Google Category
12.15.06 Recent Events and Articles
12.17.06 The Biggest Sufferer is the GPL
12.17.06 Novell, The Eight Hundred Pound Penguin
12.17.06 Stafford Masie: “We Will Be GPLv3 Compliant, Trust Me”
12.27.06 Stafford Masie Presentation at CITI Forum: Transcript
01.05.07 Microvell Acquisition of XenSource Confirmed by Ray Ozzie?
01.08.07 Novell’s Global Effect on Perception of Software Patents
01.09.07 Oracle Returns to Headlines, Speculation Suggests It May Try to Acquire Yet Another Open Source Competitor
01.12.07 Novell Has Accepted the Legal Threats of OpenXML
01.12.07 Pondering the Prospects of Novell Products
01.15.07 Novell’s Software Patent Strategy in South Africa
01.20.07 Here Comes Microsoft’s Next Anti-Linux Crusade?
01.28.07 Iowa Memos: Microsoft Against the Truth
01.29.07 Novell Boasts Bandit-Higgins Interoperability
02.12.07 Novell News from the Past Week
02.14.07 SCO Crosses Lines, Fights Citizen Journalism (Updated)
02.15.07 Novell News – A Digest
03.02.07 Novell Must Change Its Way of Thinking
03.19.07 Iowa Memos Provide a Mouthful About Novell and Microsoft
03.26.07 The Things Novell Does Not Want You to Know
03.27.07 Oracle to Join Open Invention Network
04.07.07 Bob Sutor on OpenDocument (2 Videos); More Microsoft Lobbying in Florida (Updated)
04.13.07 Bill Gates, 1999: Giving out the Office 2000 Formats to Competitors Seems Crazy
04.28.07 Novell Fights Red Hat, Fights for Mono While Microsoft Fights Free Software
05.03.07 Identity Management Appointment and Deal
05.11.07 More Pseudo-grassroots Support for OOXML, Novell Passively Accepts It (Updated)
05.12.07 GPLv3 Myths Debunked, Licence Changes Discussed, Eben Moglen Speaks Out
05.12.07 How Does the Lenovo-Microsoft Deal Affect Novell’s SUSE?
05.14.07 How’s That GPLv3 Coming Along?
05.14.07 Novell is not the next SCO, Microsoft is.
05.15.07 Linux Foundation Joins the Front Opposing Microsoft’s Threats
05.15.07 Further Evidence That Microsoft’s Patent Claims are an Ineffective Farce
05.16.07 Patents Troll, Bully, or Both? (External Sources)
05.17.07 The Web Explains the Dilemma, Shows Microsoft Who’s the Boss
05.18.07 Shouldn’t Novell Just Drop Its Oh Oh XML Support Plans?
05.21.07 Microsoft Dismisses Being Subjected to GPL, Uses Novell as a Proxy
05.23.07 Malaysia looks at OOXML (and it doesn’t like what it sees)
05.24.07 Interoperability the Wrong Direction and the Wrong Way (Updated)
05.28.07 Once Again We Find One-sided and Promotional Journalism
05.31.07 Patents: Novell Clarifies While Microsoft Antagonises
06.03.07 Why Are We Waiting for Microsoft to Sue?
06.05.07 The Novell-like Déjà vu in the Xandros Deal
06.05.07 The Usual Suspects, The Game
06.06.07 Sun’s SCOsource License – Linux Right To Use Included
06.08.07 Digest: Standards, Junk Patents, and Some More FUD
06.09.07 Interoperability Mockery in Europe – Microsoft Dumps 30,000 Pages of Text
06.13.07 Malaysia Wants a Truly Open Document Format and So Does New York State
06.18.07 The End of Windows and the Arrival of GPLv3
06.18.07 Choose SUSE Linux or Choose Windows. Microsoft Will Get Paid Either Way.
06.24.07 Moonlight (.NET) on Linux Became a Microsoft ‘Pet Project’
06.25.07 The Laura DiDio Shill Spreads the Anti-Linux IP FUD
06.28.07 Microsoft to OIN: No Membership, Thank You
07.02.07 Big Companies Welcome GPLv3, Adoption of the Licence Rises Quickly
07.03.07 The “OpenXML Lie”, the “Patent Lie”, the “Security Lie”, and “Get the Facts”
07.04.07 Bob Sutor Questions Interests and Affiliations in Standards Bodies (Updated)
07.05.07 OpenDocument Takes One Giant Leap, One Step Backwards
07.06.07 Support for GPLv3 Keeps Growing with Apache Foundation Co-Founder’s Nod
07.09.07 How Things Work at ECMA ‘Production Line’
07.11.07 Companies Choose a Patent Peace After Storm, Microsoft Patents Up for ‘Trashing’ (Updated)
07.16.07 The OOXML Translator is a Hoax (and so is the ISO)
07.16.07 Mono Cleanup: Work in Progress (Updated)
07.19.07 A Patent Reform is Here, Microsoft’s Anti-Linux Weapons Get Blunt
07.22.07 The ‘Cost’ of GPLv3 is the Loss of All Threats to Free Software
07.23.07 More Document Formats Coverage (Updatedx2)
07.24.07 India to Weigh in on Real Standards and ‘Monopoly Enablers’
07.24.07 Marten Mickos: Nothing Can Stop the Open Source Movement Anymore
07.27.07 Microsoft is Outmuscling OOXML Opposition in Spain (Updatedx3)
07.30.07 OOXML ‘Extension’ Tricks Have Roots in the Past
08.01.07 OOXML = Our Way or No Way; Spain Says “Adios, OOXML”
08.02.07 GPLv2 ‘Vulnerabilties’ and Massachusetts ‘Vulnerabilties’
08.02.07 Open Source Becomes Web 2.0 and Novell 2.0 (or SCO 3.0)
08.02.07 USPTO: Eliminating Young Companies While Defending Abuse by Giants
08.03.07 Sock Puppets to Vote on Monopoly Enablement in Colombia?
08.03.07 Microsoft’s ODF Sabotage is a Case of History Repeating Itself
08.04.07 Microsoft OOXML Corruption Watch — Jason Matusow Goes Batting with FUD and Deception (Updated)
08.07.07 Using OSI Endorsement and Linux Deals to Promote Lock-ins
08.07.07 Microsoft’s Case Against Linux Takes a Dive, Novell Rearms, Patent Trolls Leave the Bridge
08.08.07 Even Windows Projects Consider a GPLv3 Move, GNU GPL for Hardware a Great Success
08.08.07 Do-No-Evil Wednesday: LinuxWorld Has Buckets to Offer
08.08.07 OOXML Watch: Funny Business Comes to Switzerland, ECMA Speaks, Apple Falters
08.10.07 An Anti-Linux Dan Lyons Mind Replaced by Another Forbes Magazine Writer That Slams Novell
08.10.07 Groklaw: SCO is Toast, Novell owns Unix Copyrights
08.10.07 Looking Beyond OOXML to Find Monopoly Abuse in SOA (Updated)
08.11.07 Do-No-Evil Saturday: Wow. What a Week!
08.11.07 Document Formats Watch — “For the Love of God, Think about the Children (and Consumers)”
08.12.07 Has Microsoft OOXML Jumped Off the ISO Fast Track?
08.12.07 OOXML Deception and Spin
08.14.07 Linus Torvalds Finally Comments on the Novell/Microsoft Deal
08.16.07 Knowledge is Our Friend, Not Our Foe
08.16.07 Microsoft’s Linux Hijack Continues. Latest Victims: Scalix, Xen (Updatedx2)
08.17.07 Things Might Get Litigious as Microsoft Gets Aggressive and ISO ‘Bought Out’
08.22.07 Playing a Standards War Using the Language of Money
08.22.07 ODF/OOXML Watch: Bill Gates Lobbies Behind the Scenes Again, Jason Matusow Deceives (Updated)
08.24.07 OOXML: Deception, Lies, FUD, Apple & Germany Become Microsoft Tools
08.25.07 What Would Jack Messman and Ray Noorda Say?
08.25.07 ODF/OOXML Watch: Information of Interest, Latest Batch
08.26.07 Microsoft Set for Lock-in-backed Hijack (and Novell Helps It)
08.27.07 OOXML Watch: More Deception and More Manipulation, Norway ‘Corrupted’
08.28.07 OOXML ‘Corruption Train’ Arriving at Sweden (Updated)
08.28.07 OOXML Watch: Since Only Microsoft Partners Speak Out, The World Has Begun Voting Against Itself
08.29.07 Patent FUD Has People Talking About Reform, But Talk is No Walk
08.30.07 OOXML Watch: Sweden’s OOXML Fiasco Representative of the Norm?
08.31.07 Do-No-Evil Saturday: OpenSUSE Faster and Better, Novell’s Financial Results Lift Stock
09.01.07 The Antitrust Action Ends Amid the Biggest Microsoft Blunders
09.02.07 Today is the Day — The Day the World Will Learn That Crime Pays
09.07.07 Do-No-Evil Saturday:OpenSUSE @ Beta3, SLED Preloads, Virtual Iron, and More
09.07.07 Broken Patent System: When the Fox Met the Hen
09.11.07 Citation, Trackbacks, Talkback and Comment Policies Against BoycottNovell.com
09.11.07 Bright Future Ahead for OpenOffice.org and ODF (Updated)
09.11.07 Shuttleworth Foundation Denounces a Novell VP’s ”Superb Standard”
09.12.07 OOXML in Australia Revisited
09.16.07 ~~ Interlude ~~ Why Novell Harms GNU/Linux
09.19.07 It’s OpenDocument All the Way for Holland (and Other Office Suites News)
09.30.07 Glyn Moody on the GNU GPLv3
10.03.07 Novell Forks OpenOffice.org
10.03.07 Patent Abuse Identified, Patent Abuse Comes Under Fire, Patent Storm Ended, and Patents That Kill
10.04.07 The Latest Patent Troll Story (Updated)
10.07.07 Using Money to Escape Interoperability Scrutiny/Litigation (Updated)
10.07.07 Is Novell is Trying to ‘Hijack’ OpenOffice.org from Sun Microsystems for Competitive Reasons Alone?
10.07.07 Rebuttal to Rob Weir on a So-called ‘OpenDocument Format Civil War’
10.08.07 Forking, Software Patents, Format Incompatibilities, and Corporate Selfishness
10.13.07 No OpenOffice.org Fork, if Sun Relinquishes Control
10.16.07 How Mr. Gates Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Destructive Patents
10.17.07 ISO No Longer Matters…
10.17.07 Patent State is the States of the Bully
10.24.07 EFF, GNU, FSF, and OIN Address Patent Problems
10.25.07 Banned Microsoft Commercial Shows the Effect of Patent Armageddon (Updated)
10.26.07 Do-No-Evil Saturday – Part IV: Novell Partners and Other Parties
10.27.07 We Are Not an FSF Campaign
10.29.07 Foes of OpenDocument Format Listed; The Symphony Plays in a New Video
10.31.07 OOXML? Not Any Time Soon, Says Sutor.
11.02.07 Quick Mention: Linux Has Many Patents, Too
11.02.07 Do-No-Evil Saturday: Quiet Week, Novell and SUSE Still Kicking Though
11.02.07 Quick Mention: ODF Alliance Boasts a Growing List of ODF Supporters
11.03.07 Un-Mazing a Peer-to-Software-Patent Mess
11.06.07 Quick Mention: Is Microsoft Walking Away from OOXML?
11.08.07 Red Hat Videos on Patents and the GNU GPLv3
11.09.07 Personal Minddump: What Is the OpenDocument Foundation?
11.10.07 Do-No-Evil Saturday – Part III: Novell’s Products and Business
11.14.07 On Intellectual Ventures, Nathan Myhrvold, and Other Patent Trolls
11.16.07 Do-No-Evil Saturday – Part III: More Deals and Products
11.16.07 Do-No-Evil Saturday – Part IV: Dell, China, SCO, and Ron Hovsepian Interview
11.16.07 Do-No-Evil Saturday – Part II: Some Development-related News from Novell
11.17.07 Embedded Linux Running in Devices != Combining Code with Devices
11.18.07 Flashback: Microsoft’s FUD Against Free Software
11.20.07 Microsoft is Still Buying Portugal in Its Fight Against OpenDocument Format
11.21.07 Quick Mention: Standards Expert Gives up on a Broken Standards System
11.21.07 OpenDocument Format Accessibility and Disinformation (Updated)
11.21.07 Quick Mention: OpenDocument Format and the Digital Preservation Advantage
11.23.07 Amazon Likes Linux and FLOSS, But Also Loves Patent Abuse, Apparently
11.23.07 Astroturfing Examples: Learning How Microsoft Tames the Internet
11.23.07 Novell’s Dirty Little Secret: It Helps OOXML (Updated)
11.25.07 An Issue of Mistrust: Bill Gates, BayStar, Acacia, SCO, and Linux
11.25.07 OOXML Muscling Its Way Through German Politics
11.26.07 Is Oracle Microsoft/Novell’s Worst Enemy, Not Red Hat’s?
11.26.07 Quick Mention: The Role of Document Standards and the Wrath of Sharepoint Revisited
11.27.07 One Year Later: ”Novell: From hero to zero in sixty seconds…”
11.28.07 Quick Mention: The Programmer’s Advantage in ODF, OOXML Coverage from Hungary
11.29.07 GNOME Foundation, Please Stop Attacking the Messenger and Please Listen
11.30.07 Jamie from the GNOME Foundation Gets It
11.30.07 GNOME’s Position on OOXML is Still Hurting OpenDocument Format
11.30.07 Another Gentle Introduction to the GNOME/OOXML Dilemma
12.01.07 Public Letters Protesting Against Department of Justice Decisions
12.03.07 Microsoft ‘Pulls a Portugal’ in Ireland (Microsoft to Decide on… Microsoft)
12.06.07 Patent Trolling, Patent Complaint, and GPLv3 Myths Busting
12.09.07 Microsoft on ‘War Mode’ in ”Scandalous” OOXML
12.10.07 Does Internet Explorer 8 Have a Web Hijack Plan in Store? If So, Does Novell Help It?
12.10.07 Microsoft Sends Paid Army to Fight OpenDocument Format in Europe
12.11.07 BRM: Bribery Reinforces Monopoly
12.12.07 Signs That Your ‘Open Standard’ is Actually Proprietary
12.14.07 Do-No-Evil Saturday – Part II: Novell Wins and Deals
12.17.07 The Mono Trap and the Open/Closed Promises
12.18.07 Quick Mention: If There is ‘War’, Microsoft Started It
12.20.07 Have Yourself an OpenDocument Christmas
12.21.07 A Patent Reform, Acacia’s Greatest Hits, and the Risk to GNU/Linux
12.21.07 Do-No-Evil Saturday – Part IV: Novell’s Business, Legal, and Development News
12.21.07 OpenDocument Format vs. Microsoft Lobbyists (and Money)
12.23.07 Quick Mention: GPLv3 Adoption Continues at Its Regular Good Pace
12.26.07 The Absurdity of Software Patents Unseen in a Money-minded World
12.26.07 Patents Roundup: Call for Change and Annihilation of Abuse
12.26.07 Jim Zemlin (Linux Foundation) on Software Patent Trolls, Samsung’s Patent Deal Revisited
12.31.07 How Microsoft Operates in China and Parts of Asia
01.01.08 Wealthy Corporation Master the Art of Hypnosis
01.05.08 Patent News Roundup: Looking Worse Than Better
01.07.08 Speaking of So-called ‘Conspiracy Theories’ and ‘Coincidences’
01.07.08 Patents Roundup: Illustrating the Serious Issue Using Examples
01.08.08 Quote of the Day: ”Monopolies Are Inherently Anticompetitive”
01.10.08 Information Week Busted for Systematic Anti-Linux Agenda
01.10.08 Quick Mention: New Connection Between Kyocera Mita and Novell
01.12.08 More Good News for OpenDocument Format, OOXML Slides Down the Gutter
01.12.08 Do-No-Evil Saturday – Part II: Dell, Lenovo and Their SUSE Offers
01.13.08 LinuxToday Responses to Novell’s Good News
01.14.08 FCC-Comcast-Microsoft and the Freedom Antagonists Axis?
01.15.08 Samsung is Down, Lenovo Disappoints with ‘Microsoft Tax’
01.16.08 Stirring Things Up from the Inside (Or the ‘Civil War’ Strategy)
01.16.08 Microsoft May Have Pulled Another SCO
01.16.08 Microsoft Bets on Software Patents to Maintain Its Monopoly
01.17.08 Quick Mention: Attacking by Proxy
01.17.08 Novell Vice President Quits, Outlook Grim (Corrected)
01.20.08 ODF Myths — OpenDocument is NOT OpenOffice
01.20.08 Patent Concerns Invade GNU/Linux, GPLv3 Offers Remedy
01.22.08 Quick Mention: Amberwave Works to Establish Patent Reform
01.22.08 Microsoft Proceeds to Attacking ODF-boasting Lotus
01.23.08 KOffice and OpenOffice.org Working on OpenDocument Interoperability
01.23.08 Reminder: Support Standards, Reject a Single Company’s Format
01.25.08 FUD, Litigation, Unsubstantiated Accusations Against GNU/Linux
01.25.08 Microsoft Conceals Financial Pains Using Money Games (Updatedx2)
01.26.08 Do-No-Evil Saturday – Part I: Miscellaneous Picks from a Quiet Week
01.26.08 ECMA and Microsoft Ignore (‘Dust Off’) Italy’s OOXML Concerns
01.26.08 Signs That USPTO Should RIP: Company/Individual Patents the Mobile Computer
01.26.08 Why Choose OOXML?
01.29.08 Brett Winterford Had Kool-Aid in Redmond (and Then Came ODF FUD)
01.30.08 Microsoft: “Evangelism is WAR!” as Text (Updated)
01.30.08 Geneva’s BRM Had Failed Before It Even Got Started
01.30.08 Novell and Microsoft Amass Patents While Free Software Comes Under Fire
01.30.08 Quote of the Day: Slashdot Users on Novell’s Mono in GNOME
01.30.08 Quick Mention: Brett Winterford at It Again (Microsoft Mouthpiece)
01.31.08 Microsoft is Once Again Caught Bribing Disgruntled Journalists
01.31.08 Can the Broken OOXML be Rubbished and Microsoft Blobs be Put on Top of ODF Instead?
02.01.08 Exchange 2007 Seen as Innately Anti-competitive
02.02.08 Paula Rooney Acknowledges ‘Hijack’ Tactic, Dana Blankenhorn Suggests Forking, Motorola Claims Unaffected
02.02.08 Meet Microsoft: World’s Chief Acquisitions Policeman
02.02.08 Do-No-Evil Saturday – Part IV: Novell’s Partners and Industry Support
02.02.08 Do-No-Evil Saturday – Part II: SUSE as SLES and SLED; Novell’s Core Business
02.03.08 How ECMA Dropped the Ball with OOXML
02.05.08 New Ballnux-powered Devices from Samsung and LG (Microsoft Sellouts)
02.05.08 Rob Weir and Bob Sutor Return to Discussing the OOXML Frauds
02.06.08 Quote of the Day: “Analysts? Gotta Love Them.”
02.06.08 The Windows Security Lie and the ‘Civil War’ Against Torvalds
02.07.08 Microsoft: Oops, We Did it Again (OOXML and Money)
02.07.08 Microsoft Gets Security Upside-down on OOXML
02.08.08 Microsoft’s OOXML Cornered by Antitrust Regulators, Call for Harmonisation
02.09.08 Do-No-Evil Saturday – Part III: Novell’s Channel, Legacy and Many Partners
02.11.08 Acacia (with Former Microsoft Employees) is Suing Apple
02.12.08 Microsoft’s Burton Group Asked for an Apology, Other Proxies Explored
02.15.08 Quick Mention: Room for Improvement in Novell’s SLED (via Lenovo)
02.16.08 Beware the OOXML AstroTurfer: “The Wraith”, “multivac1”, “hAl”, Among Other Nyms
02.16.08 Microsoft Launches “Get the Facts”-esque Smear Campaign Against ODF and OOXML’s Critics
02.16.08 Stephen Norris: Why SCO? And Why Now?
02.18.08 Microsoft Stacks the Danish Panel Too
02.18.08 OpenDocument Event to Take Place in the Back Yard of the Shenanigans
02.20.08 If You Live in Australia, Justice Needs Your Help
02.21.08 Microsoft, Siemens and Phillips Named for Software Patents in Europe
02.21.08 Novell and OOXML
02.22.08 Mark Shuttleworth’s Stance on Mono Inside Ubuntu
02.22.08 More on ‘Microsoft Agents’ Pushing for OOXML (and What Digg.com Teaches Us About Them)
02.23.08 Do-No-Evil Saturday – Part II: Novell Product Releases and Integration
02.25.08 Was Thursday’s Non-announcement a Case of Betrayal?
02.25.08 Week of Corruptions :: Day 2 :: Microsoft Takes Over Colombia
02.26.08 Standards Australia Feet Still on Fire, Microsoft Spin Persists
02.27.08 Citrix Confirms Its Masters Are in Redmond, Xen for Linux is Passe (Updated)
02.28.08 Week of Corruptions :: Day 4 :: Briberies in Sweden
02.28.08 Vint Cerf, Jim Zemlin and Pamela Jones Explain Why They Dislike OOXML
02.29.08 Week of OOXML Corruptions Ends, No Causalities Claimed
03.01.08 Do-No-Evil Saturday – Part II: Novell Products, Partners and Sales
03.03.08 Bob Sutor on the BRM: “Utter and Predictable Embarrassment”; Red Hat Also Chimes In
03.03.08 Microsoft Sends Its Friend ‘Analyst’ Michael Silver to Bat for OOXML?
03.03.08 Updates on OpenDocument Format in Europe
03.03.08 References Roundup: Microsoft’s Financial Situation
03.04.08 ODF/OOXML: Summary of the Latest News and BRM Reports
03.05.08 Quick Mention: BRM/Vote Stuffing, Rigging, Stacking and Other OOXML Abuses Come Under Fire
03.05.08 Technical Flaws in OOXML and Technical Flaws in ISO (When Subjected to Sheer Abuse)
03.06.08 Assorted New Reactions to the OOXML BRM, March Vote
03.07.08 Quick Mention: Miguel’s Eureka Moment
03.08.08 Do-No-Evil Saturday – Part IV: ‘Spillaneous’ Items About Novell
03.12.08 Dirty OOXML Tricks Revisited; “Embrace, Extend, Extinguish” Strategy Redefined
03.12.08 Breaking Microsoft’s Two-pillar Strategy
03.13.08 When a Novell-funded Foundation Must be Nice to Its Fierce Rival
03.14.08 OOXML Against ODF a Case of Microsoft Against the Rest of the Industry
03.15.08 Microsoft and the Windows-isation of PHP After Zend Deal
03.17.08 Internet Society of New Zealand Comes Out Swinging Against OOXML
03.17.08 Is Microsoft Manufacturing a Case Against Open Source Advocates?
03.18.08 Microsoft Carries on Lying and Excluding FOSS with OOXML Software Patents
03.19.08 Microsoft Invades Eclipse and Java
03.19.08 More Microsoft OOXML Dirty Tricks: PR Lies
03.20.08 Fraser-Moleketi, South African Minister, Slams OOXML and Software Patents
03.20.08 Keeping Abreast of Microsoft’s Latest Lies About OOXML
03.21.08 The Best Inde(Paid)ent Consultant Money Can Buy
03.21.08 Microsoft Corporation Becomes a Licensing Company, Adopts ‘Leech Strategy’
03.21.08 Why Novell is Bad for Linux: Reason #100 (Virtualisationovell-only)
03.21.08 OSI Says OOXML Needs to Die and Sutor Thinks Microsoft’s Search is Broken by Design
03.21.08 Patents Roundup: High Court Imposes a USPTO on the UK-IPO, INNOVA~1 Goes Backwards
03.23.08 Document Freedom Day Coming Shortly with Plenty of Support
03.23.08 What OOXML Manipulations Will Microsoft Have in Store for Poland This Time Around? (Updated)
03.24.08 Summary of Mono’s Danger to GNU/Linux and the Free Desktop
03.25.08 Microsoft Lobbyist from ECMA Goes Batting for OOXML
03.27.08 Bill Gates Makes Phonecalls Again (Politics for Derailing ODF)
03.28.08 Brazil Spills the Beans on OOXML, BRM; India’s Story Told Again
03.28.08 OOXML Roundup; BSI’s Sellout Did Not Go Unnoticed
03.28.08 OOXML Believed to be on Path to a Loss at ISO (ITNews) (Updated)
03.29.08 Do-No-Evil Saturday – Part III: BrainShare 2008 and GWAVA Catchup
03.29.08 Novell is Failing in the Past and Failing at Present Also
03.29.08 OOXML Force-feeding Still a Wait-and-Watch Game
04.01.08 Hewlett-Packard Does Microsoft’s Dirty Job Again, Lobbies for the Monopoly
04.01.08 The World Sighs as ISO Becomes Irrelevant
04.02.08 Microsoft’s Abuse of ISO Made a Lot of Sworn Enemies
04.03.08 Another Hopeful ‘Prophecy’ From the Gartner Group(‘s Paying Clients)
04.03.08 Discrediting Legitimate Critics with Reimposed Problems, Derogatory Labels
04.03.08 Final Decision on OOXML (at ISO Level) Still Two Months Away
04.04.08 More Failures of ISO and Failures of US Regulators
04.04.08 Do-No-Evil Saturday – Part III: ZENworks, Richard Whitehead, DR-DOS, Bomgar and Honeywell
04.07.08 The Somewhat Overlooked Menaces of OOXML, Demonstrated by News
04.08.08 Patents World: A World Morbidly Obsessed with Money
04.08.08 When Microsoft Shenanigans and Novell Stomp on Your Open Standards
04.09.08 Signs of Progress for OpenDocument Format, Microsoft-imposed Disinformation Abound
04.10.08 Linux Foundation, Please Stop Feeding the Shills
04.12.08 OpenDocument Format Already a Winner in Brazil, Philippines Named for OOXML Irregularities
04.12.08 The Linux Foundation, OSI and the Neglected Values of Freedom
04.13.08 Patents Roundup: Abstract Ideas and Perceptual Monopolies
04.14.08 Microsoft Linux/MSN/OOXML/Software Patent Partners: Down from 4 to Just 3 Any Time Soon?
04.16.08 Why ISO and Microsoft Will Share a Bad Headache Until June
04.18.08 It’s Almost Official: ISO is Controlled by Microsoft, by Insiders
04.19.08 Do-No-Evil Saturday – Part II: Linux Announcements and SUSE Linux Business at Novell (Corrected)
04.20.08 ISO Maxes Up Damage Control, OOXML Storm Looming
04.20.08 Government Delegate Compares Microsoft Methods to “Scientology Cult”
04.21.08 The Linux Foundation and Novell (Plus Microsoft)
04.24.08 Microsoft No Longer Able to Hide Financial Decline, More Losses to GNU/Linux in Russia
04.24.08 What If Red Hat Bought SuSE Instead of a Microsoft Partner?
04.26.08 Microsoft’s Death Row of Standards and Why W3C Must Be Careful
04.27.08 Open Invention Network (OIN) Gets New Leadership, Other Software Patents News
04.28.08 Novell+Ximian=SLED.NET, Sun+Java=SuSE GNU/Linux/Solaris
04.29.08 Quoteworthy: Taking SuSE Back from Novell and Procurement Laws from ISO’s Influence
04.30.08 Of OpenSUSE, Xandros, and Microsoft…
04.30.08 Wither Web Standards? (The Adobe and Microsoft Threat)
05.03.08 Criticise OOXML or Microsoft Corruption, Receive Libel
05.03.08 Do-No-Evil Saturday – Part I: Various Bits and Bobs from the Past Week
05.03.08 Week of SCO/Novell in Court Culminates in Novell ‘Pulling an SCO’
05.04.08 Marriages of Inconvenience
05.05.08 Quick Mention: Latest OOXML Process Abuse Now Confirmed
05.06.08 Is SCO and Its Anti-Linux Agenda Relocated to Microsoft Headquarters?
05.06.08 Jumping for Dollars to Secure Microsoft Lock-in (Latest Possible Examples)
05.08.08 Novell’s Hierarchy of Needs
05.09.08 Software Patents, Microsoft Trolls and Intellectual Monopoly Miscellany
05.10.08 Do-No-Evil Saturday – Part II: Novell’s Business Activities, Bar SUSE and GNU/Linux
05.10.08 Do-No-Evil Saturday – Part III: Novell’s GNU/Linux (SUSE) Business and Some New Videos
05.14.08 Q: How Can Microsoft Make Windows Less Expensive Than GNU/Linux?
05.16.08 Dennis Byron Loses It (Updatedx2)
05.16.08 How Microsoft Uses Novell to Fight GNU/Linux, Xen to Fight VMWare and GNU/Linux
05.17.08 Interesting Old Document About Microsoft’s Vapourware Tactics
05.21.08 Kicking Novell Out of the Mainframes
05.24.08 Novell and Microsoft as Virtualisation Partners, Collecting/Colocating Assets and Companies
05.24.08 OOXML Incidents Index: From A to C
05.25.08 OOXML Incidents Index: From Denmark to Greece
05.26.08 OOXML Incidents Index: From Hungary to Jordan
05.26.08 OOXML Incidents Index: From Kenya to Norway
05.26.08 OOXML Incidents Index: From Pakistan to Syria
05.26.08 OOXML Incidents Index: From Thailand to Vietnam
06.02.08 Microsoft Still Has Too Much Control Over the ISO Process
06.04.08 As Punishment for OOXML Scandals Looms, Microsoft Starts Playing Politics
06.07.08 Do-No-Evil Saturday – Part IV: Award, Anniversary and Other Positives
06.07.08 Do-No-Evil Saturday – Part I: OpenSUSE 11 Evaluations, Pre-orders
06.08.08 Trojan Horses Made of Lucid Glass
06.10.08 Decision on OOXML: Potentially Months Ahead
06.10.08 The OOXML Fiasco: Updates from 3 Countries That Protested
06.11.08 The Choice Between Microsoft Windows and Microsoft Linux
06.14.08 Does Novell Rave Before Its Fall?
06.15.08 Trend Micro Soft Patent Against Lower-cost Competition
06.16.08 Microsoft Takes Experiments with SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10 a Little Further
06.18.08 OOXML Cover-up, ODF Adoption is Up
06.19.08 Reader’s Take on OpenDocument Foundation and Microsoft (Updatedx3)
06.20.08 Microsoft Says It Has Lost the Battle for Documents Lock-in
06.21.08 Bill Gates and His Press Rewrite History Amid Semi-retirement
06.21.08 How Microsoft Became More Frail
06.21.08 Do-No-Evil Saturday – Part II: SUSE (SLED/SLED/OES) Progress
06.22.08 Microsoft Jack: “Tilt Lotus Into the Death Spiral” Was Humour (Updated)
06.24.08 Microsoft’s Open Source Land Grab Continues
06.24.08 Trend Micro’s SCO-esque Business Model Backfires, Acacia Sued for Defamation
06.25.08 Simon Phipps Has No Idea How Badly Sun ”Screwed Up“
06.27.08 Free Software Exploitation: Novell’s Poor Business Strategy
06.27.08 It Must Be Official: The USPTO is (Brain) Dead
06.28.08 Do-No-Evil Saturday – Part IV: Novell’s Upgrade, Buybacks, PlateSpin, Security, and Identity
06.28.08 ODF ‘Conquers’ the Web; OOXML Abuses Revisited
07.02.08 Microsoft Lobbyists Abound for Software Patents in Europe
07.03.08 News Roundup: When Software Patents Backfire
07.04.08 Links – Independence Day: K|X*Ubuntu 8.04.1 Released; Dangers of Proprietary SaaS Revisited
07.04.08 OpenDocument on a Roll (Next Stop: Uruguay)
07.05.08 Do-No-Evil Saturday – Part II: Novell SUSE and Xandros for Business as Usual
07.07.08 GMOME, OpenLogic, and the Microsoft Connection
07.09.08 Embargo, Ignore Microsoft-Controlled ISO
07.12.08 Do-No-Evil Saturday – Part II: Quiet Week in Utah Valley
07.14.08 Joe Barr Knew Microsoft’s Tactics All Too Well
07.14.08 Another Small Defeat for Software Patents (and Win for Free Software) in the US
07.15.08 Novell Loses Business to Its ‘Partner’ Microsoft
07.16.08 Red Hat’s Legal Department Was ‘Closed-Source’
07.17.08 Alex Brown Deceives on Microsoft OOXML
07.17.08 Why Microsoft Resorts to Dirty Tricks with Virtualisation
07.18.08 Press Coverage of SCO: Latest Summary
07.19.08 Microsoft on AstroTurfing in USENET Newsgroups
07.19.08 Do-No-Evil Saturday – Part II: The Non-Free Side of Novell
07.20.08 "/o/2008/07/20/linus-complains-about-patents/ Microsoft Sued Over Patents Again, Linus Complains, USPTO Welcomes P2P[atent]]
