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  • 11.16.06 RedHat: No Thanks, Microsoft
  • 11.21.06 Red Hat to Stay Mono-free
  • 11.21.06 When One Loses, Another One Gains
  • 11.22.06 The Community and Rivals Cope, Despite Novell’s Fluke
  • 11.22.06 RedHat Analysis of Novell’s Open Letter to the Community
  • 12.09.06 Novell-Microsoft Deal in Video (with an Extra)
  • 12.13.06 Red Hat: Vista is an Opportunity
  • 12.16.06 Contrasting Red Hat and Novell’s Philosophies
  • 12.16.06 More Articles Confirm That the Deal’s Winner is Microsoft
  • 12.22.06 Oracle, Novell, Microsoft Cannot Defeat Red Hat
  • 12.22.06 Red Hat Beats Forecasts, Beats Down Oracle
  • 12.22.06 Red Hat: Focused on Customers, Not Competitors
  • 01.04.07 Novell Talks Red Hat, Still Sidles With Microsoft
  • 02.01.07 Novell Goes After Red Hat-certified Professionals, Microsoft Invites Professionals for Interop
  • 02.06.07 Red Hat’s Stock Not Affected by Novell’s Blunder
  • 02.14.07 Analyst on Red Hat: “My Bad”
  • 02.19.07 Red Hat CEO Talks About Lack of Communication in Microsoft/Novell Deal
  • 02.20.07 Red Hat and Microsoft: What’s the Deal?
  • 03.08.07 Red Hat Collaborates with Novell… on Vanity
  • 03.15.07 Red Hat Flirts with Microsoft Again
  • 03.26.07 What did Microsoft Gain from the Novell Deal?
  • 04.20.07 Novell Disses Red Hat (Updated)
  • 04.28.07 Novell Fights Red Hat, Fights for Mono While Microsoft Fights Free Software
  • 05.01.07 Novell Thinks Red Hat is Jealous, But Who is Truly Envious? (Updated)
  • 05.02.07 Novell and Red Hat Welcome, Yet Downplay, Dell’s Ubuntu Move (Updated)
  • 05.09.07 Contrasting Novell and Red Hat’s Approaches Further
  • 05.17.07 Red Hat Does Well, But Linspire Needs a Gentle Shake
  • 06.16.07 Red Hat Still Not Interested in ‘Interoperability Tax’
  • 06.18.07 Red Hat Responds to Microsoft’s Mistake and Spurious FUD
  • 06.28.07 Intellectual Property FUD Gets Fuelled by Old Red Hat News
  • 06.29.07 Mystifying Words from Red Hat’s CEO
  • 07.03.07 Red Hat: We’ll Have Interoperability, But No Patent ‘Protection’, Thank You (Updated)
  • 07.23.07 Alfresco: Novell/Microsoft Deal Drives Customers Away to Red Hat, Not Novell
  • 08.19.07 Sun, Red Hat, Microsoft, and Novell: Whose Side is IBM on?
  • 09.12.07 Why the ‘Interoperability’ Lab is a Case Against Un-Novellised Linux
  • 09.26.07 Red Hat Does Well, But Why Does It Suddenly Need Licensing?
  • 10.21.07 Video: Steve Ballmer Claims Red Hat Customers Owe Him Some Money
  • 11.08.07 Red Hat Videos on Patents and the GNU GPLv3
  • 12.20.07 Red Hat FUD Was Off Target
  • 01.18.08 Secunia’s Latest Red Hat FUD Debunked
  • 01.30.08 Microsoft’s Deal with Citrix and Other Strategic Deals
  • 02.08.08 Red Hat’s CEO Responds to Question About Microsoft’s Patent Threats
  • 02.29.08 Red Hat’s Stance on Taxoperability Revisited, Licence Incompatibility Explained
  • 03.06.08 GPLv3: Sun’s and Red Hat’s New Armament Against Software Patents
  • 03.21.08 Why Novell is Bad for Linux: Reason #100 (Virtualisationovell-only)
  • 04.14.08 Red Hat and Software Patents (Video)
  • 04.17.08 Has Novell’s Deal with Microsoft Ruined Red Hat Desktop? (Updated)
  • 04.24.08 What If Red Hat Bought SuSE Instead of a Microsoft Partner?
