Linux Foundation Archives
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01.22.07 Linux Foundation Formed, Novell to Interview Jim Zemlin
05.15.07 Linux Foundation Joins the Front Opposing Microsoft’s Threats
07.06.07 Support for GPLv3 Keeps Growing with Apache Foundation Co-Founder’s Nod
08.10.07 Here Come the Microsoft Apologists from the Open Source Initiative and the Linux Foundation (Updated)
08.28.07 OOXML Watch: Since Only Microsoft Partners Speak Out, The World Has Begun Voting Against Itself
10.16.07 OpenDocument Foundation Strives to Get ODF Back on Track (Updatedx2)
11.01.07 Why You Should Not Listen to the ODF Foundation — for Now
11.09.07 Personal Minddump: What Is the OpenDocument Foundation?
11.25.07 Responses to GNOME Foundation’s OOXML Statement
11.25.07 NOOOXML: GNOME Foundation in Kahoots? (Updated)
02.06.08 WHATIS: The OpenDocument Foundation
02.08.08 Mysterious New Moves in the Gates Foundation
02.20.08 Hey Amanda McPherson, the C in Comments in Not Censorship (Corrected)
03.13.08 When a Novell-funded Foundation Must be Nice to Its Fierce Rival
03.14.08 Member of the GNOME Foundation on Tomboy, Mono, GNOME
04.10.08 Linux Foundation, Please Stop Feeding the Shills
04.12.08 The Linux Foundation, OSI and the Neglected Values of Freedom
04.21.08 The Linux Foundation and Novell (Plus Microsoft)
05.06.08 Microsoft Gets Into Board of Open Source Business Foundation
06.19.08 Reader’s Take on OpenDocument Foundation and Microsoft (Updatedx3)
12.18.08 Patents Roundup: Microsoft’s Intellectual ‘Welfare’, Litigation Rising, Abuse Beyond USPTO
12.19.08 Linux Foundation Detoxicated — Slightly — from Novell Influence
12.23.08 Why is the Gates Foundation Investing in Governments?
02.18.09 More Bizarre Investments from the Gates Foundation
04.01.09 Bill Gates and the Business of Disease
04.07.09 LF Video of the Day: Last One
04.10.09 Did Novell Hijack a Linux Foundation Panel?
04.18.09 The Linux Foundation Abandons Xen After Microsoft/Windows ‘Hijacked’ It
05.05.09 Consumer Watchdog Funded by the Rose Foundation, Which is Funded by Exxon, Banks, Others…
05.20.09 Microsoft and the Linux Foundation Not “Best Friends Forever”
06.22.09 Reader’s Article: The Gates Foundation and Genetically-Modified Foods
06.29.09 Patents Roundup: OIN Addresses Patent Trolls Issue, Public Patent Foundation Video, and More
09.11.09 Linux Foundation Lashes Out at Microsoft Over Attacks on GNU/Linux
09.12.09 Why Microsoft’s CodePlex Foundation is a Promoter of Proprietary Software
09.14.09 More Thoughts About the Microsoft CodePlex Foundation: New Links
09.16.09 CodePlex Foundation Loves Software Patents and What MonoTouch Means to Microsoft
10.09.09 Bravo, Linux Foundation, for Using Ogg Theora
10.11.09 Apple’s, Microsoft’s and the Gates Foundation’s Games with Intellectual Monopolies
10.17.09 More on Gates’ Evil Foundation (GMO)
10.23.09 New Dilbert Cartoon “Picking on Bill Gates and His Foundation”
10.26.09 Gates Foundation and the Rockefeller Foundation Collaborate on Colonisation of Africa
10.28.09 How the Gates Foundation is Used to Ensure Children Become Microsoft Clients
10.30.09 Gates Foundation Accused of Faking/Fabricating Data to Advance Political Goals
12.06.09 Bill Gates, Philip Morris, and the Business of Illness
12.11.09 Gates Foundation Denies Global Warming and Strives for Global Domination
12.17.09 “Boycott Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation in China”
12.21.09 The Gates Foundation Extends Control Over Communication with Oxfam Relationship
02.15.10 Patents Roundup: IBM Helps Software Patents Spread to India and Gets Sued for Patent Violations; ELSE Joins LiMo Patent Pool
02.18.10 Steve Jobs is ‘Pulling a Gates’
02.24.10 When Microsoft Racketeering Meets Apathy
02.27.10 Head of Global Health for the Gates Foundation Has Criminal Baggage in the Pharmaceutical Cartel
03.06.10 Gates Foundation’s Head of Global Health Gags Academic Researchers With Threats, Forbes Magazine Calls Gates Vaccination “Utterly Repellent”
03.19.10 Linux is Not Against Software Patents (and Why Linus Torvalds Should Speak Up)
04.17.10 Company That Pays Microsoft for Unknown Patents in Linux Joins the Linux Foundation
05.18.10 Philanthrocapitalism
05.27.10 US State Department and the Redefining of LAMP
05.31.10 Pressure or Petition the Gates Foundation to Stop Investing in BP
06.07.10 “The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation Owns Over 7 Million Shares of BP”
07.29.10 Grameen Foundation and Microsoft Misuse the Term ‘Open Source’
08.03.10 Role of the Gates Foundation Comes Under Pressure Due to Shareholder Conflicts
08.03.10 Bill Gates’ Forced Parenthood of Africa Receives Press Backlash
08.23.10 Bill Gates Dumps His Microsoft Shares and Buys Shares Of Goldman Sachs, Monsanto, and Exxon Mobil
08.27.10 Generosity by Publicity
08.30.10 Blogger Accuses Bill Gates of Bribery
09.08.10 Latest Examples of Gates Foundation Attacking the World Under Pretense of Charity
09.10.10 Eben Moglen’s LibrePlanet 2010 Talk
09.28.10 LibreOffice is Launched, Offering Independence from Oracle
09.30.10 KDE Still Does Not Support LibreOffice
10.01.10 New Examples of Gates Foundation Proximity to Government, Big Banks, Monsanto
10.07.10 Please Tell the Open Web Foundation That It Is Not Compatible With Software Freedom
10.24.10 How Gates Foundation Censors Publications (Also on Microsoft Matters and Offences) by Bribing Them
01.01.11 .NET and Windows Presentation Foundation Abandoned by Evernote, “Multi-platform” Means Microsoft-Only
01.10.11 Bill Gates Pays Millions to AllAfrica (“Largest Electronic Distributor of African News and Information Worldwide”) to Push His Agenda
01.11.11 Blue State Digital (Now Part of WPP) Hired to Advertise and Carry Water for the Gates Foundation
01.13.11 Gates Foundation Uses Money to Increase Its Control
01.18.11 Mageia Joins the Open Invention Network (OIN) as Linux Consortia Grow
01.29.11 LibreOffice Clarifies OOXML Situation and Role of Novell’s Influence
01.31.11 Andy Updegrove on Post-Attachmate OpenSUSE
02.05.11 Novell Influence in LibreOffice Still an Apparent Problem
02.08.11 How Bill Gates Got Control of a Budget of $500 Billion Per Year (Taxpayers’ Money)
06.12.11 Painting Tax With a ‘Charity’ Brush
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)
08.24.11 Gates Monitor: April 2011 Press Distortion
09.11.11 Cablegate: Gates Foundation Sends Team to Install ‘Free’ Software in the Health Ministry
12.28.11 Bill Gates Keeps Getting Richer and Gaining More Lobbying Power
12.29.11 Max Keiser and Stacy Herbert Explain Why the Gates Foundation Does Bad Work
02.27.12 Bill Gates Funds ALEC
06.08.12 Linux Foundation Members That Pay Microsoft for Linux
11.06.12 Linux Foundation Sells Out (to Microsoft)
11.21.12 Microsoft Proves Techrights Right by Screwing UEFI ‘Partners’
09.20.13 The Linux Foundation’s Big Lie: ‘Linux’ is 22 Years Old
11.09.13 The Linux Foundation Emphasises Technical Aspects, Not Freedom
11.23.13 Android Has Real Competition Coming and It’s Linux Powered (Sailfish OS Phone Out Next Week)
11.26.13 People’s Voice in the Linux Foundation
12.09.13 Mother Jones Shows That Gates Foundation is a Hypocritical Ploy
03.06.14 Bitcoin Increasingly Adopted, Increasingly Smeared
06.05.14 Black Duck a Trojan Horse in the Linux Foundation and Elsewhere
08.19.14 Gates Foundation CFO Quits and Debate About Revolving Doors Recalled Amid Systematic and Shrewd Bribery of Public Officials
10.14.14 With .NET Foundation Affiliation Xamarin is Another Step Closer to Being Absorbed by Microsoft
11.05.14 Microsoft Coup D’état: After Paying the Apache Software Foundation and Paying Apache Man to Become Microsoft Employee He Immediately Becomes President
02.14.15 More People With Microsoft Roots Enter the Linux Foundation, Occupying Top Positions
04.27.15 Microsoft is Interjecting Itself Into GNU/Linux and Free Software News, Even Events and Foundations
07.02.15 Microsoft Gradually Embraces, Extends, Extinguishes Linux Foundation as a Foundation of GNU/Linux
01.21.16 The Linux Foundation Has Become Like a Corporate Think Tank, Microsoft Influence Included
01.30.16 Electronic Frontier Foundation Talks About Xerox Software Patents, Evoking Memories of Microsoft’s Patent Trolls and Proxies
09.02.16 The Corrupting Influence of Money in the Linux Foundation (Bias for Sale)
01.28.18 With the Heritage Foundation Getting Involved and Andrei Iancu Potentially Appointed on Monday, the Road Ahead Looks Troubling for Patents
01.10.19 The Emptiness of the Linux Foundation’s Commitment to Linux and Its True Openness… to Corporate Cash (in Exchange for Influence)
02.10.19 Jim Zemlin’s PAC Keeps Raising Money From Microsoft
03.14.19 The Linux Foundation Needs to Speak Out Against Microsoft’s Ongoing (Continued) Patent Shakedown of OEMs That Ship Linux
03.24.19 Jim Zemlin’s Linux Foundation Still Does Not Care About Linux Desktops
03.26.19 Guest Post: The Linux Foundation Needs to Define “Support”
03.26.19 The Linux Foundation is Not About Linux
03.28.19 Constructive Suggestions for the Linux Foundation
03.30.19 What Happened to the Linux Foundation?
04.05.19 Zemlin PAC: Influence for Sale, Under the Banner of ‘Linux’, at the Cost of a House
04.07.19 The Linux Foundation is Selling Tweets, Access, ‘Thank Yous’ and SPAM Services
04.20.19 The Linux Foundation Needs to Change Course Before GNU/Linux (as a Free Operating System) is Dead
11.20.06 The Free Software Foundation to Strike Back
11.27.06 Microsoft Did it Again, History Repeats Itself
12.16.06 The Free Software Foundation Needs Your Help
05.02.07 The Free Software Foundation Acknowledges Microvell’s Anti-GPLv3 Smear Campaign
06.16.07 Linux Foundation Prepares to Attack Microsoft, Which Has Much More to Worry About
06.25.07 The Free Software Foundation Explains Why Novell is off the GPLv3 Hook
09.11.07 Shuttleworth Foundation Denounces a Novell VP’s ”Superb Standard”
10.08.07 Forking, Software Patents, Format Incompatibilities, and Corporate Selfishness
10.21.07 ODF Support Confirmed by Apple, CDF Introduced by the ODF Foundation
11.26.07 Clarification: GNOME Foundation Does Not Endorse OOXML as an ISO Standard (But Cannot Oppose It, Either)
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 OpenDocument Format Has Solid Foundation in the World Wide Web
12.14.07 Professor Gerard Magliocca & Free Software Foundation Versus Software Patents
12.22.07 Novell/Microsoft Contract for OOXML Support May Still Have Influence in the GNOME Foundation
12.26.07 Jim Zemlin (Linux Foundation) on Software Patent Trolls, Samsung’s Patent Deal Revisited
04.12.08 Wipro, Infosys and TCS Under Fire for Blind, Self-serving Endorsement of Monopolisation
04.17.08 Novell Promotes an OOXML Web Equivalent on Behalf of Microsoft
08.27.08 Novell Gets Close to Linux Foundation, Microsoft Gets Closer to Novell
09.25.08 India Might Can ISO; IBM Opposition Backed by LF, Seeks Broader Crowd
10.03.08 A Question About Patents: IBM, OIN, Linux Foundation, and Novell
10.05.08 The Free Software Foundation No Longer Interested in .NET Cloning?
02.03.09 Jeff Waugh Resigned from GNOME Foundation Board
03.09.09 ‘Poor’ Warren Buffett Receives Donations… from the Gates Foundation
03.16.09 LF Video of the Day: I’m (GNU)/Linux
03.17.09 LF Video of the Day: GNU/Linux Pub
03.18.09 LF Video of the Day: GNU/Linux Metamorphosis
04.10.09 Novell and the Linux Foundation Legitimise a Microsoft Shill (IDC|IDG)
05.26.09 Gnote Gets Positive Reviews, Its Developer Runs for GNOME Foundation’s Board of Directors
07.14.09 How the Gates Foundation Helps Getting Children Addicted
07.17.09 Free Software Foundation Discourages Dependence on Mono, Dismisses Microsoft Community Promise
09.13.09 OIN Receives Thanks from Many, CodePlex Foundation Receives Thumbs-Down from Many
09.19.09 Gates Foundation Monoculture Accused of Harming World Health Organization (WHO)
09.20.09 How the Gates Foundation Privatises Africa
09.23.09 What is ‘Club SCO’ Doing Near the Linux Foundation with Novell?
09.23.09 Novell Helps Microsoft Zune and CodePlex Foundation Helps Novell
10.04.09 Microsoft Interjects Itself into Free Software Using Novell
10.11.09 OpenSUSE Adds to Novell’s Hostility Towards the Free Software Foundation
10.23.09 Free Software Foundation Daemonised for Resisting Non-Free(dom) Software
10.24.09 Gates Keepers to Keep Track of Gates Foundation
11.02.09 More Dubious Practices from the Gates Foundation
11.12.09 Can GNOME 3.0 Avoid Mono Despite GNOME Foundation Director Being Novell Employee?
11.20.09 O’Reilly and Microsoft Abandon Web Standards, ‘Open’ Web Foundation (OWF) Wants Them Redefined
11.29.09 Gates Foundation Looking to Destroy Kenya with Intellectual Monopolies
12.10.09 Richard Stallman on GNOME Code of Conduct and Foundation Membership
12.12.09 Gates Foundation Funds Literature Supportive of Its Objectives
12.16.09 Gates Foundation Funds Blogs to Promote Its Party Line
12.29.09 Seattle-based PCC Natural Markets Slams the Gates Foundation for Its Monsanto Agenda
01.30.10 Mainstream Press Misses Billions of Dollars Bill Gates Earns in Africa (Gates Foundation as Monsanto Front)
02.06.10 Frederick Kaufman on the Gates Foundation’s Monsanto Venture; 100,000 Indians to Protest by Fasting
02.24.10 Gates Foundation is ‘Planting’ Stories in the Press and Called “World-wide Killing Machine” by CRS
03.12.10 Microsoft MVP Miguel de Icaza Leaves CodePlex Foundation Board
03.15.10 Apple’s and Microsoft’s Patent Attacks and Why the Linux Foundation’s Response Disappoints
03.16.10 Mono Influence Increases in the GNOME Foundation
03.17.10 Microsoft — Like Gates Foundation — Still Uses Own ‘Studies’ for PR and Lobbying Purposes
03.22.10 Gates Foundation Roundup: (Mis)Education With Spin; GAVI, Pfizer, Merck, and the African Ventures
03.28.10 Gates Foundation Roundup: Schools, Vaccines Monopoly, and “Fatally Flawed” Studies
04.07.10 Novell Dominates Almost a Third of GNOME Foundation Board, Including the Director
04.12.10 Gates Foundation Pays for Press Coverage of Its Work, Involved in Fatal Vaccination Disaster in India (With Merck), Collaborates With World’s Largest Patent Troll (IV)
04.12.10 How the Gates Foundation Blocks GNU/Linux and Free Software in National Libraries, Then Inherits Education
04.19.10 How the Gates Foundation Makes People “Addicted” to Microsoft
04.19.10 Gates Foundation Retreats After Being Exposed as Funder of Big Tobacco
04.19.10 Monsanto Plants Its Lies in the Gates Foundation-funded NPR
04.19.10 The Gates Foundation May Have Silenced Competing Research Ahead of New Gates Foundation-Funded ‘Study’; Gates Connected to Novartis
04.27.10 Gates Foundation Increases Polio and Tobacco Risk While Pretending to Do the Opposite
04.27.10 Gates Foundation (and Microsoft) Take the Libraries Takeover Global
05.06.10 Free Software Foundation Europe Likens Apple/Microsoft Behaviour to Blackmail
05.24.10 Firms Behind Microsoft Bribes Involved in Gates Foundation PR, Prodding and Misinforming the Press
05.24.10 The Gates Foundation Nearly Doubles Its Investment in Walmart, Also Invests in McDonald’s and GMO
05.31.10 Gates Foundation Criticised Again for Monopolising Research
06.07.10 The Gates Foundation-Connected GlaxoSmithKline Indirectly Paid Scientists to Exaggerate Vaccine Needs
06.13.10 Gates Foundation is Policing Its Message Using Viewchange.org — to Guard Against Critics
06.14.10 Big Financial Link Between Fraunhofer and Microsoft: The Gates Foundation
06.14.10 Microsoft and the Gates Foundation Inherit More Roles of the US Department of Education
06.21.10 Gates Foundation Hires More Advertising Agencies to Spin its Work in the Press; Gates Grantees Are Complaining, Finds Survey
06.21.10 Gates Foundation Keeps Increasing Investments in BP, Super-Patent Troll Nathan Myhrvold Joins the Feast
06.24.10 OpenSUSE May Distance Itself From Novell/Microsoft ‘Linux Tax’
06.28.10 Gates Foundation Helps Bring Coca-Cola and Monsanto (GMO) to Africa
06.30.10 The Gates Foundation May Be Turning School Teachers Into State-funded PR Agents
07.02.10 Quote of the Day: “Gates Foundation Still Giving Windows Away for Free”
07.06.10 Gates Foundation Still Sponsors Blogs That Praise Its Work, Lobbies Governments, Takes Over School Districts
07.20.10 Microsoft’s CodePlex Foundation Expresses Views on Free Software
07.21.10 Links: Apache Software Foundation Board Members, Mozilla Bug Bounty, Governments Approach Free Software
07.27.10 Michael Widenius Lobby Against Oracle a Matter of Self Interest
08.03.10 Gates Foundation Staff and Affiliates Enter School Boards in the United States
08.03.10 Amid Fraud Allegations, Gates Foundation Ownership in Wells Fargo Surfaces
08.09.10 Bill Gates’ ‘Foundation’ is Lobbying Vietnam’s Leadership to Derail Migration to Software Freedom, Puts Money Together With Microsoft
08.09.10 “The Gates Foundation Has Bought TED (Technology Entertainment and Design)” (Conference)
08.11.10 Open Invention Network (OIN) and Linux Foundation Still Legitimise Software Patents
08.13.10 Novell Uses Linux Foundation Event (LinuxCon) to Promote Proprietary Software and Fog Computing
08.23.10 Gates Foundation Joins Microsoft and Attacks Free Software in Greece
08.30.10 Gates Foundation Slammed by the Seattle-based Community Alliance for Global Justice, Accused of Harming African Farmers, Population
08.30.10 Gates Foundation and Microsoft Both Hate Sharing, Love Taking
09.07.10 How the Gates Foundation is Sometimes Starving — Not Feeding — African People
09.08.10 Libraries Burned by Microsoft and the Gates Foundation as Another Project/Product Dies
09.09.10 Windows Presentation Foundation is Dying/Dead, Silverlight Might be Too, So Microsoft Tries to Bastardise HTML5
09.20.10 Reader’s Article: “HPV Vaccination Experimentation on Children Backed by Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation”
09.21.10 Gates Foundation Purchases Famous Events, Newspapers to Brainwash the Public
09.22.10 The Free Software Foundation Fights Software Patents in the Southern Hemisphere
09.22.10 Gates Foundation, the World Bank, and the Urgent Need for Population Control
09.26.10 Incentivising Favours: “Microsoft Alumni Foundation”, “Microsoft Partner Awards”, and “Microsoft Tech Track 100”
10.24.10 ACCESS Co. (Source of Mobbyism and Attacks on the Free Software Foundation) Linked to Acacia
11.28.10 James Love Shows That Gates Foundation is About Marketing and News Distortion for Bill’s Agenda
12.29.10 Inkululeko Technologies — Once Funded by the Shuttleworth Foundation — Has Gone Rogue
01.09.11 The New York Times Advertises the Gates Foundation
01.10.11 Gates Foundation Pays More Blogs Like GOOD, Blog4GlobalHealth, and Crosscut to Promote Its Agenda
01.10.11 Gates Foundation Pays the Lancet Journal — Now Distorts Academic Literature Too
01.10.11 Bill Gates Pays National Television (This Time PBS) for Self-Serving Propaganda
01.13.11 Gates Foundation is Not African But Speaks and Decides for Africa
01.13.11 Microfinance the Lesser-known Dark Side of the Gates Foundation
01.13.11 Gates Foundation Owns the Press Which Shapes the Image of the Gates Foundation
01.24.11 New Allegations of “Fraud” Around Gates Foundation Funding
02.05.11 Free Software Foundation’s Statement on Microsoft/Novell/CPTN Patent Attack Against Software Freedom
02.10.11 Eclipse Foundation Director: “Software Patents Are Basically a Bad Idea”; IBM Still Celebrating Patents
02.25.11 Bill Gates is Killing Journalism, Replacing it With Self-Serving PR
03.07.11 BSA (Microsoft Front), MPEG Cartel (Backed by Microsoft and Apple), and Gates Foundation Under Scrutiny for Patent Play
04.09.11 Why We Can Cover Issues Like Microsoft and the Gates Foundation a Lot Less Often Than Before
04.22.11 Groklaw Opposes Novell’s Membership in the Linux Foundation, Due to Microsoft Ties
08.18.11 Seattle Times Funded by the Gates Foundation to Praise the Gates Foundation
08.18.11 Seattle Teachers Complain About Gates Foundation Lobbyists
08.21.11 Gates Foundation is Lobbying for Monsanto Shareholders (Including BIll Gates)
08.21.11 Chair of Gates Foundation’s Global Development Program Advisory Panel an Alleged Insider Trader
08.27.11 Funded by Gates, the Seattle Times Anonymously Lobbies for Gates Foundation Agenda
09.13.11 Even Gates-funded Sites Turn Against the Gates Foundation for Its Selfish Lobbying
09.13.11 Secrecy Around the Gates Foundation and Its Monopolistic Behaviour Come Under Fire
10.14.11 The Free Software Foundation Takes Action Against Microsoft’s Abuses With UEFI
10.25.11 NNDB on Gates Foundation Connections
10.28.11 Mozilla Foundation Harder to Trust After Microsoft Endorsement
11.04.11 Gates Foundation Still Strives for Power Over Teachers
12.01.11 Gates Foundation Downplays and Intercepts Unwanted Communication
01.19.12 False Information Funded by the Gates Foundation
01.25.12 Gates Foundation Still Funds ‘Studies’ to Praise the Gates Foundation, Provide PR Fodder
01.25.12 Gates Foundation Bribes Officials, Press in Africa
02.01.12 The Gates Foundation is Still Hijacking the Voice of the Poor and Effectively Runs Paid Advertisements Inside ‘News’
03.01.12 Dr. Ben Goldacre Speaks Out Against Gates Foundation Support for Bad Drugs
03.05.12 Reuters Explains How Foundations Like Gates Foundation Are Used to Evade Tax
03.05.12 Bill Gates Pays League of Education Voters, Stand for Children for Lobbying, Wolfram for Self-Serving ‘Study’
03.07.12 Financing and Foundations
03.15.12 American Protests Form Against the Gates Foundation
06.20.12 Microsoft Suffocates the Free Software Foundation (FSF)
06.20.12 The Alternative Press Explains What the Gates Foundation Et Al. Are Doing
07.03.12 Coverage of the Free Software Foundation’s Response to UEFI
07.07.12 Bill Gates Criticised by Childhood Friend, Gates Foundation Criticised in Site It Funds
08.21.12 Gates Foundation Criticism
01.04.13 Free Software Foundation (FSF) Seeks Funds to Help Those Who Cannot Use GNU and Linux on New PCs Due to UEFI
03.26.13 Microsoft Terminates Free/Open Source Software in South Africa, Tries to Portray Itself as “Open” in Poor Countries
04.09.13 The Linux Foundation and Microsoft Take Another Step Ahead
04.14.13 Vista 8 is a Failure Which the Free Software Foundation Capitalises on
04.19.13 Electronic Frontier Foundation, Google, Red Hat et al. Should Work to Eliminate Software Patents, Not Just Patent Trolls
05.12.13 Dr. Ravitch: Gates Foundation Underwrites Almost Every Organisation in its Quest to Control American Education
05.22.13 Gates Foundation: Buying Influence for Bill’s Ego and Bill’s Profit
05.30.13 The Free Software Foundation (FSF) Gets the ‘Wikileaks Treatment’ From MasterCard
06.28.13 The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) Ought to Refocus on Crushing Software Patents, Not Patent Trolls or “Stupid Patents”
08.08.13 Gates Foundation Expands to Africa to Profit From the World’s Poorest
08.16.13 The World’s Biggest Patent Troll (and Racketeering/Pyramid Scheme Operation) Grows Closer to the Gates Foundation
09.26.13 Former Novell Staff Still Pushing the Linux Foundation Into Restricted Boot Territory, Ignoring the Real Threat (Back Doors)
10.08.13 Mozilla and Firefox Are Becoming Linux-oriented, Need to Compete With Tizen, Jolla and Sailfish
10.24.13 The Linux Foundation and OIN Speak About Licensing/Law in Edinburgh
11.14.13 The Linux Foundation Appoints Former Microsoft Manager for Management of OpenDaylight
12.12.13 The Linux Foundation’s Unusual Branding Failure
01.22.14 Linux Foundation’s Events, LCA 2014, and Other FOSS Events
02.21.14 Good Advocacy by the Linux Foundation Stresses the Jobs Effect, But Should Mention GNU Also
03.03.14 Open Source Initiative, Free Software Foundation, SFLC, Red Hat and Others Fight Against Software Patents at SCOTUS Level
03.26.14 The Politics of Openwashing: How Microsoft Pretends That Windows Has ‘Open Source’, Generates Self-Congratulatory Coverage
07.20.14 Linux Foundation Welcomes Patent Aggressor Red Bend Software
07.24.14 Valerie Strauss Explains Why Gates Foundation’s Lobbying for ‘Common Core’ (Privatisation) is a Swindle That Makes Microsoft Richer
10.21.14 India May be Taking Bill Gates to Court for Misusing His So-called ‘Charity’ to Conduct Clinical Trials Without Consent on Behalf of Companies He Invests in
01.03.15 Despite Controversy and Backlash From Scientists and Human Rights Activists, the Gates Foundation Continues to Promote Private Prisons and GMO Ventures That It Profits From
04.17.15 Black Duck’s Latest Self-Promotional Propaganda (for Proprietary Software) Still Fools Journalists
06.03.15 Only Months After Microsoft’s Ramji Enters the Linux Foundation Microsoft Gradually Joins Him
07.01.15 They ‘R’ Coming: More Microsoft Money for the Linux Foundation
08.20.15 After OOXML Propaganda, New Assocham Propaganda Calls for Back Doors, Spyware and Other Malicious, Self-defeating Traps Inside Government of India
10.07.15 Hypocrite Forks the Linux Kernel Because of Cultural Characteristics That He Himself is Guilty of
12.17.15 Benoît Battistelli’s EPO Continues Its Self-Congratulatory PR Charade, Neglecting to Even Acknowledge the Catastrophes Therein
01.30.16 Guest Article: Introduction to Microsoft’s Growing Role in the R Project Through the Linux Foundation and E.E.E.