07.21.08 Quick Mention: Richard Stallman Explains Software Patents in New Interview
07.22.08 Intellectual Monopolists Unite
07.23.08 One Small Patent Step: “There Needs to Be a Device”
07.26.08 Do-No-Evil Saturday – Part I: Miscellaneous Novell News Items
07.26.08 SCO’s Debt to Novell and Sun’s Debt to Novell?
07.28.08 Another Tough Weekend for Microsoft
07.28.08 A Turning Point for Software Patents? (Video)
07.31.08 Perens on Microsoft Crimes: From SCO to OOXML
08.01.08 Never Let Them See You Sweat, Steve
08.02.08 Do-No-Evil Saturday – Part II: OpenSUSE 11.1 on People’s PCs, Events Behind and Ahead
08.02.08 Do-No-Evil Saturday – Part I: Quiet Week Ahead of LinuxWorld’s Novell Press Releases
08.05.08 When All Merits Fail, Use an Intellectual Monopoly
08.07.08 Bad Software Patents, System, Microsoft — A Roundup
08.07.08 Novell’s Mono in Microsoft’s Clouds
08.08.08 What Borland Can Teach Critics About Novell
08.08.08 Dirty Tricks by Proxy (Against GNU/Linux)
08.09.08 Dangerous by Association
08.09.08 Do-No-Evil Saturday – Part IV: Minor OpenSUSE News
08.09.08 Do-No-Evil Saturday – Part III: SUSE, SCO and Xandros
08.10.08 Interesting Document About Microsoft’s Injuries to Industry, Using Vapourware
08.10.08 Software Patents: India, OIN, the Trolls, and the Monopolists
08.14.08 Novell: From OOXML Opposer to OOXML Embracer (a Post-Sellout Novell)
08.16.08 Do-No-Evil Saturday – Part II: SCO, GWAVA, and Some Minor Developments
08.16.08 Do-No-Evil Saturday – Part I: SUSE, Xandros, and Turbolinux Catch-up
08.17.08 Protest in India Against Software Patents
08.18.08 ISO Pegged Its Own Vote to Shelter Microsoft OOXML
08.19.08 OEM Tactics: Lessons to Learn from BeOS About GNU/Linux
08.19.08 Patents Roundup: Open Invention Network, Subpixel Hinting, and Patent Trolls
08.20.08 Microsoft’s Darkest Crimes Remain Undiscovered, Unavailable
08.20.08 Microsoft Tries Casting “Open Source” as “Open APIs”
08.22.08 Non-compete, By Association
08.22.08 Who is Promoting Mono Anyway?
08.23.08 SCO Roundup: Novell Litigation, Money from Me Inc Software
08.24.08 Patents Roundup: Microsoft Sued, Health Care Weighs in, McCreevy Denounced
08.24.08 Microsoft Shills Index: Under Construction
08.25.08 Novell & Microsoft: Go Away “Standards”, Welcome “Interoperability” Instead
08.25.08 Watch Out, OASIS
08.29.08 Eye on Microsoft: Intel Collaborations, Dumping, and Search Redux
08.29.08 How Much Did Novell Fool Wall Street This Time Around?
08.30.08 Do-No-Evil Saturday – Part III: SCO, Legacy, and Local Events
08.30.08 Do-No-Evil Saturday – Part II: SUSE Minutes, Turbolinux Releases
08.30.08 Opening the Door to Linux in the Enterprise Using Vendor-independent Formats
09.01.08 Another Microsoft Shill: Americans for Technology Leadership (ATL)
09.01.08 Novell’s Stock Options Scandal Just Weeks Before Deal with Microsoft
09.06.08 IDG, IDC, and Microsoft Money on Their Table (Updated)
09.06.08 Novell Still Playing Microsoft’s Jester
09.07.08 Novell Received “Tens of Millions of Dollars” from Microsoft/Caldera Settlement
09.08.08 Stock Market.NET: Fail
09.10.08 A Loss for Ballnux is Not a Loss for GNU/Linux
09.12.08 Eye on Microsoft: More Shutdowns, Standards Illness, and Technical Failures
09.12.08 Hiring Corporate Poison
09.15.08 Companies That Fear GNU/Linux Versus Companies That Don’t
09.19.08 The EPO Crisis and Microsoft’s Patent Trolls
09.20.08 Do-No-Evil Saturday – Part II: SUSE and Ron Hovsepian at Interop
09.20.08 More Microsoft Patent Trolls, Extortions, and SCO
09.21.08 Microsoft Still Takes Business Away from Novell
09.22.08 Eye on Microsoft: Marketing Problems and Dumping
09.22.08 Microsoft OOXML and Office is Windows-Only
09.23.08 Microsoft with/against VMware, with/against standards
09.30.08 OOXML Scandal, Part 1001: ISO/IEC ‘Only’ 6 Months Late, Still Secretive
09.30.08 Report on ODF Adoption, OpenOffice.org Reaches RC3
10.01.08 Patents and Evil… Evil that Ruins Economies
10.01.08 Interview with Richard Stallman, Founding Father of Free Software
10.02.08 Novell Befriends Microsoft, Attacks Red Hat and Ubuntu
10.02.08 OOXML Leaked: The Stuff ISO Doesn’t Want You to Have (Updatedx9)
10.04.08 Who’s Bugging Google and Apple? (Updatedx2)
10.04.08 Do-No-Evil Saturday – Part III: Two Weeks of (Mostly) Proprietary Novell Technology
10.05.08 The Return of Vista Collusions: Will Ballmer be Deposed Soon?
10.06.08 ISO Fallout, ODF Uprise
10.07.08 It’s Official: ISO Committee Captured by Vendor Microsoft Corporation
10.08.08 Microsoft-stuffed SC34 is Open… About Its Plan to Hijack ODF
10.10.08 Who’s Afraid of MicrISOsoft? The European Commission
10.11.08 Do-No-Evil Saturday – Part II: SCO Litigation Update, Few Products News
10.14.08 ODF, New OpenOffice.org off to a Great Start, Despite Novell’s ‘Sabotage’ Attempts
10.15.08 Links: OpenOffice.org 3.0 and OpenDocument Format
10.18.08 Do-No-Evil Saturday – Part III: Novell Buys Its Way Into Managed Growth
10.18.08 Do-No-Evil Saturday – Part IV: Miscellaneous Novell News
10.18.08 Do-No-Evil Saturday – Part II: SUSE (SLES|SLED) Deployments
10.20.08 Quick Mention: Return of the “Alpha-lunatic”
10.22.08 Microsoft Influence on Ireland and the United Kingdom
10.23.08 Rumour: Bill Gates Could Develop/Foster Yet Another Patent Troll, Maybe Lobby
10.24.08 Novell Markets Its OpenOffice.org Fork Using Patents-Encumbered Microsoft Add-ons
10.24.08 Symbian is Not About Freedom, It’s About DRM and Software Patents (Update)
10.25.08 Do-No-Evil Saturday – Part II: Business Around SUSE (SLE*) and Xandros
10.26.08 Microsoft Q1 2009: The Things Microsoft Does Not Tell About Its Continued Decline
10.29.08 More Interesting Prebundling Moves
10.30.08 Reader’s Proposal for Combating Free Software-hostile Patents
10.30.08 Failing SCO, Microsoft Eyes EU and Software Patents
11.01.08 Do-No-Evil Saturday – Part III: Legacy, Mail, and Partnerships
11.01.08 Patent Problems: Google Unresolved, Bilski Resolved, EPO to be Resolved?
11.01.08 Do-No-Evil Saturday – Part II: SUSE and Lenovo, Few Xandros Bits
11.04.08 Xandros, Brought to You by Microsoft Show
11.05.08 OOXML Convenor Might be Shooting the Messenger (Groklaw)
11.08.08 Do-No-Evil Saturday – Part III: Almost Eventless Week for Novell
11.08.08 Is Microsoft Phasing Out Novell or Actually Helping It?
11.09.08 Big Step in the Right Direction for Software Patenting in the US
11.13.08 Patents Roundup: Microsoft, re Bilski and Reform
11.14.08 IDG/IDC Does Microsoft’s Revisionism to Deny Crimes
11.15.08 Do-No-Evil Saturday – Part III: Novell Report, Schmidtism and More
11.15.08 Do-No-Evil Saturday – Part II: SLES, SLERT, HPC, SLED, and Xandros
11.17.08 Patents Roundup: Better Days Ahead, Lawyer Ignorance/Greed Prevails
11.18.08 Novell Information, in the Words of Anivar Aravind
11.18.08 Quick Mention: Good Explanation of the Mono Problem
11.19.08 Analyst Lies and Novell Business Growth
11.22.08 Do-No-Evil Saturday – Part III: GroupWise 8 and Some Very Minor Things
11.23.08 SCO: Always Losing Redundant Court Cases, But Winning Mysterious Funds
11.24.08 Bilski Case Working Against Patent Trolls and Against Software Patents — Already
11.25.08 No Lessons Learned by ISO?
11.26.08 RPX: Another Massive Patent Troll?
11.28.08 More Microsoft Abuses in Italy and Europe
11.28.08 Novell Linux: Another Platform (as in Kernel) for Windows?
11.28.08 Respecting AstroTurfers?
11.29.08 Do-No-Evil Saturday – Part III: Managed Objects Managed by Novell, Identity Management, and Lots More
11.29.08 SCO Death Watch
12.02.08 Patents Roundup: From Microsoft’s Trolls to Obama Policies
12.06.08 As Search Bribery Fails, Microsoft Turns to More Agitation and Proxy-Fighting
12.06.08 Bill Gates ‘Helps’ the Next United States President
12.06.08 Do-No-Evil Saturday – Part III: SCO, Virtualisation (PlateSpin) and Some GroupWise
12.06.08 Do-No-Evil Saturday – Part II: SUSE Galore.. SLES, SLED, SLEPS, and OES
12.07.08 Novell’s Financial Results for Q4: Synopsis
12.08.08 The Many Signs That GNU/Linux Grew Significantly in 2007 – Part 1
12.09.08 The Many Signs That GNU/Linux Grew Significantly in 2007 – Part 2
12.10.08 Economics, Trolls, and Software Patentability Revisited
12.10.08 The Patent System is Broken.. and How NOT to Fix It
12.10.08 ODF Alliance Newsletter – 10 December 2008
12.11.08 Linux Defenders: Obeying — Not Challenging — a Broken System
12.12.08 World’s Computing Thugs Fight Governments and Continents
12.12.08 Novell Slides Days After the Financial Results
12.13.08 Patents Roundup: Pools, Apple, Google and Obama Appointment
12.14.08 Stop Press: Novell Critics Are Not Religious Fanatics
12.15.08 Microsoft Under the Scalpel
12.15.08 Microsoft Appoints Robert Duffner to Fight Freedom and Harm GNU/Linux
12.15.08 How Software Patents Impede Standards and GNU/Linux Development
12.17.08 OpenDocument Gains Traction, So the Redmond Bully Returns
12.20.08 Do-No-Evil Saturday – Part III: Finance, People, and Partners
12.20.08 How Microsoft Intercepts Critics Using Libel
12.20.08 Do-No-Evil Saturday – Part I: Big Week of OpenSUSE 11.1
12.21.08 Patents Roundup (US): Apple Sued, Government Intervenes, Patents Killed by Bilski
12.22.08 Microsoft EEE
12.24.08 Links Xmas Eve: Red Hat Leaps, Garmin Picks Android
12.27.08 How Microsoft Discourages Use of Competitors’ Products
12.27.08 Former Microsoft Shill Openly Confesses, Alleges Microsoft Still Does This
12.27.08 Microsoft’s Proprietary Web ‘Extensions’ Already Harm GNU/Linux, Rival Web Browsers
12.27.08 The End of an Era (SCO), The Beginning of Another (Microsoft & Patents)
01.01.09 Microsoft History of Exploiting Free Labour Repeats Itself
01.02.09 Linux Scrutiny Awakens an Interesting Science of Battling by Proxy
01.02.09 Gary M. Stewart (aka “Flatfish”) About Microsoft AstroTurfing: “It’s made me A LOT of money….”
01.03.09 Do-No-Evil Saturday – Part II: Legacy, Virtualisation, and Memories from Novell
01.03.09 Do-No-Evil Saturday – Part I: OpenSUSE… Plus a Little Bit of SLED and Xandros
01.03.09 SCO News Roundup
01.04.09 Is Microsoft ‘Pulling an EDGI’ on Kerala? (Updated)
01.05.09 Microsoft Spreads Intellectual Monopolies as Business Model
01.07.09 Hard Week for Microsoft, Next Week Likely Harder
01.08.09 Microsoft Dumps on India, South Africa, Malta
01.09.09 Novell Vice President, Javier Colado, Acknowledges Novell’s Channel is Broken
01.10.09 Microsoft’s Dumping Strategy Versus GNU/Linux (EDGI Continued)
01.10.09 Do-No-Evil Saturday – Part III: Idle Week with Some GWAVACon and Legacy
01.10.09 SCO is Having a Yard Sale
01.11.09 Environmental Disinformation in the Microsoft Press
01.11.09 How Microsoft Really Feels About .NET in Linux/UNIX
01.11.09 Microsoft on “Maintaining Gap vs Linux” Using “Patents“, “Children’s Software“
01.13.09 SCOwboys Left Shivering in Their Bots
01.14.09 Could IMS Be Partly Affected by Microsoft? (and How This Relates to BECTA)
01.15.09 Patents Roundup: Software Patents vs. Microsoft, Novell (And Others)
01.16.09 EDGI Finale: Microsoft’s “Linux Compete Squad”
01.16.09 Video of Public Talk on Intellectual Monopolies vs. Technological Revolution
01.17.09 What Was Microsoft’s “Big Bet” Post Novell-SCO (2002)?
01.17.09 The Microsoft-Gartner Deal (Analysts Cartel Part I)
01.17.09 Novell News Summary – Part III: Busy Week’s Assortment
01.18.09 Microsoft Studies How to Use Intellectual Property Against GNU/Linux
01.18.09 Microsoft’s Jim Allchin: “I am Scared [of GNU/Linux” (Analysts Cartel Part II)]
01.19.09 How Microsoft May Deal with European Antitrust: Mouthpieces
01.19.09 Gartner Group Corrupted by Microsoft (Analysts Cartel Part III)
01.20.09 Jim Allchin: “We Feel a Huge Threat from Linux” (Analysts Cartel Part IV)
01.21.09 Open Solutions Alliance Defunct?
01.21.09 Jim Allchin (2002): “There’s Going to Be a Patent Lawsuit on Linux” (Analysts Cartel Part V)
01.22.09 Microsoft Cuts Contractors Spendings by Almost 15%
01.22.09 Microsoft Antitrust: “The Linux Threat on the Desktop” (2006) and Predatory Response
01.24.09 The History of Microsoft’s Multi-boot Sabotage
01.24.09 Novell News Summary – Part III: Strategy, CMDB, Virtualisation and More
01.25.09 Wrap-Up of Microsoft’s Demise; Units Shut Down
01.25.09 Patents Roundup: New Studies Antagonise Intellectual Monopolies, Reform/Intervention Possible
01.26.09 Microsoft’s “Talking Point” Memo and the Anti-GNU/Linux Studies
01.28.09 Antitrust: How Microsoft Schemed to Derail Dell GNU/Linux
01.28.09 January 2009 Posts on Microsoft’s Behaviour, Business Practices
01.30.09 Linus’ Old Employer Swept by Microsoft’s Patent Übertroll
02.01.09 Fake Charities, Microsoft-Lenovo, and Microsoft-VMware
02.01.09 ODF Alliance Newsletter January 2009
02.02.09 Novell News Summary – Part II: Heaps of Novell News
02.03.09 Net Applications: the Big Lie, Boosted by IDC|IDG et al
02.04.09 Microsoft Invades Another Free Software Conference: AsteriskWorld
02.04.09 Patents Roundup: Linux, Microsoft, Apple, Patent Trolls and Reform
02.05.09 Turkey, France, United Stated Under Attack by Microsoft Windows Insecurities
02.05.09 SCO Doesn’t Take Itself Seriously Anymore
02.06.09 Fortify, EMC and Microsoft’s Coalitions Against GNU/Linux
02.07.09 Novell News Summary – Part II: Virtualisation, GWAVACon, GroupWise and More
02.08.09 Patents Roundup: Apple, Microsoft Trolls, and Linux
02.08.09 66 Pages of Microsoft Evilness
02.08.09 Windows is Dying, Long Live Vapourware
02.13.09 Novell’s Patent Deal — Like SCO’s Lawsuits — a Miserable Failure
02.13.09 How Steve Ballmer Was Schmoozing Neelie Kroes
02.14.09 Novell News Summary – Part II: SUSE on Desktops, Servers, Clouds, and in the Channel
02.17.09 Microsoft’s Patent Roadshow and Trolls
02.19.09 Google-hostile, Microsoft-sympathetic Antitrust Chief Appointed
02.21.09 Novell’s Jaffe on Novell’s Linux Strategy: .NET, Mono, Moonlight, Nothing About OpenSUSE
02.21.09 Don’t Trust Novell, Trust Boycott Novell (on Layoffs)
02.21.09 Novell News Summary – Part IV: SCO Update, Report Coming Up, Teaming Deal
02.22.09 Bizarre ‘Marketing’: Microsoft and Novell
02.25.09 How Microsoft ‘Bought’ Xen to Remove/Reduce Choice (Is Novell Next?)
02.28.09 Novell News Summary – Part II: All About SLES Virtualisation