  • 06.11.08 Red Hat Pays Intellectual Monopoly Money
  • 06.20.08 Microsoft’s Hijack of Xen Implicitly Confirmed by Red Hat
  • 06.22.08 Novell Criticism Comes from Red Hat Too
  • 06.23.08 Red Hat’s CEO Never Talked to Microsoft About Software Patents
  • 07.02.08 Quick Mention: Microsoft Remarks on Exclusion of Red Hat
  • 07.16.08 Red Hat’s Legal Department Was ‘Closed-Source’
  • 09.15.08 Companies That Fear GNU/Linux Versus Companies That Don’t
  • 10.18.08 Microsoft Threatens Red Hat Again, Uses Novell as Excuse
  • 11.14.08 Marcel Gagné on the Novell/Red Hat Situation
  • 11.21.08 Microsoft and Novell Celebrate Marriage in Public, But Customers Still Choose Red Hat
  • 11.24.08 Novell Partners Blog Lists “Red Hat Linux” as Just “Linux”
  • 12.05.08 Red Hat Does Good
  • 12.08.08 Red Hat Surges 32 Percent While Novell Declines
  • 12.18.08 Novell Dumped for Red Hat (Again)
  • 12.22.08 It’s Another Red Christmas
  • 02.16.09 Novell the Biggest Loser in New Red Hat-Microsoft Virtual Agreement
  • 02.17.09 Red Hat-Microsoft: Take III
  • 02.21.09 Summary of the Red Hat-Microsoft Story
  • 03.04.09 Another Company Affiliated with Microsoft Sues Red Hat Using Software Patents
  • 03.17.09 Red Hat Fights Fire with Fire
  • 03.18.09 The Other Side of Red Hat: Pieter Hintjens on AMQP and Patents
  • 03.22.09 Patents Roundup: Red Hat Again; EPO and USPTO Debated
  • 03.25.09 How Red Hat Dodged a Novell-Like Microsoft Deal Despite Lobbying for Software Patents
  • 03.29.09 Red Hat, Microsoft, EU Lobbyists, and Software Patents
  • 03.31.09 Patents Roundup: Red Hat, Former USPTO Commissioner on Patent Demise, and WIPO Notes
  • 03.31.09 Red Hat to Let Xen Drop After Microsoft Hijacked It
  • 04.01.09 2008 Announcement About Red Hat GNU/Linux Heralds Disinterest in Aging Concepts
  • 05.01.09 Microsoft: Red Hat Should be Happy to Take Microsoft Patents
  • 06.04.09 What Red Hat and Novell Have in Common and What They Do Not
  • 06.24.09 It’s Red Hat’s Day Again
  • 06.27.09 Novell News Summary – Part II: SUSE (SLES/SLED), Novell’s in Red Hat’s Shadow, and Xandros
  • 07.12.09 Lenovo Wants GNU/Linux Users to Pay Microsoft for Imaginary Patents
  • 07.24.09 Red Hat Asks Microsoft to Stop the Patent Racketeering
  • 08.14.09 Novell’s New Ads Against Red Hat
  • 09.10.09 More Anti-Red Hat Whitepapers from Novell, More Mono/.NET Convergence
  • 10.08.09 The FFII and Red Hat’s CEO Express Dissatisfaction with United States Patent System
  • 11.21.09 Novell News Summary – Part II: SLES and Samsung’s Bada, Enlightenment
  • 03.09.10 Response to Red Hat FUD from Canonical’s COO Matt Asay
  • 04.01.10 What Happens Next in the SCO Case (Post Novell)
  • 05.01.10 Red Hat Appears to Have Done More Against Acacia (Patent Troll)
  • 06.07.10 Patents Roundup: More Regarding Red Hat, Klaus-Heiner Lehne, Patents on Genes, and USPTO Speed Lane
  • 06.13.10 VMware Helps Promote Vista 7 and Harm Red Hat
  • 07.01.10 Eye on Security: Red Hat Explains Why Windows is Less Secure, New Windows 0-Day Attack
  • 07.21.10 Links: KDE SC News (Including Akademy), Distribution Reviews, and Upside for Red Hat
  • 07.26.10 Red Hat Now Worth Three Times as Much as Novell (and SUSE Developers Should Consider Moving to Red Hat)
  • 09.07.10 Red Hat Should Eliminate All of Its Patents, or At Least Attach Self-Destructive Clauses to Them
  • 09.08.10 Red Hat’s Market Cap Tops $7 Billion Today, Novell Only at $2 Billion
  • 09.24.10 Michael Tiemann Explains How Free Software Grows Revenue and Increases Innovation
  • 10.03.10 Details Needed About New Red Hat-Acacia Patent Settlement (Updated)
  • 10.04.10 BSA is a Hypocrite: Powered by GNU/Linux, Won’t Even Buy From Red Hat for Its Development of Software
  • 12.20.10 Red Hat and Oracle Respond to EIFv2, Microsoft Seemingly Plans More Patent Aggression
  • 04.20.11 While Helping Microsoft, Novell Harms Linux Companies and Instead Markets Proprietary
  • 05.02.11 What Happens to OpenSUSE and Novell’s Software Patents Now?