02.08.16 The Gates Foundation Subjected to Criticism, But Over a Decade Too Late
03.08.16 Microsoft is Turning Eclipse Into Proprietary Software Tool by Sinking its Claws Into the Eclipse Foundation
04.23.16 The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) Continues Its Battles for Patent Sanity in the United States
06.06.16 Spangenberg’s Reputation Laundering, Parasitic Taxes on Products Everyone Uses, Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) Calls Patent Trolling “Extortion”
08.19.16 Patents Roundup: Trolls Dominate Litigation, PTAB Crushes Patents, Patent Box Regime Persists, and OIN Explains Itself
08.23.16 The Linux Foundation Gives Microsoft (Paid-for) Keynote Position While Microsoft Extorts (With Patents) Lenovo and Motorola Over Linux Use
09.04.16 The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) is Getting More Outspoken in Activism Regarding Patents, Finally Taking on Universities That Feed Trolls and Academic Parasite Elsevier
12.06.16 More Examples of Microsoft and Its Patent Trolls Taxing Linux, Even After Microsoft ‘Joined’ (Paid) the Linux Foundation
04.06.17 OSDL, OIN, Linux Foundation, PAX and the Likes of Them Dodge the Real Problem, Which is Software Patents
06.25.17 As Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) Ramps Up Its Campaign Against Software Patent Trolls the Patent Microcosm Attacks the Messenger (EFF)
07.27.17 Johns Hopkins Technology Ventures and Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation Turn Public Money Into a Tax on the Public
08.08.17 The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) Demonstrates the Value of PTAB in Squashing Software Patents
12.06.17 The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) is Calling for Greater Transparency at USPTO and US Patent Courts
01.18.18 Microsoft, Masking/Hiding Itself Behind Patent Trolls, is Still Engaging in Patent Extortion
10.06.18 Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (WARF) is Not Getting Money From Apple and VirnetX Might Not Get Any, Either
03.31.19 Microsoft ‘Bought’ the LOT Network Like it Did the ‘Linux’ Foundation and It’s Now, as a Result, Yet Another Microsoft PR Front
04.10.19 Guest Post: The Linux Foundation (LF) is “Putting the CON in Conference!” (Part 1)
04.14.19 Guest Post: The Linux Foundation (LF) is “Putting the CON in Conference!” (Part 2)
04.16.19 A Linux Foundation Run by People Who Reject Linux is Like a Children’s Charity Whose Management Dislikes Children
04.18.19 Concluding the Linux Foundation (LF) “Putting the CON in Conference!” (Part 3)
04.24.19 Any ‘Linux’ Foundation Needs to Be Managed by Geeks, Not Politicians and PR People
04.29.19 After Killing the Independence of Apache Software Foundation (ASF) Microsoft Steals Its Soul, Too
11.21.06 Let Novell Inherit Scorched Earth
11.22.06 RedHat Analysis of Novell’s Open Letter to the Community
12.04.06 The Ides of March Approaches for Novell
12.14.06 Developers Still Flock to Open Source Software
12.22.06 Proof That Boycotts Can be Effective
01.13.07 More Proof that Novell Approves Need for Patents Covenants
01.24.07 ODF Support in Microsoft Office
01.27.07 OpenDocument, Microsoft Office, and Novell’s Open Source Presentation
02.03.07 Microvell and GPLV3 – The FSF Strikes Back
02.05.07 The Reuters Mistake That Started Linux and Novell FUD
02.05.07 Why Not Have A GPL 2.1 As Well?
02.21.07 In the News: FUD, VB, and the FSF
02.24.07 Another Step Towards GNU/Solaris?
02.24.07 Novell Repeats GPL Claims; Ballmer’s Accusations Debunked
03.02.07 Novell Must Change Its Way of Thinking
03.04.07 Novell Boycotts Prove to Be Effective
03.08.07 Microsoft Gets the C|Net Soapbox, Criticises Free Software
03.19.07 FSF Corrects Justin Steinman
03.21.07 Steinman’s Mea Culpa
03.22.07 Bruce Perens: Clearing up Anti-GPL3 FUD
03.22.07 Is Novell Gradually Running Out of Friends?
03.26.07 Failure to Give Credit to the Origins of SuSE GNU/Linux
03.28.07 Has the Media Been Poisoned Against Free Software?
04.01.07 GPL Apache Compatibility; The Man Who Left Novell; Microsoft/Novell and (Non-)Interoperability
04.01.07 The Fool on Microvell
04.01.07 The FSF Giveth, and Linus Taketh Away
04.03.07 LGPLv3 Draft Released; What Do People Say About Novell?
04.09.07 Bruce Perens Responds to ACT Assertions
04.11.07 Open Source Consortium (UK) Against Microvell Anti-GPLv3 FUD
04.12.07 Ubuntu Gets Gutsy About Freedom
04.16.07 Voices of the Community on Licences and Freedom (Updated)
05.12.07 GPLv3 Myths Debunked, Licence Changes Discussed, Eben Moglen Speaks Out
05.13.07 Let’s Speculate: What IP Did Novell License?
05.14.07 Patent Laws Face Some New Key Challanges
05.14.07 Selected Quotes: Why Software Patents Must Not Exist
05.16.07 OIN on Our Side, Moglen and Torvalds Shout Out in Harmony: “FUD!”
05.17.07 Why You Should Never Trust Novell/Microsoft Assessments in the Press
05.18.07 FSF Joins Anti-FUD Front as More Novell-type Deals Are Sought by Microsoft
05.21.07 Press and Blog Reaction to Latest Saber Rattling
05.23.07 Novell, Patent Busters
05.24.07 Is Novell a WSPP or MCPP Licensee?
05.25.07 The Economics of FUD
05.26.07 A Look Back at Noteworthy Stories
05.27.07 Novell’s Steinman Contradicts Novell Filing, Which “Looks Like a Scandal”
05.28.07 Eben Moglen Confirms That GPLv3 Will Address Microvell Debacle, Acknowledgement Comes from Novell
05.28.07 If You Lack Good Software, Then Produce “Scareware”
05.31.07 Novell’s CEO Talks About Buybacks (Updated)
05.31.07 Patents: Novell Clarifies While Microsoft Antagonises
06.01.07 GPLv3 (in Current Form) Could Be ”Game Over” to Microsoft’s Secret Schemes
06.01.07 Novell/Jim Finkle’s Pump-and-Dump or Just Careless Journalism?
06.01.07 Is Novell in a Deep State of Denial? (Updated)
06.01.07 Will Richard Stallman Leave the FSF As Well?
06.04.07 Good News to Novell and Apache
06.08.07 Novell and Nasdaq, Microsoft’s Latest Hire
06.11.07 The Axis/Ally Against Free Standards Leads to Fragmentation, Lockin
06.18.07 Linspire Has No Patents, So What Did Microsoft Pay Linspire For? (Updated and Corrected)
06.19.07 Did the Intellectual Property Threats Fail, Backfire, or Had No Effect?
06.26.07 It’s a Fine Day for Free Software (Updated)
06.27.07 Has Microsoft Been Blatantly Lying to National Standards Bodies? (Updatedx2)
06.28.07 Linspire Sells Us Linux FUD, Not GNU/Linux
06.30.07 Better-than-expected Welcome to the New GPL (Updated)
07.03.07 The ”Show Us the Code” Anti-FUD Campaign Shut Down Through Threats (Updated)
07.09.07 Without GPLv3 Obligations, Microsoft and Its Linux Partners Stay Stuck in 2007 (Updated)
07.12.07 Video of the Announcement of GPLv3 Now Available Online
07.13.07 Japan Chooses Openness, FSF Challenges OOXML, and South Africa to Decide on Document Formats (Corrected+Updated)
07.13.07 Do-No-Evil Saturday: What’s GNU at Novell?
07.13.07 Did GPLv3 Intercept a Planned Patent Deal with Turbolinux?
07.23.07 More Document Formats Coverage (Updatedx2)
07.23.07 You Can Still End the Desktop Monopoly. Fight the ‘Monopoly Enabler’ (OOXML).
07.24.07 Marten Mickos: Nothing Can Stop the Open Source Movement Anymore
07.25.07 Patent Lawyer in Microsoft’s Defense on GNU GPLv3 Issues
07.27.07 The Microsoft OOXML ‘Corruption Train’ Reaches Denmark (Updatedx2)
07.27.07 Microsoft is Outmuscling OOXML Opposition in Spain (Updatedx3)
07.27.07 Do-No-Evil Saturday: A Look at the Latest OpenSUSE Alpha and Other Novell Products
07.28.07 GPLv3 Proves Its Business Value
07.29.07 Eben Moglen on the Need to Honour Free Software (Plus Video)
08.01.07 As the Saying Goes, Who Invited These Guys to the “Free Software” World?
08.01.07 Thank G** GPLv3 is Being Widely Adopted
08.02.07 Massachusetts — Bullied, Battered, and Defeated
08.08.07 Even Windows Projects Consider a GPLv3 Move, GNU GPL for Hardware a Great Success
08.08.07 OOXML Watch: Funny Business Comes to Switzerland, ECMA Speaks, Apple Falters
08.09.07 Has OOXML ‘Funny Business’ Already Reached Australia and India?
08.10.07 Looking Beyond OOXML to Find Monopoly Abuse in SOA (Updated)
08.11.07 Linspire Keeps Crumbling. Might Xandros and Novell be Next in Line?
08.11.07 Document Formats Watch — “For the Love of God, Think about the Children (and Consumers)”
08.13.07 OpenDocument Format Wins in Malaysia
08.14.07 Linus Torvalds Finally Comments on the Novell/Microsoft Deal
08.15.07 More on Jim Zemlin’s (and Novell’s) “Respect for Microsoft”
08.18.07 GNU AGPLv3 Approaches Release, Skype’s Recent Problems Illustrate Its Need
08.18.07 Not Everyone in the OSI Shows “Respect for Microsoft”
08.21.07 Free Software is Regaining Control
08.23.07 Intellectual Abuse and The Sad State of the Patent System
08.28.07 GPLv3 — From Strength to Strength
08.29.07 GPLv3 is a Case Against Future Sellouts
08.29.07 OOXML Watch: Latest Stories of Deception, Corruption, and Disapproval
08.30.07 OOXML Watch: Sweden’s OOXML Fiasco Representative of the Norm?
08.30.07 Still No Respect… OpenSUSE Forum vs the FSF and the GPLv3 Again
08.31.07 Do-No-Evil Saturday: OpenSUSE Faster and Better, Novell’s Financial Results Lift Stock
08.31.07 The Latest News on the Microsoft OOXML Fiasco (Updated)
08.31.07 Xandros CEO Brags About Open Standards, But Signs ‘Intellectual Property’ Deals with Microsoft
09.02.07 Today is the Day — The Day the World Will Learn That Crime Pays
09.08.07 GNU Catchup: GPLv3 Up, Up, and Never Away
09.10.07 IBM Adds More Force to ODF; The OOXML Plot Dissected Further
09.11.07 Bright Future Ahead for OpenOffice.org and ODF (Updated)
09.12.07 Mark Shuttleworth Still Dislikes Microsoft’s Linux Deals
09.12.07 Novell’s Linux Deal: Exclusive, Controlled by Microsoft, Awakens Patent Monster
09.12.07 Second Quote of the Day: Locutus on Linux Being Subverted
09.18.07 Will Everybody Get Interoperability, Even Without Patents Deals?
10.07.07 Rebuttal to Rob Weir on a So-called ‘OpenDocument Format Civil War’
10.13.07 No OpenOffice.org Fork, if Sun Relinquishes Control
10.15.07 Patent (In)Sanity – Recent Links
10.16.07 How Mr. Gates Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Destructive Patents
10.19.07 Eric Raymond Has Left Linspire’s Board
10.20.07 Silverlight (and Moonlight/Mono, by Association) Becomes Part of the Antitrust Debate
10.20.07 Novell Still Behind Red Hat and IBM in Terms of Linux Contributions
10.20.07 Do-No-Evil Saturday – Part III: Novell Products and Novell Wins
10.21.07 How Good is a ‘Standard’ When It’s Infected with Software Patents?
10.24.07 Quoteworthy Analysis: Acacia, Europe, the GPL, IBM, Microsoft, Red Hat, and Novell
10.24.07 EFF, GNU, FSF, and OIN Address Patent Problems
10.25.07 Evens Data’s GPLv3 Survey is Meaningless. Here’s Why. (Updated)
10.29.07 GNU vs Linux Wars Escape the Real Issues — Patent Trolls and Microsoft
10.29.07 Breaking Down ‘Patent Fronts’ Against Linux
10.31.07 Germany Leans Towards ODF, GNOME Receives Public Correction
11.01.07 What’s in Microsoft’s Halloween Documents on Novell, ISO, OSI, GNU GPLv3, EC, and OSS?
11.01.07 (Software) Patent News: Getting Better, Then Worse, Then Better Again…
11.03.07 Un-Mazing a Peer-to-Software-Patent Mess
11.05.07 eWeek Does it Again. Fool Us Once, Shame on You. Fool Us Twice…
11.08.07 GNOME’s Stance on OOXML — Clarifications on Their Way
11.10.07 Do-No-Evil Saturday – Part II: Novell’s Good Deeds
11.10.07 Do-No-Evil Saturday – Part III: Novell’s Products and Business
11.11.07 Is Vanity Culture Infectious?
11.12.07 OpenDocument ‘Traitors’ Group is Out, Belgium is In
11.14.07 Eye on the Patent Trolls (Acacia is Very ‘Busy’)
11.19.07 Quick Mention: GNU Affero GPLv3 Released
11.19.07 Another Example Where the Press Alienates Free Software and Standards
11.21.07 OpenDocument Format Accessibility and Disinformation (Updated)
11.23.07 Novell’s Dirty Little Secret: It Helps OOXML (Updated)
11.24.07 Do-No-Evil Saturday – Part I: OpenSUSE Praises and Developments
11.25.07 An Issue of Mistrust: Bill Gates, BayStar, Acacia, SCO, and Linux
11.26.07 Australian Event Organised to Discuss OOXML
11.26.07 GNOME and Novell: The FUD Never Existed (Updatedx2)
11.28.07 Big Addition to GNU Affero GPLv3 (AGPLv3)
11.28.07 Patent Trolls, Intel and Microsoft Betray the Children
11.29.07 A Quick Look at Mono Licensing and Microsoft Licensing
11.29.07 Novell and Microsoft Make an ‘Impartial’ Crowd
11.30.07 GNOME’s Position on OOXML is Still Hurting OpenDocument Format
11.30.07 Today’s ‘Objective’ News, Brought to You by Microsoft Corporation
11.30.07 Another Gentle Introduction to the GNOME/OOXML Dilemma
12.01.07 Public Letters Protesting Against Department of Justice Decisions
12.04.07 More Arrogance Found in OOXML
12.04.07 Novell Vice President Again Defends Microsoft’s OOXML
12.06.07 Quick Mention: OOXML/GNOME Podcast Finally Online, Text Summary Posted
12.07.07 Friends or Foes? Ubuntu+CNR (from Linspire), GNOME+OOXML (from Microsoft)
12.08.07 Quote of the Day: Richard Stallman on the GNOME Desktop
12.08.07 Analyst Firms, Including IDC and Gartner, Named and Shamed for Serving as Microsoft Mouthpieces
12.09.07 Suspicious OOXML Fanboyism, Clues About IE8′s New Engine
12.09.07 Quick Mention: The FSF’s Software Patents Coalition, Introduction to AGPLv3
12.10.07 Most Recent Podcast Reactions (GNOME and OOXML)
12.11.07 Mono and OOXML Unwanted in the Free Desktop
12.12.07 ODF and OOXML in Denmark
12.12.07 Some Unanswered Questions on OOXML
12.13.07 OOXML and ECMA: Same Scandal, Different Day
12.14.07 LinuxToday Readers Weigh in on Novell
12.14.07 Do-No-Evil Saturday – Part II: Novell Wins and Deals
12.18.07 Quick Mention: Alan Cox on Software Patents, Standards and Beyond
12.18.07 Quick Mention: Wikipedia Embraces OpenDocument format
12.19.07 Is Microsoft Using OOXML and Novell to Further Divide the Communuity?
12.20.07 From Fighting for Standards to Fighting Against Them (Novell)
12.20.07 Quick Mention: Samba Gets Its Way
12.21.07 Open XML and Its Media Coverage Are Flawed by Design
12.21.07 Anti-standards Roundup: GNOvell and Microsoft OOXML
12.23.07 Is Novell’s Pal Cooking the Books as Well? (Microsoft)
12.23.07 OOXML Causes Trouble in the Business World
12.26.07 Fighting the Cost Advantage of GNU/Linux Using Software Patents
12.26.07 One Patent Per Child, One Standard Per Village
12.30.07 Microsoft Puppet (Frost & Sullivan) Praises ‘Intellectual Property’, Novell’s Patent Deal
12.31.07 How Microsoft Operates in China and Parts of Asia
01.02.08 Watching the Microsoft Money at Play
01.08.08 There is No Community and There is No Communism, Either
01.09.08 Microsoft Keeps Its Enemy Closer (and Away from GNU/Linux)
01.09.08 Quick Mention: Windows ISV Tries to ‘Shove’ .NET into Mobile Linux Consortium
01.09.08 With Novell’s OOXML Support, Microsoft Lobbies and Deceives in the Philippines
01.09.08 Novell’s Privilege Escalation Vulnerability and the Microsoft Software Police
01.10.08 Information Week Busted for Systematic Anti-Linux Agenda
01.11.08 Intel Sabotages Linux-based OLPC, Microsoft Wants to Hijack OLPC (with Windows)
01.13.08 Food for Thought: How Proprietary Silverlight and OOXML Stifle or Eliminate Open Access
01.14.08 Quick Mention: Asking Microsoft for Your Own Personal Data
01.14.08 Attack/Shoot the Messenger Strategy: Thy Name is Intel, Microsoft, Novell, GNOME
01.15.08 How Microsoft Changes Laws (the China Example)
01.16.08 Stirring Things Up from the Inside (Or the ‘Civil War’ Strategy)
01.17.08 Bill Gates Invades the Land of Linus, Uses Dumping Techniques
01.21.08 Software Patents and Colombia
01.23.08 It’s Not Dumping Because They Call it “Charity”
01.23.08 Reminder: Support Standards, Reject a Single Company’s Format
01.24.08 OOXML Sins and “Charity” Against GNU/Linux
01.25.08 Forbes Magazine Bias and the Anti-Linux “Charities”
01.26.08 On Beagle’s Increasing Mono-ization and Novell’s Role
01.26.08 Software Patents Hinged on Money and Political Influence
01.26.08 Why Choose OOXML?
01.28.08 Trolltech + Nokia = Bad News
01.30.08 Lobbyists Among the Causes for Software Patents in Europe
01.30.08 Benjamin Henrion et al on OOXML and Software Patents
01.30.08 Microsoft ‘Buys’ Dubai Away from GNU/Linux, Calls it “Charity”; Paris Also?
01.31.08 Wake Up Already, GNOME, Please Wake Up
02.01.08 More on (and of) Bill Gates’ Donations Against GNU/Linux
02.01.08 Glyn Moody on Software Patents; EFF Up Against Patent Trolls
02.01.08 Bill Gates’ Retirement Merely a Political Lock-in Crusade
02.02.08 Off-topic: The ‘Market Share’ Lie
02.04.08 BSD vs. GPL: But Why Are PEOPLE Fighting???
02.04.08 The Game of Economics
02.07.08 Software Patents Still Chaotic, Reform Might Make Them Worse
02.07.08 Old and Tired Bundling Tactics Used Against VMWare
02.08.08 Microsoft’s OOXML Cornered by Antitrust Regulators, Call for Harmonisation
02.08.08 Using Open Source Merely to Sell Proprietary Software
02.11.08 OOXML Has Software Patent Problems; Iffy OOXML Business in India Again
02.13.08 Quick Mention: Boycott Endorsement from the FSF
02.14.08 Microsoft Brings the “Intellectual Property” Poison to Schools
02.15.08 How GNU/Linux Gets Contaminated with Software Patents from the Back Door
02.17.08 The Takeaways from the Giveaways
02.18.08 Sun and Linux Must Not Fight Each Other
02.18.08 OpenDocument Event to Take Place in the Back Yard of the Shenanigans
02.19.08 The OSP Lie, the OOXML Bribe and Other Interesting Moves in Portugal
02.20.08 If You Live in Australia, Justice Needs Your Help
02.20.08 SCO and Microsoft: Where Things Stand
02.22.08 Microsoft Must Be Absolutely Terrified
02.22.08 A Quick Look at More Reactions to Microsoft’s Taxoperability
02.23.08 Quick Mention: Explanation of How Microsoft Ended Up Approaching Debt
02.25.08 Was Thursday’s Non-announcement a Case of Betrayal?
02.25.08 Picture of the Day: Microsoft’s Idea of Philanthropy
02.27.08 eWeek: “Salesforce Says No to Silverlight”
02.27.08 When Microsoft Corporation Met Debt
02.28.08 Vint Cerf, Jim Zemlin and Pamela Jones Explain Why They Dislike OOXML
02.29.08 Bruce Lowry, Novell’s PR Director, Quits the Company
02.29.08 BW: Microsoft in Danger of EU Governments Effectively Banning Office
02.29.08 FSFE to Microsoft: Give the Protocols, Without the Patents
02.29.08 Who to Watch at Microsoft
03.01.08 Microsoft May Have Bribed India for OOXML Pressure
03.02.08 Microsoft’s OOXML Scandal in India and the Legal Issues Ahead
03.03.08 What We Can Learn About Novell from Intel-Microsoft-Dell-Hewlett-Packard Collusions
03.03.08 Bill and Steve Couldn’t Buy the US Vote This Time Around
03.03.08 References Roundup: Microsoft’s Financial Situation
03.06.08 Patents Roundup. Microsoft is Faking it Again
03.07.08 Microsoft Now Tries to Invade Eclipse, Apache (Updated)
03.09.08 Microsoft API Pledge Worse Than Useless, Real Standards Needed
03.11.08 New Pressure for the EU to Adopt Royalty- and Patent-Free Standards
03.12.08 Quick Mention: Does Milan ‘Pull a Finland’?
03.12.08 Patrick Durusau. And That Trip to Seattle, Washington…
03.14.08 OOXML Against ODF a Case of Microsoft Against the Rest of the Industry
03.16.08 Novell’s Mono and Microsoft’s Plot to Use Mono/.NET to ‘Punish’ GNU/Linux
03.18.08 Is Novell’s Strategy .NET Software on Top of GNU/Linux?
03.19.08 Microsoft Invades Eclipse and Java
03.19.08 Patents Roundup: More Madness, More Criticism and More Lobbying
03.19.08 Support Bruce Perens’ Fight Against ‘Invasion of the Borgs’
03.20.08 Keeping Abreast of Microsoft’s Latest Lies About OOXML
03.21.08 Why Novell is Bad for Linux: Reason #100 (Virtualisationovell-only)
03.23.08 What OOXML Manipulations Will Microsoft Have in Store for Poland This Time Around? (Updated)
03.26.08 ‘Microsoft is Stealing from Linux’