03.01.09 Why Microsoft is Likely to Lose the TomTom Case (Plus Summary)
03.02.09 Novell Committed to Microsoft Technologies, But Not so Much to Free Desktop (RadeonHD)
03.04.09 Another Company Affiliated with Microsoft Sues Red Hat Using Software Patents
03.08.09 Microsoft Wants to Make Something Out of Nothing to Fight GNU/Linux
03.10.09 Patents Roundup: Splashtop Encumbered by Patents, Google Linux Phone Sued by Patent Troll, TomTom Update and More
03.11.09 Bruce Perens Calls Novell a “Highly Paid Microsoft Mouthpiece”
03.13.09 US Justice Department Adds Microsoft ‘Splitter’, Microsoft-Affiliated Professor Slams EU Commission
03.13.09 Patents Roundup: TomTom, The ‘Bilski Test’, Junk Patents, and Ambush
03.14.09 Novell News Summary – Part II: Finance, Virtualisation, GWAVACon Videos and Staff Moves
03.14.09 SCO Wants Copyrights It Does Not Own
03.15.09 It’s Not a Democracy, It’s ACTAtorship
03.16.09 Microsoft Hopes a Tickbox Will Restore Fair Competition in Europe; Opera Disagrees
03.17.09 Lesser Technical Dangers to the Triumph of GNU/Linux and Digital Freedom
03.18.09 The Other Side of Red Hat: Pieter Hintjens on AMQP and Patents
03.18.09 Downtime at Microsoft (Updated)
03.18.09 LF Video of the Day: GNU/Linux Metamorphosis
03.21.09 Microsoft Novell Tag-Team
03.21.09 Microsoft is Still Fighting to Suppress OpenDocument Format
03.21.09 Novell, Red Hat, and Software Patents: Strike II
03.23.09 Open Invention Network (OIN) Extends The Linux Ecosystem As TomTom Becomes Licensee
03.25.09 TomTomaginot Line: Fighting Microsoft Using Patent Pools
03.26.09 Why Microsoft Has Already Crashed OSBC 2009
03.26.09 Where SLED/SLES 11 Fails
03.28.09 Novell News Summary – Part III: Novell Products, People, and Toxic Waste
03.28.09 Novell’s SUSE Linux Enterprise 11 Release: An Overview
03.28.09 Novell News Summary – Part II: SUSE Aside from the SLE* 11 Release, Xandros and Presto Coverage
03.29.09 Red Hat, Microsoft, EU Lobbyists, and Software Patents
03.31.09 Open Cloud Manifesto Would be Absolutely Right to Exclude ISO Corrupter, Microsoft
03.31.09 Patents Roundup: Red Hat, Former USPTO Commissioner on Patent Demise, and WIPO Notes
04.01.09 Microsoft and Novell Still Grow Closer
04.02.09 Patents Roundup: OIN, ESP, Microsoft and Apple
04.03.09 Linux is Getting ‘Built-in’ Tivoization Equivalent
04.04.09 Novell Offshores Some of Its SUSE Operations to East Asia
04.04.09 Novell News Summary – Part III: SCO, Finance, Netware, GroupWise, Partners, Hardware, and Marketing
04.04.09 Novell News Summary – Part II: SUSE Post SLE11 Release, Open Cloud Revisited
04.04.09 Two Novell Vice Presidents Leave the Company and Land in Xiocom
04.09.09 IRC: #boycottnovell @ FreeNode: April 8th, 2009 – Part 1
04.09.09 Patents Roundup: OIN to Strike Back, Apple Clarifies, Lawsuits Continue, and Turnaround Foreseen
04.10.09 Did Novell Hijack a Linux Foundation Panel?
04.10.09 Novell’s Roadmap Claimed Similar to Sun’s
04.11.09 Microsoft’s Armament Against Free Software and Other Software Patents News
04.12.09 OOXML BRM Convenor or OOXML Cheerleader?
04.12.09 Carol and Carl (Bartz and Icahn) Subscribe for the Assault on Google
04.13.09 ACTA Leak Reveals Upcoming Intellectual Monopoly War?
04.15.09 Microsoft’s Older Crimes Against Web Browsers Return, Microsoft’s New Attacks on JavaScript Revisited
04.16.09 Microsoft Tells Antitrust Regulators to Sod Off For Another Couple of Weeks
04.16.09 Ecuador’s Adoption of ODF Formalised, ODF Turkey Takes Off
04.18.09 EU Commission: SCO’s “Contractual Relationship with Microsoft Invoking Restraints of Competition”
04.18.09 Novell News Summary – Part III: Past, Present, and Former Novellers All Over the Place
04.19.09 Software Patents Roundup: Protests in the EU, OLPC Suffers, Microsoft Seeds More Patent FUD
04.19.09 The OOXML Frauds and Other Potential New Frauds
04.22.09 Will Tomorrow’s Ubuntu Release be Overshadowed by News of Microsoft Layoffs?
04.22.09 Patents Roundup: Oracle, Backlash Against Software Patents, and In Re Bilski (Again)
04.23.09 The Bill Gates “Security as a Lock-in”: Thy Name is TPM?
04.23.09 Does Microsoft Use Extortion to Sign MOUs?
04.23.09 Novell’s Business Strategy Called “Murky, Messy”
04.25.09 Novell News Summary – Part II: SCO, GroupWise Migrations, Lots of Sentinel, and McAfee Partnership
04.28.09 OIN Keeps Its Promise, Strikes Back at Microsoft’s FAT
04.30.09 Microsoft Interoperability Crushed by the TomTom Case
05.02.09 General Electric Joins Microsoft’s Fight Against Free Software
05.02.09 Novell News Summary – Part III: SCO-Novell, DMTF, Security, and Partners
05.04.09 Microsoft’s ODF ‘Support’ is a Scam
05.05.09 Consumer Watchdog Funded by the Rose Foundation, Which is Funded by Exxon, Banks, Others…
05.05.09 OIN Explains TomTom’s Settlement with Microsoft (and Other Patent News)
05.06.09 Novell General Manager: Microsoft Won’t Bid for Novell, But You Can Never Say Never
05.06.09 IRC: #boycottnovell @ FreeNode: May 6th, 2009 – Part 2
05.06.09 Microsoft Moonlight Reaches New Milestone So Microsoft Crowd Rejoices
05.06.09 Don’t Let Novell (and Microsoft) Control GNU/Linux, Licences, and Open Office
05.06.09 Spanish Government May be Breaking the Law with Microsoft. European Commission Should Investigate.
05.06.09 Say Goodbye to SCO
05.08.09 Goodbye, Alison Brimelow (EPO President)
05.09.09 Novell News Summary – Part II: SLED on ProBook, Moblin, Wyse; SLES and ScaleMP; Xandros and Presto
05.09.09 Maureen O’Gara is Again Spinning SCO’s Defeat
05.09.09 Novell News Summary – Part III: Virtualisation, GroupWise, People, and Videos
05.10.09 ODF Alliance to Denounce Microsoft This Week?
05.11.09 On Microsoft’s Software Patents and ODF Fragmentation
05.11.09 Microsoft’s ‘ODF Patent’ as Vacuous as Its Promise of Interoperability
05.11.09 Confirmed: Microsoft Tries to Turn Regulators Against Google (Again)
05.12.09 Why Microsoft-ODF (MSODF) is Broken by Design and Why Microsoft is Daemonising Rob Weir Now
05.13.09 Microsoft-friendly Press Thinks Cisco Might Buy Novell
05.14.09 Microsoft’s Sabotage of Interoperability Pays Off
05.17.09 Patents Roundup: Microsoft, Patent Ambush, Moral Issues, and Europe’s Back Door
05.18.09 Novell News Summary – Part II: Moblin, ProBook, Certification, and Xandros/Presto
05.18.09 Novell News Summary – Part III: Very Quiet Week for Novell
05.20.09 ODF Alliance, Jeremy Allison and Others Tell Microsoft to Fix Its Broken ODF Implementation
05.20.09 Microsoft Does Not Think it Will Buy a Company Like Novell at This Point
05.20.09 SCO’s Chapter 7 and Novell’s Response to It
05.23.09 Novell News Summary – Part II: More SUSE and Xandros
05.24.09 Novell News Summary – Part III: SCO, Finance, Older Technology and a Little More
05.25.09 At Microsoft, Interoperability Sabotage Goes All the Way to the Top
05.27.09 US Breeds Software Patents
05.28.09 Week of Microsoft Government Affairs: a Look Back, a Look Ahead
05.29.09 From MSODF to MSPDF?
05.30.09 More Dirty Deals in Europe Involve Microsoft, Microsoft Lobbies
05.30.09 More on Novell’s Finances: SUSE and Mono Failures
05.30.09 Novell News Summary – Part III: GroupWise, Security, People, and the Demise of SiCortex
05.31.09 Microsoft Employees and Partners Start Attacking ODF in Public
05.31.09 Head of Microsoft Philippines Ditches the Company, More Layoffs Revealed (But Microsoft Withholds Details)
05.31.09 Microsoft SQL Server and DirectX Enable Full Machine Compromise
06.01.09 Linux DRM Warning
06.01.09 ODF Alliance Newsletter: Ecuador Joins the Club
06.01.09 OOXML BRM Convenor (Alex Brown) Joins the Pro-Microsoft Wikipedia Spinners
06.02.09 Easy-LTSP Dumps Mono/C#, Rewritten in Python Instead
06.02.09 How KDE Defeated DRM (and What Linux Might Do Next)
06.02.09 Mono: An Infectious Disease — An Article by Chris Smart
06.03.09 Troll Warning: Bill Snyder, IDG, Microsoft Investor
06.04.09 Hungary Makes ODF a National Standard
06.04.09 What Red Hat and Novell Have in Common and What They Do Not
06.06.09 Novell News Summary – Part II: SUSE Videos, Some Moblin, and Just a Little More
06.06.09 Novell News Summary – Part III: Offshoring, More Financial Analysis, and SCO
06.08.09 Perception Management at Microsoft, Using Web Agents
06.11.09 How Microsoft Failed to Work with Free Software
06.14.09 Novell News Summary – Part II: GeekoBuilder and Novell’s Imaginary Open-Source Apps Store
06.14.09 Novell News Summary – Part III: SCO, GroupWise, Videos, and Utah
06.15.09 Is Microsoft Trying to Inject Money into SCO Again?
06.16.09 Case Study: The Harms of Mono
06.17.09 How Steve Ballmer (and Colleagues) Deliberately Sabotaged OS/2
06.18.09 Microsoft on Competition: “We Need to Create the Reputation for Problems and Incompatibilities to Undermine Confidence”
06.19.09 Do Citrix and Black Duck Help Microsoft Embrace (and Extend) “Open Source”
06.20.09 Novell News Summary – Part II: A Lot About SLES, Little About Scalix and Xandros
06.21.09 Microsoft’s Nathan Myhrvold on How “to Freeze the Market at the OEM and ISV Level”
06.21.09 Novell’s Financial Problems and Radical Redemption Plans
06.21.09 Novell News Summary – Part III: Novell’s Proprietary Business
06.22.09 New USPTO Director to Be Appointed, Bad News for Freedom
06.23.09 Bill Gates: “Our Most Potent Operating System Competitor is Linux”
06.23.09 Bill Gates Mocks Free Software by Substituting “Proprietary” With “Commercial”
06.23.09 Rob Weir – From ODF pre-1.2 to ODF 1.2
06.23.09 More on Novell’s Willingness to Sell
06.24.09 Bill Gates on C# as “Key Element in Preventing Commodization by Linux”
06.26.09 Nathan Myhrvold/Bill Gates Use “Embrace and Extend” Against “Making it Easy for People to Do Competitive Operating Systems”
06.26.09 Microsoft Innovation is Lawsuits by Proxy
06.27.09 Lunch with Microsoft to Talk About ODF, Which it is Attacking
06.27.09 Novell News Summary – Part II: SUSE (SLES/SLED), Novell’s in Red Hat’s Shadow, and Xandros
06.27.09 Novell News Summary – Part III: Novell Videos, Marketing at Twitter, and Few Minor Things
06.27.09 SCO “Wants to Sue Linux Users Some More” After Another Mysterious Cash Injection
06.27.09 T3 Receives Millions from “Unnamed Entity” After Microsoft Investment, to Attack GNU/Linux on Mainframes
06.29.09 What People Say About Microsoft’s Alleged Anti-Linux Lawsuit (via T3)
06.29.09 New Examples of Questionable Press Coverage
06.30.09 Microsoft’s Latest Benchmark Fraud
07.01.09 Rob Weir Complains About Microsoft’s Manipulation of Wikipedia
07.01.09 Poll: 62% Don’t Trust Microsoft on Mono
07.01.09 Report: Microsoft’s Patent Racketeering Comes from Myhrvold
07.10.09 Another Microsoft Product Officially Dies: Response Point
07.11.09 Groklaw Unearths Another SCO Scandal; SCO Heads Sued for Theft, Computer Fraud and Abuse
07.11.09 It’s Official: Bilski Kills Software Patent
07.11.09 Novell News Summary – Part III: Mostly Videos, Kablink 2.0 Release, and Utah Event
07.11.09 Norway Embraces Open Standards, Many Others Follow Suit
07.11.09 Novell News Summary – Part I: OpenFate, Build Service, and Many Events
07.11.09 Novell News Summary – Part II: SLE* News (with Many Videos) and Portions of Xandros/Scalix
07.12.09 IDG’s Microsoft Subnet Spreads Linux FUD, Cites Microsoft Pundits
07.13.09 More on the Amazing Story Behind SCO (and Possibly Microsoft)
07.13.09 Patents Roundup: Software Landmines in New Zealand, the US, and Microsoft/Linux
07.14.09 SCO Scandals Get Worse: unXis Seems to be All About SCO
07.15.09 Leaked Microsoft Slides (2003): How to Win Against GNU/Linux
07.16.09 Microsoft + Ecosystem Block ODF, OpenOffice.org, Firefox
07.17.09 Free Software Foundation Discourages Dependence on Mono, Dismisses Microsoft Community Promise
07.17.09 GPL and Stallman FUD Now Arriving from the Freedom-apathetic or Freedom-hostile
07.18.09 Novell News Summary – Part I: OpenSUSE, SLES, and Turbolinux
07.18.09 Novell News Summary – Part II: SCO, McAfee, and PlateSpin Migration
07.19.09 The Ukraine’s GNU/Linux Ambitions and Microsoft’s MOU Response
07.19.09 Another Microsoft Product Dies as the Company Prepares for Horrible Financial Results
07.20.09 Signs of Microsoft on the Decline (Roundup)
07.23.09 More Self-serving, Lockin-oriented GPL Code from Microsoft
07.24.09 Microsoft’s Goodwill is to Obey the Law
07.24.09 Patents Roundup: Why Microsoft’s Patents Are Useless; More Patent Failure News
07.24.09 SCO Scandals Finally in the News
07.25.09 Novell Uses More Software Patents to Market Itself
07.25.09 Novell News Summary – Part III: PlateSpin, GWAVA, Security, People, and Partnerships
07.25.09 SCO and Darl McBride Paid $100,000 to Steven Norris
07.26.09 Linux Demonstrates the Upper Hand of the GPL and Microsoft’s Inability to Defeat It
07.26.09 Antitrust: How Microsoft Came up with Windows Bundling
07.27.09 Antitrust: How Microsoft Used Kickbacks (“Referral Programs”) to Advance Its Inferior Products
07.29.09 SCO Lies About Hans Bayer
08.01.09 Novell News Summary – Part III: PlateSpin Protect 8.1, Sentinel, and Few Other Things
08.01.09 Novell News Summary – Part II: SUSE, Scalix and eApps
08.01.09 Sys-Con Media Site Delisted, Spam Pattern Explained
08.04.09 Microsoft Only Gave 14,010 Lines of Code
08.04.09 Does the Open Invention Network (OIN) Become a Patent Harvester?
08.05.09 ODF 1.2 Gains Approval, Garners Support, Microsoft Carries on Lying
08.07.09 A Look at the Microsoft-funded SCO Lawsuit in Light of Newer Anti-Linux Microsoft Lawsuits
08.07.09 Novell Responds to SCO Ruling, More News Coverage
08.08.09 Novell News Summary – Part II: SUSE Studio, National Vision, and Xandros
08.09.09 More SCO Headlines and What Comes Next
08.09.09 Microsoft Still Says That Linux is Derived from Unix
08.12.09 Microsoft Accused of “Sabotaging Desktop Virtualisation”
08.15.09 Novell News Summary – Part III: SCO, PlateSpin Forge, Teaming, GroupWise, and More
08.16.09 Commonalities Between i4i and Microsoft
08.17.09 Emergency Motion to Prevent a Ban on Microsoft Word
08.18.09 Reminder of What Microsoft Did in Denmark and What It’s Up to Now
08.22.09 Novell News Summary – Part III: SCO Scandals Revisited, GWAVACon Comes to the UK, and Tech Data Expands Partnership with Novell