  • 05.05.11 Groklaw Worried About Novell Polluting Ubuntu With Mono, IBM’s Open Source VP Thinks Microsoft Might Scoop Mono
  • 09.24.11 With Failure to Reform USPTO, Grim Future for Patent Systems Worldwide
  • 10.28.11 When Novell Staff Becomes Technology Writer
  • 02.14.12 Apple May Have High Market Cap, But Linux is Far Ahead
  • 05.31.12 Links – Red Hat Deal Highlights the Threat of Microsoft’s “Secure Boot”
  • 06.02.12 Microsoft Takes Up a Notch Effort to Tax and Control Linux
  • 06.13.12 Red Hat Was Wrong About UEFI, Failed to Ask the Users
  • 06.29.12 MOSAID Apparently Extorts Linux, Red Hat Embraces Secrecy Again
  • 07.20.12 Red Hat Does Not Want to Defend Its Position on UEFI
  • 07.28.12 The BSD World Antagonises UEFI While Red Hat Aids It, OpenBSD Leader Criticises Red Hat
  • 01.16.13 New Fedora Suffers From UEFI While Desktops Suffer Steep Decline and Sales Drop
  • 02.23.13 Linux FUD From Microsoft Proxies Takes ‘Security’ Flavour
  • 04.03.13 Red Hat Repeats Canonical’s Mistake by Hiring From Microsoft, Amazon Already Captive
  • 04.06.13 Red Hat Should Learn From Companies That Got Abducted in a Friend-Brings-a-Friend Fashion by Microsoft
  • 04.06.13 Missing the Real Problem With Patents in the United States
  • 04.07.13 Red Hat et al. (Including Android’s Guardian) Complain About Companies That Attack FOSS With Patents, Apple Sites Quote ‘FOSS Patents’ Spin on Yet Another Loss Against Android
  • 05.07.13 When GNU/Linux Backers Can’t Tell the USPTO That It’s Broken, Software Patents Illegitimate
  • 05.24.13 Red Hat Should Follow Google’s and Twitter’s Footsteps on Patents to Avoid Becoming the Next Novell
  • 05.25.13 Red Hat Pays Microsoft-Linked Patent Troll Again, Refuses to Provide Details
  • 08.26.13 Red Hat’s ‘Community’ Face Helps Disguise Corporate Nature
  • 10.18.13 Red Hat Roundup: Claims That OpenStack is on the Rise, New Partnerships, Releases, and More
  • 12.12.13 Avoid Oracle’s ‘Unbreakable’ Linux, Support Red Hat Enterprise Linux Instead
  • 01.24.14 Debian Receives Prize from Valve But Becomes More Dependent on Red Hat
  • 02.19.14 Red Hat News: Hortonworks, Server, and Fedora
  • 03.07.14 Red Hat Joins the Joke Which is Amazon’s ‘Secure’ Federal ‘Cloud’
  • 04.02.14 Red Hat and Fedora News: Financial Report, New Partnerships, Fedora 21 Plans
  • 04.02.14 Red Hat Should Keep Its Distance From NSA Facilitator Microsoft
  • 04.08.14 Red Hat News: Honours, Big Partners, Expansion, and Community Projects
  • 04.10.14 Red Hat News: OpenStack Training, Google Deal, Fedora 21
  • 11.04.14 Cryptome Reveals How Microsoft Gives the FBI and the NSA Back Doors to Crack Encryption
  • 07.08.15 Red Hat and NSA: This is Not News
  • 10.21.15 Red Hat Makes an Error by Liaising With Proprietary Software Firm and Source of FUD, Supposedly for ‘Security’
  • 11.04.15 Red Hat’s Deal With Microsoft Resurrects Fears of Software Patents Against GNU/Linux and Introduces ‘Triple-Dipping’ of Fees