03.27.08 Is a Vote for OOXML (Office Open XML) as an ISO illegitimate?
03.30.08 Buying Consensus Short of Classical Bribery
03.31.08 PR Lies, Ron Hovsepian Takes the PR Role
04.01.08 Hewlett-Packard Does Microsoft’s Dirty Job Again, Lobbies for the Monopoly
04.02.08 Zemlin Flirts with Hovsepian: The Best Novell Commercial Money Needn’t Buy
04.02.08 ISO Feels OK With Corruption, Officially Approves OOXML (Updated)
04.02.08 Microsoft’s Abuse of ISO Made a Lot of Sworn Enemies
04.03.08 Novell’s Ron Hovsepian Slammed by Sun Employee
04.03.08 New Meme: “Open-Source Compatible”
04.06.08 Microsoft’s Latest Smear Campaign: ‘Disobedient’ Chairperson in India Targeted
04.06.08 Microsoft’s Software Patents ‘Buddy’ Faces More Corruption Allegations
04.07.08 Is “OpenSource-isation by Corporation” the Next Big Threat?
04.08.08 When Microsoft Shenanigans and Novell Stomp on Your Open Standards
04.08.08 Microsoft Delivers Over 14,000 Pages of Tax Bills (Software Patents)
04.09.08 The Passionate Fight Against Software Patents Continues
04.09.08 Signs of Progress for OpenDocument Format, Microsoft-imposed Disinformation Abound
04.14.08 Microsoft Linux/MSN/OOXML/Software Patent Partners: Down from 4 to Just 3 Any Time Soon?
04.15.08 Sun VP: Novell CEO Not Keeping Up on the Competition
04.19.08 Why Schools Must Embrace ODF and FOSS; Healthy Boost for KOffice and OpenDocument Format
04.22.08 Report Suggests ECMA and Microsoft Put Standards as a Whole at Risk
04.23.08 Urgent Need for Transparency in Procurement, Standards-Setting Process
04.24.08 How Microsoft and Novell Make GNU/Linux More Expensive to Purchase Than Windows
04.27.08 Open Invention Network (OIN) Gets New Leadership, Other Software Patents News
04.28.08 Novell Under the (Microsoft) Bridge
04.30.08 Novell’s ‘Binary Bridges’: Could SUSE Ever Inherit the Anti-Features of Windows?
04.30.08 Of OpenSUSE, Xandros, and Microsoft…
05.01.08 Adobe Flash: Now a Little Less Evil (We’ll Stick to Ogg, Thank You)
05.02.08 An Open, Gentler Microsoft: The Best Illusion Only Novell Can Buy
05.04.08 Ending Legalised Bribery in the UK and Dwindling Hopes for Freedom in Australia
05.07.08 What Does the LGPLv3-Licensed OpenOffice.org Mean to Novell, Xandros, Linspire and Turbolinux?
05.09.08 Software Patents, Microsoft Trolls and Intellectual Monopoly Miscellany
05.15.08 "/o/2008/05/15/ooxml-truths-rigging-ooo/ Setting the Record Straight on OOXML and Silverblight [sic]]
05.16.08 Dennis Byron Loses It (Updatedx2)
05.17.08 Interesting Old Document About Microsoft’s Vapourware Tactics
05.19.08 Is Microsoft Trying to Illegalise/Exclude MythTV and Increase Eavesdropping?
05.25.08 Old FUD Pattern Makes Epic Comeback
05.29.08 The Ballmer Youth (Updated)
05.29.08 Office and OOXML Under Pressure, So Microsoft Retaliates with ODF
05.30.08 Saving Students from The Latest Microsoft Lock-in (Live @ edu)
06.01.08 Bringing Free Software Values Back: Please Welcome Equitable Open Source
06.06.08 Be Careful Who You Trust (on Document Standards)
06.07.08 Do-No-Evil Saturday – Part II: SUSE (SLED/SLED) News
06.21.08 ASUS, Xandros, Microsoft and Other Business Partners
06.21.08 Do-No-Evil Saturday – Part II: SUSE (SLED/SLED/OES) Progress
06.22.08 Novell, Microsoft… and IBM… Maybe Oracle Too (Part II)
06.22.08 ODF/OOXML Synopsis: UK Action Status, Microsoft RAND, GPL Exclusion
06.24.08 Microsoft’s Open Source Land Grab Continues
06.26.08 Microsoft: How Will the Internet Have it Remembered?
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
06.28.08 Do-No-Evil Saturday – Part I: OpenSUSE 11.0, The Week After
07.05.08 Do-No-Evil Saturday – Part III: Novell Finance, Security, and Other Leftovers
07.05.08 It’s not the Gates, it’s the bars (by Richard Stallman)
07.07.08 GMOME, OpenLogic, and the Microsoft Connection
07.11.08 Microsoft and Proxies Work on Changing the Laws Again
07.12.08 ISO Deals a “Blow for the Emerging Markets”
07.15.08 Free Software and Patent Settlements: It’s All Wrong
07.22.08 The Patent Comedy is Real
07.23.08 Mono is Too Controversial for Debian
07.26.08 Microsoft Pays for a More Microsoft-Obedient Apache
07.27.08 Interesting Apache-Novell Analogy
08.01.08 Don’t Play Politics and Diplomacy with Microsoft
08.05.08 When All Merits Fail, Use an Intellectual Monopoly
08.07.08 Microsoft’s Aggressive Push to Assimilate FOSS to Microsoft
08.07.08 OSCON and Microsoft
08.08.08 Patents Roundup: Linux, India, Microsoft, the Trolls, and the USPTO
08.09.08 Dangerous by Association
08.12.08 Bill Gates is Still Fighting Against Free/Libre Software, Quietly
08.17.08 Eye on Microsoft: ‘Pulling a Mammootty’, Exposing Windows PCs, Daemonising Opposition
08.17.08 Quick Mention: New Antitrust Actions Against Microsoft?
08.19.08 IPv6 Suffers from FUD and Lagging Because of Microsoft Windows
08.20.08 Increased Investment in Microsoft SUSE
08.21.08 Bill Gates Backs Patent Trolls, Microsoft Gets More Patents
08.21.08 Novell May Be Violating the GNU GPL
08.22.08 Non-compete, By Association
08.23.08 ODF vs Microsoft OOXML: Status Snapshot
08.25.08 Latest Examples of Information Distortion by Microsoft on the Web
08.26.08 FSF India’s Response to the Patent Manual Draft
08.27.08 Novell’s Hack Week: Mono, Ports to Windows, Mac OS X
08.28.08 Quick Mention: Miguel de Icaza Loves .NET, Dislikes GNU GPL
08.29.08 State of the Intellectual Bully: Patent Raids, Trolls, and Microsoft
08.30.08 Do-No-Evil Saturday – Part III: SCO, Legacy, and Local Events
08.30.08 Novell and Fraud (Updated)
08.31.08 Novell’s “Time Would be Better Spent in Doing Something Positive”
09.04.08 Patent Shakeup: AT&T Protests, Free Software IP FUD, Microsoft Under siege
09.12.08 Already-exposed Microsoft Shill Oozes VMware Poison
09.15.08 The Role and High Value of Truly Free Distributions of Linux
09.22.08 Patents Roundup: India Fights Software Patents, BSA Intervention, Trolls League
09.24.08 More “Independent” Studies… Against GNU/Linux
09.24.08 World Day Against Software Patents: Summary and More
09.25.08 Eye on Microsoft: Assortment of Key Observations
09.30.08 Patents, Financial Collapse and Microsoft (News Roundup)
10.01.08 Al Gillen (IDC) Once Again Throws FUD at Free Software and GNU/Linux
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 Eye on Microsoft: Various Picks from the Past Week
10.02.08 Novell Befriends Microsoft, Attacks Red Hat and Ubuntu
10.04.08 Who’s Bugging Google and Apple? (Updatedx2)
10.04.08 Do-No-Evil Saturday – Part I: Two Weeks of OpenSUSE News and Reviews
10.09.08 Patents Roundup: Symbian Derails UKIPO, Monopolists Try to Ruin Indian Law
10.14.08 Media Reality Check: Microsoft Silverlight a Big Programming Scam
10.14.08 Nokia, Apple, Microsoft, and Other Software Patent Brats
10.16.08 Silver Lie
10.17.08 ‘Addiction’ Battles for Microsoft in China and Africa
10.18.08 Do-No-Evil Saturday – Part IV: Miscellaneous Novell News
10.23.08 Rumour: Bill Gates Could Develop/Foster Yet Another Patent Troll, Maybe Lobby
10.24.08 On Mixed Source, Mono, and Other Forms of ‘Piracy’
10.24.08 Symbian is Not About Freedom, It’s About DRM and Software Patents (Update)
10.26.08 What to Make of Nokia… Regarding Licences, Patents, and Formats
10.30.08 Does Apache Show That Money Talks?
11.04.08 ACTA: More Patent Trolls, Less Democracy
11.04.08 First They Ignore… Then They Dump… Then They ‘Bribe’
11.05.08 ACTA: When Free Society Becomes Illegal
11.10.08 Criminal Acta
11.13.08 Patents Roundup: Microsoft, re Bilski and Reform
11.15.08 Do-No-Evil Saturday – Part III: Novell Report, Schmidtism and More
11.16.08 Friendly ‘Boycott Novell’ Supportes Robbed of Voice
11.21.08 Open Letter to the Portuguese Ministry of Education
11.23.08 Visvesvaraya Technological University Sells Out, ‘Sells’ Children to Microsoft
11.24.08 More Manipulation at Microsoft: Politics, ‘Charity’ for Automobiles, Media Coverage
11.25.08 In re Bilski May Show That Novell Harnesses Microsoft’s FUD
11.26.08 Apple Attacks GNU/Linux Users, Lies to the Public, Gets Sued by Patent Troll
12.01.08 Exploring the BECTA-Microsoft Relationship
12.02.08 FOSDEM 2009: Sponsored by Microsoft Partner
12.03.08 EU Commission re ACTA: STFU
12.03.08 “Twisted Ideological Crusade” and Other Excuses
12.06.08 Microsoft Attacks, Then Tries to Hijack Free Software
12.06.08 OOXML is Patent Trap, Royalties Render it Obsolete
12.08.08 The Many Signs That GNU/Linux Grew Significantly in 2007 – Part 1
12.08.08 Memo to IBM: Enough with Software Patents, Please
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
12.12.08 World’s Computing Thugs Fight Governments and Continents
12.13.08 Patents Roundup: Pools, Apple, Google and Obama Appointment
12.14.08 Speeding Up Free Software Adoption — External and Internal Routes to Success
12.15.08 How Software Patents Impede Standards and GNU/Linux Development
12.18.08 Novell Dumped for Red Hat (Again)
12.20.08 Do-No-Evil Saturday – Part II: SLES, SLED, Novell Personnel and Sentegrity/Xandros
12.21.08 The Threat of Mono as Basis of Applications (or: “Why GIMP is Different”)
12.22.08 Noted: The Microsoft-Abramoff Connection
12.24.08 Links Xmas Eve: Red Hat Leaps, Garmin Picks Android
12.25.08 Links Xmas 2008: Linux 2.6.28 Released
12.25.08 Microsoft Develops More Political Relationships
12.27.08 Do-No-Evil Saturday – Part I: OpenSUSE 11.1 Reviews Trickle In
12.27.08 The End of an Era (SCO), The Beginning of Another (Microsoft & Patents)
12.28.08 How the Microsoft Kickbacks Cycle Works
01.02.09 It’s Not a Donation, It’s Addictionware
01.03.09 Ron Hovsepian’s Approval Rating is Only 64%
01.04.09 Is Microsoft ‘Pulling an EDGI’ on Kerala? (Updated)
01.05.09 Microsoft Spreads Intellectual Monopolies as Business Model
01.11.09 Environmental Disinformation in the Microsoft Press
01.14.09 Is UK Government/Education Accepting Soft Bribes from Microsoft Rather Than Adopt Free(dom) Software?
01.15.09 Microsoft’s EDGI in India: Fighting GNU/Linux in Education
01.20.09 Jim Allchin: “We Feel a Huge Threat from Linux” (Analysts Cartel Part IV)
01.21.09 Patents Roundup: Acacia Extortion, European Lobby, and Failed Systems
01.24.09 The History of Microsoft’s Multi-boot Sabotage
01.26.09 Cringely Says Microsoft Should Fire 50,000 Employees; More Dead Teams Surface
01.28.09 Microsoft Fractures Eclipse — Claim
01.28.09 Patents Roundup: Disintegration, EU in a Limbo, Applecrosoft Patents and Scientists’ Rebellion
01.31.09 Bill and Melinda Gates Instruct Countries They Invest in to Feed Pharmaceuticals They Invest In
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
02.06.09 Microsoft-funded Monopolist Claims ‘Ownership’ of “Alert Notification System” and Terrorises Competitors
02.06.09 The Lesser-covered Side of the Big Stories
02.08.09 Patents Roundup: Apple, Microsoft Trolls, and Linux
02.08.09 66 Pages of Microsoft Evilness
02.14.09 Novell News Summary – Part II: SUSE on Desktops, Servers, Clouds, and in the Channel
02.15.09 Australian Government Probably Colludes with Microsoft
02.19.09 ‘Open’ Apple
02.20.09 Patents Roundup: Linux, Acacia, Microsoft, Samsung and More
02.20.09 New Examples of ‘Slackreporting’
02.21.09 If You Care About Freedom, Don’t Support Apple
02.21.09 Summary of the Red Hat-Microsoft Story
02.24.09 Novell Enables Microsoft Distributions
02.24.09 Patents Roundup: Microsoft, RAND, Extortion, and Ending Software Patents
02.26.09 Novell Results Are in: Net is Down Very Sharply (36%)
02.28.09 Novell News Summary – Part III: More on the Financial Results, Novell Figures
02.28.09 ODF Alliance Newsletter: Latvia and UK Join the ODF Bandwagon
02.28.09 Patents Roundup: Microsoft Trolls, Lobbyists, and End[ing Software Patents (ESP)]
03.01.09 Why Microsoft is Likely to Lose the TomTom Case (Plus Summary)
03.04.09 Patents Roundup: Reform, Case Against Linux, Microsoft Patent Trolls and More
03.05.09 European Action Organised Against “Economic Parasite” (Microsoft) After TomTom Lawsuit
03.09.09 Why and How Microsoft Turned from a Software Company Into a Patent Aggressor/Taxman
03.10.09 Why is OpenSUSE Looking for Sponsors?
03.13.09 Novell is Feeding the Shills-for-Hire from IDC
03.23.09 Microsoft Shows the United States Who’s the Boss
03.26.09 Why Microsoft Has Already Crashed OSBC 2009
03.29.09 ODF Award Insults the Community, Rewards Proponent of Non-Free Software (Corrected)
03.31.09 Patents Roundup: Red Hat, Former USPTO Commissioner on Patent Demise, and WIPO Notes
04.01.09 Microsoft is Still Attacking Google via Publishers
04.02.09 Patents Roundup: OIN, ESP, Microsoft and Apple
04.04.09 TomTom Case is Closed, But the Fight Over FAT Can Hurt Microsoft
04.11.09 Novell News Summary – Part I: OpenSUSE on ARM
04.14.09 Novell’s Board of Directors Enlists More People with Microsoft Connections
04.15.09 Microsoft’s Older Crimes Against Web Browsers Return, Microsoft’s New Attacks on JavaScript Revisited
04.16.09 Coverage of Microsoft’s Pathetic Patent Attacks on GNU/Linux
04.18.09 Novell News Summary – Part I: OpenSUSE on Shuttles and Sub-notebooks
04.18.09 Novell News Summary – Part II: SUSE in the News and More Presto from Xandros
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
04.19.09 VMware and Juniper Serve Windows After Appointing Microsoft Employees as CEOs
04.20.09 Patents Roundup: Microsoft, CSIRO, Patent Hawk, and “Corrupt, Malicious” EPO
04.21.09 Microsoft Loses to Google and Free Software
04.25.09 Novell’s Latest PR Extravaganza for SUSE
04.25.09 Novell News Summary – Part II: SCO, GroupWise Migrations, Lots of Sentinel, and McAfee Partnership
04.26.09 Microsoft and Gates ‘Donate’ Training for Microsoft
04.27.09 Does Oracle Still Acquire to Injure MySQL?
04.27.09 The Revisionist Gates/Microsoft PR Campaign Hits the Press, Maybe Literature Too
05.01.09 Microsoft Teaches Spanish Schools How to Smoke Windows
05.02.09 Microsoft is Still Massively Evading Tax, Insider Trading Revisited
05.02.09 Neowin Authorship Affiliated with Microsoft; Microsoft Partners See Income Fall 80% or Go Out of Business
05.02.09 Novell News Summary – Part III: SCO-Novell, DMTF, Security, and Partners
05.02.09 Novell News Summary – Part I: OpenSUSE at Heise, LinuxCon 2009, and Google SoC
05.02.09 Novell News Summary – Part II: SLED at H-P, SLES at IBM, and Xandros/Scalix
05.04.09 Did Microsoft Hire Consumer Watchdog to Attack Google?
05.06.09 IRC: #boycottnovell @ FreeNode: May 6th, 2009 – Part 2
05.06.09 Don’t Let Novell (and Microsoft) Control GNU/Linux, Licences, and Open Office
05.06.09 The Pharmaceutical Cartel
05.08.09 Microsoft in Trouble with the Law Again
05.08.09 Moblin Turns to Ballnux
05.09.09 Microsoft ‘Patents’ ODF Whilst Also Harming It
05.09.09 Novell News Summary – Part II: SLED on ProBook, Moblin, Wyse; SLES and ScaleMP; Xandros and Presto
05.10.09 Vista 7 is Free (as in Free Tobacco) for One Year
05.11.09 IBM’s Missed Opportunity to Help Free Software
05.11.09 Microsoft’s ‘ODF Patent’ as Vacuous as Its Promise of Interoperability
05.11.09 Reader’s Article: The Microsoft Patent Threat to ODF
05.12.09 Software Patents Want to Enter Europe from the Back Door
05.18.09 Novell News Summary – Part II: Moblin, ProBook, Certification, and Xandros/Presto
05.20.09 Knuth Tells Europe to Let Him “Innovate in Peace” (Without Software Patents)
05.22.09 2 Months and No Disclosure from the European Parliament
05.24.09 What Rockefeller and Gates Have in Common
05.24.09 Novell News Summary – Part III: SCO, Finance, Older Technology and a Little More
05.25.09 Reader’s Report from Spain: “Bill Gates Meets Tomorrow with Spain’s Prime Minister in Order to Ensure Spanish School Students Get ‘Addicted’”
05.25.09 Is the United Kingdom Immune to Software Patents? Continental Europe is… for Now… Sort of…
05.25.09 ZDNet/eWeek Ruins Peter Judge’s Good Article by Attacking Red Hat When Microsoft Does the Crime
05.26.09 Bill Gates Uses Malaria to Attack GNU/Linux
05.27.09 US Breeds Software Patents
05.28.09 Week of Microsoft Government Affairs: a Look Back, a Look Ahead
05.28.09 Microsoft Has NASA Block GNU/Linux Users
05.28.09 Unrest in OpenSUSE Forums
05.30.09 Novell News Summary – Part II: More Moblin, SLES, and SLED
05.30.09 More Dirty Deals in Europe Involve Microsoft, Microsoft Lobbies
05.30.09 XML Patents, Microsoft Aggression, and ODF Hostility
06.01.09 Linux DRM Warning
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
06.02.09 Site Filtering and Ethical Advertising
06.03.09 Troll Warning: Bill Snyder, IDG, Microsoft Investor
06.05.09 Details of Microsoft’s Lobbying in Europe
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
06.10.09 Microsoft Colonisation in Thailand and Peru
06.10.09 Is Microsoft Pulling a Xen on Vyatta?
06.12.09 Microsoft and ODF: “Not Just Beer”
06.13.09 Novell News Summary – Part I: Seedlings of OpenSUSE 11.2
06.14.09 Novell News Summary – Part III: SCO, GroupWise, Videos, and Utah
06.16.09 Reader’s Article: What Makes Microsoft’s Business Unethical
06.21.09 Novell News Summary – Part III: Novell’s Proprietary Business
06.22.09 Microsoft Brings ‘American EDGI’ to Illinois, Virginia, and Indiana
06.23.09 Bill Gates Mocks Free Software by Substituting “Proprietary” With “Commercial”
06.23.09 Patents Roundup: Microsoft, Danger in New Zealand, and Rise of Opposition
06.25.09 Formal Complaint Against European Commission for Harbouring Microsoft Lobbyists
06.29.09 GNOME’s Evolution Proceeds as Planned?
06.29.09 Microsoft and Novell Still Fight for .NET Inside GNU/Linux
07.01.09 Poll: 62% Don’t Trust Microsoft on Mono
07.11.09 Mono Roundup: Still Dangerous, Still Not Acceptable
07.12.09 Gartner Group Pretends Only Microsoft Competes with VMware, Novell Helps Microsoft Too
07.13.09 Microsoft Still Lobbies for Software Patents in Europe, via ACT/Jonathan Zuck
07.14.09 Microsoft’s Veiled Attack on Google Tries to Incite GNU/Linux People Against Chrome OS
07.16.09 Confirmed: Novell Puts Mono (and Moonlight) at Centre of the GNU/Linux Desktop
07.16.09 Patents Roundup: Peer-to-Patent Annual Report; FFII, FSFE and IBM Weigh in
07.20.09 Philanthropic Investments in Massive Chains of Retailers
07.21.09 Verdict on Microsoft’s Linux Patch: Embrace, Extend, and Assimilate
07.21.09 IBM’s Latest Filing Regarding SCO Bankruptcy Mentions “Fraud”
07.24.09 GPLv3 Reaches High Acceptance Rates, Novell Bans It, More Responses to Linus Appear
07.27.09 New Index Pages
07.27.09 Links Bank Holiday Monday: Schools and GNU/Linux
07.28.09 FSFE Responds to Browser Competition While Apple Proceeds to Blocking Another Competitor
07.28.09 Linus Torvalds’ Attitude Towards Free Software is Not News
07.29.09 What is Going on at VMware?
08.02.09 Patents Roundup: CityWare Under Siege, Kappos for Change We Can Believe in, and Skype
08.02.09 Comes Antitrust: Microsoft’s Attack Plan on GNU/Linux and Today’s Lessons
08.04.09 Microsoft Only Gave 14,010 Lines of Code
08.06.09 Microsoft Keeps Running from the Law… and from Tax
08.07.09 Please Sign Petition to Protest Amazon’s Remote Deletion of 1984 and Animal Farm
08.08.09 More Novell, Microsoft, Software Patents, and Mono Insults
08.11.09 Microsoft Migrations Without Approval
08.12.09 Guess Which Software Giant is Promoting Software Patents
08.13.09 Eye on Microsoft: Security Synopsis
08.15.09 The Poor People of Redmond, Rich Uncle Bill, and the Pharmaceutical Cartel
08.17.09 Emergency Motion to Prevent a Ban on Microsoft Word
08.20.09 WIPO: By the Elites, for the Elites
08.25.09 Eye on Microsoft: Windows Security News
08.25.09 Comes: Microsoft’s Anti-GNU/Linux Presentation and Explanation of Bribery
08.25.09 Vista 7 Campaign Starts Tomorrow
08.25.09 VMware Turns Sour After Microsoft Intervention
08.26.09 “Windows 7 Sins” Campaign a Great Success So Far
08.27.09 FSF Campaign Upsets Exactly Those Whom It Ought to Have Upset
08.29.09 Novell News Summary – Part I: OpenSUSE 11.2 Milestone 6
08.30.09 The Group from Boston That Makes Microsoft Scared (Not Novell)
08.31.09 What People Say About Microsoft’s War on Open Standards
09.01.09 Comes Antitrust: Microsoft McCarthyism Exposed
09.03.09 Patents Roundup: Patent Propaganda from the BBC, IBM in the Shadows, and Early Mistakes from David Kappos
09.05.09 Novell News Summary – Part III: Channel Changes, Revenue Drop, Virtualisation, and More
09.10.09 Miguel de Icaza Joins Microsoft
09.11.09 Microsoft Turncoat Quits
09.12.09 Novell News Summary – Part II: Almost No News About SUSE and Xandros
09.12.09 Microsoft’s Latest Mischiefs Justify Need to Watch the Patent Trolls
09.14.09 Microsoft Runs Away from the Press After Trying to Have GNU/Linux Sued by Proxy
09.14.09 Microsoft Brings to the United Kingdom Its Equivalent of EDGI or “Elevate (Addict) America”
09.17.09 gNewSense Gets Rid of Mono While Mono Gets Closer to Microsoft
09.18.09 Fox ‘News’ Brings Microsoft to “Open Source”
09.19.09 ODF: Microsoft Gets Its Way in Seattle, Washington
09.19.09 Novell News Summary – Part I: OpenSUSE 11.2 Reaches 7th Milestone, Conference Takes Place
09.20.09 Novell, Microsoft, and the “Microsoft Hater” Daemonisation Label
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
09.22.09 Alan Cox in 2002: “Microsoft Has Publicly Stated That it Has Patents on Critical Parts of .NET and Will Enforce Them”