08.23.09 Intellectual Monopolies and Bottling up “Free Water”
08.25.09 Comes: Microsoft’s Anti-GNU/Linux Presentation and Explanation of Bribery
08.25.09 Small Updates on ODF and OOXML
08.25.09 What If Novell Does Not Own UNIX? Nothing.
08.25.09 Vista 7 Campaign Starts Tomorrow
08.28.09 Judges Appointed in SCO Case
08.28.09 ODF Workshop in Brazil Reveals Big New Wins
08.28.09 World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) Detoxicated from Microsoft Influence, But Regains Microsoft and Apple Presence
08.30.09 Mainstream Media Finally Discovers Microsoft’s Anti-Google AstroTurf
08.31.09 Patents Roundup: Bilski Revisited, FFII Seems Confused, EU Seemingly Hijacked by Large Corporations
08.31.09 What People Say About Microsoft’s War on Open Standards
08.31.09 Analysis Links: What Happens to SCO Next
09.01.09 Comes Antitrust: Microsoft McCarthyism Exposed
09.02.09 ODF Gains Ground in Denmark, Endorsed by Hungarian Standards Institution
09.05.09 Novell News Summary – Part III: Channel Changes, Revenue Drop, Virtualisation, and More
09.09.09 Microsoft Wants to Attack Linux Using Patents, via Proxies/Trolls — Claim
09.10.09 Red Hat: Microsoft Marketed Its Patents for Trolls to Attack Free Software
09.11.09 Linux Foundation Lashes Out at Microsoft Over Attacks on GNU/Linux
09.12.09 Microsoft’s Latest Mischiefs Justify Need to Watch the Patent Trolls
09.12.09 Latest Wins for OpenDocument Format
09.14.09 Comes Antitrust: How Microsoft Schemed to Destroy Borland (Like It Did Yahoo!)
09.18.09 What Did SCO Pay Maureen O’Gara For?
09.19.09 Novell News Summary – Part III: Novell Wants BrainShare Renaissance
09.19.09 Maemo to Use ODF, Kazakhstan May be Moving to ODF — Source
09.19.09 Large-scale Microsoft and Apple Failures
09.20.09 How Microsoft/ISO Took More Control of ODF
09.20.09 Microsoft Compares Its Monopoly to the Older Telephone Monopoly
09.20.09 Very Large US Bank Finds Out That Sharepoint Fails, But Still Fails to Understand Freedom
09.21.09 ODF Alliance Newsletter: September 2009
09.21.09 Miguel de Icaza “is Basically a Traitor to the Free Software Community,” Says Richard Stallman
09.23.09 What is ‘Club SCO’ Doing Near the Linux Foundation with Novell?
09.23.09 Latest Evidence That Microsoft is Dying on the Internet
09.23.09 Novell Helps Microsoft Zune and CodePlex Foundation Helps Novell
09.23.09 ODF Olympiad 2009 Announced, Now Accepting Submissions
09.25.09 DON’T Boycott Ubuntu
09.26.09 Novell News Summary – Part III: iFolder, Teaming 2, and Other Minor Issues
09.26.09 Novell News Summary – Part II: SUSE Rep Positive About Desktop GNU/Linux, SGI Supports SLES
09.27.09 SCO, Stephen Norris, the Bush Family, and Prince Al-Waleed bin Talal Al Saud
09.28.09 Microsoft’s Google Chase Gets Harder
09.29.09 Vietnam Makes it Official with OpenDocument Format (ODF)
09.30.09 Freedom and the Fallacy of Market Share
09.30.09 If There is a “Microsoft Hater” Label, Should There Also be an “Apple Hater” Label?
10.02.09 Company That Attacks ODF Gains More Control of ODF (and Why Open Source Should be Careful, Too)
10.03.09 Novell News Summary – Part II: Distribution Channel, Virtualisation, Mail, Identity, Security, and More
10.04.09 Amicus Avalanche Opposing Software Patents in the United States (Novell Still Missing)
10.04.09 The Continued Effect of Microsoft Antitrust Violations
10.05.09 Microsoft Gets Its Way in Ireland, As Usual
10.08.09 The FFII and Red Hat’s CEO Express Dissatisfaction with United States Patent System
10.08.09 Microsoft Cheats at Vista 7 ‘Speed’, Uses New Vapourware
10.10.09 Novell News Summary – Part II: SUSE Studio and BridgeWays, Novell’s Proprietary Side Also
10.11.09 T3 is Partly Owned by Microsoft Now
10.13.09 Microsoft Continues to Snub ODF (and Why Microsoft is Losing This Battle)
10.15.09 Patents Roundup: Microsoft Patents at Risk Due to Free Software’s Prior Art; Opposition to Patents Grows
10.17.09 Novell News Summary – Part II: SLED on Compaq/HP, Other Cases of SUSE Support and SP3
10.17.09 Novell News Summary – Part III: SCO, SAP, GroupWise Abandonment in LA
10.17.09 ISO Urged to Invalidate OOXML as Microsoft’s Role Gets Shown; More Smears of ODF Come from Microsoft
10.20.09 Confirmed: Darl McBride Termination is a Sacking
10.20.09 Patents Roundup: Microsoft Patent Tax, FireStar-Red Hat Revisited, US Patent Crisis
10.21.09 Mono Programs Removed from gNewSense
10.21.09 IDG Gives Novell a Podium, Zonker Denouncements Come
10.22.09 Vista 7 Coverage a Mixed Bag on Release Date
10.23.09 Lots of New Vendor/Developer Support for OpenDocument Format
10.24.09 Novell News Summary – Part II: Mostly Dry Week for Novell’s Non-Free(dom) Business
10.24.09 Latest Twists in the SCO Case: AutoZone Settlement and More
10.24.09 Vista 7 Launch Said to Have Failed
10.25.09 OEM Documents Which Microsoft Labels “MICROSOFT SECRET”
10.26.09 Microsoft Must be Happy…
10.26.09 Microsoft/Icahn’s Coup Against Yahoo! and Yang is Done
10.26.09 What Went Wrong with Vista 7 Launch (and How GNU/Linux Already Takes Advantage)
10.28.09 Patents Roundup: OIN Grows, Microsoft Ally LG Uses Patent Bullies, Microsoft and Amazon Advance Anti-Free Software Laws
10.28.09 Vista 7 Not Suitable for Family Guy; The Real Cost of Vista 7 Revealed
10.30.09 Sun Microsystems and SirsiDynix Libel GNU/Linux and Free Software
10.31.09 The Guardian Tells Microsoft’s Lies
10.31.09 Novell News Summary – Part II: SCO vs Novell to Continue, Schmidt Comes to Utah, GWAVACon Announced
11.04.09 Bright OpenOffice.org Future, ODF News, and Antagonisers Spotted
11.05.09 Andrew Cuomo Should Sue and Punish Microsoft for Same Crimes as Intel
11.07.09 Novell News Summary – Part III: Pulse, SCO, Los Angeles and More
11.07.09 Novell News Summary – Part II: SUSE and SUSE Studio
11.07.09 Xandros to Visit Microsoft Show, Samsung’s Ballnux Phones Fail
11.08.09 Is Microsoft Lobbying to Burn Sun?
11.08.09 Mozilla and Opera Still Object to Microsoft’s Deal with the Commission
11.09.09 Patents Roundup: Supreme Court Paywalls Raised as Bilski (Re)Starts, Microsoft Patent Lawsuits, EU Community Patent
11.09.09 Just One Way (Among More) Microsoft Cheats in Vista 7 Number Games
11.11.09 At What Stage Can Novell be Called “Microsoft Subsidiary”?
11.13.09 A Week in ODF: Conferences, New Implementations, New ODFDOM
11.13.09 Patents Roundup: OIN Calls for Patent Reform, Microsoft’s ‘Sudo’ Revisited
11.14.09 Novell News Summary – Part III: Pulse Again, SCO’s Jeff Hunsaker is Out, GroupWise Items
11.18.09 Why GNU/Linux Has Already Won
11.18.09 EIF Scrutinised, ODF Evolves, and Microsoft’s OOXML “Lies” Lead to Backlash from Danish Standards Committee
11.21.09 Novell News Summary – Part III: SCO Updates, Company Financials, and Tech Data Arrangements
11.22.09 White-Collar Crime Pays Off, Shows Microsoft OOXML
11.23.09 General Electric (GE) Attacks Free Software, Microsoft Style
11.23.09 Novell’s Vice President Could be Tweeting for Microsoft Dollars
11.25.09 Complaints About Perverted EIF Continue to Pile Up
11.25.09 Boycott Google, Says Microsoft to Publishers
11.27.09 Study: Intellectual Monopolies (Patents) Vastly Dominated by… the Monopolies
11.28.09 Novell News Summary – Part III: WordPerfect Changes Hands Again, SCO Case Updates, and More
12.02.09 More Complaints About EIFv2 Abuse and Free Software FUD from General Electric (GE)
12.02.09 Who is Behind Psystar?
12.03.09 With Microsoft Monopoly in Check, Bill Gates Proceeds to Creating More Monopolies
12.05.09 Novell News Summary – Part III: SCO/UNIX to Conclude in March, eDirectory Patched
12.09.09 Patents Roundup: Copyrighted SQL Queries, Microsoft Alliance with Company That Attacks F/OSS with Software Patents, Peer-to-Patent in Australia
12.12.09 Novell News Summary – Part III: AutoZone-SCO Case Ends, Financial Leftovers, Partner Academy Launched in India
12.12.09 Novell News Summary – Part II: Intelligent Workload Management, Ballnux, and Bada
12.12.09 Japanese ODF Standard Released, Alex Brown Seemingly Attacks OOXML Dissent (Again)
12.12.09 Microsoft is Apparently Push-polling for Patent Tax on GNU/Linux
12.15.09 Management Exodus at Novell
12.17.09 UK Intellectual Monopoly Office (UK-IPO) May be Breaking the Law
12.19.09 European Commission Unable to Defend Free Software from Microsoft Patent Racket
12.19.09 Novell News Summary – Part III: SAP and Novell Kiss Again, Groupwise Shamed in Public by Google
12.20.09 ‘Microsoft Press’ Acknowledges Microsoft’s Free Software-Hostile EU Deal
12.20.09 Truisms About SCO
12.23.09 Patents Roundup: Software Patents and ACTA at STOA, Gates-backed Monsanto Wants to Own Mexico’s Food Supply
12.25.09 Nokia Criticised for Patent Attack, Interim In Re Bilski Rule Does Not Go Far Enough
12.26.09 Novell News Summary – Part III: Novell Drives Nowhere Special
12.26.09 Novell News Summary – Part II: SLES+Itanium, Xandros, Samsung+Bada
12.27.09 Groklaw Suspects Microsoft May be Behind Neon’s Attack on GNU/Linux in Mainframes
12.29.09 Microsoft’s Racketeering with Patents and Abolition of Software Patents Reexamined
12.29.09 DRI CEO: “The Biggest Risk Was That Microsoft Would Come Hell-Bent to Destroy Us… Not Necessarily by Competing”
12.30.09 Can Novell Survive 2010 Without Being Acquired/Merged?
01.01.10 Centrify, Microsoft, and Software Patents
01.03.10 Microsoft Bribes to Make Education Microsoft-based
01.04.10 Judge Randall Rader Redefines “Patent Troll”
01.05.10 Former Microsoft Partner/Ally Gives Microsoft Competitor (Zimbra) to Former Microsoft Employees
01.06.10 Microsoft Under Fire: Open Source Software Thematic Group Complains About EIFv2 Subversion, NHS Software Supplier Under Criminal Investigation
01.07.10 Microsoft’s Kevin Turner Apparently Still in Charge of Anti-GNU/Linux Strategies
01.09.10 Novell News Summary – Part II: Ballnux and MSI/HP Return, More Ballnux at CES 2010
01.09.10 Novell News Summary – Part III: Plugs in the Press and SCO Case Galore
01.10.10 Estimation: 30% of IT Patent Lawsuits Come from Patent Trolls, Microsoft Continues to Evade Patent Law (i4i)
01.14.10 “Kroes Was Quite Clueless About Software Patents and UPLS,” So the Commission Made a Microsoft Patent Deal Last Week
01.14.10 British MEP Responds to Microsoft Lobby Against EIFv2; Microsoft’s Visible Technologies Infiltrates/Derails Forums Too
01.15.10 Novell is Rapidly Losing GroupWise Business
01.15.10 Patents Roundup: Commission Sells Out to Microsoft; Apple and RIM Sued by Gates-backed Kodak
01.16.10 Novell News Summary – Part III: Minor Developments, Major Security Problems, Brainshare in Amsterdam
01.17.10 Meeting With Steve Ballmer Led Anti-GNU/Linux Executive to Quitting
01.18.10 Patents Roundup: Neelie Kroes and Microsoft Patents Revisited, Steve Ballmer Lobbies Obama on Patents, Apple Wants Linux Phones Embargoed (Using Patents)
01.19.10 Microsoft Sues Google
01.19.10 Patents Roundup: Microsoft Keeps Ruining (to Exploit) the Patent System, USPTO’s Purpose in Greater Doubt, Cisco Surrenders to Trolls
01.21.10 ODF Roundup: Norway, Germany Migration, ODF 1.2 Support, and ODF 1.1 Interop Profile
01.22.10 Thoughts on Canonical’s Approach to Non-Free (Non-Libre) Software
01.27.10 Chief Microsoft Lobbyist Bill Gates Goes on Anti-Google Tour in the Press
01.27.10 Patents Roundup: A Week’s Worth, Links and Snippets Only
01.28.10 Novell is Still Promoting Microsoft SharePoint™ and Silverlight™
01.30.10 The Register’s Suggestion: Novell and Microsoft’s Partner of the Year Should Merge
01.30.10 Novell News Summary – Part II: SUSE Appliance Toolkit, Samsung, and LG
01.31.10 Novell Loses Executive Vice President and Community Manager
01.31.10 Novell News Summary – Part III: File Management Suite
02.02.10 Novell: We Love Our Software Patents, We Needed More!
02.03.10 Relationships Map
02.04.10 The BBC’s Anti-Internet Pro-Microsoft Revisionist Propaganda
02.04.10 Computer History Development Timeline: Microsoft Perspective
02.05.10 Patents Roundup: ACTA Inevitability Claimed, USPTO Patently Failing, China Against Patents in Standards, Monsanto in Court
02.09.10 Patents Roundup: EFF Defends VoIP; Google, Apple, and Black Duck Stifle Progress; Microsoft Joins RPX
02.13.10 Novell News Summary – Part II: Update on SUSE, OES, Linspire, Samsung, LG, and Kyocera Mita
02.13.10 Novell News Summary – Part III: SCO Updates, Financial Results Are Near
02.13.10 ODF Roundup: News from Scandinavia, OpenOffice.org 3.2, and Symphony 3.0 Beta 2
02.14.10 Novell Keeps Being Dumped for Google
02.14.10 Patents Roundup: Escalations in Europe, SAP Pretense, CCIA Goes Wrong, and IETF Opens Up
02.15.10 The Latest from Microsoft’s Ambassador to Linux (MVP Miguel de Icaza) and Other FSF-Hostile Folks
02.18.10 Patents Roundup: Centrify Brings Microsoft Patents to *NIX, Red Hat Denounces the Patent Trolls, and Google Still Endorses Software Patents
02.18.10 ODF Alliance Newsletter: February 2009
02.18.10 Wakeup Call to Google, Regarding Software Patents
02.21.10 Microsoft Lawyer: Microsoft “Covers up Alleged Misconduct, Mischaracterizes Evidence ... Protects the Perpetrators and Retaliates Against Victims.”
02.21.10 New AstroTurfing from Microsoft Philippines, Increased Pressure on Businesses
02.22.10 Patents Roundup: Amazon, Centrify, Microsoft, TecSec, and Bilski
02.24.10 When Microsoft Racketeering Meets Apathy
02.25.10 Free Software Must Not Fight Fire With Fire
02.26.10 Latest Attack on Free Software Traced Back to BSA, Whose Lobbyist Francisco Mingorance Tries to Legalise Software Patents in Europe
02.26.10 Novell’s Patches for Linux (Kernel) Drop Sharply
02.27.10 Novell News Summary – Part III: Pulse, Brainshare 2010, Proprietary Products, SCO, Virtualisation, and Security
03.01.10 Ubuntu 10.04 Increases Mono Dependency
03.02.10 Browser Ballot Critique
03.02.10 Salesforce CEO: Microsoft is “Somewhat Disgusting”; Microsoft Smears of Free Software Carry on
03.02.10 Microsoft’s Extortion Battle Against GNU/Linux and Lawsuits by Proxy Against Google
03.03.10 Patents Roundup: Benjamin Franklin Would Have Disliked Patents, Tim Bray Leaves, Patents Kill, Ridiculous Software Patents Named
03.04.10 Firm Behind Novell Bid Has Shady Past, Could be Tied to Microsoft (Paul E. Singer’s ‘Vulture Fund’)
03.04.10 On Microsoft’s Latest Linux Extortion in Japan and Apple’s Linux Extortion in China
03.05.10 Patents Roundup: USPTO Grants Patents on Hotdogs and Harbours Pyramid Schemes, EPO in Transition, and Apple Turns Nasty
03.07.10 Novell News Summary – Part II: SCO Case Resumes, Cloud Security Alliance (CSA) Hits the Headlines as Novell Makes Announcement
03.07.10 Novell News Summary – Part I: OpenSUSE and SUSE Amid Probable Takeover
03.07.10 Vulture Fund Still the Only Bidder for Novell
03.07.10 Microsoft Catch-up, Apple Lock-up, and GNU/Linux Freedom
03.08.10 What Would Happen to “Boycott Novell” If Novell Was Sold in Pieces
03.08.10 SCO’s Latest Cash Infusion and Urgent Call for Volunteers to Attend Trial Today (Utah)
03.08.10 W3C Poisoned by Promoters of Software Patents Who Attack GNU/Linux
03.10.10 Apple’s Legal Attack on GNU/Linux and Mistreatment of Developers Already Costing it Business
03.13.10 Vulture Fund Rumoured to be Planning to Break Novell Apart, Vultures Deny the Claim
03.13.10 Novell News Summary – Part II: SUSE in Hush Mode, Lindows Called “Worst Product Ever”, Samsung’s Bada Revisited
03.13.10 Latest SCO-Novell Drama in a Nutshell
03.14.10 The Microsoft Elephant in the Open Source Room
03.15.10 Apple’s and Microsoft’s Patent Attacks and Why the Linux Foundation’s Response Disappoints
03.16.10 New Theory That Microsoft Played Role in Apple’s Lawsuit Against Linux and Against Google
03.16.10 Microsoft ‘Pulls a SCO’ in India (Against GNU/Linux)
03.17.10 More Evidence of Potential Microsoft Involvement in Apple-HTC Lawsuit Against Linux/Android (and Microsoft Loses to Virnetx)
03.18.10 Open Irony: Microsoft Creates/Sponsors OpenMainframe.org to Attack GNU/Linux
03.18.10 Microsoft Brings MPEG-LA-LA Land to the Web and Threatens GNU/Linux With Software Patent Lawsuits
03.19.10 Linux is Not Against Software Patents (and Why Linus Torvalds Should Speak Up)
03.20.10 Novell News Summary – Part III: Clarifications from Elliott Associates, Hosted Conferencing, and BrainShare 20TEN
03.20.10 SCO Roundup: SCO Group Receives a $2 Million Cash Infusion
03.21.10 Xbox 360 Dies Without a “Coffin” and Microsoft’s Other Hardware Endeavours Seemingly a Dead End
03.22.10 Novell Accused of Lying About Red Hat Products (Again)
03.22.10 In Fight Against Google, Microsoft Adopts China Strategy
03.23.10 Microsoft Proxy Attack on GNU/Linux Continues With TurboHercules
03.24.10 When Only Half of Europe Browses the Web With Microsoft
03.24.10 Software Patents Complication Shows Why Linux Needs the FSF
03.25.10 Patent Thug (Microsoft) Enters “Solution Linux” and Receives Mob Treatment; Durham Logistics Unmasked as Potential Intellectual Ventures Proxy
03.26.10 Former Member of European Parliament Describes Microsoft “Coup in Process” in the European Commission
03.26.10 Susan Heystee Appears to Have Quit Novell
03.27.10 Novell News Summary – Part II: SUSE (SLES/SLED) in BrainShare 2010, Samsung and Kyocera With Android
03.28.10 Novell News Summary – Part III: Pulse Beta and Many New Adverts
03.29.10 Europeans Asked to Stop Microsoft’s Subversion of EIFv2 (European Interoperability Framework Version 2)
03.29.10 Microsoft Services Cyber Crime
03.31.10 Consequences of UNIX up for Sale
04.01.10 Eye on Security: Windows Malware, Emergency Patches, and BeyondTrust’s CEO from Microsoft
04.01.10 What Happens Next in the SCO Case (Post Novell)
04.03.10 Microsoft Hijacks “Open Source” From GNU/Linux Just Like It Hijacked “Standards”
04.03.10 Novell News Summary – Part III: Pulse, ZENworks, NetWare, and idOnDemand
04.06.10 Ubuntu Removes Codec Patent Trap, But What About Mono?
04.06.10 Mono Team Develops More Windows Software and Mocks Critics
04.08.10 Thumbs up to Ubuntu for Removing a Part of Microsoft; TurboHercules Likely a Psystar-Type Microsoft Shell
04.10.10 Microsoft’s Battle to Consume — Not Obliterate — Open Source
04.10.10 Patents Roundup: Fordham Conference for Software Patents in Europe, NZOSS Responds to Pro-Software Patents Lobbyists, and TurboHercules’ Ties With Microsoft Explained
04.11.10 Florian Müller Seemingly Connected to CCIA (Microsoft Proxy)
04.11.10 Patents Roundup: David Hammerstein on Microsoft Lobbying in Europe; Harrison Targets Lobbying on Software Patents in New Zealand, Justice Stevens Leaves SCOTUS
04.12.10 Patents Roundup: New Conferences, Oink of the Patent Lawyers in New Zealand, and TurboHercules’ Secret Home in 701 Fifth Avenue, Suite 4200 Seattle, WA 98104
04.14.10 Black Duck: Proprietary Software for Proprietary Software
04.15.10 Microsoft and Novell Overwhelm Linux Collaboration Summit; Microsoft MVP Publishes “Revisionist, Uninformed, and Narrow-Thinking” Article About GNU/Linux
04.16.10 Microsoft is Not Promoting the Open Source Community, It’s Just Exploiting It
04.17.10 Apple is Part of the Proprietary Thought Police
04.17.10 Novell News Summary – Part III: Forrester Talks About Novell’s “Imminent Sale”; GroupWise’s Retreat and Business Partners
04.17.10 The Future of Mono and MonoTouch is Uncertain
04.17.10 SCO Receives More Money From Darl McBride; Novell-SCO Resumes Monday
04.19.10 “Patent Absurdity” Looks for Translations Amid Lobbying from Florian Müller and Microsoft
04.21.10 Microsoft’s Browser Ballot is Broken Again and Internet Explorer 8 is Critically Flawed
04.22.10 Facebook Joins Microsoft’s War on ODF
04.22.10 The Microsoft Who Cried “Wolf!”
04.24.10 Novell News Summary – Part III: Last News Summary; SCO Updates and BrainShare Amsterdam
04.28.10 Novell Spins the Numbers Again
04.29.10 Software Patents Imperialism
04.30.10 Microsoft Insiders Speak About the Case Against Android
04.30.10 Steve Jobs: “A Patent Pool is Being Assembled to Go After Theora and Other “Open Source” Codecs Now.”
05.03.10 “Behind the Open Codec FUD Attack, W3C Captured by Microsoft, Apple, Nokia and So On?”