  • 11.04.15 Red Hat Sells Out With a Microsoft Patent Deal
  • 11.05.15 More Information Emerges About the Microsoft-Red Hat Patent Agreement
  • 11.06.15 Summary of the Red Hat-Microsoft Patent Agreement of 2015
  • 11.07.15 Red Hat is Chastised For Playing Along With Microsoft’s Patent Scheme Rather Than Challenge the Patents Like Google and the Alice Case Did
  • 11.12.15 Techrights Turns 9
  • 11.14.15 Red Hat and BlackBerry: Companies That Use Linux But Also Hoard Software Patents and Use These Against Rivals in the Linux Space
  • 11.16.15 Red Hat-Microsoft Deal Increasingly Resembles Novell-Microsoft Deal (Including Patent Aspects)
  • 11.30.15 Richard Stallman and Eben Moglen on the Microsoft-Red Hat Deal
  • 06.17.16 Canonical’s and Red Hat’s Shameful War Against One Another… and Against the Already-Marginalised Linux Media
  • 11.16.16 Don’t Believe the Lies; Microsoft Hates Linux and Merely Pulls E.E.E. Tactics Against It, Including .NET Promotion
  • 01.15.19 IBM, Which Will Soon be Buying Red Hat, is Promoting Software Patents in Europe
  • 03.04.19 With IBM’s Absorption of Red Hat Now Confirmed, at Least by Stockholders, IBM Has Shown No Intent/Plan to Stop Lobbying for Software Patents and Blackmailing With These


  • 01.24.07 Red Hat Grabs SUSE Executive, More Patent Tosh, and New Opensuse Products
  • 01.29.07 Oracle to ‘Pull a Red Hat’ to Fight MySQL?
  • 02.20.07 Red Hat to Microsoft: No FUD for You!
  • 05.07.07 Dell Not Caught Between Canonical, Red Hat, and Microvell
  • 05.08.07 Steinman on the Balcony Again, Offering Red Hat FUD
  • 05.15.07 OpenOffice.org Talks About Microsoft’s “Desperate Act“, Red Hat Not Agitated
  • 05.23.07 Another Novell Fan Leaves for Red Hat, Tells Story
  • 08.04.07 Red Hat Wants Windows Codecs, Microsoft Wants Patent Deals
  • 08.08.07 Ron Hovsepian Apparently Gives the Nod to Microsoft Patent Deals, Gets Red Hat Angered
  • 08.10.07 An Anti-Linux Dan Lyons Mind Replaced by Another Forbes Magazine Writer That Slams Novell
  • 08.11.07 Do-No-Evil Saturday: Wow. What a Week!
  • 09.17.07 Novell’s Microsoft Deal — The “Advantage” That Wasn’t
  • 10.18.07 SJVN Opines That Microsoft Uses Sockpuppets Against Linux, Again
  • 10.20.07 Novell Still Behind Red Hat and IBM in Terms of Linux Contributions
  • 10.21.07 Red Hat’s Webbink Criticises Software Patents and Sheds Light on IP
  • 10.24.07 Quoteworthy Analysis: Acacia, Europe, the GPL, IBM, Microsoft, Red Hat, and Novell
  • 11.09.07 Novell/Microsoft Deal — The Success That Wasn’t
  • 11.09.07 Quick Mention: Somebody, Explain to Mr. Hovsepian What Fedora Is
  • 11.26.07 Is Oracle Microsoft/Novell’s Worst Enemy, Not Red Hat’s?
  • 11.27.07 Quick Mention: The Blog That Was Mistakenly Cited
  • 12.04.07 Patents That Companies Have Got to Protect Linux Devices
  • 12.04.07 Quick Mention: Red Hat Thinks Novell’s SLERT is a Beta, Ripoff (Updated)
  • 12.14.07 Do-No-Evil Saturday – Part III: What Else is GNU at Novell?