09.23.09 Linux ‘Bloated’ Claims Came from Novell, Debunked
09.23.09 Microsoft and “Corporate Politics”
09.23.09 Microsoft Tax Avoidance, by the Numbers
09.24.09 IBM Pressured to Help Advance Desktop GNU/Linux in the West
09.24.09 Is Microsoft/Novell’s Moonlight Dead Now?
09.25.09 Is Moblin a Microsoft-taxed Linux in the Making?
09.26.09 Richard Stallman is Not the Bad Guy
09.26.09 Novell News Summary – Part II: SUSE Rep Positive About Desktop GNU/Linux, SGI Supports SLES
09.28.09 Another Microsoft Vice President Abandons Microsoft But Lands in Cisco
09.30.09 Groklaw Groks Mono, Miguel de Icaza, Microsoft, and More
09.30.09 Microsoft Might Support Intel’s Moblin to Make GNU/Linux More Microsoft Dependent
09.30.09 If There is a “Microsoft Hater” Label, Should There Also be an “Apple Hater” Label?
10.02.09 Novell Carries on Losing Business
10.04.09 Amicus Avalanche Opposing Software Patents in the United States (Novell Still Missing)
10.04.09 Patents Roundup: Uniloc Appeals Microsoft’s Dodge, OpenGL 3 Patent Issues Rear Ugly Head, Apple Innovates Crippleware
10.05.09 Lest CodePlex perplex – by Richard Stallman
10.06.09 Miguel de Icaza Compares Richard Stallman to George Bush
10.08.09 Microsoft Wins Free Software-Hostile Deal in Europe, Its Front Group ACT Pleased
10.08.09 The FFII and Red Hat’s CEO Express Dissatisfaction with United States Patent System
10.08.09 FSF Mails NGOs Regarding Microsoft Traps While Microsoft Continues Abuse of Power in Kenya
10.08.09 Microsoft CEO Admits Vista 7 Won’t Sell PCs
10.09.09 Here Come the Anti-FSF Shills, Gartner
10.09.09 Patents Roundup: Microsoft Patents Deactivation, Lisbon Treaty in Midst of Scandal, Eolas Shows Why Software Patents Are Bad
10.09.09 Samsung Brings Microsoft’s ‘Linux Tax’ to Android As Well
10.10.09 Novell VP Brushes Off Microsoft’s Attacks on GNU/Linux, Promotes .NET
10.15.09 Jeremy Allison Recommends Passing Mono Software to Basket of Proprietary Software
10.17.09 Novell News Summary – Part III: SCO, SAP, GroupWise Abandonment in LA
10.19.09 Bill Gates Takes His GMO Patent Investments/Experiments to India
10.19.09 FSFE Adds Weight to Call for Mono Resistance
10.20.09 Monsanto: The Microsoft of Food
10.20.09 Patents Roundup: Microsoft Patent Tax, FireStar-Red Hat Revisited, US Patent Crisis
10.22.09 Seeds of Doubt in Bill Gates Investments
10.23.09 Nokia Lets Its Inner Patent Monster Go Loose
10.23.09 Lots of New Vendor/Developer Support for OpenDocument Format
10.25.09 FSF Hostility/Disagreement from a Libertarian, TechDirt, and Microsoft General Counsel
10.26.09 Why Adobe Does Not Like Free(dom) Software
10.26.09 Microsoft Has Lobbyists and Cronies Around European Commission, Working to Shatter MySQL and Defend IE Monoculture
10.27.09 Call for Federal Action Against Microsoft (and Gates) Tax Dodge
10.28.09 Some Perceive Toddlers as Emerging Markets, a Business
10.28.09 Patents Roundup: OIN Grows, Microsoft Ally LG Uses Patent Bullies, Microsoft and Amazon Advance Anti-Free Software Laws
10.29.09 Microsoft Tries to Use Eclipse for Microsoft Lock-in
10.30.09 Jeremy Allison on “Why Free Software” (as Ogg)
11.02.09 Response to The Guardian’s Boosting of Vista 7 (Including Transcript)
11.04.09 New Problems at Novell: Media Backlash, Layoffs, Pension Takeaways
11.04.09 Canada’s National Bureau of Economic Research: Patents Harm Poor People (and Help Rich People)
11.07.09 No Sense of Shame Left at Microsoft
11.07.09 Mono and GNOME 3.0
11.09.09 Some New Examples of FUD Against Linux, GNU, and the GPL
11.09.09 Patents Roundup: Supreme Court Paywalls Raised as Bilski (Re)Starts, Microsoft Patent Lawsuits, EU Community Patent
11.09.09 More Proof That NASSCOM Should be Dismantled
11.10.09 Novell and Microsoft Expand Relationship to Boost Windows, .NET, Visual Studio, Linux Patent Tax
11.11.09 It’s About Freedom, Not Mere Visibility of Code
11.13.09 Novell — Like Corel — Becomes a Microsoft Vassal, Promotes XAML-based Desktop
11.14.09 Novell News Summary – Part III: Pulse Again, SCO’s Jeff Hunsaker is Out, GroupWise Items
11.15.09 Microsoft Breaks the Law, Teaches World That ‘Evil’ GPL is ‘Viral’
11.16.09 Xbox 360 (Live) Users Banned, Buyers Flee
11.16.09 Revisionism from Microsoft’s Partner, Likewise
11.17.09 Moonlight and Mono Not GNU/Linux Projects Anymore
11.18.09 Moodle Enters OU, Flinders University Sells Young People to Microsoft
11.19.09 Can’t Trust Microsoft with Code, So Why is Fedora 12 Mono and Winforms Dependent?
11.19.09 An Inventors’ System Hijacked by Lawyers
11.20.09 Hypothesis: Mono Proponents Will Replace GIMP with Paint.NET
11.20.09 CodePlex is Not Great: How Microsoft Poisons Everything
11.20.09 Mono: Deaf to the Facts
11.20.09 “Microsoft Seems to be Patenting Stuff Like Crazy”
11.21.09 Novell News Summary – Part II: SLES and Samsung’s Bada, Enlightenment
11.22.09 Novell and Microsoft Have Big XAML News in Store
11.23.09 Microsoft Builds Coalitions of NGOs, Makes Political and Educational Changes
11.23.09 Novell’s Vice President Could be Tweeting for Microsoft Dollars
11.25.09 Explanation of What Bill Gates’ Patent Investments Do to Developing World
11.25.09 Microsoft Looks to Manage “Multi-Million Dollar Budget and Relationship With an Outside PR Agency” to Attack Software Freedom
11.26.09 Programming for Proprietary Platforms a Risk to One’s Livelihood
11.27.09 Beyond the ‘Public Relations’
11.27.09 FSFE and Others Denounce Latest Microsoft-inspired FUD Against GNU/Linux and Free Software
11.28.09 Video Transcript of Vandana Shiva on Insane Patents
11.29.09 “Open” as in “Not Free” and “Non-Standard”
11.29.09 Microsoft Grabs More Control of Schools in United States, Serbia, Still Looking to Derail Brazil
11.30.09 Patents Roundup: Threat of Software Patents in Mexico, Sweden; Microsoft Still Fights with (and for) Software Patents
12.01.09 Pressure Mounts on Bill and Steve to Repay Stolen Money
12.02.09 More Complaints About EIFv2 Abuse and Free Software FUD from General Electric (GE)
12.03.09 With Microsoft Monopoly in Check, Bill Gates Proceeds to Creating More Monopolies
12.03.09 Less OpenSUSE, More Microsoft Software at Novell
12.04.09 Mono Bullies
12.04.09 AIDS Organisation Manager: “Gates Has Created a Huge Blood-Buying Operation That Only Cares About Money, Not About People”
12.05.09 Novell News Summary – Part I: OpenSUSE in London, Nürnberg; Infrastructure Repositories Migration
12.06.09 Head of Microsoft Malaysia Jumps Ship
12.07.09 Microsoft Seizes Control of Grameen and Uses it to Dump Against Free/Libre Software; Microsoft Dumping Comes to Latin America and Maryland
12.09.09 Young Napoleon Comes to Africa and Told Off
12.10.09 Gates/Microsoft Tax Dodge and Agriculture Monopoly Revisited
12.11.09 GNOME Interests Seemingly Bought by Corporations
12.11.09 Patents Roundup: Microsoft’s FAT Ambush, RPX “Protection Racket”, and Life-threatening Patents
12.12.09 GNOME at Risk of Losing Its GNU Status
12.12.09 Microsoft is Apparently Push-polling for Patent Tax on GNU/Linux
12.14.09 Gates-Backed Company Accused of Monopoly Abuse and Investigated
12.14.09 Another Former Novell Employee Sees No Turnaround
12.14.09 Push-Polling Against the “G” in GNOME
12.15.09 Bill Gates Tightens Information/Agriculture Grip on Africa by Funding African Journalists, Expanding to India
12.16.09 Recent Attacks on GNU and Richard Stallman Based on Distortions, Lies
12.17.09 FSFE Highlights Brad Smith’s Attack on Free Software, Microsoft Blogs Present Smith’s Spin
12.17.09 UK Intellectual Monopoly Office (UK-IPO) May be Breaking the Law
12.19.09 Simon Phipps: “Linux is No Longer Important Enough to Justify a Business Unit at Novell”
12.19.09 Moonlight and Hyper-V Still Novell-Only and SUSE-Only in Some Ways
12.19.09 Novell News Summary – Part III: SAP and Novell Kiss Again, Groupwise Shamed in Public by Google
12.20.09 Accurate Coverage of Novell
12.20.09 ‘Microsoft Press’ Acknowledges Microsoft’s Free Software-Hostile EU Deal
12.20.09 Microsoft Allegedly Pays $500,000,000 for Verizon to Remove Google
12.20.09 The Great Pharmaceutical Patent Hoax and the Gates Pharmaceutical Patent Investments
12.20.09 “DRM is Probably 70% of the Complication in Supporting Open Source”
12.20.09 New Information About Intel’s Attack on OLPC, Bill Gates Hijacks the Educational Systems
12.21.09 Oracle Likely to Own MySQL Shortly, European Commission’s Credibility at Stake
12.21.09 Gates Successor May Leave, Steve Ballmer Expected to be Kicked Out Too
12.22.09 “We Need ACTA to Send Microsoft and Linus to Jail”
12.23.09 Patents Roundup: Software Patents and ACTA at STOA, Gates-backed Monsanto Wants to Own Mexico’s Food Supply
12.27.09 Microsoft’s Gates Seeks More Monopolies
12.28.09 Apple Helps Microsoft Attack Google’s Linux While Google Spreads GNU/Linux, ODF
12.29.09 Microsoft’s Racketeering with Patents and Abolition of Software Patents Reexamined
12.31.09 Bill Gates Puts in a Million to Ratify His Role as Education Minister
12.31.09 Another Microsoft General Manager Quits the Company, Microsoft Refuses to Say Why
01.01.10 Novell’s Christmas Presents for Microsoft
01.02.10 Munich Migrates to GNU/Linux, ODF and OpenOffice.org; Microsoft EDGI Still Lurking
01.03.10 Microsoft Bribes to Make Education Microsoft-based
01.04.10 Bill Gates’ Influence in Obama Administration and Africa Increases Even Further
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 Denounced Again by Former Employee for Not Paying Washington Tax; Bill Gates Increases Washington (DC) Influence
01.08.10 Lobbyists Dodge the Law; Bill Gates Lobbies the US Education System with Another $10 Million
01.08.10 Microsoft’s Home State is Running Out of Money While Microsoft Avoids Paying Tax
01.08.10 FSF Recommends That the European Commission Should Unbundle PCs/Windows
01.09.10 Novell News Summary – Part II: Ballnux and MSI/HP Return, More Ballnux at CES 2010
01.09.10 Ximian Founder Quits Novell
01.10.10 Gates Investments in Education Criticised; Monsanto (Gates-Backed) Corruption Revisited
01.11.10 FFII: EU ‘Trade’ Agreement an Attack on Free Software Developers
01.11.10 Miguel de Icaza Groomed by Microsoft with MVP Award
01.11.10 Latest Vista 7 Failures and Microsoft Dumping
01.13.10 “British Education” is Microsoft Indoctrination
01.13.10 Week of Monsanto
01.14.10 How Microsoft Removes GNU/Linux and OpenOffice.org from Cyber Cafés and School Clusters
01.16.10 Reader’s Article: Alternate Time-lines
01.16.10 Private Microsoft Army at BETT 2010; Apple Sends Out Cease and Desist Army to Control Web Coverage
01.16.10 GNOME Should Learn from Novell’s Mistakes
01.16.10 Novell News Summary – Part II: SUSE (SLES/SLED), Samsung-Moblin, and LG-Microsoft Partnership
01.19.10 Firm of Bill Gates’ Father Accused of Enabling Looting of $500,000,000, Microsoft Tax Dodge Goes to Olympia, Department of Justice Prioritises Financial Fraud
01.19.10 Patents Roundup: Microsoft Keeps Ruining (to Exploit) the Patent System, USPTO’s Purpose in Greater Doubt, Cisco Surrenders to Trolls
01.20.10 How Microsoft Exploits the Term “Open Source” to Marginalise Freedom
01.20.10 “Emergency!” Says Microsoft as It’s Losing Market Share; All Versions of Windows Are Vulnerable
01.20.10 Obama Finally Slams the USPTO, But Parrots Talking Point from Microsoft and Intellectual Monopolists
01.20.10 New Opinions on Mono, Miguel de Icaza, and the “Windows Stratagem”
01.21.10 Patents Roundup: ACTA Threatens Free Software in New Zealand, the Rambus Extortion Racket Expands, and Google Earns New Monopoly
01.22.10 Microsoft Security Negligence Confirmed: Critical Internet Explorer Flaw Known and Ignored for 4 Months
01.23.10 Arianna Huffington and the Gates Family Make a Killing
01.24.10 Humanity to Others’ Agenda
01.24.10 Huffington Post Lets Microsoft Lie and Lie and Lie
01.25.10 The Nerve of Bill Gates
01.26.10 Rich Uncle Bill Comes to Visit the New York Times
01.27.10 Microsoft Hijacks More of Education Sector in Carolina, Michigan, and Georgia
01.27.10 Microsoft to Spy on Indians, Bank Accounts, Health Records (and Conduct Profiling of Customers)
01.27.10 Chief Microsoft Lobbyist Bill Gates Goes on Anti-Google Tour in the Press
01.27.10 Mozilla is Fighting for Us
01.28.10 What the Yahoo! Deal Means for Ubuntu GNU/Linux (and Mono)
01.28.10 Patents Roundup: Novell Gets More Software Patents, Patent Watchtroll Gene Quinn is Sued, Microsoft Writer Slams Firefox for Protesting Against Patents
01.28.10 Microsoft Makes Questionable Deals in Kuwait, Malta, and Ireland
01.29.10 Fans of Apple Disappointed by iPad; Hype is Paid for by Apple
01.29.10 Novell Promotes Apple, .NET
01.30.10 GNU/Linux Yawns at Apple’s Large iPhone (Without the Phone Functionality)
01.31.10 Novell and Freedom Are Incompatible
01.31.10 Patents Roundup: Patent Overload, ACTA, and More
01.31.10 Novell News Summary – Part III: File Management Suite
02.02.10 Microsoft and Its Drones Lobby for Even More Tax Breaks; Bill Gates Tries to Loot Italians
02.02.10 Zonker’s (Novell) Disdain for the FSF and IDG’s Conflict of Interests
02.03.10 Manchester Police and the CIA Under Windows Attack
02.03.10 Microsoft’s Lawsuit Against Google and What It Teaches Us About Mono
02.03.10 Relationships Map
02.04.10 Bill Gates Hides Behind GNU/Linux in New Web Sites
02.04.10 Computer History Development Timeline: Microsoft Perspective
02.04.10 Microsoft Whitewashes Criminal History in the Press and Attacks the GPL Using Allies
02.05.10 Black Duck Wants Proprietary Monopoly on Free Software Analysis, SFLC Responds
02.05.10 More Microsoft Revisionism from the New York Times, Courtesy of Former Microsoft Employee
02.07.10 iPad is Like Zune
02.07.10 Patents Roundup: Extortion, Protection Rackets, Patent Trolling, and Small Victory for Mozilla
02.08.10 Ubuntu Perspectives: Signs of Change
02.08.10 Facebook and Microsoft Revisited; New Examples of Microsoft Entryism
02.09.10 Patents Roundup: EFF Defends VoIP; Google, Apple, and Black Duck Stifle Progress; Microsoft Joins RPX
02.09.10 More Mono and Patent Poison from Novell
02.09.10 United Nations and World Bank Help Bill Gates and Microsoft Colonise Africa
02.10.10 Georgia, Kentucky, Colorado, and Sunderland Receive the Microsoft EDGI Treatment
02.10.10 Harper’s Article on Bill Gates Turning Hunger Into Profit
02.10.10 Microsoft’s Touch of Death
02.11.10 FSF Smears
02.11.10 Attacking GNU/Linux Using “Donations”
02.12.10 Alex Brown, Miguel de Icaza, and Full-time Microsoft Employee Smear ODF Again
02.13.10 Novell News Summary – Part III: SCO Updates, Financial Results Are Near
02.14.10 Patents Roundup: Escalations in Europe, SAP Pretense, CCIA Goes Wrong, and IETF Opens Up
02.17.10 Nobody is Born a Microsoft Employee
02.17.10 Microsoft is Still Attacking Free/Open Source Software With Security FUD
02.18.10 ODF Alliance Newsletter: February 2009
02.19.10 Bill Gates Slammed for Global Warming Debate Aversion, Conspiracy to Defraud Taxpayers
02.19.10 IEEE Turns Young People Into Microsoft Customers
02.19.10 Nathan Myhrvold’s Intellectual Ventures Could be Biggest Racketeering Operation in the United States and Beyond
02.21.10 Just in Time: SCO Finds Another Cash Injection Proposal… from Former SCO Chairman
02.22.10 Bill Gates Invests Heavily in Deception About Global Warming and in Abusive Monopolies
02.23.10 Microsoft’s Deal With Amazon is Extortion and Should Get Reported
02.25.10 Free Software Must Not Fight Fire With Fire
02.27.10 Novell News Summary – Part II: Two Weeks of SUSE, Samsung, and LG
02.28.10 Microsoft Infiltrates Linux Expo (SCALE 8x) and Uses “Open Source” Dressing to Spread Silver Lie/XAML
03.04.10 Firm Behind Novell Bid Has Shady Past, Could be Tied to Microsoft (Paul E. Singer’s ‘Vulture Fund’)
03.05.10 Microsoft Brand Far from Respected (Says Fortune), Company’s Future May Resemble Sun’s Trajectory (Says BNET)
03.08.10 Microsoft to Use FDA Official to Take Over Patient Records in the United States
03.10.10 Bill Gates and Steve Jobs Extortionists With Software Patents
03.10.10 Patents Roundup: Lawyer Takeover, Failed Reform, and Policy Laundering With ACTA
03.12.10 Patents Roundup: Both Apple and Microsoft Use Software Patents Against GNU/Linux, Get Sued for Violation Along With Google and Facebook; Amazon-USPTO Comedy Resumes
03.13.10 Latest SCO-Novell Drama in a Nutshell
03.14.10 Canada Sets Precedence in Class-action Lawsuit Over Microsoft Abuses; Gates Still Uses Money for Influence
03.15.10 Groklaw: Microsoft “Wants to Do More Novell-style Patent Deals”
03.15.10 Huffington Post, Technologizer, and Other Web Sites in Bill’s Pocket
03.16.10 ACTA Booster Luc Pierre Devigne Redefines Open Standards (With Software Patents Included)
03.16.10 Microsoft Happy About Apple’s Invocation of Software Patents Against GNU/Linux
03.16.10 Government Should Avoid Proprietary Software and ‘Clouds’
03.17.10 Patents (on Life) Roundup: Human Tissue and Crops Monopolised
03.17.10 Gates Roundup: Monsanto, Colonisation, Clinton Ties, and Control of Education
03.18.10 Magalhães + Microsoft = Corruption
03.18.10 Microsoft Brings MPEG-LA-LA Land to the Web and Threatens GNU/Linux With Software Patent Lawsuits
03.18.10 Former Microsoft Employees and Boosters Call Microsoft MVP Miguel de Icaza and Other Microsoft Apologists “Most Powerful Voices” in Open Source
03.19.10 Novell Hires More Mono People (Despite Sacking SUSE Developers) and Microsoft Buys an OSBC Spot/Seat
03.20.10 Patents Roundup: Android/Linux Defended by HTC; Monsanto and Ghana
03.20.10 Microsoft MVP de Icaza: Microsoft “Shot the .NET Ecosystem in the Foot” Because of Patent Threats
03.21.10 Given Choice, Customers Reject Microsoft
03.22.10 Novell Accused of Lying About Red Hat Products (Again)
03.22.10 Government Cronyism Watch: Microsoft Inside FCC, California, Washington, and Bahrain
03.23.10 With Novell up for Sale, Novell Products Become Too Risky to Buy
03.24.10 Software Patents Complication Shows Why Linux Needs the FSF
03.29.10 Microsoft Services Cyber Crime
03.31.10 Patents Roundup: Several Defeats for Bad Types of Patents, Apple Risks Embargo, and Microsoft Lobbies Europe Intensely
03.31.10 The ‘Conspiracy’ of Mono
04.01.10 Deutschlandfunk, Deutschlandradio, and the Nation of New Zealand Show the Way Regarding Software Patentability
04.03.10 Has Novell Exceeded Lobbying Power in GNOME?
04.06.10 Microsoft’s ‘American EDGI’ Comes to Massachusetts and Nevada After New York Deal
04.07.10 The World According to Gates: Constructing a System of Profitable Philanthropy
04.08.10 Thumbs up to Ubuntu for Removing a Part of Microsoft; TurboHercules Likely a Psystar-Type Microsoft Shell
04.09.10 Why IBM Does Deserve Scrutiny (Updated)
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 Microsoft Supports the Digital Economy Bill, Delisted from NASDAQ Global Sustainability Index
04.12.10 One Hand Shows “Open Source”, Another Hand Shows SaaS
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 Patents Roundup: IBM, TurboHercules, Microsoft, New Zealand, Palm, and CompTIA
04.15.10 Microsoft and Novell Overwhelm Linux Collaboration Summit; Microsoft MVP Publishes “Revisionist, Uninformed, and Narrow-Thinking” Article About GNU/Linux
04.19.10 Waggener Edstrom and Microsoft’s Government Insider Defend the Company’s Reluctance to Pay Tax
04.19.10 Ina Fried Receives Microsoft Payback as Gates’ Reputation Laundering Tour Kicks Off in US Colleges
04.19.10 Bill Gates — Just Like Microsoft — Incompatible With Tax Law
04.21.10 Adobe Turns to Linux After Apple Snub
04.21.10 Promoting GNU/Linux for Recycling Reasons (Video)
04.23.10 Free Software Enables Developing and Developed Countries to Unshackle Themselves From Intellectual Monopolies
04.23.10 Entryism Watch: Novell Employee Not Confirmed in OpenOffice.org Role
04.25.10 Patents Roundup: Patent Absurdity More Widely Understood, New Zealand’s Case Against Them Made Clearer, and Why Free Software Must Reject Them
04.26.10 Bill Gates Sr. Lobbies to Keep Tax Agenda Off Gates’ Tax Exemptions and Microsoft’s Tax Evasion
04.26.10 Monsanto Investor Bill Gates Finds Way for Taxpayers to Fund His Patents (on Dangerous Life Forms)
04.27.10 Author Calls for Action to Stop Bill Gates’ Abduction of US Education
04.28.10 Chem4Word Should Support Free Software Platforms/Office Suites to Better Qualify as Free Software
04.30.10 Does Android’s Chief Compare Steve Jobs to North Korea’s Dead Leader (Kim Il-sung)?
04.30.10 Steve Jobs: “A Patent Pool is Being Assembled to Go After Theora and Other “Open Source” Codecs Now.”
05.02.10 Apple’s and Microsoft’s New Motto: Do More Evil, Together
05.02.10 Yahoo! and Microsoft! Are Like Novell! and Microsoft!
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 Giving Legitimacy to Microsoft at the Expense of “Open Source”
05.04.10 Patents Roundup: Red Hat on Patent Trolls; Apple Antitrust; Microsoft Attacks Theora, Which is Needed to Save Our Video Culture
05.07.10 Microsoft Extorts GNU/Linux While Distorting the Meaning of “Open Source”
05.08.10 Patents Roundup: Defensive Patent License, KnowRi§ht, Patent Overhaul Bill Stalled, Patent Absurdity, Brad Feld, and Pirate Party
05.09.10 Microsoft’s and Gates’ Tax Evasion College Tours
05.10.10 Software Patents Rumble: Apple, Microsoft, Nokia, and GNU/Linux
05.11.10 Bill Gates and Microsoft Guard Their Interest in Schoolchildren and Colleges
05.11.10 Opinions: What Microsoft Does to Netbooks™ and Smartbooks™
05.15.10 Why Peter Murray-Rust Should Not Work With Microsoft
05.17.10 OpenDocument Format is Ready for HTML5; Stéphane Rodriguez Explains “The OOXML Interoperability Scam”
05.17.10 Microsoft is Suppressing the Chinese Population
05.19.10 Stephen Walli is Back at Software Patents Aggressor Microsoft After Causing Damage to Software Freedom
05.19.10 The Microsoft/Novell Mono Lobby
05.19.10 EU: NoSoftwarePatents and FFII Respond to Google’s VP8 Announcement
05.19.10 Microsoft AstroTurf May be Linked to the Notorious “Dr. Evil” (Richard Berman) or Grassroots Enterprise
05.20.10 La Quadrature du Net and the FFII (EU) Respond to the European Commission’s Digital Agenda
05.20.10 Techrights Welcomes Google’s WebM/VP8 Push
05.21.10 Advocates of Free/Open Source Software and Standards Do Not Welcome EU ICT Plan (Digital Agenda)
05.23.10 Patents Roundup: Patent Bully Erich Spangenberg Finally Loses, Europe Still Troubled, Microsoft Bullies With Software Patents, Monsanto Uses Earthquakes to Spread Patent Liabilities
05.24.10 Boston Globe Writes About Gates’ Dangerous Influence on US Education, Memphis Provides New Example
05.24.10 Microsoft Receives More Tax Exemptions (for Data Centres), Leeway on Environmental Issues
05.26.10 Latvia’s Digital Independence Under Attack by Microsoft
05.27.10 Lawyers Love Software Patents, Developers Do Not
05.28.10 Eye on Apple: Monopolisation and GPL Violation
05.28.10 Microsoft is Not an Open Source Company, It’s a Software Patents Company With Lobbyists
05.28.10 Today We Conquer Algorithms, Tomorrow… Earthly Life!
05.30.10 Bill Gates’ Reputation Laundering is Good Investment for Microsoft Corporation
05.30.10 “Both Sen. Williams and Mr. Gates Do a Great Disservice to the Hundreds of Thousands of Students and Teachers”
05.31.10 Tax-Free Financial Gain at Microsoft Assisted by Governor Gregoire
05.31.10 Where Gates Wealth Goes
05.31.10 Apple Spits on Software Freedom
06.01.10 A Glimpse Back at Red Hat’s and Novell’s Stance on Software Patents in 2005
06.04.10 Patent Promiscuity is Failure, Patent Selectively is Success
06.07.10 US Education Steps Aside for Bill
06.10.10 New Doctoral Thesis Explores the Effects of Software Patent Policy on the Motivation and Innovation of Free/Libre and Open Source Developers
06.11.10 Constructive Critics Defend Spectators’ Freedom, So Why Do Passive Observers Criticise Them?
06.12.10 Apple Exploits Free Software, Then Bans Free Software and Also Bans Competition (and FTC Investigation Launched Against Apple)
06.12.10 Software Patents Debate in LinuxTag 2010 and Elsewhere in Europe
06.14.10 Bill Gates Lobbies in Nigeria for Governments (Taxpayers) to Solve Polio Problem That Gates’ Investments in Oil Are Creating
06.14.10 Bill Gates et al Told Off by Haitian Farmers for Monsanto Lobbying/Investments
06.15.10 Debate Rages on Regarding the Open Invention Network (OIN)
06.16.10 Harald Welte Supports Apple in Enforcement Against Apple and Freedom-Hostile Apple Sympathisers Withdraw From GNOME
06.17.10 “Gates Now Runs an Investment Company in the Guise of a Charity.”