05.03.10 Dear Google: Please Abolish Software Patents, Don’t ‘Donate’ Patent ‘Protection’
05.03.10 Journey With Novell/Microsoft Moonlight (and How it Broke Firefox While Microsoft Keeps Breaking Antitrust Law)
05.03.10 As Google Eats Microsoft’s Cash Cow Ballmer Finds New Attack Dogs in Yahoo!
05.05.10 Apple and Microsoft a Threat to Culture (Data), Not Just Software (Tools)
05.06.10 Free Software Foundation Europe Likens Apple/Microsoft Behaviour to Blackmail
05.07.10 Microsoft Extorts GNU/Linux While Distorting the Meaning of “Open Source”
05.08.10 Novell: Making IT Work As One Microsoft Way
05.08.10 Apple Does Not Support Standards; Neither Does Microsoft
05.08.10 Minor Observations About Novell
05.14.10 Patents Roundup: EmDebian Considers OIN Membership, EBoA Makes the Legal ‘Industry’ Happy, Phones Industry Harmed by Patents
05.17.10 Bad Apple, Part II: Apple Carries on Armament With Software Patents, Harms Firefox
05.17.10 Backlash Against The European Patent Office (EPO), The Extended Board of Appeal (EBoA), and Trolls-Friendly Patent Systems
05.17.10 OpenDocument Format is Ready for HTML5; Stéphane Rodriguez Explains “The OOXML Interoperability Scam”
05.19.10 Siemens Betrays Germans by Legalising Software Patents in Europe
05.19.10 Patents Roundup: Google and Apple Still Conspire With Software Patents, Firefox Forked Due to Software Patents, EPO Slammed and DPL Potentially Reformed
05.21.10 Salesforce CEO About Microsoft: “They’re Basically the Alley Thugs”
05.21.10 Who to Blame for Germany’s Dangerous Decision Regarding Software Patents
05.22.10 OpenSUSE Needs an Independent Equivalent (Like PCLinuxOS for Mandriva) to Ensure Takeover of Novell Leaves it Safe
05.25.10 Samba Lawyer About Software Patents: The Only Solution is Abolition
05.26.10 Why Novell is the Next Sun and OpenSUSE Should be Forked
05.27.10 Novell: The Copy of a Copy
05.28.10 Microsoft is Not an Open Source Company, It’s a Software Patents Company With Lobbyists
05.29.10 Google to Make WebM GPL Compatible — Claim
05.29.10 Another Abandonment of Microsoft: XBMC
05.31.10 Tax-Free Financial Gain at Microsoft Assisted by Governor Gregoire
05.31.10 Microsoft and Apple Bad for the Environment and for Labour
06.01.10 A Glimpse Back at Red Hat’s and Novell’s Stance on Software Patents in 2005
06.02.10 What a Difference Patentability of Software Makes: Microsoft #3 in USPTO, #33 in EPO
06.04.10 What Novell is Down to This Week
06.04.10 Microsoft is Already Trying to Infiltrate Canadian Government Contracts by Pretending to be “Open”
06.04.10 Architect of Microsoft’s Patent Strategy Has Left the Building
06.04.10 Microsoft Surrenders in Another Patent Case and Proves Yet Again That Its Patents Are Worthless
06.05.10 Linux Oggcasts Speak About Novell’s Imminent Sale
06.07.10 Patents Roundup: More Regarding Red Hat, Klaus-Heiner Lehne, Patents on Genes, and USPTO Speed Lane
06.08.10 European Lesson About Novell’s Software Patents, Germany Seemingly Continues to Allow Software Patents
06.09.10 Prisoners of Apple Hype
06.09.10 Patents Roundup: CSIRO Slammed, TiVo Loses, WIPO Harms China, and Patents Do Yoga
06.10.10 It’s Final: Novell Owns UNIX. Now, Who Will Buy Novell With UNIX?
06.11.10 A Lawyer is Questioning the Definiteness of Death of the SCO Case (Updated)
06.12.10 Canonical Searches for Its Strategy, Confused About ‘Patent Protection’ for Ubuntu
06.12.10 Torvalds’ Home Nation Still Besieged by Microsoft and Its Partners
06.12.10 Software Patents Debate in LinuxTag 2010 and Elsewhere in Europe
06.13.10 Translation of Novell’s Statement Regarding the SCO Case (Updated)
06.14.10 The Future of Microsoft’s Xbox is Uncertain
06.15.10 Debate Rages on Regarding the Open Invention Network (OIN)
06.16.10 Novell Still Markets “Intellectual Property (IP) Peace of Mind”
06.17.10 “Gates Now Runs an Investment Company in the Guise of a Charity.”
06.18.10 European Commission Still Lobbied by Microsoft, OASIS Does Not Support Software Freedom
06.18.10 Patents Roundup: Developing Countries Versus Patents, Qualcomm Antitrust Probe for Patent Abuse, Massive Lawsuits
06.22.10 Framework for Legalising Software Patents in Europe Falls Over, So Why Does Canonical Join the OIN?
06.22.10 The History of ‘Paul Murphy’ Defaming Linux
06.22.10 More Microsoft Debt, Legalised Tax Evasion, and Investment in the SCO Case
06.22.10 Oracle Doesn’t “Go Bananas Over EIF 2.0” Being Subverted by Microsoft and Friends
06.23.10 The Real Debate About OIN
06.24.10 OpenSUSE May Distance Itself From Novell/Microsoft ‘Linux Tax’
06.24.10 Fake Friends of Linux or Software Freedom
06.24.10 New Zealand’s Legislation Regarding Software Patents Shows That the US is the Boss
06.25.10 Patents Roundup: EU Patent Deform, MPEG-LA, OIN, New Zealand, and Patent Trolls
06.26.10 Eye on Novell: SCO, People, Business, SLED/Ballnux, SUSE HackWeek, and Other Events
06.28.10 Manual for Removing Microsoft Trap From Ubuntu GNU/Linux (and Lessons of TomTom and SCO Cases)
06.28.10 Novell Still a Threat to OpenOffice.org
06.29.10 More Bilski Analysis/Links (and Microsoft Front Group Commends Florian Müller)
06.29.10 Inaction From Ombudsman/EU Commission Regarding Microsoft Lobbyists Derailing Public Policy
06.29.10 .NET Violates Patents, Sued
06.29.10 Bilski Case Analyses: Good News, Bad News
07.01.10 Dan Ravicher Suggests Organising for Chance of a US Patent Overhaul
07.02.10 Novell’s Microsoft Propaganda Now in the Press, Microsoft Seeks Linux ‘Patent Tax’ With SLES
07.02.10 Freedom Defenders Look at the Glass Half Full in the Bilski Aftermath
07.05.10 Patent Aggression Against Linux: Microsoft, Apple, and Nobody Else
07.05.10 Microsoft in Trouble in South Korea
07.05.10 Cash Cows Watch: Windows and Office Are Suffering
07.07.10 Microsoft’s Undercover Lobbyists for Software Patents in Europe
07.08.10 Patent Bullies Roundup: Intellectual Ventures, NetApp, and HP’s ‘Donation’
07.08.10 Software Patents Not a Done Deal in New Zealand, Mozilla Weighs in
07.11.10 GNU/Linux Wins, Even on Desktops (and I’m Taking a Break)
07.20.10 Hypnosisoft
07.20.10 Kevin McBride Takes on Linux
07.21.10 Fraunhofer FOKUS and the Software Patents Lobby in Germany
07.23.10 Quote of the Day: Peer To Patent is a “Colossal Waste of Time When It Examines Software Patents”
07.23.10 Links: GNU/Linux Breakthrough in India, Linux 2.6.35 News
07.23.10 Patents Roundup: Identifying Real Patent Foes and Conflicts of Interests
07.23.10 Novell Too Busy (With Proprietary Software) to Promote OpenSUSE
07.23.10 Novell Outsources Staff, Other Staff Lands in Other Companies
07.23.10 Links: Many New Releases of GNU/Linux, More Tablets
07.23.10 Why SCO is Like a Patent Troll
07.24.10 Links: GNU/Linux in China, India, Many Other Places
07.24.10 Links: KDevelop 4.0.1, GNOME 3…
07.25.10 Microsoft Kickbacks and Pressures on Dell: Lessons From Intel
07.26.10 On Hypocrisy, Müller’s Mass Mailing to Journalists, and Lobbying
07.27.10 Microsoft Admits a Software Patent is Just Like Maths
07.27.10 How Microsoft Belittles ODF, Using the “Choice”-Themed Lies (and Why Google Should Offer ODF as a Choice)
07.27.10 Source Seems to be the Hardest Word
07.28.10 Indonesia is Moving to OpenDocument Format (ODF)
07.28.10 Not All Lawsuits Are Direct and Not All Payments Are Direct, Either
07.28.10 SUSE Gallery an Increasingly Rare Case of Novell’s SUSE Promotion
07.30.10 Microsoft’s Top Competitors Are GNU/Linux or Users and Vendors of GNU/Linux
07.30.10 Lawyers and Monopolies They Work for Are the Key Threat to Software Patent Policy
07.30.10 Microsoft’s Software Patents Lobbyists and Patent Trolls
08.01.10 Infosys is an Extension of Microsoft India
08.02.10 Apple’s and Microsoft’s Robbery of Knowledge Using Patents, i4i Case Might Reach SCOTUS
08.02.10 Google Drains Microsoft’s Coffers, Gets Attacked by Microsoft Through Regulators (Again)
08.03.10 Microsoft Laughs at — Then Deceives on — Interoperability
08.03.10 Role of the Gates Foundation Comes Under Pressure Due to Shareholder Conflicts
08.04.10 Florian Müller Unearths Dan Lyons’ Old Junk
08.04.10 Misleading Stories Based on Misleading Statistics (Microsoft and GNOME)
08.05.10 As Novell Looks for Buyers SUSE is Almost Silent
08.06.10 How India’s Legal Rule Regarding Patents Gets ‘Regulated’ by the West, Facebook is Hoarding Software Patents
08.06.10 Microsoft Refuses to Fix Known Security Vulnerabilities for Years, Anti-Virus (AV) Software Turns Useless
08.06.10 Software Patents Lobbyists Disguised as ‘Open Source’ Friends/Companies
08.06.10 Florian Müller Unofficially Joins Microsoft’s ‘Team Apologista’
08.08.10 Heads Are Said to be Rolling After Apple’s hypePhone 4 Antenna Cockup, iOS 4 Update is Broken
08.08.10 Microsoft’s KINect is the next KIN-Like Disaster (and Why Kinect Patents Are All That’s Left)
08.09.10 Replacement for Ballmer From the Outside, Microsoft’s Inexpensive Outside Workforce Suppressed by US Congress
08.09.10 Groklaw Repeats Warning About Mono as a Patent Threat
08.11.10 Open Invention Network (OIN) and Linux Foundation Still Legitimise Software Patents
08.11.10 Klinkert Zindel Partner is Promoting Software Patents in Europe
08.11.10 Vice President of Engineering at Novell (Andy Fox) Not Surprised That Google Pulled the Plug on Wave
08.11.10 SCO’s 2007 Bankruptcy May Have Been Fake
08.12.10 Novell Still Uploads Many Videos to YouTube; OpenSUSE News and Expansion of OpenSUSE Boosters Team Effort
08.13.10 “EPO Still Operating in a Vacuum”
08.13.10 FFII in More Disagreements With NoSoftwarePatents Founder, James Gosling Foresaw Java Lawsuit
08.16.10 Robert X. Cringely Shreds Microsoft to Pieces While Fraud/Kickbacks Surface at HP, Dell, and Intel
08.16.10 Microsoft is Chucking Apple After Using Apple to Promote OOXML
08.19.10 Larry Ellison: “We Have to Exploit Open Source.”
08.21.10 Novell’s New Products Are Proprietary Software
08.21.10 Bogus Oracle Patents, Broken USPTO, Apple’s Patent Aggression, and Acacia Gets More Money to Troll
08.23.10 Microsoft and Yahoo! Continue Losing to Google, Microsoft Resorts to Regulators to Complain About “Monopoly”
08.23.10 Vista 7 Defeated by Disobedient ‘Consumers’, But Florian Müller Likes it and Makes Friends With Microsoft Apologists
08.24.10 Google Shoots Itself in the Foot by Patenting Software
08.24.10 Patent Trolls Still Rejoice and David Kappos is Change We Can’t Believe in
08.25.10 Your News is PR: The Economic Times Example
08.25.10 Microsoft Can’t Do Hardware
08.25.10 Adobe Joins Novell in Daemonising Oracle and Whitewashing Microsoft
08.25.10 OMG!Mono!
08.25.10 NZICT is a Fake Group (Lobby Group) Connected to Microsoft, Foreigners
08.26.10 OOXML Revisionism (Updated)
08.27.10 Florian Müller is a .NET Developer (Exclusively), Uses Very Latest of Microsoft Software
08.27.10 Second Microsoft Co-founder Becomes a Patent Troll Just Like Bill Gates, Sues Microsoft Competitors
08.28.10 “Looks Like Microsoft is Doing Damage Control on Virus Attacks”
08.28.10 SCO Cheapskates and the Growing Irrelevance of the Case
08.28.10 What is Interval Research Corporation? (Origin of Paul Allen’s Patent Troll)
08.29.10 IDG’s Fauxpen Source Blog Adds Microsoft People
08.29.10 SCO Sells Its Few Remaining Assets. Is Xandros Next?
08.29.10 Novell Links: Notes About GroupWise, Fog Computing, OpenSUSE, and Staff Moves
08.29.10 VITA Disaster Appears to Have Been Caused by Microsoft Windows
08.31.10 Why Paul Allen (Interval Patent Troll) Targets Companies That Do Not Cross-license With (or Pay) Microsoft
08.31.10 Patents Roundup: OIN, Patent Attorney Ignorance, “Ultimate Patent Troll”, the Rambus Submarine Patent, Death Patents, MPEG-LA, and i4i/Microsoft
09.01.10 Microsoft Boosters of Software Patents in Linux/UNIX Sued for Patent Violation
09.02.10 Microsoft Saved the Bush Family From Embarrassment
09.03.10 Divide and Conquer: How Microsoft Fractures Free and Open Source Software, GNU/Linux
09.03.10 On Matters of Patents, Google Less of a Problem Than Microsoft, Apple
09.03.10 Microsoft Crashes Rival’s Event (OpenOffice.org Conference) Using Moritz Berger
09.04.10 Microsoft is Ranked the Worst Security Patching Offender
09.06.10 ZDNet’s ‘Open Source and Linux’ Blog Consults With Pro-Microsoft Campaigner
09.07.10 Red Hat Should Eliminate All of Its Patents, or At Least Attach Self-Destructive Clauses to Them
09.07.10 Why Microsoft Still Loves Software Patents
09.08.10 Red Hat’s Market Cap Tops $7 Billion Today, Novell Only at $2 Billion
09.10.10 Quote of the Day: “Microsoft-sponsored Lobbyists and Lawyers Forming Groups to Initiate a Variety of Cases Against Google”
09.11.10 Microsoft is Still Trolling ODF and Other Free Software Causes Using Fake ‘FOSS People’, OOXML Defects Ignored
09.13.10 The Difference Between Florian Müller and Hugo Lueders (Pro-Microsoft Lobbyists)
09.16.10 SCO is Selling UNIX® Assets and Novell (UNIX® Owner) is Selling Too
09.17.10 Microsoft Attacks Android With Software Patents, This Time Verbally
09.17.10 Goodbye, Novell
09.17.10 Abolishing Software Patents a Top Priority This Software Freedom Day
09.20.10 VMware May Ruin SUSE and Harm GNU/Linux at Large If Acquisition Goes Through
09.22.10 Mozilla Pays for a Shield From Software Patents, Free Software Proponents Cautiously Sceptical
09.24.10 FSF and EFF Challenge Software Patents at the USPTO, Nature (Journal) Wants EPO to be Like USPTO, and Patent Trolls Roam Free in Land of the Free
09.26.10 What Everyone Needs to Know About Wikileaks and Microsoft Lobbyists Like Anke Domscheit-Berg, Zuck, and Maybe Florian Müller
09.28.10 LibreOffice is Launched, Offering Independence from Oracle
09.28.10 Update on Novell and SCO Asset Sales
09.29.10 Microsoft’s Patent Offensives, Patent Trolls, and Other Patent Agitators
09.30.10 What Apple, Microsoft, and GNU/Linux Mean to One’s Freedom and the Bundling Issue Revisited
10.02.10 Federal Motors and Federal Microsoft
10.02.10 Microsoft’s Top Boosters Worry About Decreased Press Exposure, Acquisition Freeze
10.05.10 Google Has Already Paid Microsoft for ActiveSync, So What’s the Problem?
10.05.10 Bill Gates-Funded Guardian ‘Writers’ Are Again Whitewashing Gates and Attacking Microsoft Rivals
10.07.10 Microsoft Downgraded Yet Again, CEO Bonus Cut, Goldman Sachs Says Microsoft Should be Split, and Company’s CEO Acknowledges It May Vanish
10.07.10 Software Patent Lawsuits Around Linux (Roundup)
10.12.10 Groklaw Compares Microsoft’s Lawsuits Against Linux/Android Vendors to SCO Lawsuit
10.13.10 Microsoft Employees Push Vista Phone 7 n Twitter, Without Disclosure
10.14.10 BSA, ACT, and Other Microsoft Front Groups Still Try to Shoot Down EIF in Europe While Promoting Software Patents
10.14.10 “Novell is UNIX” But Who Buys Novell?
10.16.10 To Mono Leadership/Development Team, “A Mono Success Story of Biblical Proportions” Means No GNU/Linux Support
10.16.10 United Fruit Company 2.0: How Microsoft is Colonising South America
10.18.10 Microsoft’s and Apple’s #1 Weapon Against Software Freedom (Including Linux) is Software Patent Monopolies
10.19.10 BSA Lobbying Against Standards in Europe is Old News
10.20.10 Mobbyists and Lobbyists (Notably BSA) Marginalise Free Software in Europe Using Lies About RAND
10.22.10 Battling the BSA Hydra – Interpretation and Spanish Translation
10.27.10 Urban Dictionary Defines Mobbyists
10.28.10 El Dictionary Urbano Define Mobbyist (Mobbyists – Español)
10.28.10 ODF Alliance Newsletter: October 2010
11.05.10 Federal Government Less Patents-Friendly Than USPTO, Apple’s Embargo Attempt (With Patents) Fails ITC Judgment
11.08.10 Microsoft is Stockpiling and Also Buying More Patents While Microsoft’s ‘Buddy’ Finjan Extorts McAfee With Software Patents
11.08.10 Microsoft Shareholder Disappointed by Vista Phony 7, Which Fails to Sell; Office 2010 Used Only by 4% of Office Users
11.10.10 New Ph.D. Thesis Shows How Finnish Government Moved to Free/Libre Software
11.10.10 Novell’s Hallmark of a Company That’s Already Dead
11.12.10 Does Microsoft Really Have List of Patents GNU/Linux Supposedly Infringes?
11.14.10 Cronología de Microsoft Extorsión de Patentes Contra GNU/Linux
11.14.10 The W3C and Fake Authority
11.15.10 Steve Jobs and Larry Ellison Get Even Closer After Attacking the Linux-based Android Using Patents, Google Becomes Software Patents Foe
11.16.10 Microsoft is Speaking ‘for’ Small EU-based Businesses to Promote Software Patents
11.17.10 Microsoft Está Hablando “Por”las Pequeñas y Medianas Empresas (PYMES) En la UE para Promover las Patentes de Software
11.20.10 HTC Sued Over Patents by Company Already in Court With Microsoft
11.22.10 SUSE, OpenSUSE, and Why AttachMSFT Won’t Care
11.23.10 Apple Expected to Have Antitrust Trouble as Anticompetitive Practices Carry on
11.23.10 Novell is Not an Open Source Company and Neither is AttachMSFT
11.23.10 Novell Buys Keynote
11.29.10 Novell’s Last Week – Part III: AttachMSFT’s Promise to OpenSUSE is Not a Legal Commitment
11.29.10 Novell’s Last Week – Part IV: The Ugly Side of the AttachMSFT Game
12.04.10 Microsoft-funded ‘Satellites’ With Software Patents
12.04.10 Patent Monopolies Nothing to Do With Armed and Dangerous Men at Sea
12.06.10 At Microsoft, “Choice” Means Adding Windows, Marginalising/Suing GNU/Linux
12.09.10 Vista 7 Refunds: Unbundling Proponents Are on a Roll
12.14.10 On the Web, Microsoft Loves Hiding
12.15.10 Novell, OIN, and AttachMSFT: Why It Confirms Novell Was Trouble All Along
12.15.10 OpenSUSE’s Future Still Debated, Not Seen Clearly
12.17.10 UNIX Battles Carry on Whilst OpenSUSE is Being Lost
12.19.10 Microsoft Lobbyists Corrupt the European Interoperability Framework to Marginalise Software Freedom
12.20.10 Los grupos de presión Microsoft Estan Dañado el Marco de Interoperabilidad Europeo Marginalizando el Software Libre
12.20.10 Red Hat and Oracle Respond to EIFv2, Microsoft Seemingly Plans More Patent Aggression
12.21.10 Groklaw Lashes Out at Novell for Promoting OOXML (With Lock-in and Patent/RAND Traps)
12.21.10 ES: Microsoft, Normas e Incompatibilidad: 1991-2011 – y Una Pistola Humeante de Novell
12.22.10 The Open Invention Network Upsets Microsoft, Grows Bigger
12.23.10 EN/ES: Microsoft’s OS/2 Attack Plan
12.25.10 ES: Alex Brown: El ‘Joe Lieberman’ de Microsoft
12.25.10 Alex Brown: The ‘Joe Lieberman’ of Microsoft
12.27.10 Novell Being Bribed by Microsoft to Support OOXML is Not News
12.27.10 Thumbs Up to Linux Phones for Rejecting Apple-esque Censorship
12.29.10 Microsoft Sued for the Double-Dipping Vista 7 Trick (Class Action)
01.03.11 Raw Interview With Linux Format Magazine
01.04.11 ES: Entrevista Exclusiva con la Revista Linux Format
01.04.11 As India Picks ODF, Novell-Microsoft Influence in LibreOffice Raises Questions (the Unfortunate ‘Go-OO Factor’)
01.07.11 Microsoft Rebrands and Leans on Facebook While Goldman Sachs Enters the Scene
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
01.18.11 Groklaw on Apple Patents
01.20.11 Australia Flooded by Microsoft Lock-in
01.21.11 ES: Australia Inundada por Microsoft Lock-In*
01.21.11 OOXML a Descent Into Dark Ages in Today’s Age of Collaboration
01.21.11 In Defence of OIN and Android
01.24.11 Andrea Di Maio Reveals What’s Broken in Gartner’s Operations
01.26.11 Proprietary Leadership Over Free/Libre and Open Source Projects
01.27.11 Xandros Server is Allegedly Dead
01.28.11 Patents Roundup: Coverage From the United States, China, Vietnam, South Pacific, and Europe
02.04.11 OpenSUSE is Just Tumbleweed Now
02.05.11 Microsoft Disruptors Versus Linux Smartphones Domination
02.06.11 FOSDEM 2011: Infiltration by Microsoft Photographed
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 If Microsoft Speaks for Patent ‘Reform’, for FOSS, and for Small Businesses
