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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)