06.17.10 Entryism Watch: OOXML Lobbyist Wipro Enters OpenOffice.org Project
06.18.10 How Bill Gates Uses Microsoft and the “Megatrolls” to Get Even Richer
06.18.10 FSF Hostility From Novell’s Former Managers Amid Fight Against ACTA
06.22.10 Faking Freedom
06.22.10 Oracle Doesn’t “Go Bananas Over EIF 2.0” Being Subverted by Microsoft and Friends
06.22.10 Bill Gates and Microsoft Use Government Support to Turn Public Schools Into Private Business
06.23.10 Bill Gates Still Works for Microsoft
06.26.10 Microsoft ‘TEs’ (AstroTurf Employees) Comment on Predictions of Microsoft Doom – Using Talking Points, Without Disclosure
06.28.10 What Microsoft Wants Gregoire Gives
06.29.10 More Bilski Analysis/Links (and Microsoft Front Group Commends Florian Müller)
06.29.10 Microsoft Keeps Losing Market Share to Google, Goes Aggressive, Discriminates Against GNU/Linux, and Grabs People’s Healthcare System
06.29.10 Bilski Case Analyses: Good News, Bad News
06.30.10 Bill Gates Successfully Lobbies Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper Ahead of G8 to Make Countries (Taxpayers) Pay for His Initiatives
07.01.10 ACCESS Co. is Dying
07.05.10 “Florian Mueller Appears to be Assigned to IBM Whereas Monty Seems to be Pointed at Oracle.”
07.05.10 Microsoft Plays Government
07.07.10 Jonathan D. G. Jones Promotes Monopoly on Food, BBC Gives Him a Platform
07.07.10 News Failure
07.08.10 Financial Report Says That Novell “Continues to Disappoint” and Novell Still Wants to ‘Own’ OpenOffice.org
07.20.10 UK Government Gets More Serious About GNU/Linux Migration
07.20.10 Links: Women in Free Software, India’s “National Browser” is Free Software, Apple Calls Firefox Home “Adults Only”, OpenSolaris Blues, WordPress on GPL, New Wine…
07.21.10 Jonathan Jones Acknowledges He is in Monsanto’s Pocket (Updatedx2)
07.21.10 More Criminal Activity in Bill Gates’ Past (Corbis Fraud), Russian Spies at Microsoft
07.21.10 Fraunhofer Promotes Software Patents, Even in Europe (and Van Quickenborne Facilitates It)
07.21.10 Fraunhofer FOKUS and the Software Patents Lobby in Germany
07.21.10 Microsoft Co-founder Paul Allen Joins Philanthrocapitalism Club While Bill Gates Invests in Climate Liars
07.22.10 Microsoft Loves ‘Open’ Core
07.22.10 Links: PC-BSD 8.1 and Lightspark 0.4.2 Released, Other Free Software/Open Source News
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 Links: Free Software Grows in Europe
07.23.10 Links: Many New Releases of GNU/Linux, More Tablets
07.24.10 Apple Definitely the Most Freedom-Hostile Phone Maker, MeeGo (Permissive) Makes Gains
07.25.10 Microsoft’s Worst Open Source ‘Infiltration’ Ever
07.27.10 European Ombudsman Confirms Refusal of Access to Secret ACTA Documents
07.27.10 Benchmark Reviews is Plagiarism, Exposed, Resorts to DMCA Abuse (to Censor Critics)
07.28.10 What to Make of Apple…
07.31.10 The Ubuntu-GNOME Debate Carries On (Updated)
08.03.10 Bug #625728
08.04.10 Microsoft’s Latest Coup in South America
08.04.10 Misleading Stories Based on Misleading Statistics (Microsoft and GNOME)
08.04.10 ‘Be Careful’ Warning Accompanies Gavin Clarke’s Coverage of GNU/Linux
08.04.10 Richard Stallman Explains Why Microsoft is ‘Infiltrating’ Free/Open Source Software Events
08.04.10 Washington Post Gets Guts, Warns America About Bill Gates’ Hijack of Education
08.05.10 Making Money for Increasing Microsoft Threat to GNU/Linux
08.06.10 Groklaw Responds to Latest FUD from Florian Müller
08.07.10 Why Bill Gates Needs to Abduct School Children
08.07.10 Supreme Court Watch: Elena Kagan’s Policy on Patents Scarcely Known
08.09.10 Groklaw Repeats Warning About Mono as a Patent Threat
08.09.10 Bill Gates Sells Drugs in Less Developed Nations (for Profit)
08.09.10 Bill Gates Chastised by Increasing Number of Newspapers and Dedicated Web Sites for Taking Over US Education
08.11.10 Interesting Message Connects Bill Gates to Eugenics
08.11.10 “Walmart is No Longer Carrying the Zune“ and Microsoft’s IronPython is in Trouble
08.12.10 Eben Moglen: “We Will Not Between Now and 2020 Face a Copyright Crisis But the Patent Crisis is Not Going Away.”
08.13.10 FFII in More Disagreements With NoSoftwarePatents Founder, James Gosling Foresaw Java Lawsuit
08.16.10 IBM Challenges Gartner Group’s Credibility
08.16.10 Oracle’s Java Aggression Spills to Other Sun Projects
08.17.10 Larry Ellison: “If an Open Source Product Gets Good Enough, We’ll Simply Take It.”
08.21.10 Bogus Oracle Patents, Broken USPTO, Apple’s Patent Aggression, and Acacia Gets More Money to Troll
08.24.10 Patent Trolls Still Rejoice and David Kappos is Change We Can’t Believe in
08.25.10 Microsoft is ‘Openwashing’ Azure
08.26.10 Microsoft AstroTurfer Jonathan Zuck (ACT) Falsely Represents Small European Businesses, Other RAND Pushers Named
08.26.10 Bill Gates’ Plan to Control US Education Proceeds as Planned, Now Assisted by Lobbyists
08.28.10 Microsoft a Major Breeding Ground of Patent Trolls
08.28.10 Patents Kill, So Let’s Just Kill Them
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 Florian Promotes MPEG-LA at the Expense of Free Software, Defends Intellectual Monopolies Too
09.03.10 Divide and Conquer: How Microsoft Fractures Free and Open Source Software, GNU/Linux
09.04.10 Death Patents Now Challenged and Software Patents Continue to be Used by Apple and Microsoft Against Linux
09.06.10 Microsoft Gets Sued in China, Microsoft Sues People Who Share Microsoft Software in Auction Site
09.06.10 Qatar Hands the Keys Over to Microsoft With a New MOU
09.07.10 World’s Leading Medical Journal (The Lancet) Slams Bill Gates for Supporting Tobacco Industry
09.08.10 Seattle Weekly: Microsoft May be Breaking the Law in California (Again)
09.09.10 Teachers Demand That Bill Gates Gets Thrown Out of the Education System and Stops Controlling Coverage
09.10.10 Apple is Still Attacking GNU Linux and the GPL
09.12.10 Why End Users and Developers Need to Shun Apple
09.12.10 WIPO and WTO Are Not International
09.13.10 The Difference Between Florian Müller and Hugo Lueders (Pro-Microsoft Lobbyists)
09.14.10 Open Tech Exchange Explains How Microsoft Derailed GNU/Linux in Governments, Using “Corruption”
09.14.10 Lord Sainsbury is Pushing Monsanto’s Agenda in Europe
09.14.10 PR Disaster: Discussion With Bill Gates Turns to “Death Panels ”
09.16.10 Bill Gates Called a “Strong Eugenicist”
09.17.10 Strengthening Windows by Marginalising the Freedom Component
09.17.10 Taking Over Linux, by Proxy
09.19.10 In Search of the Full Story About Swiss Canton and Microsoft
09.20.10 VMware May Ruin SUSE and Harm GNU/Linux at Large If Acquisition Goes Through
09.20.10 As Microsoft Moves to the East, Microsoft Professional Developers Conference is Shrinking Significantly
09.20.10 More Microsoft Antitrust and Tax Evasion, Legalised by Former Microsoft Management (Ross Hunter) in the Government
09.20.10 Silverlight is Dying Not Just Because of HTML 5 But Because of Adobe Trash Too
09.21.10 Steve Ballmer Lobbies to Pay Less Tax
09.24.10 “Alliance for Education Used to Fabricate the Astroturf “Our Schools Coalition” For Reforms That the Gates-puppet Alliance is Pushing”
09.24.10 Microsoft Bribes and Tax Avoidance
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
09.26.10 Tax-Exempt Gates Family Still Lobbies to Tax Its Peers Even More
09.27.10 Fake or Dodgy Donations
09.27.10 GPL Scare and Mono Advocacy Still Commonly Rooted in Microsoft
09.28.10 USPTO Receives Overwhelming Opposition to Software Patents
09.28.10 Outercurve – Just Another Microsoft Proxy/Group
09.30.10 Strong Momentum in the Fight Against Weak Patents
09.30.10 LibreOffice Has the Potential to Altogether Replace Oracle OpenOffice.org (OOOo)
09.30.10 As Patent Extortion Increases, Best Strategy May be to Have Patent Trolls Sue Software Monopolies
09.30.10 Increased Opposition to Bill Gates/Microsoft Exploitation of Schools, Shameless PR Explained
10.02.10 More Evidence That Bill Gates’ Destructive Hijack of the Education System is About Control and Microsoft Indoctrination
10.03.10 ACCESS (ALP) is Now Dead, Freedom Lives
10.03.10 OOXML Patent Lock-up Teaches Microsoft and Others That Software Patents Hurt
10.03.10 SUSE is Getting More Restrictive and Virtualisation-centered Ahead of Expected Sale to VMB_ware
10.04.10 Microsoft Puts Wealth in Hands of Cyber-criminals, Cheapens Real Workers
10.04.10 GNU Telephony Addresses President Obama
10.04.10 Best of ‘The Source’: Outercurve, LibreOffice, Mono, and Novell’s Sale
10.05.10 Bill Gates-Funded Guardian ‘Writers’ Are Again Whitewashing Gates and Attacking Microsoft Rivals
10.06.10 Black Duck (Created by Microsoft Veteran) Adds More Microsoft Veterans by Buying Ohloh
10.06.10 TED Brand is Being Hijacked by Microsoft, Now With TEDxRedmond
10.07.10 Mobbyists
10.07.10 Software Patent Lawsuits Around Linux (Roundup)
10.08.10 European Parliament Swallows the RAND Poison Pill
10.09.10 English and Spanish Versions of FSF Post on Vista Phone 7
10.12.10 Bill Gates Buys ABC (News/TV), Schools
10.14.10 BSA, ACT, and Other Microsoft Front Groups Still Try to Shoot Down EIF in Europe While Promoting Software Patents
10.15.10 With Patent Quality This Low, Who Needs Any?
10.16.10 All India Council for Technical Education Sells Out to Microsoft, Sacrifices Children’s Future
10.16.10 United Fruit Company 2.0: How Microsoft is Colonising South America
10.17.10 O’Reilly is Still in Bed With Microsoft
10.18.10 Many High-Level Departures at Microsoft Raise Risk of Entryism, Make Mobile Business Akin to Zune
10.19.10 Human Rights Require Software Freedom
10.20.10 Head of Microsoft Romania Quits, Entryism Revisited
10.21.10 Murdoch’s Rag Hires a Microsoft Advertiser/Booster as CNET Loses Several
10.22.10 Microsoft is Killing Its Own ‘Open Source’ Projects as .NET Camp Loses and Resorts to Slog/FUD
10.23.10 Bill Gates #3 Man in United States Government, Permanently?
10.24.10 Bill Gates Takes Over Schooling Systems With Help From Oprah, NBC, Other Press for Hire
10.28.10 Corporate Journalism Says “Microsoft’s Consumer Brand is ‘Dying’”, Now We Need to Worry About Apple
10.28.10 ODF Alliance Newsletter: October 2010
10.28.10 Microsoft Office as Tool of Oppression (and OOXML is Dying)
10.28.10 MPEG-LA Codecs and Microsoft Racketeering Challenge the Redistributability of Linux
10.30.10 When Up is Down and Left is Right Bill Gates Fights Against the World’s Richest People
10.31.10 With Software Patents “Microsoft Claims to Own the Whole Field of Syncing E-mail Between a Cloud and a Device.”
11.01.10 Miguel de Icaza Was Wrong About Silverlight and .NET
11.08.10 OpenSUSE Has New Trademark Problem and Delay
11.08.10 Patent Situation in Canada Shows Continued Colonisation
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
11.15.10 Why Sites Like Groklaw Are Important
11.15.10 Steve Jobs and Larry Ellison Get Even Closer After Attacking the Linux-based Android Using Patents, Google Becomes Software Patents Foe
11.20.10 OpenSUSE Left Behind While GNU/Linux Still Flies Ahead
11.20.10 Microsoft Generates Massive Patent Troll Which Strikes Again
11.20.10 Seattle Times Uses Copyright Law for Censorship, to Defend Steve Ballmer
11.22.10 SUSE, OpenSUSE, and Why AttachMSFT Won’t Care
11.23.10 Novell Buys Keynote
11.24.10 Microsoft Collapse Increasingly Acknowledged by Mainstream Media While Microsoft Becomes Patent Troll
11.27.10 Intellectual Ventures and Other Microsoft-affiliated Groups Are Poisoning Linux With Patents
11.27.10 Microsoft Sellouts Join Microsoft’s Racket Intellectual Ventures and Not OIN
11.29.10 Novell’s Last Week – Part II: Mono Boosters Ride AttachMSFT News and “It Will be Interesting to see if Mr Icaza Joins Microsoft!”
11.29.10 Not Even Oprah Winfrey’s Fake Endorsements Can Save Microsoft’s Vista Phony 7
12.02.10 Wikileaks Reveals Microsoft Involvement in US Security Policy
12.06.10 CNET Shows Anti-Google AstroTurf (‘Consumer’ ‘Watchdog’) is Connected to Edelman, “Microsoft Goes on the Offensive” Against Google
12.06.10 Microsoft Clarifies That Making Money in Mobile Market by Extorting Makers of Linux Phones is the Plan
12.10.10 Microsoft’s C# Chosen to Perform DDoS Attacks
12.10.10 Richard Edelman — Like Richard Berman — Destroys Society for Profit
12.15.10 Novell, OIN, and AttachMSFT: Why It Confirms Novell Was Trouble All Along
12.16.10 Even Goldman Sachs Recognises Microsoft’s Imminent Demise
12.17.10 Microsoft — Like Monsanto — is Trying to Stuff Its Competition/Forced ‘Clients’ With Patent Traps
12.19.10 Microsoft Lobbyists Corrupt the European Interoperability Framework to Marginalise Software Freedom
12.20.10 Wikileaks/Cablegate Shows Microsoft Trying to Take Over Brazilian Schools
12.20.10 FFII and OFE Respond to Publication of European Interoperability Framework (EIF) Version 2
12.20.10 CPTN Shows Microsoft Becoming a Patent Agitator Like Kodak, Whose Time is Long Gone
12.20.10 LibreOffice Finds Some Patent Assurance in the OIN
12.20.10 Los grupos de presión Microsoft Estan Dañado el Marco de Interoperabilidad Europeo Marginalizando el Software Libre
12.20.10 Wikileaks/Cablegate Sheds Bad Light on Bill Gates’ Rogue Patent Investments
12.22.10 Microsoft Genuine Crack
12.23.10 EN/ES: Microsoft’s OS/2 Attack Plan
12.27.10 Freedom is Not Free
12.27.10 Apple and Bill Gates Serve Power, Serve Themselves, Harm the Population
12.29.10 Groklaw Warns Against OpenSUSE and Novell Layoffs Foreseen
12.29.10 Exploring Novell’s Passing of Software Patents to Microsoft – Now Reported to The Competition Authorities
01.02.11 Microsoft Breaks the Law, Then ‘Settles’ by Elbowing Free/Libre Software
01.02.11 US Government Helps Microsoft Derail Vietnamese Migration to Free/Libre Software
01.03.11 Raw Interview With Linux Format Magazine
01.04.11 Bill Gates Forms Government Connections to Avoid Paying Tax and Further Exploit the System
01.04.11 As India Picks ODF, Novell-Microsoft Influence in LibreOffice Raises Questions (the Unfortunate ‘Go-OO Factor’)
01.04.11 OpenSUSE’s Future is Doubted Even by OpenSUSE Sympathisers
01.04.11 Yet More Microsoft Staff (Now Suzan DelBene) Enters Government to Assist Microsoft’s Looting of the System
01.05.11 Back Room Deals as Microsoft’s Secret Recipe
01.07.11 Teach for America, Inc. (TFA) a New Gates Euphemism for Indoctrinating American’s Next Generation
01.07.11 Education Scandal Leaves Melinda Gates Out of the Washington Post
01.09.11 ES: El New York Times Hace Propaganda a La Fundación Gates
01.09.11 ES: Acuerdos a Puerta Cerrada: la Receta Secreta de Microsoft
01.09.11 ES: Teach for America, Inc. (TFA), Un Eufemismo de Gates para Adoctrinar a la Nueva Generación de Estado Unidenses
01.10.11 Microsoft Distorts the News at Expense of Billions
01.10.11 AGRA-Gates Lobbying for Monopolies on Life
01.11.11 ES: Bill Gates Paga Millones a AllAfrica (“más grande del Distribuidor Electrónico de Noticias de África y de la Información en Todo el Mundo”) Para Impulsar Su Agenda
01.11.11 ES: Fundación Gates Paga a The Lancet Jornal- Ahora Distorsiona la Literatura Académica Demasiado
01.11.11 ES: Bill Gates Paga a La Televisión Nacional (Esta vez PBS) Para Propaganda de Auto-Servicio
01.12.11 OpenSUSE Board (Non-Novell Part) Realises There Are Novell Ownership Issues, Novell Exploits the Community
01.13.11 Bill Gates: “We Were Naïve When We Began.”
01.13.11 Bill Gates Becomes Economist for the United States of America
01.15.11 ES: Fundación Gates Se Adueña de la Prensa Que Configurando Su Propia Imagen
01.15.11 Microsoft Exploits Haiti Disaster (Again) to Market SharePoint
01.16.11 Pascal Bleser Incident in OpenSUSE Project Shows Community Problems
01.17.11 Microsoft’s Patent Troll Intellectual Ventures Is Reportedly Extorting Linux Now
01.17.11 Justice Department’s National Security Chief Becomes a ‘Patent Terrorist’ for Microsoft’s Nathan Myhrvold
01.17.11 Microsoft Co-founder — Like Microsoft and Intellectual Ventures — Helps Add Patent Tax to Linux
01.18.11 Controlling Software, Controlling Minds, Controlling Nations
01.19.11 Latvian Government Departments “Must Accept Documents in ODF”
01.19.11 OpenSUSE Can Be Steered With Microsoft Money
01.20.11 ES: Control del Software, Control de las Mentes, Control de las Naciones
01.20.11 OSI and FSF Unite in Face of Common Enemy CPTN/Microsoft
01.20.11 Dr. Glyn Moody Rebuts Microsoft-funded ‘Study’/Book Against Open Source Software
01.22.11 SCO, CPTN, and UNIX
01.23.11 Microsoft’s Attacks on Google and Android: Ben Edelman, ‘Flagrant Misdirection’, and More
01.23.11 United States of Steve Ballmer
01.24.11 Keeping Unity Mono Free
01.24.11 ES: Microsoft Ataca a Google y Android: Ben Edelman, “La Redirección Flagrante”, y Más
01.26.11 Doubts in OpenSUSE
01.26.11 OOXML in Australia a Novell/GNOME Deja Vu
01.26.11 From UNIX Battles to .NET Battles
01.28.11 Microsoft Patent Trolls Intellectual Ventures and Interval Extortion Sue by Proxy, Directly
02.01.11 Microsoft’s Influence Over the French Government Amid Linux/Apple Copyright Violation Tax
02.04.11 Europe Enters the Patents Cold War
02.05.11 Microsoft Disruptors Versus Linux Smartphones Domination
02.05.11 Bill Gates Promotes Patent Monopolies
02.05.11 Google is Starting to Fight Against Software Patents
02.09.11 GNU/Linux is Crushing Microsoft’s Business Model But New Problems Emerge From the Same People
02.09.11 Copyright and Patent Battles Against Linux Carry on (the Usual Suspects)
02.11.11 Microsoft’s Nokia ‘Deal’ is More Like a Takeover, Patents Pose a Problem
02.11.11 Lobbyists From Microsoft, Apple, and Nokia Are Backing Potential Patent Lawsuit Against Google/WebM
02.13.11 Maneuverers of Microsoft in an Age of Software Patents
02.13.11 Miguel de Icaza Helps Show He is an Enemy of GNU/Linux
02.14.11 Calls for Lawsuits Against Microsoft’s Elop for Conflict of Interest; Billions in ‘Bribe’ Involved
02.15.11 ES: El ‘Nuevo Nokia Es Un Problema de Patentes en Europa
02.15.11 The ‘New Nokia’ is a Patent Problem in Europe
02.16.11 Microsoft is Bribing Teachers Again, Maybe Others Too
02.16.11 Ostracise Miguel de Icaza Like Stephen Elop Should Have Been Ostracised From Nokia
02.18.11 FSF Explains Why Software Patents Are Bad While OIN Grows Stronger
02.18.11 Microsoft Bans Mono
02.21.11 Promoting OpenSUSE is Not the Same as Promoting Mono
02.21.11 Novell Keeps Amassing More Software Patents, Feeding a Rogue System
02.21.11 Shareholders’ Announcement of Class Action Lawsuit Against AttachMSFT Deal (While Novell Claims to Have Received an OK, Lawsuits and CPTN Probe Ignored)
02.21.11 Voluntarily Promoting User-Hostile Proprietary Software Vendors
02.22.11 When Intellectual Monopolies Become Criminal
02.25.11 When Microsoft and IBM Met Intellectual Protectionism
03.02.11 BSA is Lobbying (and Lying) to Exclude Software Freedom From the British Public Sector
03.03.11 IDG is Again Advertising and Whitewashing Microsoft in Articles About ‘Open Source’
03.04.11 In Age of Its Demise Microsoft Leans on Corruptible Analysts, Infiltration, Loans and Tax Avoidance
03.04.11 When Software Patents Defenders Change Their Minds
03.13.11 ES: La Alianza Empresarial de Software (BSA) Cabildea (y miente) Para Excluir el Software Libre en el Sector Público Británico
03.20.11 Today’s News is PR
03.29.11 Microsoft Helps Repressive Regimes, Whereas GNU/Linux Makes Those Regimes Powerless
03.30.11 ”In Europe Microsoft Have Been Putting Significant Resources in Backing The Setting Up Of the European Patent Office“
03.31.11 Microsoft Declares Bankruptcy (Chapter 11)
04.02.11 The FFII Undresses the European Union
04.05.11 Links /4/2011: Mourning Mozilla Messaging, Celebrating Simple Java API for ODF
04.06.11 FFII President Denounces Google’s Bid for Patents
04.09.11 Noted: Issue of Microsoft’s Anti-Competitive Operating System Bundling Raised by European Parliamentarians
04.12.11 When Analysts Are Bribed by Microsoft They Will Say Anything
04.12.11 Why Google Should Yank MonoDroid
04.13.11 Patent Unrest is Growing, Alzheimer’s Disease Plays a Role
04.15.11 Discouragement by Association
04.16.11 Articles of ZDNet UK
04.17.11 MeeGo Will Live Despite Microsoft Corruption
04.18.11 Losing the Battle Against Software Patents?
04.18.11 Microsoft’s Choice: Patent-Trolling to Death or Real Patent Reform
04.20.11 Apple’s Anti-Linux Patent Lawsuits Give Another Reason for Concern Over CPTN
04.20.11 Microsoft in the Future of Open Source Forum
04.22.11 SCO’s Strategic Consultant Mike Anderer Foresaw Microsoft-Organised Patent Lawsuits Against Linux (Through Small Companies)
04.22.11 Bill Gates Pays More Media Companies, Including Grupo Televisa
04.22.11 ES: El Presidente de la OSI: Microsoft Florian Está Diciendo Insensateces (Acerca de las CPTLN/patentes entre Microsoft y Novell)
04.26.11 The Lobby Against Linux
04.26.11 Why Google Will Invalidate Linux-Hostile Patents
04.27.11 Karsten Gerloff, Head of FSFE, on Access to Knowledge
05.03.11 Novell is Already Shrinking Under AttachMSFT’s Reign
05.12.11 Bedrock Loses as Linux Emerges Victorious
05.18.11 Beware Fog Computing/Proprietary Software Peddlers Disguised as ‘Open Source’
05.23.11 Gates Monitor: January 2011 on Buying the Press, Shaping Public Opinion
05.23.11 Gates Monitor: January 2011 on Education
05.24.11 Amid Decision on €899,000,000 Fine, ITSSD Goes Batting for Microsoft
05.25.11 European Commission Should Also Fine Microsoft for Using Skype to Further Harm Interoperability
05.25.11 Gates Monitor: January 2011 on Dubious Investments (Patents)
05.26.11 Phasing Out OpenSUSE
05.29.11 BBC Bribed by Bill Gates
05.31.11 Cablegate: Gates and Microsoft ‘Love’ Children in America
05.31.11 Linus Torvalds Reiterates His Hatred of Software Patents
06.01.11 IBM PR is ‘Shaping’ the News (and Asks to Remain Secret)
06.02.11 IBM Needs to Explain Office Suite Patents (and How Bill Gates Was Attacking Interoperability With Lotus, Using Patents Against OpenOffice.org)
06.02.11 Lodsys Patent Attacks on Android (Linux) Developers Come From Microsoft’s Former CTO
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
06.07.11 Microsoft Uses the Broken US Patent System to Attack Linux/Android From Multiple Sources, Wants Nokia’s Patents Too
06.09.11 European Commission Wants to Pay Commissions to the United States
06.11.11 Patents Roundup: Unconstitutional Patent Reform, SCOTUS Ruling on i4i and University Patent Rights, More Calls to Abolish Software Patents
06.14.11 How to Advocate for GNU/Linux to Become Dominant Platform (Across Different Levels of Scale But Especially Desktops)
06.14.11 ES: Patentes Resumen: Una reforma inconstitucional de Patentes, la Sentencia de Scotus Sobre i4i y los Derechos de Patentes de la Universidad, Más Llamadas por la Abolición de las Patentes de Software
06.19.11 MyDoom Misdirection and Disinformation About GNU/Linux Desktops
07.07.11 Federal Agents Unhappy About Microsoft’s and Apple’s Patent Strategy, Reversals Possible
07.10.11 Xen-pocalypse
07.10.11 Novell Pays Ponemon Institute, LLC, to Help Generate Fake News
07.21.11 Microsoft Plays Dirty PR Games to Daemonise Sceptics of Convicted Criminals
07.25.11 Rage Against the Masochist
08.09.11 More SUSE Managers and Developers Have Left the Company
08.13.11 After Icahn Entryism, Motorola Too Considers Strategy of Extorting Linux Phone Makers
08.13.11 Bill Gates Uses Influence Over Washington Post, GOOD and Other Publications He ‘Sponsors’ to Privatise Education, Promote His Patent Monopolies
08.14.11 Gates Monitor: February 2011 on Bill Gates-Funded Lobbyists Who Drive US Education Agenda
08.17.11 Techrights in the Mainstream
08.19.11 Links – Microsoft Partner HP Exits the PC Business, Bilski Takes a Bite
08.21.11 Bill Gates Buys More Blogs and Papers, Creates Puppet Group “Teaching First” to Lobby the Press
08.21.11 Bill Gates Under Fire for Hijacking the Voice of the Poor
08.21.11 Departures and Firings of Bill Gates Lobbyists
08.23.11 Gates Monitor: March-April 2011 on Education
08.23.11 Pressure on Authors and Journals/Journalists to Push Bill Gates’ Agenda
08.24.11 Indian Voices Against Bill Gates’ Colonisation of the Country With Patents, Monopolies
08.25.11 Microsoft: From Glitch to Leech
08.27.11 Astroturf Alert: “Vibrant Schools Tacoma Coalition” and “Alliance for Education” Directly and Indirectly Funded by Bill Gates to Lobby for Privatisation (Profit!)