02.09.11 Copyright and Patent Battles Against Linux Carry on (the Usual Suspects)
02.09.11 New Zealand and Europe Should Both Actively Fight Against Software Patents
02.11.11 ES: Nueva Zelanda y Europa Deben Luchar Juntos Activamente Contra las Patentes de Software
02.16.11 Class Action Lawsuit Against Novell/AttachMSFT and Other Faux Novell News
02.16.11 Stephen Norris Comes Back as SCO Dodges Another Bankruptcy Hearing
02.17.11 MSBBC Cracked, Canadian Government Cracked, Microsoft Blames Users, and .NET-based Aviation System Crashes
02.20.11 Microsoft is Still Lying About the Numbers of Vulnerabilities
02.21.11 Due to Novell, Microsoft Still Profits From the London Stock Exchange and From Watson in ‘Jeopardy!’
02.22.11 Microsoft is Polluting the Codec and Mobile Space With Software Patents
02.23.11 ES: Microsoft Està Contaminando El Espacio Codec y Móvil Con Las Patentes de Software
02.25.11 Microsoft Staff is on the Ejection Seat (or on Slow Boat to China)
03.03.11 Microsoft is Still Fueling Anti-Linux ‘IP’ Wars Using Other Companies (SCO, Novell, Maybe Nokia)
03.13.11 ES: Una Breve Historia de Microsoft FUD
03.15.11 Everything Goes Wrong for Microsoft
03.22.11 Microsoft is Suing/Extorting Android From Other Directions Too (E.g. Traul Allen, Apparently Nathan Myhrvold)
03.23.11 ‘New’ Leaked E-mails from Microsoft Show How Microsoft Brands ‘PCs’ Windows
03.31.11 Software Freedom Perspective: 2006-2011
04.01.11 Software Patents FUD a Sign That Microsoft is Losing, Linux is Winning
04.02.11 ES: Perspectiva de la Libertad del Software: 2006-2011
04.04.11 Advice to Google: Stop Organising Patent Offices
04.06.11 ES: La Campaña de FUD (Miedo Incertidumbre y Duda) Muestra que Microsoft Está Perdiendo, Linux Está ganando
04.11.11 Groklaw Defamed by Microsoft Boosters as Pamela Jones Steps Down Victorious
04.12.11 What Techrights Really is and How to Help Techrights
04.12.11 ES: ¿Qué Es Techrights Realmente y Cómo Ayudar a Techrights?
04.16.11 How Microsoft Florian ‘Cooks’ Spin
04.16.11 Articles of ZDNet UK
04.18.11 OpenDocument Format in Indonesia and OOXML in Court
04.19.11 ES: ¿Cómo Microsoft Florian Cocina ‘Spin’?
04.19.11 ZDNet Censors Comments Editors Disagree With
04.20.11 Lies About SCO
04.22.11 SCO’s Strategic Consultant Mike Anderer Foresaw Microsoft-Organised Patent Lawsuits Against Linux (Through Small Companies)
04.22.11 ES: El Presidente de la OSI: Microsoft Florian Está Diciendo Insensateces (Acerca de las CPTLN/patentes entre Microsoft y Novell)
05.04.11 Apple Now Worth Almost Twice as Much as Microsoft
05.08.11 Novell by Any Other Name
05.08.11 ES: ¿Por Qué estamos en Desacuerdo con el Punto de Vista del Intercambio de Patentes?
05.20.11 SUSE’s Future Explained: Less Mono, Hopefully More Rebuttals to SCO (Whose Employees End up in Microsoft)
05.22.11 Eric Doyle: Novell’s Bright Hopes for SUSE Failed to Shine
05.23.11 The Elephant in the Patents Room
05.24.11 Doubts About the Future of Open Source Under Attachmate
05.25.11 Funding Behind Xamarin is Microsoft MVP Miguel de Icaza; Fresh Concerns About Attachmate
05.25.11 Why We Disagree With Peer to Patent’s Approach
05.26.11 Microsoft Skype is Collapsing While Ballmer is Pressured to Resign and More People Flee
05.31.11 Linus Torvalds Reiterates His Hatred of Software Patents
06.07.11 OpenSUSE Stuck (Progress Report About the Project)
06.07.11 Reader’s Thoughts: The Linux/UNIX and ARM World
06.07.11 Microsoft Has Internal Problems as Developers and Executives Rebel
06.08.11 New Reality Distortion, Same Florian Müller for Taxing Linux
06.10.11 Nokia Crushed by Microsoft While Windows Mobile Dies. Is Skype Next?
06.13.11 IDG Blames Carriers Amid Strategic Shift at Microsoft: Don’t Sell Windows Phones, Tax Linux Instead
06.14.11 Microsoft’s Plan of Taxing Linux Using Nokia
06.16.11 New Zealand Open Source Society Beats Microsoft’s Software Patent
06.17.11 ES: La Sociedad Neozelandesa de Código Libre/Abierto Golpea Las Patentes de Software de Microsoft
06.17.11 Mitch Lemons and Other Novellers Leave the Company
06.18.11 ES: El Plan de Microsoft de Hacer Linux Pagar Tributo Utilizando las Patentes de Nokia
06.20.11 Lobbyists Against GNU/Linux Increasingly Use Patents as Weapons
06.23.11 The Linux Foundation Needs a Rethink About Software Patents Stance (Currently Represents Multinationals, Not GNU/Linux Users/Developers)
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
07.02.11 Microsoft and Apple Form Another Cartel to Allegedly Attack Linux (With Nortel Patents)
07.10.11 Head of the USPTO is Confused, Defends Software Patents and Patent Trolls
07.10.11 United Kingdom Might Need to Stop Unfair Procurement in the Public Sector
07.12.11 Why We Need to Pressure Google Into Putting an End to Software Patents
07.14.11 Android/Linux FUD is Calming Down, Microsoft Sympathisers Fantasise About Patents as Cash Cow
07.15.11 ES: La FUD Contra Android/Linux Se Está Calmando, Los Simpatizantes de Microsoft Fantasean a Propósito de Patentes Como Vaca de Efectivo
07.16.11 USPTO Drives American Software Developers Away to Other Countries
07.18.11 Concerns About GNU and the FSF
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
07.25.11 100,000,000 Reasons to Boycott SUSE
07.25.11 Mainstream Press is Turning Against Software Patents
07.25.11 GroupWise Abandonment Continues
07.28.11 The Same Old Microsoft at OSCON
07.30.11 Weekend Links 2011/07/30 – Amazing New OLPC and Patent Insanity
08.08.11 Google Validates Techrights’ Assertion That Microsoft and Apple Are Part of a Cartel Against Linux
08.12.11 Global Dimming for the Cult of Patents
08.12.11 Peer to Patent in the UK Does Not Help the Ending of Software Patents
08.14.11 Tablets, Phones, Linux, and Android Are Dragged Into Patent Mayhem by Microsoft, Apple, and Their Allies
08.16.11 Despite Google’s Validation of Patents, the Fight Against Software Patents Carries On
08.17.11 A Demise of the Patent Plot Against Linux
08.21.11 Misconception: The Problem With the US Patent System is Just Patent Trolls and/or Just Software Patents
08.22.11 Links – Addiction Redefined, Microsoft Florian and Barbarous Trump.
08.24.11 HP Falls Like a Rock and Microsoft Rejoices Amid Decline of HP’s Linux
08.25.11 Despite Malicious Lobbying and Legal Attacks, Linux and Android Are Winning
08.26.11 Microsoft/Novell Software Patents Strategy Failed to Submerge Red Hat, Patent Trolls Do the Job Better
08.31.11 July 2011 Interview With Muktware
08.31.11 GNU/Linux is Secure From Copyright Slander, But Not From Patent Extortion
09.02.11 Anti-Smartphones Patent Troll Equipped With 2,000 Microsoft-led Nokia Patents
09.05.11 As Attachmate Distances Itself From SUSE, Commitment to UNIX Copyrights Doubted
09.05.11 What We Learn From Novell’s Patents
09.07.11 Cablegate: Microsoft Uses Drug Addicts in Ski Lanka to Spread Microsoft, Liaises with American Chamber of Commerce to Change Laws (Updated)
09.08.11 Cablegate: Former Microsoft Lawyer Thomas Barnett and Majoras Butt Heads With EU Commission Over Microsoft Case
09.09.11 Cablegate: “42 Percent of Argentine Firms Use Linux on at Least Some of Their Computers”
09.09.11 Cablegate: US Diplomats and Microsoft Fight GNU/Linux in Venezuela, Insist Open Source is Not Commercial, Label Advocates ‘Conspiracy Theorists’
09.09.11 Cablegate: US Diplomats Offer to Help Microsoft Dodge European Regulators
09.10.11 Cablegate Makes Considerable Difference in IT
09.14.11 Cablegate: Apple Takes a Bite of Fake Viagra Experts
09.15.11 Cablegate: Bill Gates Belittles the World
09.16.11 Patent Systems: So Inherently Corrupt That They Must be Kept Secret From the Public
09.16.11 SAP Offers Lip Service to Red Hat But Continues to Pay Microsoft for GNU/Linux, Thanks to SUSE
09.16.11 Improper Conduct Identified as Cause for Disappointing Acceptance of FOSS in EU Authorities
09.18.11 Antitrust Probe Over Microsoft’s Feeding of Patent Trolls to Attack Linux (Android) in Court
09.19.11 USPTO’s Violation of the First Amendment, Competition Laws, and Spirit of Creation
09.20.11 Techrights and Microsoft
09.21.11 Links – Microsoft Boot Malice, TH Kicked to the Curb
09.24.11 With Failure to Reform USPTO, Grim Future for Patent Systems Worldwide
09.27.11 GroupWise is Doomed
09.30.11 Microsoft Systematically Corrupts the Media
10.04.11 Links Gates and Allen Corruption, $35 Indian Tablet
10.09.11 Links – Brazil Defies ACTA, Creeping Biometrics Use
10.09.11 Steve Jobs’ Aggressive Legacy and Microsoft Boosters Continue to Haunt Linux Phones
10.12.11 Microsoft Attacks GNU/Linux to Enslave Poor Children
10.14.11 Microsoft Extorts Linux Again, Its Troll Intellectual Ventures Suggested for Antitrust Intervention
10.25.11 Microsoft Throws More Lobbyists Into the Ring to Ban Linux Phones
10.28.11 Apple Lost Respect
10.31.11 Shocker: Man With First Software Patent Defends Software Patents
11.03.11 Linus Torvalds Thinks Microsoft Going To Court is a Sign That Its Business is Dying
11.06.11 Links – Education update, Anti-Trust and Privacy
11.07.11 Novell Gives up on Partner Satisfaction
11.07.11 Patents Roundup: Microsoft’s New Patent Deal, Apple Lawsuits, Lodsys, US Backlash Against Software Patents, and More
11.10.11 As Microsoft Extortion Continues, Submission Filed to the Department of Justice for Patent Abuse
11.14.11 Links – Anti-Trust and US Parasite Laws.
11.17.11 Quitting the Pretence – Part of Microsoft is Just a Patent Troll
11.23.11 Potentially the Beginning of the End of Microsoft’s Patent Extortion
11.28.11 More Novell Staff is Leaving as Novell Products Get Ditched by Customers
11.28.11 Attachmate Does Not Promote Novell Products
11.29.11 ‘Pulling an ACTA’ to Legalise Software Patents in Europe
12.06.11 CarrierIQ Exposes the Flaws of “Best Tool for the Job” Pragmatism
12.12.11 The Non Free Future of Windows
12.14.11 Open Washing the Tivoization of Windows
12.14.11 SUSE in Clouds, OpenSUSE in Marketing Mode
12.26.11 Microsoft May Soon Drop to Fourth Position Among Tech Companies
12.27.11 The Exodus of Novell Executives and Life After Novell
12.27.11 Novell Products Dumped Quickly
12.28.11 Cablegate: US Government Talks About Providing Free Software that Helps Chinese Netizens Overcome Filters
12.28.11 Links – Microsoft, Big Publishers in decline, and Fools keep pushing for SOPA.
12.28.11 EPO and Other Lawyers-dominated Circles Push for Software Patenting
12.30.11 Cablegate: Business Software Alliance (BSA) Pretends to Speak for Open Source, MPA Creates Imaginary Links to Crime
01.04.12 Starting 2012 With Patent Extortion and Litigation
01.06.12 In the Age of Defective Patent Systems, Google Receives Patents to Defend Android From Lawsuits
01.10.12 Updates on Microsoft/Nokia and Apple Patent Wars on Linux
01.11.12 Linux/Android Still Faces Proxy Challenge
01.16.12 CPTN (Microsoft, Apple, Oracle) Attack on Android Faces New Setbacks
01.18.12 Microsoft’s Patent Extortion Against Android Has Microsoft Called a Patent Troll
01.18.12 2012: Post-Novell Careers and Moves
01.18.12 Xamarin and Mono Out of the Radar’s Range
01.23.12 Patents Roundup: Windows Declining, Microsoft and Apple Attack Linux
01.24.12 New Disinformation From Patent Lawyers and Microsoft Lobbyists
01.24.12 Apple is Sued for Anti-competitive Practices; The Court Sees Patent Lawsuits/Actions by Proxy
01.27.12 Android Gains Upper Hand in Battle to Defend Android, Microsoft Lobbyists Still Spin the Subject
02.01.12 Greg Kroah-Hartman Exits SUSE
02.01.12 When Lawyers Run the System It Becomes Dependent on Them
02.14.12 Apple May Have High Market Cap, But Linux is Far Ahead
02.17.12 SUSE — Like SCO — Cannot Compete Anymore
02.27.12 Apple’s Lawsuits Against Free Software Show Hypocrisy
02.29.12 Shades of SCO in New Litigation and Microsoft Aggression
03.05.12 Links – Censorship, Email and Anti-Science
03.05.12 Patents Roundup: Hype, Critics, and Threat to Linux/Android
03.07.12 Apple Wants ‘Linux Tax’, OIN Still Unable to Do Much
03.08.12 Patents Roundup: Android, FRAND, and Patent Hype
03.13.12 Apple Likes to ‘Steal’ Stuff
03.19.12 Software Patents Slammed; Microsoft Brought Up in Lodsys Case
04.01.12 SUSE POS is Repackaged Red Hat, Largely Ignored by the Press
04.02.12 Auctioning Patent Weapons That Attack the Public and Are Funded by the Public
04.07.12 The Problem With Software Patents in the United States
04.17.12 Microsoft is Attacking Free Software and Standards in the UK, Behind Closed Doors
04.20.12 Links – CISPA = (SOPA + US PAT RIOT ACT)**3 Privacy and Censorship Round Up
04.20.12 Linux Device for Retro Games, Raspberry Pi Pre-orders @ 350,000
05.12.12 Did Microsoft Buy FUD From Barnes and Noble? Did Microsoft Simply Pay a Bribe? If So, Is That Legal?
06.02.12 Collusion, Conspiracy and Patent Crimes From Microsoft Against Linux
06.08.12 Oracle Starts Fighting a Good Fight, Should Drop Case Against Android
06.19.12 Red Hat Fails to Convince That UEFI is Tolerable, Uses ‘Security’ as Talking Point
06.26.12 Charles-H. Schulz Speaks About Mandriva, Openoffice.org, and LibreOffice
06.29.12 MOSAID Apparently Extorts Linux, Red Hat Embraces Secrecy Again
07.31.12 Apple Increasingly Relevant to the War on Software Patents and Linux Domination
08.06.12 TechBytes Episode 74: Charles-H. Schulz on ODF, OOXML, and LibreOffice
08.13.12 Bill Gates is Openly Promoting Patent Trolls Which Attack Linux
08.15.12 Microsoft Needed 5 Years to Implement Its Own OOXML Pseudo ‘Standard’
09.27.12 Europe and New Zealand Share a Software Patents Problem As Such
10.09.12 Contact European Parliament Members Today to Stop Software Patents
10.21.12 Patent Debates After the Apple Debacle
10.24.12 Apple Attacks on Android (and Linux) Continue to Summon Patent Nemesis
10.26.12 Patent System Needs a Rethink, Apple Continues to Harm the Whole Industry
10.31.12 Linux Heavyweights Speak Out Against Patents
11.05.12 FRAND Trials in the US Kept Secret
11.18.12 Bogus Correlations for Disinformation on Software Patents
11.22.12 Techrights IRC Software, Free (Libre) Software, and Software Perspective
11.22.12 Culture of Litigation Versus Business, Innovation, and Production
11.23.12 USPTO and SCOTUS Abducted by Corporations
11.28.12 David Kappos Quits, USPTO is Headless
11.29.12 David Kappos Leaves as He Loses the Debate and Software Patents Lose Legitimacy Among Public Figures
12.04.12 SCOTUS Can Show Support for Public Interests by Stopping USPTO’s Systemic Corruption
12.10.12 Microsoft is Back to FUD Wars Against Linux, Forgetting to Hide Behind Proxies
12.11.12 USPTO Sued as the System Collapses Under the Weight of Trolls, Monopolists, and Lawyers/Politicians
12.13.12 Stop Fighting Software Patents the Way Lawyers Say We Should
12.16.12 The Aftermath of ‘Unitary’ Patent
12.31.12 USPTO is Broken, Evidence is Abundant
01.01.13 Groups of Lawyers Will Not Solve the Patent Problem
02.19.13 USPTO a Driver of Patent Trolls, Drives Innovation and Sharing Out of the US
02.25.13 OIN Going After Unpaid Staff to Help Legitimise Software Patenting
02.26.13 Latest Articles About Software Patents
02.26.13 Uniloc is a Nasty Patent Troll and It Attacks Android/Linux Developers (Updated)
03.02.13 New Complaints About the US Patent System and Another Upcoming Reform
03.05.13 Microsoft Florian Goes Ad Hominem in AstroTurf Against Android, Oracle and Microsoft Help Apple Attack Google
03.08.13 Microsoft Acknowledges That Windows, the Common Carrier, is Falling Behind
03.11.13 Groklaw’s Good Suggestions for the USPTO, China Follows USPTO’s Mistake
03.16.13 Microsoft Control Over Users
03.28.13 Microsoft Continues to Hammer on Linux and Android With Copyright and Patent Proxies
03.29.13 Software Patents: Incompatible With and Antithetical to GNU/Linux
04.06.13 Missing the Real Problem With Patents in the United States
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
04.11.13 Vista 8 is Killing Windows/Microsoft and Killing the Desktops Industry, Which Turns Attention to Linux on Other Form Factors
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
05.04.13 Software Patents Are Core Issue, But New Obsession Names Just Patent Trolls as the Issue
05.06.13 Press Continues to Focus on Patent Trolls Rather Than Patent Scope and Software Patents
05.07.13 When GNU/Linux Backers Can’t Tell the USPTO That It’s Broken, Software Patents Illegitimate
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
05.26.13 Copyrights and Patents for Competitive Manipulation by Proxy
05.27.13 ‘Defensive’ Software Patents Useless Against Patent Trolls
05.27.13 With Xbox, Microsoft Helps Spy on Living Rooms, Not Just Personal Space Through Webcam/Microphone (Skype)
05.28.13 US Congress Should Stop Targeting Symptoms and Instead Tackle the Real Problem, Patent Scope
06.01.13 More Government Targeting of Patent Trolls, Not Patent Scope
06.13.13 Microsoft Talking Points Planted by Microsoft Staff in the Geek Press
06.14.13 As the Battle to Legitimise Software Patents in New Zealand and Europe Carries on, New Systemic Corruption Found
06.19.13 White House Should Identify USPTO as the Problem, Not Patent Trolls
06.23.13 Kindly Remind President Obama to Shut Down (Potentially Mass-Arresting) Massive Trolls Like Intellectual Ventures and End Software Patents
06.27.13 Insulting GNU/Linux and Free Software, Courtesy of Microsoft Moles
07.01.13 Software Patents and the FTC’s Red Herring
07.11.13 Free Software a Primary Litigation Target
07.20.13 Microsoft Collusion With the NSA Shows the Harms of Monopoly: No Perceived Threat in Hurting Users
07.26.13 Why People Should Never Rely on Microsoft for GNU/Linux and Java
08.01.13 Microsoft is Trying to Occupy South Africa’s Computing Infrastructure in Schools
08.16.13 Using Blackberry Patents Against Android/Linux Not a Far-Fetched Strategy in the Nation of Software Patents
08.17.13 Reminder of Patent Lawsuits From Proxy Entities
08.19.13 Microsoft + Oracle = NSA Surveillance (e.g. Espionage) on Servers
08.20.13 Actions of US Government Shut Down Groklaw Pre-emptively; Observing the US’ Sanctions Economy and the Danger of Expansion to Europe
08.22.13 NSA Back Doors Get Microsoft Windows Excluded From Procurement in Germany
08.22.13 Techrights Scope Expansion
08.24.13 The NSA ‘Violates’ Society Worldwide, But We Need to Fight It, Not Surrender to It
09.23.13 SUSE Drops LibreOffice Backing
09.24.13 Degree of Freedom — Not Wealth — Should be Measure of GNU/Linux Success
10.18.13 Red Hat Roundup: Claims That OpenStack is on the Rise, New Partnerships, Releases, and More
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 The World According to Forrester’s Clients: Bashing Apache OpenOffice and LibreOffice
10.24.13 Free Software/Open Source-Related Links for September-October 2013
10.28.13 Political Dissent is ‘Terrorism’ Now
11.07.13 The “Year of the Linux Desktop” Predicted in the Corporate Press
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
11.19.13 GNU/Linux News Sites in 2014
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 Privacy Watch: Almost 100 New Links About Privacy
11.26.13 People’s Voice in the Linux Foundation
12.03.13 Apple and Microsoft Claim Patent Tax on GNU/Linux, Red Hat’s Response Too Weak
12.05.13 A Western Assault on GNU/Linux Security and Privacy
12.16.13 NSA Roundup: Latest News in a Nutshell
12.18.13 Governments Increasingly Leaning Towards Free Software in the Wake of NSA Scandals and Economic Pressures
12.19.13 Yes, Chrome OS is a GNU/Linux Distribution and Google is Still Worth Supporting
12.22.13 USPTO to be Partly Headed by Google Executive
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
01.02.14 OpenStack Follows the Trajectory of GNU/Linux, Joined Into Linux Protection Programme
01.10.14 Corporate Press is Burying LibreOffice and OpenOffice.org, States Exclude Them
01.13.14 Patents Roundup: Bogus Solution to the Problem FOSS Faces and More Litigation via Proxies
01.14.14 Indebted to Fedora, the GNU/Linux Factory
01.22.14 Today’s News About Surveillance and Assassinations by Drone Strikes
01.27.14 Apple is Rapidly Losing the Smartphones Market, But Don’t Cheer for Samsung
01.29.14 East Asia is Taking Over More Parts of the Computer Industry, Bringing GNU/Linux to the Top
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
02.10.14 Techrights Joins ‘The Day We Fight Back’
02.11.14 Recent News About GNU/Linux on Servers
02.11.14 New Articles About GNU/Linux Success on Desktops
02.12.14 Skynet Watch: From Targeting Terrorists to Targeting Protesters and From Foreign to Domestic
02.14.14 Installing GNU/Linux is Still Hard Due to UEFI
02.15.14 Microsoft-Bribed Ben Edelman Behind Latest Smear Against Android/Linux
02.16.14 Programming News Picks: Focus on Free Software
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
02.21.14 ‘Cloud’ Watch: ownCloud, CloudStack, OpenStack, Hadoop and More
02.21.14 In Another Attempt to Derail British ODF Policy Microsoft Calls Its Systematic Bribery “Internationally Recognised”
02.25.14 Abuses of Rights: News About Surveillance, Torture, and Assassination
02.25.14 Response to ODF as Government Standard Proposal
03.03.14 The Continued Occupation of US ‘Trade’ by Microsoft- and Monopolies-backed Entities Like BSA
03.03.14 Embedded Linux News Roundup
03.05.14 An Android World: Limitless Expansion in Tablets, Smaller Devices, and New Hardware
03.07.14 Red Hat Joins the Joke Which is Amazon’s ‘Secure’ Federal ‘Cloud’
03.11.14 LibreOffice Stories: Birthday, New Release (4.2), Web Site, TDF Board
03.11.14 OpenStack Advocacy and Promotion (Especially From Red Hat) and Other Stack Initiatives
03.16.14 Watching Abuses of Power: Police, Secret Agencies, Militarism, Surveillance, and Censorship
03.17.14 Yahoo’s PR Makeover Might Be Precursor of Real Change
03.24.14 Thou Shalt Not ‘Disparage’: How Apple and Microsoft Really Work
03.25.14 Digitised Oppression: Censorship, Surveillance, Cracking, Drones, and More
03.25.14 OpenDocument Format Celebrated Tomorrow
03.26.14 Amended Comment Regarding ODF as Document Standard in the UK
03.30.14 Links: Civil Rights Abuses, Secrecy, Surveillance and Assassination Without Oversight
04.02.14 Occupied by Lawyers It Hired, Google Now Reportedly Promotes Software Patents
04.07.14 Links: Privacy Erosion and Other Technological Erosions of Rights
04.11.14 FOSS News: Latest Developments and Breakthroughs
04.14.14 Server News: KVM, ElasticHosts, Other GNU/Linux Items, and Open Network Linux
05.03.14 The Debate About Software Patents is Still Dead Because Large Corporations Killed It
05.07.14 Apple’s Patent Plot a Failure, But It Still Hurts Free/Libre Software
05.13.14 David Kappos Fatally Killed Quality at the USPTO and Killed Fairness in Industries as a Result
06.12.14 Apple Hopes to Enjoy Inherent Corruption in the Patent System and the Legal System
06.14.14 HP’s Former Open Source Leader Helps Expose HP as a Fraud on ‘Open Source’ Issues, Reveals Microsoft’s Role in SCO’s Attack
06.15.14 Openwashing With Patent Pledge Nonsense: Tesla Merely Gives Back What it Took Away
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 The USPTO is the Monopolies Industrial Complex and It Should be Put Under Control or Rebooted
06.29.14 Arguments Persist Over Whether Software Patents Died in the US Whilst European Patent Law is Quietly Assimilated to US
07.03.14 Symptoms of Injustice: Biggest Software Patents Proponent, CAFC, Superseding Supreme Court Decisions on Patents
07.07.14 Despite SCOTUS Ruling, Microsoft Still Extorts Companies and Product Buyers Using FAT Software Patents, Latest Victim is Canon
07.07.14 The NSA’s Top (and First) PRISM Partner, Microsoft, Lies to Governments and Businesses as Office Gets Banned in China