08.28.11 Newsweek Exposes Education System Takeover by Bill Gates et al.
08.28.11 Mo Ibrahim to Bill Gates et al.: “We Are Not Sick People.”
08.28.11 Patents Wrath Escalated to President Obama
08.30.11 Confirmed: Ben Edelman Paid by Microsoft, Attacks Google
08.31.11 July 2011 Interview With Muktware
08.31.11 Corruption Pays off for Microsoft in Tamil Nadu
09.01.11 Microsoft and Bill Gates Corrupt Public Systems to Consume Taxpayers’ Money
09.02.11 Missing the Point about Burnout
09.02.11 Microsoft Strikes Back In Vietnam (Leaked)
09.04.11 Cablegate: As Gates Goes Lobbying for Microsoft Lock-in Among Turkish Youth, the Protesters Are “Fringe Parties” According to Istanbul Consulate
09.04.11 Africans Insulted by Philanthrocapitalism
09.05.11 Links – Web Stats, Mego Petrospective, Tracking Company Busted, MPAA Exposed.
09.07.11 Cablegate: Head of Microsoft Lobbies With Jimmy Carter (Updated)
09.07.11 Cablegate: Microsoft Uses Drug Addicts in Ski Lanka to Spread Microsoft, Liaises with American Chamber of Commerce to Change Laws (Updated)
09.07.11 Cablegate: Bill Gates Uses AIDS to Bring Microsoft Windows to Indonesia at Expense of Linux-based OLPC (Updated)
09.07.11 Cablegate: In Vietnam, BSA+IDC+Microsoft Assure Microsoft Lock-in in Exchange for Indoctrination
09.09.11 Super Lobbyist Bill Gates Tells the Entire World What Patents to License
09.09.11 Journals of Record Complain About Bill Gates’ Lobbying and AstroTurfing in the Education Arena
09.11.11 Cablegate: Turkey’s Patents Trajectory on Bad TRIPS
09.13.11 Bill Gates Piggybacks Vaccination Revolution For Fame and Profit (Patents)
09.14.11 Cablegate: US Sees Microsoft as Helping to Impose Intellectual Monopolies in Vietnam
09.15.11 Cablegate: Bill Gates an Asian Leader, Promotes Microsoft
09.15.11 Cablegate: Bill Gates Lobbies to Integrate Programmes in Dubai With Microsoft
09.16.11 Cablegate: Lord Mandelson Meets the Qaddafi Family and Dates the Copyright Lobby
09.16.11 Improper Conduct Identified as Cause for Disappointing Acceptance of FOSS in EU Authorities
09.17.11 Cablegate: CERGE-EI “American-style” Education With UNIX Labs
09.17.11 Cablegate: EU Negotiations About EU Patent/Community Patent
09.19.11 Cablegate: Microsoft’s Craig Mundie Lobbies for Intellectual Monopolies in China
09.25.11 The Super-Rich Know Better
09.29.11 Not News: Miguel de Icaza is Working for Microsoft
09.30.11 Undereducated by the Billions: Steve Jobs Steps Closer to Bill Gates’ Front Groups for Ed Hijack
09.30.11 Keeping on Top
09.30.11 Microsoft’s Patent Troll (IV) Helps Increase Microsoft Tax, BSA Changes Intellectual Monopoly Laws
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
10.12.11 Microsoft Attacks GNU/Linux to Enslave Poor Children
10.13.11 TechBytes Episode 64: From Russia to Bristol
10.20.11 Patents Roundup: Apple Crybaby, SCOTUS Failure, and OpenSim Concerns
10.29.11 Attachmate/Novell/SUSE Do Not Complain About Microsoft Abuses
11.04.11 Even the UN Calls Out Bill Gates’ BS
11.04.11 Bill Gates Tells World Health Organization (WHO) What to Do, Still Pushing for Spendings on His Patents
11.10.11 Patent Law Corrupted by Billionaires and Their Lobbyists
11.13.11 BBC Takes More Money From Bill Gates, Then Advertises for His Agenda
11.13.11 Steve Ballmer and His Wife Connie Join Gates and Co. in Their Crusade Against Public Education
12.01.11 Bill Gates On The Media, in Exchange for Undisclosed Payments
12.01.11 Broken Patent System
12.10.11 Links – Education Watch, SOPA’s Honest Intentions, B&N Anti-Trust news.
12.14.11 SUSE in Clouds, OpenSUSE in Marketing Mode
12.19.11 The Bill Gates Front Group Further Criticised
12.23.11 Microsoft Stacked Patent Panels, Front Groups for Patents, and Proxy Patent Trolls
12.27.11 Bill Gates Labelled “Public Health Dictator”
12.27.11 Increasing Number of Complaints About Increasing Number of Gates-funded AstroTurf Groups for Education ‘Reform’
12.29.11 Cablegate: Microsoft Lobbies to Illegalise Backups and Make Copyright Violation a “Crime”
12.29.11 Cablegate: Iraq Rebuilt With Free/Open Source Software
12.30.11 Cablegate: BSA Smears Sri Lanka’s Government for Moving to Free/Open Source Software
12.30.11 Cablegate: Microsoft Rushes Vietnam to Get Rid of Open Source, Including FOSS Policy
01.04.12 2012 Plan for Techrights
01.06.12 Bill Gates and His Father Are Looting the American Public
01.10.12 After Microsoft OOXML Corruption, Microsoft Corrupts UK Government Through Front Groups and Lobbyists
01.19.12 Gates Wants the Public System to Pay the Bill
01.20.12 Links – quick SOPA/PIPA update, Hanford, UEFI, and Apple owns your work.
01.21.12 With Microsoft Infiltration at the BBC, Time to Abolish or Privatise the BBC
01.23.12 EULA and Lawyers — Not Engineering — Define Today’s Technology Winners
01.25.12 Principal Gates Still Indoctrinates Children
01.29.12 Teachers Still Suspended and Writers Removed for Standing up Against Bill Gates’ Abuses
01.29.12 The ‘Filthy Rich’ ‘King Gates’
02.01.12 Bill Gates and Rupert Murdoch Liaise to Take Over Minds of Children
02.01.12 Microsoft Mole Failed to Sell Phones, Managed to Pass Patents to Microsoft’s Patent Trolls
02.01.12 Bill Gates is Hijacking Open Source While Attacking It Using Lobbyists, Patents, and Patent Trolls
02.01.12 Greg Kroah-Hartman Exits SUSE
02.05.12 Backlash Against Bill Gates’ Lobbying for Patented Life
02.06.12 Bill Gates Indoctrinates Youth in the United States and India, Critics Speak Out
02.06.12 Bill Gates Uses Symbolic ‘Donation’ to Force Taxpayers to Pay Microsoft (of Which He Holds Shares)
02.15.12 Stockpiling Against Apple and Microsoft Aggression
02.15.12 Bill Gates Experiments on the Poor to Help Drug Monopolies He Invests in Become Richer
02.19.12 Apple Versus Google When the Patent System Approves ‘Slide to Unlock’ as a Monopoly
02.26.12 Microsoft Accused of Promoting Global Warming Denial
02.27.12 Europe’s Unitary Patent Siege
03.01.12 Principals Say No to Gates’ Occupation of US Schools
03.01.12 Bill Gates Pays Learning Matters, Inc. for Lobbying, Information Censored
03.05.12 Bill Gates Bribes to Change Policy, Make Profit From Patents
03.07.12 Microsoft Bribing for Tamil Nadu (India) to Drop GNU/Linux in Education
03.10.12 A Chance to End Software Patents in the United States
03.13.12 Microsoft EDGI in India Draws Complaints
03.21.12 Smoking Gun From Bill Gates
03.21.12 Links – Man Flies like a Bird, Education Watch, Privacy and US Network Neutrality
03.24.12 Despite Moles, Patents, and Lawsuits, Linux-based Platforms Rule Mobility
03.25.12 More Calls, Hopes to End Software Patents in the United States
03.28.12 Apple Allegedly Tried to Kill Linux 12 Years Ago
03.31.12 Oracle Does Not Want to Settle
04.07.12 Gaming the Numbers: Why Microsoft is Not a Top Linux Contributor
04.12.12 Facing Public Backlash, Bill Gates Stops Funding Predatory Lobby ALEC
04.18.12 Microsoft’s War on Freedom (Article by Formic)
04.19.12 Links – CISPA threatens US Citizens. Death to Word
04.20.12 Desperate to Stop Free Software and Standards, Microsoft Uses Lobbying to Push Patents, Subvert Government
04.20.12 Linux Device for Retro Games, Raspberry Pi Pre-orders @ 350,000
04.21.12 SUSE Watch Ends
04.24.12 The Big Microsoft Lie is Spreading and It Works
05.14.12 Microsoft Versus Education
05.16.12 Microsoft May Face Federal Action for Blocking Rival Web Browsers on ARM
05.21.12 AOL Helps Microsoft Infiltrate, Harm Open Source Communities, Feeds Facebook With Google-Hostile Patents
05.26.12 Gates Watch
05.30.12 Moonlight is Dead
06.09.12 Aiding Criminals
06.13.12 Apple Seeks Android Bans Whilst Antitrust Attorney Speaks About Microsoft’s Latest Offences Against Android (Using Patent Proxies)
06.19.12 Billions for Indoctrinating Children
06.20.12 DPL Wants to Contain/Lock Innovation, EFF Seeks to Defend Innovation by Fighting Software Patents
06.22.12 Abolishing Software Patents
06.24.12 FSF Says Microsoft’s Flagging of Its Site as ‘Gambling’ is Wrong; FSF’s Anti-UEFI Petition Grows Popular, Debian Joins
06.27.12 Microsoft Found Guilty of Abuses Against Competition, Thanks in Part to FSFE Involvement
06.27.12 Answers to Microsoft’s UEFI Plot Summarised, More Pretence That Microsoft is ‘Open’
06.29.12 With UEFI, Microsoft Assaults the General Public License (GPL) and Computing Freedom in General
07.01.12 The FSF Moves From Petition to Recommendations Regarding UEFI Fight
07.05.12 Microsoft and Gates: Avoiding Tax, Buying Consent
07.05.12 Canonical and Red Hat Receive Negative Publicity Over Submissive UEFI Choices
07.07.12 FSF and FSFE Both Speak Out Against UEFI; Ubuntu Drifts Away From FSF, Whereas Debian Comes Closer to FSF
07.10.12 Education Agenda and Public Policy Hijacked by Bill Gates
07.12.12 Leftover Links – Facebook uses your reputation to push political causes without asking you, Catching up With Gates in Education, pollution, corruption.
07.15.12 UEFI Debate Rages on While New Workarounds and Advice Surface
07.17.12 Gartner Attacks Free Software and Transparency in Government
07.17.12 UEFI Problems Addressed by Linux Developers, Not Distributions
07.18.12 Bill Gates Lobbies for Monopoly on Crops, Gates-funded BBC Advertises It
07.28.12 The BSD World Antagonises UEFI While Red Hat Aids It, OpenBSD Leader Criticises Red Hat
08.05.12 How Microsoft Expands the Patent Racket Against Android/Linux
08.05.12 OpenSUSE to Have Release Soon
08.08.12 FSF Says SHIELD Act Does Not Go Far Enough, Wants Software Patents Dead
08.13.12 Bill Gates is Openly Promoting Patent Trolls Which Attack Linux
08.23.12 Microsoft Has Influence in Linux and FOSS
08.25.12 Slashdot and CBS/CNET Help Promote Patent Trolling
09.27.12 Microsoft Admits Rogue Play on Standards, ODF Suffers
09.30.12 After the Apple-Samsung Ruling
10.01.12 Government of Germany Should Ban Internet Explorer for Crimes, Lock-in, Not Just Security
10.02.12 PersonalWeb Threatens the Freedom of the Web, Warns the FSF
10.09.12 Leftover Links for October 10, 2012
10.12.12 Microsoft Breaks the Web and Linux
10.14.12 Linux Wins the Devices OS War, Microsoft Tries to Lock it Out With UEFI
10.17.12 New Links About Bill Gates Lobbying
10.24.12 Apple Attacks on Android (and Linux) Continue to Summon Patent Nemesis
10.24.12 Facebook Has Deep Microsoft Ties, Zuckerberg Almost Worked at Microsoft
10.31.12 Linux Heavyweights Speak Out Against Patents
11.02.12 FRAND Dies in the United Kingdom
11.05.12 Microsoft Veterans Attack Android/Linux From Juniper
11.05.12 Garrett a Microsoft Apologist
11.05.12 Patent Reform Widely Promoted in the News
11.07.12 CA Becomes Patent Aggressor
11.09.12 Linux is Not Enough
11.09.12 Apple Sues Google and Android Over Patents
11.14.12 Microsoft Failed With Vista 8, Set to Attack Linux With Patents Instead
11.19.12 Holding Back Standards Adoption in Europe
11.21.12 Freiburg Should Use ODF Only, Just Like Portugal
11.21.12 Regulators Target Patent Trolls But Lose Sight of Patent Cartels
11.22.12 Vista 8 Endorsements Are Fake, Microsoft Decided to Break Rather Than Make
11.26.12 New PCs Cannot Boot Linux Due to Microsoft Dirty Tricks
11.29.12 UEFI Apologists Versus Germany’s Government Judgment on UEFI Insecurity
12.09.12 The Story Behind Criticising Ubuntu’s Privacy Settings
12.10.12 Birgitta Jónsdóttir, Glyn Moody, April, FSFE and Many Others Oppose Unitary Patent (Vote is Today)
12.11.12 USPTO Sued as the System Collapses Under the Weight of Trolls, Monopolists, and Lawyers/Politicians
12.13.12 Tax-Evading Gates Accuses Tax Evaders of Causing Poverty, Microsoft Still Evades Tax Too
12.28.12 Mark Cuban Gives Big Boost to Software Patents Abolition Movement
12.30.12 Vista 8 Fails This Xmas, UEFI Blocks GNU and Linux While Microsoft Tries Collecting in China, Stopping Sales of Open PCs
12.31.12 USPTO is Broken, Evidence is Abundant
01.01.13 Egypt Besieged by Microsoft, the Egyptian People Fight the Oppressor
01.01.13 2013: The Age of Linux-Hostile PCs
01.06.13 Public Radio International One of the Latest Media Outlets to be Bribed by Bill Gates for Whitewash, Lobbying, and Propaganda
01.09.13 Microsoft-fed Patent Aggressors and Lobbyists Make Free Illegal
01.09.13 Latest Case of Microsoft Using Hardware Companies to Block GNU/Linux Coincides With Denying Previous Such Case
01.10.13 FRAND Quite Likely the First Casualty at USPTO, Not Patents (Directly)
01.14.13 Mortal Cost of Patents and Bill Gates’ Patent Profit
01.16.13 FFII Challenges Software Patents in Europe, DOJ Does the Same in the United States But With a Twist
01.31.13 Microsoft’s Anticompetitive Attack on GNU/Linux Booting is Bricking Laptops
02.01.13 USPTO in Doubt
02.03.13 While Laptops Bricked Due to Microsoft’s Anti-Linux Tactics, Media Spin About Microsoft Liking Linux
02.04.13 USPTO Approves Another ‘Slide to Unlock’ Sham
02.10.13 Federal Reserve Economists Want to Abolish USPTO, Unrest Reaches Unprecedented Levels Due to Patent Trolls
02.10.13 FAT is Free (Gratis) as Long as You Serve Microsoft’s Agenda
02.10.13 USPTO Patents Are Comedy, EFF Strives to Change That
02.12.13 Advertising and Legitimising Microsoft Control of Linux
02.15.13 UEFI Disasters Are Microsoft’s Fault, Stop Blaming Linux or Samsung
02.19.13 ZaReason Criticises Microsoft’s UEFI Restricted Boot Practices
02.25.13 Microsoft Lobbyists Go Batting for Monsanto Monopolies on Life, Food
03.08.13 FreeBSD Makes UEFI Mistake
03.14.13 Software Patents Proponent Martin Goetz Groomed by a Microsoft Booster, Unrest Over Software Patents Evident in Europe
03.21.13 Microsoft’s Vista 8 Deletes Competition
03.22.13 More Propaganda Films From Bill Gates Target ‘Education’ While His Education Lobby Expands to the United Kingdom
03.22.13 After Microsoft Corruption Bill Gates Buys the Press to Whitewash and Deflect
03.22.13 Bill Gates Promotes Junk Food for Profit, Pretends to Fight Hunger (With Patent Maximalism)
03.31.13 UEFI Continues to be a Headache for GNU/Linux Users
03.31.13 Microsoft Sociopaths
04.01.13 Bill Gates Joins USPTO as Chief Adviser
04.06.13 Microsoft Helps Oppress Populations for Profit (and Why Skype Should be Abandoned)
04.08.13 Gagging Critics: Bill Gates Bribes Crosscut for Favourable Coverage and Immediate Censorship, Then Abducts It
04.08.13 Bill Gates is Occupying the Department of Education, Education Press, Education Forums/Debates, and Ultimately Politicians
04.08.13 Patents on DNA and Molecules (or How Bill Gates is Still Making Billions of Dollars)
04.15.13 Microsoft’s UEFI Restricted Boot Delays GNU/Linux Releases, Causes Many Issues for Windows ‘Refugees’
04.18.13 Pressuring for US Style European Patent System and Anti-Android Policies, Courtesy of Bill Gates and His Goons
05.03.13 Bill Gates and Microsoft Collude with Governments to Indoctrinate Children, Make it Obligatory for All
05.03.13 Bill Gates — Not Just Microsoft — Stole Millions From Irish Taxpayers, US Taxpayers Still Robbed by Corruption of Microsoft Moles
05.04.13 The European Patent Office is Breaking the Law Regarding Software Patents, German Parliament Finally Complains
05.06.13 Despite Vista 8 Failing in the Market, GNU/Linux Slow to Capitalise Due in Part to Microsoft’s UEFI Tricks
05.06.13 The Arrogance and Looting of Bill Gates: How Plundering Gets Disguised as Goodwill
05.07.13 Gates, Ballmer, and Zuckerberg Lobby Together Against Public Interests, Relying on Corruptible Officials
05.14.13 Microsoft is Attacking Boston Over Brand Ideology
05.16.13 Microsoft Skype Messaging Surveillance Not the Main Issue, Audio Recording (Bugging) and Computer Hijacking Are
05.17.13 UEFI Restricted Boot Good for Microsoft Agenda, Not for Security
05.20.13 Microsoft Corruption (Illegal Tenders) Stopped by European Court
05.20.13 Microsoft is Struggling to Maintain Industry ‘Standards’
05.21.13 Does Bill Gates Try to Flush GNU/Linux Down the Toilet in Kerala?
05.22.13 Bill Gates Enters Financial Centres With His Goons Becoming US Budget Chief, Top Bankers
05.24.13 Bill Gates Still Getting Richer Through For-Profit Investments, Now Wants to Brainwash Children in Schools in Favour of His Investments
05.28.13 Time for People to March Against Bill Gates, Not Just Monsanto
05.30.13 Corporate Press Grooms Bill Gates While He Profits From Education Privatisation
05.30.13 SFLC Refutes OSI President’s Claim, Says WebM Licence is Still Fine (Updatedx3)
06.01.13 Techrights Calls for Tim Berners-Lee to Drop DRM Support, Regain Control of (Currently Corporations-run) W3C
06.05.13 Interference With Free(dom) Software Policy in European Governments and Beyond
06.07.13 Bill Gates Lobbying Australia, Rewriting History, Distorting Facts, Trying to Raise Taxpayers’ Money for His Profitable Investments
06.07.13 Bill Gates is Buying Out Education and Academia Using New Lobbies/Proxies Like Common Core and ResearchGate
06.07.13 The Good News: White House Knows the Patent System is Broken. The Bad News: It Does Not Understand Why.
06.09.13 Microsoft Crime Persists: AstroTurfing a Regular Practice, Reddit Full of Paid Microsoft AstroTurfers
06.10.13 PRISM Lite: Bill Gates and Rupert Murdoch Collecting Information About Everybody’s Children
06.15.13 Germany Should Follow the ‘Munich Model’ and Move to Free Software After PRISM Revelations
06.15.13 Bill Gates Looking for Profit in Privatised Oppression in the United Kingdom and Elsewhere
06.18.13 Judge Jackson Dies While Microsoft Continues to Abuse the System, This Time Using Nokia as a Front
06.20.13 Richard Stallman Interviews – an Exclusive Techrights Series
06.21.13 Bill Gates Marginalises Teachers and Harvests Schools’ Data for Profit at Expense of Privacy
06.23.13 Kindly Remind President Obama to Shut Down (Potentially Mass-Arresting) Massive Trolls Like Intellectual Ventures and End Software Patents
06.25.13 Microsoft Implodes While Damage is Done to Other Companies and Through Other Companies
06.28.13 Extortion Using Patents Increasingly Recognised as an Issue, Even by the FTC and SCOTUS
06.30.13 Bill Gates’ For-Profit AstroTurf in Africa, Promoted by Gates-Funded ‘News’ Sites
06.30.13 How Bill Gates Got Taxpayers to Bankroll His Own For-Profit AstroTurf Groups
07.03.13 A Message to Bill Gates: “Eliminating Poor People is Not the Same as Eliminating Poverty”
07.06.13 Too Many Microsoft Proxies Inside the FOSS World
07.06.13 Patents Still Kill, Governments Urged to Intervene
07.07.13 Bill Gates Criticised for Doing With Monsanto What He Did With Microsoft
07.07.13 Microsoft is Hiring Moles Inside Free/Open Source Software (the Competition) While Sacking Its Own Staff (Microsoft Layoffs Silently Occurring Every Quarter)
07.07.13 Lawsuit Filed Against Gates Agenda of Privatising Public Schools for Profit and Corporate Indoctrination
07.08.13 Bill and Melinda Gates: The Couple That Made Eugenics Hip
07.10.13 Intellectual Ventures Pays for Another Propaganda Campaign Advocating Patent Trolls
07.15.13 Bill Gates Sets Up/Institutionalises GMO Monopoly in Africa, Still Bribes Officials Who Implement His Policies (Feed His Investment), Prepares GMO Doomsday Plan
07.15.13 Bill Gates’ AstroTurf in Education (Privatisation for Profit) Recruits More Lobbyists, Necessitates More Bribes
07.17.13 Why Free/Libre Software Should be Promoted Using Privacy Arguments, Too
07.17.13 Panorama of Richard Stallman: The P Series (2013)
07.18.13 Patent Scope Still the Topic to Focus on, and Not Just in the United States
07.19.13 The Chronicle of Higher Education Criticises Bill Gates’ Agenda of Controlling US Schools (Indoctrination for Profit), the Gates Propaganda Machine Responds Poorly
07.21.13 Intellectual Ventures Called a Microsoft Spinoff, Has Strong Ties to Bill Gates
07.23.13 Entryism and Bribes Still Drive the Bill Gates Agenda in Schools and Colleges (Funnelling Taxpayers’ Money Into His Own Pocket)
07.25.13 Debate About Patents Focused Only on Trolls
07.26.13 Marketing Free Software as ‘Similar to Microsoft’ is Always a Bad Idea
07.26.13 Bill Gates et al. Turn Schools and Universities Into Private Corporations
07.28.13 Bill Gates Becomes Much Richer While Advocating Austerity for Those Whom He Loots
08.08.13 California and Denver Public Schools Bribed by Bill Gates to Promote His Privatisation Agenda
08.09.13 US Government Should Kill Bill’s and Nathan’s Criminal Patent Racket and Pyramid Scheme, Intellectual Ventures
08.10.13 Entryism at Work: Microsoft Nick Grooms Bill Gates at Slashdot
08.12.13 Richard Stallman Discusses War on Sharing
08.12.13 Patent Aggression, Patent Trolls, and the Increased Visibility of Microsoft’s Role
08.17.13 Microsoft’s Emerging Attacks on Google: Bogus DMCA Notices, Fabricated Quotes, Bogus and Baseless Antitrust Complaints
08.19.13 Richard Stallman on Corporate Press
08.22.13 Easy Litigation With Patents and Broad Patent Scope the Ammunition of Patent Trolls, Parasitical Firms
08.25.13 Richard Stallman on Control by Users
08.30.13 Richard Stallman on Steve Jobs and Apple
09.05.13 Richard Stallman on Plutocracy
09.12.13 Microsoft Exodus Continues, But With It Comes Contamination of Other Parts of the System
09.20.13 Linus Torvalds Dodges Question About Requests for NSA Backdoor in Linux
09.23.13 Copying Apple’s Graphics, Not Apple’s Business and User Experience
09.23.13 SUSE Drops LibreOffice Backing
09.24.13 Degree of Freedom — Not Wealth — Should be Measure of GNU/Linux Success
09.25.13 GNU/Linux Rapidly Becoming a Gaming Platform of Choice, Offering Better Performance
09.25.13 LinuxCon 2013 Shows That Linux is Becoming Big and Professional Like GNU
09.26.13 Software Freedom and Accountability
09.26.13 Coming Soon: Richard Stallman Interview for 30th GNU Anniversary
09.26.13 GNOME Desktop Approaches 3.10 and Finds Wider Acceptance
10.07.13 GNU World Domination, Not Linux World Domination
10.07.13 Tim Berners-Lee Loses a Lot of Credibility Around the Web
10.08.13 Latest Disruptions in Databases Favour Free/Libre Software
10.08.13 GNOME News Roundup: Wayland, GNOME 3.10, and GNOME “Flashback”
10.08.13 Linux Devices and Embedded Linux a Most Powerful Force
10.14.13 Tim Berners-Lee is Wrong, DRM in HTML is a Very Big Deal
10.14.13 GNU is Big in Top500.org
10.16.13 Linux Backdoors Revisited (New Revelations and Old Revelations)
10.18.13 Red Hat Roundup: Claims That OpenStack is on the Rise, New Partnerships, Releases, and More
10.18.13 The BSD Camp Adds Compelling New Features Like Better ZFS
10.18.13 Sharing Leads to Nobel Prizes
10.21.13 Richard Stallman: How Much Surveillance Can Democracy Withstand?
10.23.13 Applications/Games-Related Links for September-October 2013
10.24.13 Free Software/Open Source-Related Links for September-October 2013
10.24.13 Procurement Corruption: Followup on “Open Bar” Contract Between Microsoft and the French Ministry of Defence
10.24.13 Hackable (as in Freedom-Respecting) is Becoming Hip Again
10.25.13 Richard Stallman on Employment
10.26.13 Even If Coverage of GNU/Linux Declines, the Development of GNU/Linux Keeps Its High Pace
10.26.13 Richard Stallman on Lobbying
10.30.13 British Prime Minister David Cameron Takes His War on Press Freedom Even Further, Japan Follows Suit
10.30.13 Richard Stallman on Banks and Foreclosures
10.31.13 Disregard For Users’ Privacy Still Haunts Canonical Founder Mark Shuttleworth
11.03.13 The Free Software World Helps People Acquire/Regain Privacy
11.03.13 Richard Stallman on the Penal System
11.03.13 Britain Misuses the ‘Terrorist’ Label
11.07.13 UNIX and GNU/Linux: The More, The Merrier
11.07.13 GNU Compiler Collection Approaching Version 5
11.08.13 Crisis Capitalism: Bill Gates and Other ‘Education Oligarchs’ Turn Schools Into their Private, For-Profit Ventures
11.08.13 Ikey Doherty Gets a Great Job by Developing GNU/Linux, But What Does That Mean to Free Software?
11.11.13 Red Hat Matures and Wins Government Contracts
11.12.13 If What We Have is Really Democracy, Then Corporations Are People
11.13.13 The UEFI Forum (Intel et al.) is Polluting Linux in the Same Way Corporations Polluted W3C/WWW With DRM
11.14.13 From ‘Linux Format’ Comes ‘Linux Voice’
11.14.13 In This Age of Fog/Cloud (Surveillance-Friendly) Computing, Can OwnCloud Be Trusted?
11.15.13 Oracle Continues Its Destruction of Free/Libre Software, But Projects Like LibreOffice, MariaDB, and Ceylon Show That Popular Free/Libre Software Just Can’t Die
11.17.13 Boycott Renault for Introducing (‘Innovating’) DRM in Cars
11.17.13 Urgent Need for Copyright Reform
11.17.13 The Rise of Women in Technology, Including in FOSS, and the Crucial Broader Picture
11.18.13 Android’s GNU/Linux-based Rivals Are Doing Pretty Well
11.18.13 GNU/Linux is Taking Over Everything and the Code is Freely Shared
11.18.13 Richard Stallman on Government Aggression Without Trial
11.18.13 NSA-Created Malware Used Politically and Relied on Microsoft-Provided Back Doors/Weak Encryption
11.19.13 GNU/Linux News Sites in 2014
11.19.13 Worldwide Adoption of FOSS in Public Services, Including Education and Healthcare
11.20.13 Richard Stallman on Software Patents in Europe
11.21.13 Richard Stallman Explains ‘Hacking’ to Judge
11.22.13 The Danger of Microsoft Moles Still Largely Underestimated
11.22.13 Microsoft Takes AstroTurfing to New Levels, Co-opting Grassroots and Bribing People
11.22.13 Richard Stallman on Splitting Companies
11.23.13 K. Y. Srinivasan: From Serving Microsoft’s Agenda Inside Novell to Helping Microsoft Infiltrate and Control Linux
11.23.13 The Linux Mint Security Controversy Taken Out of Proportions, Distracting From Real Controversies
11.24.13 Trusting Trust and Trusting Red Hat et al.
11.25.13 Richard Stallman on Censorship and Libel
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
11.27.13 Richard Stallman About Protests, Boycotts
11.27.13 NSA Shows Why We Should Abandon All Proprietary Software and Verify Trust
11.28.13 As Europe Vows to Embrace Free/Libre Software, Transparency Required to Expose Microsoft Bribery and Other Corruption
11.28.13 Convicted Monopolist Near Our Children
11.28.13 A GNU To Be Thankful For
12.03.13 Bill Gates Brings NSA-esque Surveillance to Children
12.03.13 GNU is Not Linux: Richard Stallman Explains the Origins of GNU
12.03.13 Apple and Microsoft Claim Patent Tax on GNU/Linux, Red Hat’s Response Too Weak
12.06.13 Microsoft Sued Over Collusion With the NSA, Microsoft Issues Orwellian Statements
12.08.13 State-of-the-Art Gaming on GNU/Linux Not Only Possible But Becoming Default Option, Hardware Products
12.10.13 Xbox Live Shows Even Higher Degree of Microsoft/NSA Collusion
12.12.13 Avoid Oracle’s ‘Unbreakable’ Linux, Support Red Hat Enterprise Linux Instead
12.16.13 Fee Shifting (or Patent Trolls Busting) Not the Solution to Patent Problem, Scope of Patenting the Real Issue
12.18.13 New Examples of Censorship in West Europe, Facebook, Google, Saudi Arabia, China, Japan, and North America
12.18.13 Copyright Infringement/Sharing is the New ‘Terrorism’, No Laws Required for Authorities to Take Extreme (and Sometimes Illegal) Action
12.18.13 The Positive Power of Ubuntu GNU/Linux Seen in South Korea
12.19.13 Yes, Chrome OS is a GNU/Linux Distribution and Google is Still Worth Supporting
12.24.13 KDE Becomes Mature in 2014
12.26.13 GNU/Linux Web Site of the Year: LinuxGizmos (Formerly LinuxDevices)
12.26.13 Google Should Boycott ECMA, Not Pay ECMA
12.27.13 GNU/Linux is Everywhere, But People Need to Keep It Under People’s (and Developers’) Control
01.02.14 OpenStack Follows the Trajectory of GNU/Linux, Joined Into Linux Protection Programme
01.05.14 Use Bitcoin, Boycott Pierre Omidyar’s PayPal
01.07.14 Happy GNU Year: Richard Stallman on How He Created GNU on Proprietary Systems 30 Years Ago
01.09.14 Happy GNU Year: Richard Stallman Talks About His First GNU Programs
01.10.14 Corporate Press is Burying LibreOffice and OpenOffice.org, States Exclude Them
01.13.14 The Age When Press Organisations Are Run by — Not Just Funded by — Plutocrats
01.13.14 Happy GNU Year: Richard Stallman on How Many People Contributed to GNU in the 1980s
01.14.14 DRM is Not Dying, It is Spreading Like a Virus, Even to the World Wide Web
01.14.14 The Future of KDE in the News
01.15.14 Mozilla Should Denounce Microsoft Windows, Not Just Proprietary Web Browsers
01.15.14 Privacy Watch: Latest Stories
01.15.14 Links: Ubuntu/Canonical in January 2014
01.17.14 Happy GNU Year: Richard Stallman on Naming GNU
01.17.14 For Real Security, Use CentOS — Never RHEL — and Run Neither on Amazon’s Servers
01.20.14 Happy GNU Year: Richard Stallman on Meeting Goals of GNU
01.20.14 Linking Surveillance to Assassinations
01.21.14 BSD Update: OpenBSD Saved, PC-BSD 10.0 is Coming, and FreeBSD 10.0 is Released
01.21.14 Linux Devices Watch: Embedded and Device/Appliance News
01.21.14 GNU News (December-January)
01.21.14 NSA Watch: Latest News About Privacy
01.24.14 PC-BSD 10.0 is Coming Shortly
01.24.14 Kernel Roundup: Linux 3.14 Features Preview and Other News
01.26.14 IBM Shows That Collaborations With the NSA Are a Company’s Death Knell
01.26.14 Systematic Looting of Society Disguised as ‘Crisis’ (for Austerity/Privatisation) and Bogus ‘Charity’ as Solution
01.27.14 Richard Stallman on How He Started GNU
01.30.14 Journalists Report Issues With UEFI, Cannot Install GNU/Linux
01.30.14 Free/Open Source Software Events: February and Beyond
01.30.14 This Week’s Big News in Great Britain Shows That Free Software is Doing Great
02.03.14 Amid Financial Misconduct Microsoft Fights Against Basic Tech Rights, Obviously in an Attempt to Squeeze Out More Money
02.03.14 USPTO Still a Sham; Microsoft, Apple and IBM Still Part of the Problem and Google/Linux a Common Victim
02.06.14 Don’t Let the Corporate Press Portray GNU/Linux as a Loser
02.07.14 Devices Watch: Linux Growth in Embedded Systems and Devices
02.07.14 OpenDaylight Run by Former Microsoft Man, Funded by Microsoft, Helps Microsoft
02.09.14 Apple Feels the Pinch of Linux and Starts Buying Its Own Stock
02.09.14 Stallman’s Views: 10-Part Series of Opinions on Non-GNU Matters
02.10.14 Richard Stallman Explains His Position on Google
02.10.14 Techrights Joins ‘The Day We Fight Back’
02.11.14 Latest News About Surveillance, Torture, and Assassination
02.11.14 Linux News Roundup (Kernel)
02.13.14 Censorship Watch: Turkey Follows the UK, France, Not the Other Way Around
02.13.14 ‘Windroid’ is NSA-Powered, Not Linux-powered, and Real Nokia Phones (Not Microsoft ‘Nokia’) Are Only Jolla
02.14.14 Skynet Watch in the Media (Friday)
02.16.14 Richard Stallman Talks About Diaspora and Whether It’s Worth Joining
02.17.14 When ‘Get a Job’ Means Study GNU/Linux and Contribute to Free Software
02.17.14 Mozilla Responds to Controversy Over Embedded Ads in Firefox
02.18.14 GNOME 3.12, GNOME 3.11.5, KDE Frameworks 5 Alpha, Kubuntu 14.04 Alpha 2, Kubuntu Derivatives, Desktop Poll
02.18.14 Linux in the News: New RC, Steve Jobs’ Offer to Torvalds Recalled, OpenDaylight Summit…
02.18.14 Non-Android Mobile Linux: Jolla, Tizen, WebOS and Firefox OS Gain Momentum
02.18.14 Big Milestones in the World of Android/Linux
02.20.14 No Need for Microsoft Inside GNU/Linux, Demand for Microsoft/Windows is Diminishing
02.21.14 ‘Cloud’ Watch: ownCloud, CloudStack, OpenStack, Hadoop and More
02.23.14 Richard Stallman Explains His Account in Identi.ca and Distributed Social Networks
02.24.14 Microsoft Perception Management Continues at ‘New’ Slashdot
02.27.14 Journalists Should Stop Spreading Baseless Speculations That Microsoft Makes Billions From Android
02.27.14 Tizen and Samsung
02.28.14 Privacy and Human Rights Watch: Peeping Crown, Extradition, EU Resistance to Drones, and More
03.01.14 Deception Watch: AstroTurf, Lobbying, and Dirty Politics
03.01.14 Another Day of High-Level Abuses: Microsoft Kinect a Target of Spooks, Apple-PRISM Allegations, Ukraine Interventions…
03.02.14 Leftovers: Cybervandalism in China, US/UK, Destabilisation of Ukraine and Militarism
03.03.14 Embedded Linux News Roundup
03.03.14 Richard Stallman Talks About Facebook ‘Useds’
03.03.14 If Ford Wants Open Source Community, It Should Embrace Neither Microsoft Nor Blackberry
03.04.14 Bill Gates’ Pet Patent Troll (Intellectual Ventures) is Seemingly Collapsing But Trying to Disrupt the Government With a PAC
03.05.14 News About Lesser Known Desktop Environments
03.05.14 Linux News: 3.14 RC5, LTSI v3.10, kGraft…
03.05.14 Ubuntu Rising: Desktops, Servers, Phones, and Beyond
03.07.14 IBM Not the Only ‘Sugar Daddy’ of GNU/Linux
03.07.14 Secret Deals — Not GnuTLS — a Threat to GNU/Linux Security
03.10.14 Weekend News: Surveillance, Drones, CIA, and Ukraine
03.10.14 News Roundup: Free Software/Open Source Software
03.10.14 Richard Stallman on Storing Files Online
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
03.11.14 Recent and Upcoming Events
03.13.14 Kernel News: Linux 3.14 RC6, MOOC, ARM Support in Xen and More
03.16.14 Watching Abuses of Power: Police, Secret Agencies, Militarism, Surveillance, and Censorship
03.16.14 Richard Stallman on Google+ and Twitter
03.17.14 Microsoft and Bill Gates Are Still Defending What’s Criminal (Warrantless Mass Surveillance)
03.18.14 GNU/Linux at Google: Android, ChromeOS, Chromebooks, and Chrome News
03.19.14 Covert Apparatus Still Under Fire: Surveillance, Interventions, Drones and Beyond
03.19.14 GNU News: What’s New in GNU
03.19.14 Desktop Environments: GNOME 3.12, KDE Wins Award, Enlightenment Updates
03.20.14 Not Just GNU/Linux: News About Other Free Operating Systems
03.20.14 Sharing and Freedom: the Philosophy Spreads Beyond Software
03.24.14 Document Freedom Day 2014 Imminent and ODF is Doing Very Well
03.24.14 Microsoft Says It Will Reward ‘Open Source’ Code That Helps Microsoft Sell Proprietary Software
03.24.14 Richard Stallman on YouTube and Video Formats Issues
03.25.14 My Disagreement With the FSF Over UEFI ‘Secure Boot’
03.26.14 Amended Comment Regarding ODF as Document Standard in the UK
03.26.14 Law No Longer Matters When it Comes to Copyrights, as the Copyright Monopoly is Above the Law, Uses Anti-Terrorism Instruments
03.27.14 Kernel News: Collaboration Summit, Releases of Linux, and Lots of Graphics Milestones
03.27.14 OSI Strikes Back Against Microsoft Deception, Which Keeps Distorting the Meaning of Open Source
03.27.14 Another Reason to Boycott Dell: Support for Microsoft’s Racketeering
03.29.14 Linux News: Tux3, Clang-Built Linux, Collaboration Summit Updates, and Assurances From NVIDIA
03.29.14 Non-Android Mobile Linux: Tizen, Flyme, Jolla
03.30.14 Development News: Programming, New Languages, and Women’s Stories
03.30.14 Richard Stallman Talks About Internet Trolls Who Demonise Him
03.31.14 Free Software/Open Source Software News
04.01.14 Links: Latest Reports on Modernised (Digitised) Oppression
04.02.14 News About Desktop Environments: Enlightenment, KDE, GNOME, and Others
04.03.14 GNU/Linux Advocacy Needs to Become Stronger in the Face of AstroTurfing
04.03.14 The ‘Powered by Android’ Smear Shows Just How Far Anti-Google Reporting (Perhaps ‘Scroogled’ PR) Goes
04.03.14 Latest News About GNU/Linux in Servers and Networks
04.03.14 Linux News: Systemd, Linux 3.14 Release, Future Releases
04.03.14 Ubuntu is Becoming More Privacy-respecting With Ubuntu One Shutdown
04.04.14 Security News: Full Disclosure Threatened Out of Existence, Laws Warped for Incarceration
04.05.14 Society Still Occupied by Bill Gates and Other Plutocrats
04.06.14 Document Liberation: The Time is Now
04.06.14 Embedded Linux and Devices: Gains in Industry Support, Development Kits, Broadcasting, and Cars
04.06.14 Free/Open Source Software News: More Advocacy, Liberation, and Free Software on the Web
04.06.14 Richard Stallman Explains How He Became Political
04.07.14 Newegg Beats Patent Troll, Sony Becomes DMCA Troll, NSA/PRISM Dropbox Blocks Accounts Based on Suspicion
04.07.14 Microsoft’s Manipulation of the Media Demonstrated
04.08.14 News Links: Abuses of Power, Public Reactions
04.08.14 Press Advocates Migration From Windows XP to GNU/Linux, But Not Strongly Enough
04.08.14 Ubuntu Derivatives News: Trisquel, elementary OS, Ubuntu Studio, Linux Mint, Peppermint, Bodhi, and Lubuntu
04.09.14 Programming News: Python, Java, LLVM and More
04.10.14 eGov News: Moves to Free/Libre Software
04.10.14 ODF News: ODF 1.2, European Support for ODF, LibreOffice and More
04.11.14 FOSS News: Latest Developments and Breakthroughs
04.11.14 People Who Worked on Bill Gates Projects Speak to Techrights About Fraud and Misappropriation of Funds
04.11.14 Microsoft: Let’s Talk About Heartbleed® (Reported by Our ‘Former’ Security Chief) While the World Migrates From XP to GNU/Linux
04.11.14 Miguel ‘Advocates’ GNU/Linux by Bashing it Again
04.11.14 Replicating the Destruction of Dual Boot (GNU/Linux) by Microsoft-Friendly UEFI Implementations
04.13.14 Free/Libre Databases News: MongoDB, NoSQL, and MySQL Branches/Forks
04.13.14 Open Access on the Rise: Textbooks, Journals, Etc.
04.14.14 GNOME News: Financial Issues, Mutter-Wayland, West Coast Summit, Community Participation
04.14.14 Hardware News: Freedom, Modding, Hackability on the Rise
04.18.14 Some Perspective on Heartbleed®
05.03.14 Novell Continues to Damage GNU/Linux
05.04.14 Apple’s ‘Thermonuclear’ Strategy Backfires as Apple Found to be Infringing Patents That Relate to Android
05.07.14 Microsoft Still Imposes Broken ‘Updates’ and Breaks GNU/Linux Through UEFI Boot Restrictions
05.09.14 Corporate Press Glorifies Microsoft Patent Trolls
05.17.14 Mozilla Cannot Claim to Teach People About the Web While Facilitating, Defending and Even Promoting DRM
05.24.14 The ‘New Microsoft’ Nonsense is Not Dead Yet
05.28.14 Apple Debacle a Timely Reminder That Any So-called ‘Kill Switch’ is a Dangerous Back Door
05.28.14 Bill Gates’ Plot to Enslave China With ‘Free’ Back Doors is Failing, But Microsoft Strikes Back With Openwashing