07.07.14 Microsoft’s Propaganda Machine Tries to Shift Security Debate Amid Serious Catastrophes
07.14.14 White House Backs Away From Appointing Patents Zealot to Top USPTO Position
07.16.14 Secrecy Allows British Government to be Manipulated by Microsoft for Spyware Behind Closed Doors
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
08.02.14 Microsoft Continues to Further Distort OOXML in Order to Make it Less Compatible With Non-Microsoft Software
09.03.14 Microsoft Should Not be Considered Too Big to Jail
09.29.14 More Good News About Demise of Software Patents and Along With Them, Consequently, Patent Trolls
10.20.14 Is It Google’s Turn to Head the USPTO Corporation?
11.05.14 Ridiculous Patents at the USPTO, Trolls as ‘NPEs’, and an Update on Microsoft-Connected Patent Trolls
11.13.14 Windows ‘Update’ and NSA Back Doors, Including a 19-Year Bug Door in Microsoft Windows
11.16.14 Microsoft is Going Into the Anti-Whistleblowing Business, Dodges Criticism Over 19-Year Bug Door in Windows
12.12.14 US Patent Reform (on Trolls Only) More or Less Buried or Ineffective
12.13.14 Time to Take Microsoft Out of British Aviation Before Planes Crash Into Buildings
12.19.14 ‘Good’ Software Patents From EA Show Cases Where DRM is a Patent Infringement
01.01.15 Microsoft’s Attacks on Android and GNU/Linux Not Over Yet, But They Are Definitely Failing
01.07.15 Intel is Lying to the World and the World Cooperates in Lying
01.17.15 Myths and Hype About Patents
01.29.15 Corporate Media, Led Astray by Patent Lawyers, Continues to Distort the Reality of Software Patents Post-Alice
02.14.15 Microsoft’s Latest Lock-in Strategy in Detail, Now Exploiting the Public Sector and Free Software
02.14.15 More People With Microsoft Roots Enter the Linux Foundation, Occupying Top Positions
02.20.15 Lenovo’s Superfish Scandal is Spyware on Top of Spyware (Microsoft Windows), the Problem is Inherently Proprietary Software
02.24.15 The EFF Back to Tackling Software Patents, Not Just Patent Trolls
03.21.15 Microsoft Hates Linux – Part VI – Propaganda Wars Against Free Software Facilitated While Media Control is Secured and Abused
03.22.15 Canonical Goes to Bed With Company That Sues Linux Using Software Patents and Copyrights (Through SCO)
04.08.15 The EPO is Becoming More Like the USPTO Under Benoît Battistelli’s Greed-Driven Reign
04.17.15 Microsoft’s Multi-Dimensional Assault on Android/Linux: Extortion, Lobbying of Regulators, and Bribes
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
04.24.15 Real Patent Reform Will Not Come From Biggest Backers of GNU/Linux, Not Even Google
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 When ‘Former’ Microsoft Influence Lands in Free/Open Source Software
05.22.15 Patents as a Marketing Strategy: USPTO Now Part of the Advertising Industry
06.03.15 Microsoft’s Latest Anti-Linux Strategy: Deleting Android From Android Devices
07.02.15 Microsoft India Still Lobbies and Lies About Free Software in Order to Knock Down Policy That Favours Free Software
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
07.30.15 Microsoft’s Mouthpiece Mary Branscombe Tries to Shoot Down Free Software, But Fails Miserably
08.11.15 Patents Roundup: EPO, Alicestorm, Facebook, ‘Trade’ Agreements, and Google Publicity Stunts
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
09.08.15 Free Software Establishments in India Fight Back as Efforts to Spread Software Patents Are Reported
09.24.15 Europe’s Acceptance of and Resistance to Software Patents, Courtesy of Corporate Front Groups and Courtrooms Respectively
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
10.07.15 OIN Turns 10, IDG Floods the Web With Puff Pieces That ‘Normalise’ Software Patents
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 European Pirate Party MEP Julia Reda Says TPP Will Bring Software Patents to Europe and Other Continents/Countries
10.12.15 Many New Losses for Software Patents in the US, Courtesy of Alice Case/§101
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
10.20.15 Narendra Modi Must Immediately Block Software Patents to Save India’s Software Industry
11.28.15 The Latest EPO Spin: Staff Protesters Compared to ‘Anti-Patent Campaigners’ or ‘Against UPC’
12.03.15 Impact of Software Patents and Excessive/Unregulated Profit Motives at USPTO: Now Even Common Encryption (i.e. Computer Security) Under Patent Attacks
12.05.15 Decreased Focus on Microsoft
12.14.15 The Open Invention Network and Software Patents
12.15.15 Samsung Turns to SCOTUS (Killer of Many Software Patents) to Annul Mega-fine Induced by Apple’s Patent Aggression
12.16.15 Great News: Software Patents Stopped in India, For Now…
12.20.15 Software Patents Are Being Defeated to the Detriment of Large Multinationals, Their Patent Lawyers, and Patent Trolls Who Piggyback Them
12.22.15 The Collapse of Patent Maximalism: Latest Major Setbacks for Software Patents and Patent Trolls
12.27.15 Revolving Doors of High-Level EPO Management: Jacques Michel and the Questel Deal With the EPO
01.05.16 The European Patent Office (EPO) Has Become a Propaganda Mill After the FTI Consulting Deal
01.08.16 Patent Lawyers Continue to Spin Grim News About Patents (UPC, Lawsuits Peak, Patent Raids) as Good News
01.09.16 China-US Trade Wars With Patent Raids, Confiscations, Embargoes, and Low-quality Patent Stockpiling
01.11.16 Abogados de Patentes Continua to Circular Tenebrosas Noticias Acerca de Patentes, UPC, Demandas a Granel, Ataques de Patentes Como Buenas Noticias
01.14.16 USPTO Doubled the Number of Granted Patents in Just a Few Years, Demonstrating Very Sharp Decline in Patent Quality
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 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
01.28.16 Robert L. Stoll Another Example of USPTO Patent Maximalists (Officials) Who Pretend to be Some Kind of Journalists and Advocate Software Patents
01.29.16 Robert L. Stoll Otro Ejemplo de USPTO Patent Maximalistas (Officiales) Que Pretende Ser Una Clase de Journalistas E Impulsa las Patentes de Software
02.09.16 Microsoft’s Copyrights- and Patents-Based Attacks on GNU/Linux Carry on
02.22.16 It’s Official: Death of Software Patents Reaffirmed in India
02.23.16 Es Oficial: La Muerte de las Patentes de Software Reafirmada en India.
02.29.16 The Latest Failed Push for Software Patents in India Shows That People’s Resistance Still is Effective
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
03.03.16 In the Interests of the Public, India Bans Software Patents and the USPTO Should Follow Suit
03.11.16 For Its Survival, Microsoft is Trying to Turn Into an Aggressive Patent Tax and Advertising Company, Forces Windows Users to Play Along
03.14.16 Por Su Sobrevivencia, Microsoft Se Está Convirtiéndo en Una Agresiva Compañíá de Impuestos Sobre Patentes Así Como de Advertising, Obliga a Usuarios de Windows a Moverse a Su Ritmo
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
03.18.16 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)
03.20.16 Microsoft Hijacks the AIX Trademark (an Old Tradition) and Openwashes Proprietary Minecraft
03.20.16 More Voices in the Media Against Microsoft’s Patent Aggression Against Linux, Prospects of Joining the Open Invention Network (OIN)
03.22.16 Más Voces en los Medios Contra la Agresión de Patentes de Microsoft Contra Linux, Prospectos de Unirse a la Open Invention Network (OIN)
03.24.16 Patent Maximalism (Overpatenting) Tackled in New Article by Professor Noah Smith
03.25.16 Patents Roundup: Patent Trolls Groomed by IAM, Reform Strives to Tackle Trolls, NewEgg and LOTNet Explore Alternate Solutions
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
03.27.16 El Máximalismo de Patentes (Patentar en Exceso) Abordado en un Nuevo Artículo del Profesor Noah Smith
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
03.30.16 Oracle’s Huge Claims Against Linux/Android Demonstrate the Uselessness of OIN
03.30.16 Microsoft-Backed SCO is Still Attacking Linux
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 El Horneado por Microsoft SCO Esta Todavía Atacando a Linux
04.02.16 David Kappos Lloriquea Porque La Corte Suprema Esta Cerrándo la Puerta a Varias Patentes de Software
04.02.16 Software Patents in the United States as Explored in Light of Some of the Latest Cases
04.05.16 Abolish the Supreme Court and Congressional Take on Patents, Says David Kappos, Just Listen to Mr. Kappos and Reinforce Software Patents
04.06.16 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
04.08.16 Lobbyists for Software Patents in ‘Journalism’ and ‘Reform’ Clothing (With Microsoft Connections)
04.09.16 Cabilderos por las Patentes de Software en Ropas de ‘Periodismo’ y ‘Reforma’ (con Conecciones a Microsoft)
04.09.16 Patents Roundup: US Patent System/Landscape Disqualified, Corrupted, Saturated With Patent Trolls, and Funded by Microsoft
04.11.16 Resumen de Patentes: Systema/Paisaje de Patentes de los EE.UU. Descalificado, Corrupto, Saturado Con Trolles de Patentes, y Financiado Por y Para Microsoft
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 New Software Patents From Google, Microsoft and Apple, Plus New Lobbying From David Kappos (Paid by Microsoft and Apple)
04.13.16 Patent Fights Over Reform Focus (Marginalising Small Actors), Courts (Judges) Versus Patent Offices (Large Businesses)
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 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 Nuevas Patentes de Software de Google, Microsoft y Apple, Más Cabildeo de David Kappos (Financiado por Microsoft y Apple)
04.15.16 Todo Software Es Equivalente a Pasos Mentales, Reducible a Trabajo Con Lápiz y Papel
04.16.16 Microsoft’s War on Java Shows That Microsoft’s E.E.E. (Embrace, Extend, Extinguish) Tactics Are Alive and Well
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)
04.20.16 Corporate Lobbying for Software Patents in the United States and Against Alice, Against Patent Reform
04.22.16 More Patents Don’t Mean More Innovation, Just More Money for Patent Lawyers and Patent Offices
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)
04.24.16 New Microsoft-Funded Push to Make Software Patents Stronger in the US, Backed by the Usual Suspects as Microsoft Increasingly Struggles as a Producing Company
04.26.16 ES: El Nuevo Impulso Finánciado por Microsoft Para Reforzar las Patentes de Software en los EE.UU., Apoyado por los Sospechosos Usuales (La Sagrada Familia) Mientras que Microsoft Cada Vez Más Lucha Como Compañíá Productiva
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)
04.30.16 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
05.01.16 The US Patent System: Where One Wastes Years in Court and Spends $8,000,000 in Lawyers’ Fees Fighting a Bogus Patent
05.02.16 ES: El Sistema de Patentes de los EE.UU: Donde Uno Desperdicia Años en Corte y Gasta $8,000,000 en Honorarios de Abogados Peleándo una Patente Falsa
05.02.16 Nefarious Forces for Patent Abuse and Software Patents in the United States, Australia, India, Korea, and Europe
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
05.07.16 ES: Fuerzas Viles Para el Abuso de Patentes y Patentes de Software en los EE.UU,. Australia, India, Korea, y Europe
05.10.16 Patent Policy is a Mess and It’s Not Hard to See Why
05.12.16 Large Firms Which Are Becoming Troll-Like Threaten Linux, Try to Embargo Imports
05.14.16 Rich People’s Media Fights § 101 (Against Software Patents) and PTAB Inter Partes Reviews Using Ridiculous Distortions of Statistics and Insults
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 ES: Compañías Grandes Que Se Están Convirtiéndo Trolles Amenazan a Linux, Tratan de Embargar Importaciónes
05.22.16 IP3 Demonstrates That Today’s Patent Systems Devolve Into a Conglomerates’ Game, Won’t Protect the Mythical Small Inventor
05.24.16 Windows and Microsoft’s Other ‘Burning Platforms’
05.28.16 Mishi Choudhary and Mike Masnick Explain Why India Should Reject Software Patents
05.29.16 A Mix of Patent Aggression and Sanctions/Raids (Using Controversial Patents) Against East Asian Companies
05.29.16 Patent Lawyers’ Marketing Dominates and Marginalises Meaningful Analyses of Software Patenting in the US
05.31.16 Microsoft’s Former Chief Patent Counsel Praises Elevation of Software Patents in Microsoft Case, Adds to Cherry-Picking and Lobbying by Patent Lawyers
06.06.16 The Enemy Within: How Patent Lawyers, Their Media and the Whole Patent Establishment Became an Enemy to Their Nations
06.06.16 Shelston IP and AJ Park Help Foreign Corporations Occupy Australia and New Zealand With Software Patents
06.12.16 Patent Bubbles Implode and Patents Are Passed to Trolls for ‘Monetisation’
06.14.16 Enfish Case Has Not Salvaged Software Patents in the US, Proponents of Software Patents Admit
06.28.16 New Efforts to Work Around Barriers to UPC in Light of ‘Brexit’; Behind These Efforts Are Self-Serving Patent Profiteers
07.01.16 A System in Their Back Pockets: Protecting Large Corporations in High-Profile Patent Cases
07.03.16 Grim Situation at the European Patent Office Following Battistelli’s Latest Lawlessness Tendencies, as Explained by Concerned Insiders
07.06.16 Microsoft and Its Lobbyist David Kappos (Former USPTO Director) Are Still Lobbying for Software Patents
07.13.16 The Open Invention Network Keeps Growing, But It Helps Large Corporations, Not Free/Open Source Software
07.16.16 The Importance of the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) and High-Quality Patents (Not Software Patents)
07.18.16 Large Corporations’ Software Patenting Pursuits Carry on in Spite of Patent Trolls That Threaten Small Companies the Most
07.22.16 Blockstream Has No Patents, But Pledges Not to Sue Using Patents
07.22.16 Patents Roundup: BlackBerry, Huawei, PTAB, GAO, Aggressive Universities With Patents, and Software Patents in Europe
07.26.16 Almost Everything That the Government Accountability Office Says is Applicable to the EPO
07.26.16 The Death of Software Patents and Microsoft’s Coup Against Yahoo! Made the Company Worthless
08.01.16 The USPTO’s Dark Legacy of Software Patents Still the Cause of Spurious/Frivolous Litigation, Residue Which is Software Patent Trolls and Lawyers Will Try to Change the Law
08.02.16 Software Patents a Dead End in the United States, But Some Large Companies and Trolls Can’t Help Trying (and Failing) to Float Them
08.19.16 Patents Roundup: Trolls Dominate Litigation, PTAB Crushes Patents, Patent Box Regime Persists, and OIN Explains Itself
08.25.16 Corporate Media in India Misrepresents Startups to Push for Software Patents
08.26.16 Large Corporations’ Lobbyist David Kappos Disgraces Former Employer USPTO by Meddling in Their Affairs on Software Patents, Downplaying the Supreme Court
09.01.16 British Telecom (BT) is Still a Patent Bully: Next Target is Yet Another GNU/Linux Supporter
09.02.16 The Corrupting Influence of Money in the Linux Foundation (Bias for Sale)
09.04.16 Death of Software Patents Almost Everywhere Except the Eastern District of Texas
09.05.16 Patent System in the US Must Revert Back to Original Goals or Lose Credibility
09.11.16 The Patent Microcosm is Losing the Fight Over Software Patenting and Now It Plays Dirty
09.14.16 As Expected, Misleading Coverage Regarding Software Patents in the Wake of McRO v Bandai Namco
09.18.16 After McRO v Namco Case (at CAFC) the Patent Microcosm Works Overtime to Produce Pro-Software Patents Propaganda, Smear the Supreme Court
09.22.16 Patent Law Firms, David Kappos, and IAM ‘Magazine’ Still Shelter Software Patents by Cherry-Picking and Lobbying
09.27.16 Beware the Patent Law Firms Insinuating That Software Patents Are Back Because of McRO
10.10.16 Towards the End of Software Patents in the United States
10.12.16 Software Patents Are Going Away and Their Proponents Fight Back Harder Than Before
10.25.16 Tata/TCS is Still Pushing for Software Patents in India
10.29.16 Indian Press Continues to Print Utter Lies About Software Patents and India’s Interests
10.31.16 The Insane World of Patent Maximalism and Professor Joshua Pearce’s Case for Weakening Patent Rights
11.07.16 Where the Sun Rises (Far East) and Software Patents Emanate (US) Come the Patent Trolls
11.13.16 IAM’s Interest in Patent Trolls Going Global, Capitalising on Declining Patent Quality
11.15.16 Correcting Bias in Patent Law Firms’ Articles About Software Patents, Advice to Small Businesses, and Letting Machines Generate Patents
11.22.16 Microsoft Loves Linux Patent Tax
11.27.16 Director Lee’s USPTO Managed to Drain the Swamp Filled by David Kappos and His Colleagues, But Trump Will Likely Dismiss Her Soon
12.04.16 Software Patents Continue Their Invalidation Process, But Patent Law Firms Try to Deny This in Order to Attract Misinformed (or Poorly-Informed) Clients
12.14.16 Institutional Corruption Like ‘Pay to Play’ Still Drives/Steers US Patent Law, Courtesy of Large Corporations and Their Lobbyists
12.14.16 Tough Time for Patent Trolls, Only About 1 in 5 Patent Cases Won in the United States
12.18.16 The USPTO Helps Large Businesses Crush Small Businesses
12.19.16 Software Patents in the US: The Patent Office Gives Blank Checks (Let the Courts Worry About Examination!) and the Patent Microcosm Tries to Undermine Alice, Still
12.21.16 “China” is to Watchtroll (and the Bucket of Patent Maximalists) What “Russia” is to Clinton and DNC
12.22.16 Blockchain and Bitcoin Patents Help Demonstrate How Software Patents Get Used by Giants to Crush Emerging Technologies (‘Threats’)
01.03.17 Financial Giants Will Attempt to Dominate or Control Bitcoin, Blockchain and Other Disruptive Free Software Using Software Patents
01.05.17 Watchtroll a Fake News Site in Lobbying Mode and Attack Mode Against Those Who Don’t Agree (Even PTAB and Judges)
01.06.17 India Keeps Rejecting Software Patents in Spite of Pressure From Large Foreign Multinationals
01.11.17 Patent Quality in the United States Can Only be Assessed at the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) and the Courts
01.15.17 Number of New Patent Cases in the US Fell 25% Last Year, Thanks in Part to the Demise of Software Patent Trolls
01.16.17 Independent and Untainted Web Sites About Patents Are Still Few and Rare
01.20.17 In an Age of Necessary Patent Reform and Permanent Uncertainty for Software Patents the Patent Microcosm Looks for Workarounds and Spin
01.24.17 The Ugly Face of Watchtroll: Attacking the Director of the US Patent Office, Calling on Trump to Sack Her
02.05.17 Rapid Collapse of Patent Aggressors’ Patent Strategy: Creative, Microsoft, RPX, LinkedIn, and Fitbit
02.05.17 Software Patents Are Dying, But ‘Cloudwashing’ of Patents Lets Some Slip in and Marks & Clerk Offers Bad Advice
02.07.17 The Debate About Software Patents Grew Increasingly Dishonest, Front Groups AIPLA, PhRMA and ABA Try to Restore Them
02.07.17 Patent Trolls Update: IPVALUE, Cypress, OIN, Open Patents, Blackbird, CATO and So-called ‘Efficient Infringement’
02.13.17 The Patent Trial and Appeal Board Breaks Its All-Time Records, Revealing Continued Improvement of Patent Quality
02.15.17 Center for Intellectual Property Understanding (CIPU) is a Lobby Group for Software Patents and Patent Maximalism
02.26.17 The Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) is Utilised in Fixing the US Patent System and the Patent Microcosm Loses Its Mind