05.30.14 Software Patents Are Still a Threat to Europe Due to ‘Unitary’ Patent
05.31.14 TrueCrypt Too Proprietary to be Secure and Corporate Media Should Stop Blaming Free/Open Source Software (FOSS)
06.03.14 GnuTLS Picked on by Firm of Microsoft’s ‘Former’ Security Chief, FUD Ensues Everywhere
06.14.14 Small Bugfixes Become Big News in the Age When Fear (of FOSS) Sells
06.15.14 Professor Diane Ravitch Calls for Investigation by Congress of Bill Gates’ Latest Offences
06.22.14 Microsoft and Bill Gates the Most Zealous Surveillance Proponents in the Software World
07.03.14 US System Manipulated to Financially Punish Free Software
07.05.14 Bill Gates Deeply Corrupt Not Just in Education Sector
07.05.14 Publicly-funded NHS Would Enjoy Symbiotic Relationship With Free — as in Freedom — Software
07.06.14 Internet of Things Alliance Now Has a Mole, Microsoft
07.07.14 Microsoft’s Propaganda Machine Tries to Shift Security Debate Amid Serious Catastrophes
07.13.14 Wirelessly-Controlled Contraceptives and Other Villainous Bill Gates Initiatives
07.13.14 Cronyism at Play: European Hostility Towards Free/Libre Software Despite Espionage and Moles
07.18.14 OpenSUSE ‘Community’ is Crumbling, AttachMSFT Killed SUSE’s Potential (Except as Microsoft Tax)
07.26.14 FUD Entities Entering the FOSS World
07.26.14 Groklaw Back in the Wake of ODF in the UK?
08.02.14 Microsoft Continues to Further Distort OOXML in Order to Make it Less Compatible With Non-Microsoft Software
08.04.14 Bill Gates Now Bribes NBC in Exchange for Favourable (and Profitable) Coverage
09.04.14 Bill Gates’ God Complex: Common Core a One-Man Campaign of Greed and Control
09.04.14 Bill Gates Investments Harm the World, Not Improve the World, Based on New Exclusive Piece of Investigative Journalism at The Nation
09.06.14 New Article Explains How Bill Gates Prevents Schools From Moving to GNU/Linux and Free Software
09.06.14 Software Patents ‘Quality’ Debated in Courts, Microsoft’s Biggest Patent Troll Still a Chronic Liar
09.08.14 Suspicion of High-Level Corruption at the European Patent Office (EPO): Part I
09.17.14 OpenSUSE’s ‘Assurances’ Are Classic MBA School Hogwash
09.22.14 More of Bill Gates’ Investments in GMO and Mass Indoctrination Under the Disguise of ‘Donations’
09.27.14 Bill Gates’ Privatisation Crusade
09.29.14 More Good News About Demise of Software Patents and Along With Them, Consequently, Patent Trolls
10.27.14 How Bill Gates Continues to Pass Wealth From the Public to His Own Bank Account
10.31.14 Claiming That Microsoft ‘Loves’ Linux While Windows Update Bricks Devices With Linux
11.12.14 .NET is NOT “Open Source”, But Microsoft’s Minions Shamelessly Openwash It Right Now
11.13.14 Forget the FUD About Bash and OpenSSL, Microsoft Windows Blamed for Massive Credit Cards Heist
11.16.14 Special Report: Many Criminal Charges Against EPO Vice-President Željko Topić
11.26.14 Message to the Corporate Media: Bill Gates is Not an Ebola Expert
11.26.14 Gagging Critics: Micro Focus-Run SUSE Bribes Journalists in Exchange for Positive Coverage
12.04.14 Microsoft .NET Still a Patent Trap, Many Bamboozled by Media-Coordinating Announcement
12.08.14 EPO Staff Protests Today and Protested Last Week, Targeting Corruption in the Institution
12.12.14 The USPTO is Broken: New Evidence Presented
12.19.14 Redmonk is Spreading Black Duck’s Anti-GPL Talking Points After Payments From Black Duck, Microsoft
12.30.14 Our Richard Stallman Interviews in 2012-2014
01.03.15 Bill Gates Buys the System, Writes Cheques to the White House
01.03.15 Thousands of Child Rape Photos Traded Out of Bill Gates’ Mansion
01.05.15 Bill Gates Does Not Want to Pay Tax (Uses Proxy to Avoid It), Only to Continue to Tax Society With Patents and Other Monopolies
02.02.15 OLPC Lessons Not Learned: Imposing Microsoft Windows on Young Students Using Embrace, Extend and Extinguish of Raspberry Pi
02.11.15 Microsoft’s Mole Strategy Against Free Software Spreads OOXML, Surveillance, Other Malice to the Real, Potent Alternatives
02.21.15 Microsoft AstroTurfing War on GNU/Linux is Still Going On, But Hidden Better, Uses API as Instrument of Lock-in
02.22.15 The EPO’s Sham ‘Internal Investigation’ of EPO Vice-President Željko Topić’s Affairs
02.24.15 Microsoft Wants to Devour the Competition (Linux), Devour People’s Data
02.24.15 The EFF Back to Tackling Software Patents, Not Just Patent Trolls
03.12.15 Richard Stallman: Why We Need Free Digital Hardware Designs
03.22.15 Canonical Goes to Bed With Company That Sues Linux Using Software Patents and Copyrights (Through SCO)
03.28.15 Speculations That Microsoft is About to Buy Cyanogen (or at Least Officially Partner) to Attack Google’s Android/Linux, Replacing Everything With Microsoft
04.06.15 Microsoft Does Not Act Like a US-based Company (Espionage Against US Citizens, Tax Evasion, Among Other Symptoms)
04.06.15 Microsoft is Still Openwashing Perfect Apparatuses for Back Doors: Common Carrier (Windows), ‘Cloud’, and Compiler
04.08.15 The EPO is Becoming More Like the USPTO Under Benoît Battistelli’s Greed-Driven Reign
04.12.15 Microsoft is Still Googlebombing ‘Open Source’
04.13.15 EFF Uses Alice v. CLS Bank Case to Pressure USPTO to Halt Software Patenting
04.18.15 Microsoft Tired of Pretending to be Nice to Free/Open Source Software (FOSS), Microsoft ‘Open’ Technologies Dumped
04.20.15 Repeating Microsoft’s Lies Without Any Journalistic Assessment
04.21.15 Googlebombing ‘Microsoft Open Source’ Even When Microsoft Shuts Down Its ‘Open Source’ Proxy
04.27.15 Patients’ Data at Risk as NHS Reinforces Its Microsoft/Accenture Stockholm Syndrome
05.03.15 Openwashing of Binary Blobs That Microsoft Uses to Attack Free Software and GNU/Linux From the Inside
05.13.15 Open Source Revisionism of GNU and Free Software History
05.13.15 When ‘Former’ Microsoft Influence Lands in Free/Open Source Software
05.19.15 The PATENT Act, Distraction of Trolls, and Lobbying for Software Patents by Protectionists
05.20.15 Microsoft is Again Showing Its Hatred of Free/Open Source Software by Lobbying the Indian Government to Drop a Rational National Policy
05.25.15 Microsoft Puts Proprietary Windows and Hyper-V Inside the Free Software-Centric OpenStack
05.27.15 Microsoft’s Patent Allies LG and Sony Agree to Put Microsoft Inside Android
06.03.15 When Patent Lawyers Attack the Messengers for Stopping Software Patents, Ignoring Patent Law’s New Post-Alice Reality
06.04.15 ‘Stupid’ Scott Horstemeyer is Not Just an Internet Joke But Also a Bully (Updated)
06.06.15 How Microsoft Squashed Free/Open Source Software in Voting Systems in the United States
06.09.15 EPO May be Creating Its Own Lawless NSA (or GCHQ) With Control Risks Group Deal
06.12.15 The Disturbing Rise of Openwashing: Today’s Case of Apple and Microsoft
06.15.15 Translation of Süddeutsche Zeitung Article Calling for External Oversight of Data Protection at the EPO
06.17.15 Microsoft is Trying to Subsume GNU/Linux and Free/Libre Software
06.20.15 Better Watch Out or the United States Will Export Software Patents to Europe, Along With Patent Trolls
06.22.15 Microsoft Injects Its Proprietary Software Into Free Software Stacks and the Open Container Project
06.27.15 Microsoft Jack (Schofield) Promotes Microsoft’s Proprietary Lock-in and Calls People Who Recommend Free/Libre Software ‘Trolls’
07.01.15 Microsoft Keeps Shrinking
07.09.15 The Real Reason Microsoft Gives Money to OpenBSD is Not Security or Free Software But Proprietary Windows With Back Doors
07.23.15 GNU/Linux Circles Ought to Stop Promoting Visual Studio, Which is Neither Cross-Platform Nor Free Software
07.25.15 Vista 10 (Windows 10) Has NSA Back Doors and Front Doors
07.28.15 Not Only Vista 10 Crashes a Lot, Any .NET Application Does Too (Updated)
07.31.15 As Microsoft AstroTurfing/PR Budget Runs Dry, Vista 10 Truths Come Out
08.02.15 Microsoft — Like Bill Gates — Bribes PBS for Propaganda to be Presented as ‘TV Programme’
08.02.15 Microsoft Lies, Propaganda, Embedded ‘Journalism’ and Other Dirty Tricks to Promote Vista 10
08.06.15 Political Battles Over Patent ‘Reform’ in the United States and Tax on Nonexistent Things
08.12.15 Painting Microsoft as ‘Friend’ of Free/Open Source Software and GNU/Linux to Help it Devour All Data, Workloads
08.25.15 Message to LinuxCon Regarding Microsoft: “It is Necessary to Get Behind Someone in Order to Stab Them in the Back.” -Sir Humphrey Appleby
08.31.15 Microsoft Crowd Rocks the Media With Misleading Claims and Deliberate Lies About GNU/Linux, Vista 10, and Free/Open Source Software
09.14.15 ‘New’ Microsoft: One of Several Architects of Microsoft’s Patent War on GNU/Linux Gets Promoted Even Further, Gates is Lobbying China’s President After Linux Adoption
09.24.15 Europe’s Acceptance of and Resistance to Software Patents, Courtesy of Corporate Front Groups and Courtrooms Respectively
10.07.15 OIN Turns 10, IDG Floods the Web With Puff Pieces That ‘Normalise’ Software Patents
10.11.15 Don’t Look at Linux For Sexism, Look at Microsoft (Although Microsoft Hides the Newest Lawsuits)
10.16.15 EPO is Trademark-Bullying Its Critics, Trying Repeatedly to Remove Bad Publicity With Help From Menacing Legal Threats (SLAPP)
10.20.15 The University of Wisconsin’s Lawsuit Against Apple Should Alarm Everyone, Not Just Apple Proponents
10.21.15 Vista 10 Still a Massive Failure So Microsoft Pressures People to Adopt Microsoft Spyware, Sometimes Forces Them
10.28.15 Apple’s Shameless Privacy Lies: The Fiction of Apple as the Very Opposite of What It Does
11.03.15 EFF Asks CAFC to Tackle the Trolls’ Docket, the Eastern District of Texas
11.05.15 CopyCamp ’15 in Warsaw Discussed the Problem of Patents on Software, Which Still Exist in Europe
11.05.15 Media Coverage of the Red Hat-Microsoft Deal Includes Microsoft Talking Points and Moles, No Discussion About Patent Aspects
11.10.15 Mozilla Follows Red Hat’s Misguided Strategy of Trying to Fight (Software) Patents With Patents Rather Than Invalidate Them
11.25.15 The Sun King Delusion: The Views of Techrights Are Just a Mirror of EPO Staff Unions
11.28.15 The Serious Implication of Controversial FTI Consulting Contract: Every Press Article About EPO Could Have Been Paid for by EPO
12.04.15 With Defend Trade Secrets Act Lobbying, Microsoft Shows That It Remains Incredibly Hypocritical, Evil, and Dangerous
12.09.15 GNU/Linux Hosted by Microsoft Means Lock-in, Ransom, and Back Doors
12.12.15 Microsoft is Getting Utterly Desperate
12.19.15 Microsoft is Entrapping Android With Infamous (ex)FAT Patents and Turning Android Phones Into Microsoft Listening Devices (Bugs)
12.20.15 Software Patents Are Being Defeated to the Detriment of Large Multinationals, Their Patent Lawyers, and Patent Trolls Who Piggyback Them
12.27.15 Revolving Doors of High-Level EPO Management: Jacques Michel and the Questel Deal With the EPO
12.28.15 Buying Panels and Paying the Media to Cement Personal Agenda: The Bill Gates Common Core Case Mirrors the Battistelli Unitary Patent Case
01.04.16 Microsoft Tries to Conquer Asia’s Largest Populations (India, China) But Still Fails and Should be Stubbornly Rejected
01.04.16 Design Patents (e.g. Sliders) Are Becoming as Much of a Problem as Software Patents
01.23.16 La Fundación Linux se ha Convertido en Un Títere Favoreciendo Corporaciones, Gran Influencia ($$) de Microsoft
01.24.16 Patent Lawyers and Their Sites/Media Still a Barrier to End of Software Patents and Patent Wars
01.26.16 The EFF-Recommended Advice on Patents From Juelsgaard/Stanford Law School Potentially Worse Than Useless
01.26.16 Newly-Released Badinter Report Shows That by Treating Staff Like Garbage the European Patent Office is Violating Fundamental Rights
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 EFF: “Software Patents Ruin Everything”
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
02.03.16 The Most Detailed Explanation (Yet) of What’s Wrong With the EPO
02.06.16 The ‘Offenses’ of EPO Staff Representatives Boil Down to Truth-Telling
02.06.16 Rumours About Dismissal of Benoît Battistelli and New Letter From Union Syndicale Federale Blasting Battistelli’s Behaviour
02.16.16 Transcript of EPO Official Admitting on Television (Nieuwsuur Interview) That Courts Are of No Interest to Him
02.25.16 Patents Roundup: Proxy Lawsuits, SCOTUS on Software Patents, Reform Agenda, and Lawyers Bypassing Alice
03.03.16 Shortly After Massive Layoffs ‘King of Patents’ IBM is Using Software Patents to Sue Much Smaller Companies
03.07.16 No, Biggest Patent Troll of 2014 is Not eDekka But a Microsoft-Connected and Bill Gates-Funded Patent Troll (or Extensive Network Thereof)
03.20.16 EFF Wants to Tackle the Patent Litigation Mess But Still Stops Short of Abolishing (or Working to Abolish) Software Patents
03.30.16 VENUE Act and ITC Reform Still Serve to Distract From Required Reform (Abolishing Software Patents)
03.30.16 Oracle’s Huge Claims Against Linux/Android Demonstrate the Uselessness of OIN
04.01.16 El Acta VENUE y la Reforma ITC Todavía Sirven Para Distraernos de una Urgente/Requida Reforma Real (Abolir las Patentes de Software)
04.01.16 Grandes Reclamos de Oracle Contra Linux/Android Demuestra la Futilidad de la OIN
04.02.16 VENUE Act Not the Solution and Amid EFF News About Intellectual Ventures and Garfum It’s Time to Tackle Software Patents
04.04.16 VENUE Act No es la Solución en Medio de EFF Noticias Acerca Intellectual Ventures y Garfum Es Tiempo de Enfrentárse a las Patentes de Software
04.04.16 EPO Management Says Not a Word About Strike This Week, Not Informing Customers/Stakeholders Either
04.10.16 Avoiding the Vista 10 Trap and Rejecting Microsoft’s Attempt to ‘Jail’ GNU Inside Windows
04.11.16 Evitando la Trampa de Vista 10 y Rechazando el Atentado de Microsoft de ‘Encarcelar’ GNU Dentro de Windows
04.18.16 Michael Garofalo’s Patent Lawyers Austin Hansley Are Trying to Twist § 101 in Favour of Software Patents Rather Than the Opposite
04.22.16 EPO Integrity on the Line: The Story of Željko Topić’s Controversial Diploma – Part V
04.24.16 ES: La Fundación de Frontera Electrónica (EFF) Continua su Batalla por la Sanidad de Patentes en los Estados Unidos
04.26.16 Microsoft’s ‘Full Assault’ on Android, Java, and GNU/Linux, Using Classic E.E.E. Tactics Again
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: Microsoft ‘Asalto con Todo’ Contra Android, Java, y GNU/Linux, Usando la Clásica E.E.E. Táctica de Nuevo
04.28.16 Latest Black Duck Puff Pieces a Good Example of Bad Journalism and How Not to Report
04.28.16 No, Visual Studio is NOT Open Source and Xamarin Openwashing is NOT News
04.29.16 Australia Might be Next to Block Software Patents If Commission’s Advice is Followed
05.16.16 UPC an Attack Not Only on the European Public But Also on Staff of the EPO
05.30.16 Make Nothing, Sue Everybody: The Reality of Patent Trolls Increasingly Understood by the ‘Mainstream’
06.02.16 Closer Look at Players in Battistelli’s Information War: Part III (Buying the Media, Manufacturing ‘Studies’ With Secret Contracts)
06.12.16 Samsung’s Patent Cases Matter to Design Patents (Scope), to Android, and by Extension to GNU/Linux
06.14.16 Rights Groups, Media, Developers and Others Are Rising Up Against Patent Trolls, But the Problem is Always Software Patents
06.18.16 The Rule of Money and Power, Not the Rule of Law, at the European Patent Office
07.16.16 Law Professors Try to Put an End to Patent Trolls So Patent Trolls-Funded IAM ‘Magazine’ Complains
07.24.16 The US Government Accountability Office (GAO) Comes Across as Against Software Patents, Relates to the EPO as Well
07.27.16 CAFC Meddling in PTAB Affairs; Unified Patents Fights a Good Fight by Invalidating Software Patents
08.04.16 Multimedia Software Patents Declared Invalid in the United States
08.16.16 Personal Audio LLC and Patent Troll Jim Logan Demonstrate the Harms of Software Patents and Why They Must Never Spread to Europe
08.26.16 Being for Patent Quality or Against Patenting Excess Does Not Make You Anti-Patents
08.26.16 The EPO, USPTO, and Patent Microcosm Peddle Myths About Patents in Public Universities and Research
08.26.16 The EPO’s Francesco Zaccà Presenting in Turin Alongside Patent Trolls (Like the Patent Mafia Sisvel) and Lobbyists/Front Groups for Software Patents, UPC
09.15.16 Battistelli is Lying About Patent Quality While It Continues to Nosedive at the EPO as Part of His Neo-liberal ‘Production’ Strategy
10.06.16 Danish Stories – Part II: Kongstad’s Political Masters in Denmark and Rumoured Connections to the Venstre Party
10.10.16 Towards the End of Patent Trolls in the United States
10.12.16 Patents Roundup: Blackjack Patent Application, Apple’s Software and Design Patents, Decline in Patent Litigation and Alternating Troll Trends
10.31.16 The World Comes Tumbling Down for Software Patents and Patent Trolls
11.16.16 Don’t Believe the Lies; Microsoft Hates Linux and Merely Pulls E.E.E. Tactics Against It, Including .NET Promotion
11.19.16 Microsoft and Its Patent Trolls Continue to Lobby for Software Patents
11.22.16 Microsoft Loves Linux Patent Tax
12.03.16 Blockchain Domain Infested With Software Patents, MasterCard Among the Culprits
12.06.16 The UPC Scam Part VI: The Real Story Which People Missed Due to Puff Pieces Seeded by Battistelli-Bribed Media is That UPC Technically Cannot Come to the UK
12.17.16 Guest Post on Bill Gates and Donald Trump
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
12.26.16 Free/Open Source Software Under Attack From Software Patents
01.24.17 US Supreme Court (SCOTUS) Keeps Introducing Changes to Patent Law and Patent Policy Under the Trump Administration Still Looks OK
02.02.17 New WIPR Survey and Other Data Points Suggest That the Unitary Patent (UPC) is Dead, at Least in the UK
02.05.17 Rapid Collapse of Patent Aggressors’ Patent Strategy: Creative, Microsoft, RPX, LinkedIn, and Fitbit
02.06.17 PTAB Should Initiate Inter Partes Reviews (IPRs) of Universities’ Dubious Patents as Long as They Feed Patent Trolls
02.07.17 Translation: Juve Survey That Shows 0% Approval of Battistelli and Growing Concerns About the EPO
02.09.17 Good News on the Patent Trolls Front as Collapse of Such Parasitic Firms Continues, US Government Signals Ongoing Reform
02.09.17 Microsoft Offers That Infamous “IP Peace of Mind” to Free/Open Source Software Users as Long as They Pay Rents to Microsoft
02.14.17 Microsoft Has Not Managed to Blackmail Huawei Over Android and GNU/Linux, But Its Trolls/Satellites Are Trying
02.28.17 IAM ‘Magazine’ Rented Out to Microsoft Again, in Order to Attack Amazon (as Host of Free/Libre Software) Using Software Patents FUD
03.11.17 Information From SUEPO on the Functional Allowance Reveals How Top-Level Management Intends to ‘Rob’ the Cash Cow (EPO Budget)
04.04.17 Patent Trolls in the Headlines: TC Heartland, University of Florida, Hilco, and Uniloc
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
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 3 Years After the Alice Case at the Supreme Court the Plague of Software Patents is Easier to Cope With
06.24.17 Microsoft and Bill Gates Become More Actively Involved in Their Biggest Patent Troll (and World’s Biggest Troll), Intellectual Ventures
07.02.17 Microsoft’s Troll Intellectual Ventures, via Dominion Harbor, Goes Patent-Trolling in China
07.08.17 ‘Trolling’ by the University of Florida, the University of California and the California Institute of Technology
07.23.17 Alice/U.S.C. § 101 is a Done Deal, Meaning Software Patents Are Effectively Dead in the US
07.26.17 Latest High-Profile Patent Cases Against Apple and What These Mean to Linux-Powered Competitors of Apple
07.30.17 Microsoft’s (Patent) War on GNU/Linux Continues, But It’s Disguised Using Intermediaries
08.12.17 PTAB Crushes Another Patent Troll and Patently-O Scrambles to Defend the Trolls, Not the EFF
08.29.17 Virtually the Whole Technology Sector Supports PTAB, But Dennis Crouch Supports Patent Trolls and Bullies Instead
08.31.17 Patent Trolls Are Under Attack and on the Run
09.06.17 “Software Patents Are Evil,” But the Patent Microcosm Keeps Attacking the US Legal System for Disallowing These
09.10.17 The Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) is Still Being Smeared by Circles That Benefit From Low-Quality Patents
09.11.17 Complaints About Google Patents, R3 Patents, and the EFF’s Campaign of Exposing/Disarming Patent Trolls
09.17.17 Why the Mohawk Tribe Should Fire Its Lawyers and Dump the Patents Which Now Tarnish Its Name
09.26.17 Microsoft Brings Its GNU/Linux-Hostile Patent Scheme to China
09.28.17 Microsoft is Doing to ‘Open Source’ (OSI) What it Did to W3C
10.02.17 The Software Patents/Litigation Industry is Dying in the United States and China Takes This Heavy Burden
10.08.17 Microsoft Lobbying, the EPO, and Software Patents Disguised as ‘Internet of Things’
10.24.17 The Last Comment in IP Kat (Before Censorship) Was About Patent Quality at the EPO
10.31.17 More Information Emerges About Provenance Asset Group LLC, Where Thousands of Nokia Patents Are Being Passed Through
11.02.17 More High-Profile Briefs Explain to the US Supreme Court Why PTAB is Desirable and Must be Defended
11.18.17 EFF and CCIA Use Docket Navigator and Lex Machina to Identify ‘Stupid Patents’ (Usually Software Patents That Are Not Valid)
11.21.17 PTAB Inter Partes Reviews (“IPRs”) Are Essential in an Age When One Can Get Sued for Merely Mocking a Patent
11.26.17 Patent Sharks’ Last Resort: Mohawk Immunity, ‘STRONGER’ Patents Act, Qualcomm Thickets, and SLAPP
12.19.17 Bavarian Regional Parliament Talks About the EPO’s Outrageous Decisions to Simply Disregard International Courts
12.30.17 “Low-Quality Patents Fall Into the Hands of Patent Trolls”
12.31.17 Patent Trolls ‘Business’ After TC Heartland: It’s Very Tough!
01.04.18 Software Patents Are Still Being Rejected in the United States (New Examples), But the Anti-Alice Lobby Goes on
01.20.18 Blockchain Patents Are a Catastrophe in the Making as Trolls and Aggressors Accumulate Them
01.21.18 Unified Patents Says That RPX, Which Might Soon be Owned by Patent Trolls, Paid Patent Trolls Hundreds of Millions of Dollars
02.03.18 It is a Tough Market for Patent Trolls in the US, But Microsoft-Connected Trolls Still Manage to Harm Android/Linux
02.26.18 Artificial Intelligence is Just Software, So EFF Misses the Point/Reason Why USPTO Should Reject Such Patents
03.07.18 Guest Post: EPO Defrauds Small Patent Applicant Company, Asha Nutrition Sciences, in Collusion with Applicant’s Own Lawyer…
03.09.18 When Technical Projects Become Politics
03.11.18 Trump’s USPTO Changes Patent Designs, Changes Director/Deputy Director, and Anticipat ‘Ranks’ Patent Examiners Based on How They Deal With Section 101
03.22.18 Aggressive New Activities of Microsoft-Connected Patent Trolls: Finjan, Intellectual Ventures, and Dominion Harbor
03.24.18 Using Politics to Do the Patent Trolls’ Bidding With STRONGER Patents Act, Just Like the UPC in Europe
04.14.18 The ‘Blockchaining’ of Software Patents (to Dodge the Rules/Guidelines) Now Coming to Europe
04.15.18 The Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) is Ending Software Patents One Patent at a Time
05.04.18 From Saint-Germain-en-Laye to Strasbourg, Even the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) Might Side With Nicolas Sárközy’s Thug at the EPO
05.13.18 Debunking the Usual Omission of GNU
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
05.20.18 The Attacks on the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) Have Lost Momentum and the Patent Microcosm Begrudgingly Gives Up
05.27.18 Another Week of Federal Circuit Supporting PTAB and Acting Tough for Patent Quality in the United States
05.31.18 The Open Invention Network (OIN) is Becoming an Even Greater Part of the Problem, Embracing Software Patents Through Hype
06.02.18 Team UPC Turns to a Spanish ‘Flavour’ of Unitary Patent Propaganda (Just Like Last Year)
06.04.18 As European Patent Office Goes Down in Many Aspects/Respects (Quality, Employee Profiles and More) IAM — the EPO’s Mouthpiece — Claims “Patent Renaissance”, Repeats EPO Lies
06.09.18 Patents on Nature, Life and the Environment: Lessons From EPO and Australian Courts
06.10.18 Deception on § 101/Alice Continues, Courtesy of Firms That Are Making Money From Worthless (Bunk) Software Patents
06.12.18 Battistelli’s EPO is Outdoing North Korea When It Comes to Propaganda and Abuses Against Staff
06.20.18 What Use Are 10 Million Patents That Are of Low Quality in a Patent Office Controlled by the Patent ‘Industry’?
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
06.29.18 WirtschaftsWoche Authors Articles About Corruption of the European Patent Office
07.02.18 Asked by the Media Why European Inventor Award Was Held in Saint-Germain-en-Laye, the EPO Refuses to Explain
07.10.18 Patent Trolls Rally/Advertise Thomas Massie’s Bill to Abolish PTAB and Promote Software Patents in the US
07.15.18 PTAB Defended by the EFF, the R Street Institute and CCIA as the Number of Petitions (IPRs) Continues to Grow
09.02.18 Monopolies Are Not Inventions
09.04.18 Marking One’s ‘Territory’ Using Software Patents
09.07.18 IAM Media Engages in Trademark Violations While Trying to Misrepresent Free/Open Source Software in Relation to Software Patents
10.08.18 The Federal Circuit Continues to ‘Lecture’ the Patent Office on Patent Scope and Limits, But Iancu Isn’t Listening
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
10.21.18 More ‘Blockchain’ Nonsense in Pursuit of Bogus, Nonsensical Software Patents
10.21.18 MIT and the Prior Art Archive Perpetuate Existing Problems
10.21.18 Funded by the Public to Prey on the Public: The Absurdity of Patent Sales and ‘Enforcement’ by Government
10.24.18 Colleen Chien’s New Paper Analyses the Basis for Invalidating Software Patents
11.06.18 Low Patent Quality and Patent Maximalism in General Are Bankrupting Real Businesses for the Sake/Gain of Litigation Firms and Trolls (Their Clients)
12.03.18 The Intellectual Property Owners Association (IPO) and IBM Are Part of the Software Patents Problem in the United States
12.05.18 EPO, in Its Patent Trolls-Infested Forum, Admits It is Granting Bogus Software Patents Under the Guise of ‘Blockchain’
12.09.18 EPO Vice-President Željko Topić in New Article About Corruption in Croatia
12.12.18 EPO Trust, Leadership and Commitment
01.06.19 Driven by Freedom or Just by Linux?
01.06.19 Fighting ‘True Enemies’, Not One Another
01.27.19 Just Because It’s Linux Doesn’t Mean It’s Free (as in Freedom)
02.06.19 The Evolution of Microsoft Embracing Python Like a Python Snake
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
03.04.19 Today’s Open Invention Network is Run by Former Patent Trolls, Connected to and Backed by Microsoft
03.06.19 Fraud at the European Patent Office, But All Those Arrested Are Perpetrators Without Misused Immunity
03.14.19 CommunityBridge is a Cynical Microsoft-Funded Effort to Show Zemlin Works for ‘Community’, Not Microsoft
03.24.19 Microsoft Paid the Open Source Initiative. Now (a Year Later) Microsoft is in the Board of the Open Source Initiative.
03.31.19 Technology Groups Implore the Deplorable Patent Office of Iancu and Trump
04.02.19 Microsoft Linux Entryism: A Roundup
04.08.19 Jono Bacon Works for Microsoft
04.10.19 Linux Magazine is Run by Advertisers, Not GNU/Linux (and It’s Hardly the Exception)
04.12.19 The EPO is Slipping Out of Control Again and It’s Another Battistelli-Like Mess With Disregard for the Rule of Law and Patent Scope
04.16.19 Reader’s Claim That Rules Similar to the Code of Conduct (CoC) Were ‘Imposed’ on LibrePlanet and the FSF
04.16.19 GNU/Linux is Being Eaten Alive by Large Corporations With Their Agenda
04.18.19 Freedom is Not a Business and Those Who Make ‘Business’ by Giving it Away Deserve Naming
04.18.19 “Mention the War” (of Microsoft Against GNU/Linux)
04.21.19 A Reader’s Suggestion: Directions for Techrights
04.22.19 USPTO and EPO Both Slammed for Abandoning Patent Quality and Violating the Law/Caselaw in Order to Grant Illegitimate Patents on Life/Nature and Mathematics
04.23.19 Code of Coercion
04.26.19 Research Into Who’s Putting DRM Inside Linux
05.05.19 It’s 2019 and Team UPC is Still Composing ‘Fake News’ (Lobbying Disguised as Reporting)
05.07.19 Microsoft Will Have You Sued for Not Hosting GNU/Linux on Azure (Paying Rents)
05.11.19 The Biased EPO Does Not Want to Hear From Anyone Except Those Who Pay the EPO
05.12.19 Microsoft Would Kill the Goose for Money
05.16.19 Q2 Midterm Weather Forecast for EPOnia, Part 3: “Ein kritikwürdiges Unternehmen”
05.19.19 South Korea’s Government Will Show If Microsoft Loves Linux or Just Attacks It Very Viciously Like It Did in Munich