02.27.17 Patent Trolls on Their Way Out in the United States and Their Way Into China, No Thanks to the Open Invention Network (OIN)
02.28.17 IAM Just Can’t Stop Pushing for Software Patents in India
03.02.17 China Adopts Software Patents and IAM ‘Magazine’ (Lobbyists) Continues to Shame India Into It
03.04.17 Using “China!” and Distortion of Data From Lex Machina, the Litigation Lobby Promotes Software Patents
03.11.17 Higher Patent Quality Guarded Even Under the Trump Administration While the EPO Goes the Other Way
03.13.17 What Appears Like News Sites or Blogs About Patents and ‘IP’ Got Polluted by Lobbying That Peddles Corporate Agenda
03.20.17 Battistelli’s EPO Copies China — Not the US — When it Comes to Patenting Software and Expanding Patent Scope
04.06.17 LexOrbis is Wrong About Software Patents
04.06.17 OSDL, OIN, Linux Foundation, PAX and the Likes of Them Dodge the Real Problem, Which is Software Patents
04.11.17 Demand/Petitions for Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) Now at an All-Time High, Demonstrating Its Growing Necessity in the United States
04.11.17 PAX Means Peace, But It’s Making Peace With Software Patents Rather Than Destroy Them
04.13.17 USPTO Director Michelle Lee is Already Reducing Litigation and Saving Lives
04.14.17 The Gradual Fall If Not Sudden Collapse of Patent Trolls Associated With Microsoft
04.16.17 An Australian Patent Troll, Global Equity Management (SA) Pty Ltd (GEMSA), is a Bully Not Just in the Patent Sense, Explains the EFF
04.16.17 Alice Decision and PTAB Are Both Constantly Under Attack From the Patent Microcosm and Its Lobbyists
04.21.17 In Spite of Lobbying and Endless Attempts by the Patent Microcosm, US Supreme Court Won’t Consider Any Software Patent Cases Anymore (in the Foreseeable Future)
04.30.17 Alice">High Courts in the United States Still Neither Grappling/Interfering With PTAB Nor Overturning Alice
05.02.17 The Patent Microcosm and Its Ludicrous New Narrative/Tale That Patent Reform is a Plot of Large Corporations
05.07.17 The Patent Microcosm’s Failed Push for Software Patents Resurgence in the US and Similar Attempts in India and China
05.14.17 OIN is Still a Distraction Unless We Want GNU/Linux to Coexist With Software Patents (Rather Than Eliminate Those)
05.14.17 3 Years After the Alice Case at the Supreme Court the Plague of Software Patents is Easier to Cope With
05.18.17 Patent Laws — and Especially Eligibility of Software Patents — Are Being Hijacked by Large Corporations and Their Front Groups
06.25.17 The US Patent Office (USPTO) Should Now be Headed by Drew Hirshfeld, a Patent Examiner Who Rose to the Top, Not a Lawyer Like Joseph Matal
06.25.17 As Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) Ramps Up Its Campaign Against Software Patent Trolls the Patent Microcosm Attacks the Messenger (EFF)
07.02.17 Professor Pamela Samuelson Debunks the Concept of ‘IP’ by Separating Copyrights From Patents and Demonstrating That Copyrights Are Sufficient for Software
07.02.17 The Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) is Under Attack From the Patent Microcosm, Which Wants It Not to Exist Anymore
07.03.17 India Has No Software Patents “Per Se” Just Like Europe Has No Software Patents “As Such”
07.05.17 Cloud Trolls Are Clouding Their Software Patents in the “Cloud Computing” Buzzword
07.16.17 Those Who Endlessly Attacked Michelle Lee Now Attack Supporters of PTAB, Not Just PTAB
07.23.17 Alice/U.S.C. § 101 is a Done Deal, Meaning Software Patents Are Effectively Dead in the US
07.26.17 The Patent Microcosm Tries to Persuade the Headless USPTO to Crush Alice
07.27.17 The USPTO Report on Section 101 is Somewhat Farcical as Input Comes From the Patent Microcosm, Not Producing Companies
07.31.17 The War on CAFC, on Alice and on Patent Reform is Getting Ugly
08.01.17 The Section 101 USPTO ‘Debate’ (for a ‘Report’) is a Bunch of Lawyers Debating Among Themselves, No Engineers/Scientists Involved
08.04.17 Software Patents Are Not Potent in Courts and Are Not Good for Marketing Purposes Either (They Cause Alienation)
08.17.17 The Patent Trial and Appeal Board Squashes Many Software Patents (Abstract) and §101 Seems Safe From Lobbying by the Patent Microcosm
08.20.17 Litigation and Patenting Versus Research and Development
09.03.17 Canada Does Not Allow ‘Classic’ Software Patents, But There Are Loopholes
09.05.17 Dominion Harbor is an Internet Troll as Well as a Patent Troll
09.06.17 “Software Patents Are Evil,” But the Patent Microcosm Keeps Attacking the US Legal System for Disallowing These
09.12.17 Patent Maximalism Duo: Watchtroll and Patently-O Now Conjoined and Mutually Referencing One Another
09.17.17 Amazon and Google Have Both Become Part of the Software Patents Problem
09.17.17 Microsoft is Promoting Software Patents in India in Another Effort to Undermine Free/Open Source Software, Microsoft-Connected Trolls Are Still Suing
09.22.17 Intellectual Ventures, GNU/Linux/Android/FOSS Patents, and the Ascent of European Patent Trolls
09.24.17 Fake News About Software Patents in the United States
09.26.17 Microsoft Brings Its GNU/Linux-Hostile Patent Scheme to China
10.08.17 Microsoft Lobbying, the EPO, and Software Patents Disguised as ‘Internet of Things’
10.15.17 Tim Heberden From the Glasshouse Advisory is Throwing Stones in a Glasshouse to Create Patent Litigation
10.15.17 Software Patents and Patent Trolls Not a Solved Issue, But the US is Getting There
10.21.17 In the United States, the Patent ‘Industry’ is a Dying Breed and China Adopts This Destructive Force
10.29.17 Large US Companies Continue to Stockpile Patents, But US Courts Have Learned to Repel Patent Maximalism
10.29.17 AIPLA, Watchtroll (the Trolls’ Lobby) and Other Pressure Groups Are Still Trying to Eliminate/Weaken PTAB and Section 101
11.07.17 Broader Acceptance in the United States That Software Patents Are Worthless, But Element Data Has Just Paid for Some
11.13.17 Microsoft: Sheltering Oneself From Patent Litigation While Passing Patents for Trolls to Attack GNU/Linux
11.14.17 Decline of Skills Level of Staff Like Examiners and Impartiality (Independence) of Judges at the EPO Should Cause Concern, Alarm
11.19.17 The Lobbyists Are Trying to Subvert US Law in Favour of Patent Predators
12.20.17 Notorious Patent Troll, Erich Spangenberg, Has a New Target
12.31.17 Michael Frakes and Melissa Wasserman Complain About Low Patent Quality While Watchtroll Lobbies to Lower It Further
01.08.18 The Patent Microcosm is Setting Up a Huge Number of Anti-§ 101 Events in an Effort to Thwart Alice and Promote Software Patents
01.13.18 Patent Troll Finjan Manages to Defend a Patent (on Appeal) and the Trolls’ Lobby is Loving It
01.16.18 Patent Trolls (Euphemised as “Public IP Companies”) Are Dying in the United States, But the Trouble Isn’t Over
01.20.18 Blockchain Patents Are a Catastrophe in the Making as Trolls and Aggressors Accumulate Them
01.21.18 Software Patents Are Still Dropping Like Flies in 2018, Thanks to Alice v CLS Bank (SCOTUS, 2014) and Section 101 (USPTO)
01.21.18 Unified Patents Says That RPX, Which Might Soon be Owned by Patent Trolls, Paid Patent Trolls Hundreds of Millions of Dollars
01.28.18 Counting Patents is Not Measuring Innovation and Checking Patents is Often Assessing Vapourware
02.01.18 Patent Sharks Hope to Regain Control of the US Patent System With Iancu Appointment Likely Just 4 Days Away
02.09.18 To Understand the Protection Racket Look Not at Microsoft But at Patent Trolls Which It Sponsors
02.11.18 Some § 101 Cases That the Patent ‘Industry’ Would Rather Not Talk (Much) About
02.11.18 The Patent Trolls’ Lobby, IAM, Does Puff Pieces for GE’s Patent Litigation Arm (Soon to Keynote IAM Event)
02.12.18 Denialists of Patent Trolls Are at It Again
02.13.18 Microsoft-Connected Patent Trolls, Xerox, and Andrei Iancu
02.14.18 Andrei Iancu Begins His USPTO Career While Former USPTO Director (and Now Paid Lobbyist) Keeps Meddling in Office Affairs
02.20.18 Replacing Patent Sharks/Trolls and the Patent Mafia With ‘Icons’ Like Thomas Edison
02.25.18 As Japan Moves Towards Reducing Patent Lawsuits and Curbing SEP Abuse Will the United States Follow Suit?
02.26.18 Hype and Buzzwords Help Disguise Software Patents in the United States, But PTAB Discards Them Regardless
03.01.18 The UPC is Dead, But Team UPC is Lying to British Politicians in an Effort to Trick Them
03.05.18 In Spite of Attempts to Water Down 35 U.S.C. § 101 and Stop PTAB, Software Patents Keep Sinking in the United States
03.10.18 Watchtroll is Back to Attacking Judges of the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) Because It Can’t Tolerate Justice
03.19.18 Patent Maximalists Keep Coming Up With New Terms and Buzzwords to Bypass the Practical Ban on Software Patents
03.22.18 Aggressive New Activities of Microsoft-Connected Patent Trolls: Finjan, Intellectual Ventures, and Dominion Harbor
03.26.18 On Media Hype, Software Patents, and 35 U.S.C. § 101 Which Annuls Both
03.27.18 More Litigation Ventures of Intellectual Ventures (Microsoft’s Patent Troll) Stopped by Unified Patents
04.01.18 Patents Roundup: Abject Lack of Proper Patent Justice and Updates From Microsoft’s Patent Trolls and Patent Strategist
04.09.18 Hype Waves Exploited by the Software Patents Lobby: Blockchain, Autonomous Driving, Artificial Intelligence, Big Data, and Wearables
04.09.18 PTAB and the Federal Circuit (CAFC) Still Rejecting and Removing Dubious Patents
04.09.18 In Just a Few Years China Became the Eastern District of Texas
04.12.18 The USPTO Has a Nepotism and Lobbying Problem That Jeopardises the Rationality of US Patent Law
04.14.18 The ‘Blockchaining’ of Software Patents (to Dodge the Rules/Guidelines) Now Coming to Europe
04.21.18 As USPTO Director, Andrei Iancu Gives Three Months for Public Comments on 35 U.S.C. § 101 (Software Patenting Impacted)
04.23.18 Patent Trolls Watch: Red River Innovations, Bradium Technologies/General Patent, and Wordlogic
04.24.18 Quick Mention: As Expected, the US Supreme Court Cements PTAB’s Role With Trump-Appointed Gorsuch Dissenting
04.28.18 New Zealand and India, Two Nations That Reject Software Patents, Are Still Besieged by Patent Law Firms
04.28.18 Patent Trolls Roundup: The Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB), Microsoft Trolls, and the Eastern District of Texas
05.02.18 How the Patent Microcosm and Patent Extremists Cover Oil States More Than a Week Later
05.05.18 Microsoft/Intellectual Ventures: Still Pairing to Tax the Entire World With Patent Lawsuits and Extortion
05.13.18 The Evil, Truly ‘Evil’ Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) and the Courts Have the Audacity to Verify/Disprove Patent Validity
05.13.18 Software Patents in the United States: It’s a Lot More Difficult, But Patent Examiners Must Watch Out for Buzzwords and Hype/Marketing
05.13.18 Alice/Section 101 is Fine Because Copyrights Already Cover Software and Patents Are Inadequate for Code
05.14.18 It Doesn’t Take a Genius to See That Microsoft Still Attacks GNU/Linux With Patents to Make Billions of Dollars in ‘Protection’ Money
05.15.18 A Google-Centric and Google-Led Patent Pool Won’t Protect GNU/Linux But Merely ‘Normalise’ Software Patents
05.19.18 A Year After TC Heartland the Patent Microcosm is Trying to ‘Dilute’ This Supreme Court’s Decision or Work Around It
05.31.18 The Open Invention Network (OIN) is Becoming an Even Greater Part of the Problem, Embracing Software Patents Through Hype
05.31.18 Software Patents Are a Dying Breed of Patents Except in China (and Maybe EPO)
05.31.18 The EPO is Demolishing European Law With Terms Like ICT, CII, AI, and 4IR
06.03.18 Watchtroll Continues to Attack Officials Who Favour Technology Over Law Firms and This Time Zoe Lofgren is the Target
06.10.18 Deception on § 101/Alice Continues, Courtesy of Firms That Are Making Money From Worthless (Bunk) Software Patents
06.11.18 Post-AIA, Post-Alice/§ 101 USPTO Still Granting Software Patents in Defiance of the (Case)Law
06.12.18 The EPO’s ‘Expert’ Georg Weber is Still Advocating Software Patents in Europe (But He Disguises Them Using Buzzwords)
06.14.18 Google Gets Told Off — Even by the Typically Supportive EFF and TechDirt — Over Patenting of Software
06.17.18 Microsoft is Still ‘Cybermobbing’ Its Competition Using Patent Trolls Such as Finjan
06.18.18 Orrin Hatch, Sponsored the Most by the Pharmaceutical Industry, Tries to Make Its Patents Immune From Scrutiny (PTAB)
06.24.18 Stronger Patents or None at All: How the Greed of Patent Law Firms and the Patent Office Contributes to Bogus Software Patents Being Amassed
06.26.18 Number of US Patent Lawsuits Was More Than 50% Higher Half a Decade Ago
06.28.18 US Patent Number 10,000,000 May be a Bogus One, as Per Alice/Section 101
07.02.18 Buzzwords and Hyped-Up Patent Cases (Like Berkheimer) Are Still Being Exploited to Promote Software Patents
07.02.18 The Corporate Media Continues to Promote Software Patents Which Are Clearly and Demonstrably Next to Worthless (Only the Lawyers Benefit)
07.04.18 Microsoft’s Patent Troll Blackmails Yet Another Microsoft Rival and Continues to Engage in Shakedown Tactics
07.08.18 Apple Has Far More to Lose Than to Gain From Patent Maximalism; Apple Needs to Fight for Patent Sanity
07.12.18 Thomas Massie and Marcy Kaptur Are Promoting the Interests of Patent Trolls and Patent Lawyers While Calling That “Innovation”
07.15.18 BT and Sonos Are Still Patent Bullies, Seeing Patents as a Backup Plan
07.15.18 ‘Blockchain’, ‘Cloud’ and Whatever Else Gets Exploited to Work Around 35 U.S.C. § 101 (or the EPC) and Patent Algorithms/Software
07.18.18 IAM is Pushing SEPs/FRAND Agenda for Patent Trolls and Monopolists That Fund IAM
07.21.18 Openet Has Been Intimidated by Amdocs Using Another Patent Infringement Lawsuit
07.21.18 The EPO (European Patent Office) Under António Campinos is Just Another Battistelli EPO; Still UPC and Software Patents Lobbying
07.24.18 Watchtroll Reaffirms Its Hatred of Science and Technology, Continues to Attack the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB)
08.05.18 The Post-TC Heartland East Texas Conundrum and the Oddity of Trials by People Who Don’t Understand the Pertinent Patents
08.05.18 Ericsson’s Wi-Fi Patent Thicket and Patent Trolls Like Sisvel Harm the Smallest Players in the Market
08.07.18 Supreme Court and Federal Circuit Precedents Might Make District Courts (Outside Texas) More Sceptical of Patents
08.08.18 Patent Maximalists — Not Reformers — Are the Biggest Threat to the Viability of the Patent System and Innovation
08.13.18 PTAB is Loathed by Patent Maximalists Because It Can Potentially Invalidate Thousands of Software Patents (More Than Courts Can Handle)
08.15.18 Open Invention Network (OIN) Member Companies Need to Become Unanimous in Opposition to Software Patents
08.28.18 Instead of Stopping Software Patent Grants the USPTO Actively ‘Advertises’ Such Patents, e.g. Patents on Cryptocurrencies
09.07.18 IAM Media Engages in Trademark Violations While Trying to Misrepresent Free/Open Source Software in Relation to Software Patents
09.09.18 Renaming Patents on Algorithms to Make Them Look and Sound Less Abstract Than They Really Are
09.13.18 Now We Have Patents on Rooms. Yes, Rooms!
09.23.18 Open Invention Network is Rendered Obsolete in the Wake of Alice and It’s Not Even Useful in Combating Microsoft’s Patent Trolls
09.30.18 Corporate Media Exploits Blockchain Hype to Promote Software Patents Painted as ‘Blockchains’
10.01.18 The USPTO is Hopeless, Unlike Patent Courts That Have Become the Target of Ridicule by the Patent ‘Industry’
10.03.18 Eric Swildens Squashes Bogus US Patent, Corporate Media’s Response Gives Room for Thought
10.04.18 Microsoft’s Patent Trolls Are Alive and Well, Seeding Destruction Among Microsoft’s Competition
10.07.18 The Era of Fake Patents (or Software Patents) is Upon Us
10.10.18 Open Invention Network is a Proponent of Software Patents — Just Like Microsoft — and Microsoft Keeps Patents It Uses to Blackmail Linux Vendors
10.17.18 Ask OIN How It Intends to Deal With Microsoft Proxies Such as Patent Trolls
10.21.18 More ‘Blockchain’ Nonsense in Pursuit of Bogus, Nonsensical Software Patents
10.21.18 MIT and the Prior Art Archive Perpetuate Existing Problems
10.30.18 Donald Trump’s Choice of Leadership for the USPTO Means That Invalid Patents Continue to be Granted Only for Law Firms to Profit
11.05.18 Blockchain Hype Exploited by the EPO and by Patent Law Firms to Wrongly Assert Free/Libre Software Can Coexist With Software Patents
11.07.18 US Litigation Office: Former Judge From the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) Leaves the Office as Another Litigator Enters as New Deputy Director
11.09.18 With Patent Trolls Like Finjan and Blackbird Tech out There, Microsoft in OIN Does Not Mean Safety
11.15.18 Ignoring and Bashing Courts: Is This the Future of Patent Offices in the West?
12.01.18 EPO Management High-Fiving Patent Propaganda Sites Like ‘Managing IP’ While Granting Illegitimate Patents on Algorithms
12.02.18 35 U.S.C. § 101 Continues to Crush Software Patents and Even Microsoft Joins ‘the Fun’
12.05.18 EPO, in Its Patent Trolls-Infested Forum, Admits It is Granting Bogus Software Patents Under the Guise of ‘Blockchain’
12.19.18 Software Patents Are Very Weak in the United States
12.22.18 Patent Attorneys Still Insult Judges Because Their Clients, Notably Patent Trolls, Hate 35 U.S.C. § 101 (and Courts Are Correctly Applying It)
12.30.18 2019 in Techrights: New Datacentre, New Focus
01.06.19 Fighting ‘True Enemies’, Not One Another
01.17.19 US Patent Lawyers Will Need to Change Profession or End up Becoming Abundantly Redundant, Unemployed
01.27.19 From Attacking to Stealing
01.27.19 Always Remember That Red Hat Also Considered Microsoft as a Buyer
01.29.19 The EPO Continues to Grant Software Patents Even Though Many European Patents Are Being Invalidated Already
02.01.19 Stupid Acquisition of the Month (or Year): Red Hat Selling Itself to the World’s Biggest Lobbying Power for Software Patents
02.14.19 “EPO Lawlessness Again”
02.17.19 Courts in Disagreement: Warning on Wrongly-Granted European Patents and the Looming Collapse of All Software Patents in Europe
03.01.19 Why Justin Simpson is Wrong About Software Patents
03.02.19 Decades of ‘Stupid’ Software Patents, Tactlessly Granted by the USPTO, Have Caused a Flood of Invalidations and Now a ‘Section 101 Day’
03.04.19 Today’s Open Invention Network is Run by Former Patent Trolls, Connected to and Backed by Microsoft
03.08.19 Patent Law Firms Are Truly (and Visibly) Panicking Over the Demise of Software Patents
03.22.19 Why the UK Intellectual Property Office (UK-IPO) Cannot Ignore Judges, Whereas the EPO Can (and Does)
03.26.19 The Linux Foundation is Not About Linux
04.01.19 Patent Trolls Destroy the European Economy Because EPO Gives Them Questionable Patents
04.03.19 The EPO Continues Granting Bogus Patents on Mathematics and Nature, But There’s Hope Over the Horizon
04.14.19 ‘Poor’ (Multi-Millionaire) Novell CEO, Who Colluded With Steve Ballmer Against GNU/Linux, is Trying to Censor Techrights
04.16.19 GNU/Linux is Being Eaten Alive by Large Corporations With Their Agenda
04.18.19 “Mention the War” (of Microsoft Against GNU/Linux)