  • 12.14.07 What Novell’s Financial Performance Means for Its Future
  • 12.14.07 Novell, Sun Microsystems, Red Hat, and Microsoft Patents
  • 12.15.07 Novell and Microsoft versus VMWare, Red Hat
  • 12.21.07 Open Letter to James Whitehurst, CEO of Red Hat
  • 01.01.08 What’s Good for Microsoft is Good for Novell?
  • 03.03.08 What We Can Learn About Novell from Intel-Microsoft-Dell-Hewlett-Packard Collusions
  • 03.03.08 Bob Sutor on the BRM: “Utter and Predictable Embarrassment”; Red Hat Also Chimes In
  • 03.11.08 ISO Fails Again. It’s a Hat Trick.
  • 03.13.08 Novell States Its Business Case, at Ubuntu’s and Red Hat’s Expense
  • 03.27.08 What Makes Novell the Black Sheep of the Free Software Universe
  • 04.07.08 The Somewhat Overlooked Menaces of OOXML, Demonstrated by News
  • 04.23.08 Novell Meets rPath in Raleigh, North Carolina (Hometown of Red Hat)
  • 05.01.08 A Former Ximian Employee Finds Greener Pastures (Red Hat)
  • 05.22.08 Survey: Businesses Choose Red Hat Enterprise Linux Over Novell Ballnux
  • 05.31.08 Novell’s CEO is Dissing Red Hat (Again)
  • 06.12.08 Software Patents Roundup and What Novell Should Have Done
  • 06.23.08 Novell and Microsoft Play Dirty Against Red Hat (Again)
  • 07.17.08 Red Hat Senior Fights Patents, Microsoft’s ‘Patent Troopers’ Revisited
  • 08.29.08 Interlude: What Mono Could be All About
  • 09.06.08 Red Hat: Open Source Just a Hobby to Novell
  • 10.02.08 Novell Befriends Microsoft, Attacks Red Hat and Ubuntu
  • 10.07.08 Red Hat’s CEO Optimistic on ODF; OpenOffice.org Used by 1 in 4 in Brazil
  • 10.09.08 Rumour: Microsoft’s Marshall Phelps Failed to Sign Red Hat on Patents, Got Fired
  • 11.03.08 What the Bilski Ruling Might Mean to Software Patents, Microsoft
  • 11.04.08 Experts Indicate That re Bilski Does Impact Software Patents
  • 11.11.08 Novell/Microsoft ‘Pulling an Oracle’ on Red Hat
  • 11.13.08 How Long Before Everyone Accepts That Novell is with Microsoft More Than with Linux?
  • 11.17.08 Even Microsoft Chooses Red Hat Over Novell’s SUSE
  • 11.25.08 In re Bilski May Show That Novell Harnesses Microsoft’s FUD
  • 11.25.08 Novell Proves that “PR Lies™”, Recruits More ‘Liars’
  • 12.04.08 Novell: Powered by Red Hat
  • 12.09.08 The Many Signs That GNU/Linux Grew Significantly in 2007 – Part 2
  • 12.24.08 Links Xmas Eve: Red Hat Leaps, Garmin Picks Android
  • 12.29.08 What Samba Can Teach Us About Mono
  • 02.05.09 How Microsoft (with Novell) Subverts the Virtualisation Space to Harm Red Hat
  • 02.16.09 Patents Roundup: Red Hat, Acacia, Microsoft, Apple, and the European Commission
  • 02.16.09 Red Hat-Microsoft Agreement Not Malicious, But Was It Smart?
  • 03.06.09 Patents Roundup: TomTom, Microsoft, Patent Trolls, Red Hat, IBM, Google, Bilski and Reform
  • 03.21.09 Novell, Red Hat, and Software Patents: Strike II
  • 04.07.09 Novell Joins Microsoft Seminar While Microsoft Hits Red Hat with “IP” Slurs
  • 04.24.09 The Score: Red Hat Revenue Up 18%, Microsoft Revenue Down, Apple Fires 1,600 Full-time Employees
  • 05.04.09 Red Hat: We Should Probably Look at Switching out Tomboy with Gnote in the Fedora 12 Panel Configuration
  • 05.06.09 Red Hat States Its Case Against Software Patents
  • 05.25.09 ZDNet/eWeek Ruins Peter Judge’s Good Article by Attacking Red Hat When Microsoft Does the Crime
  • 06.02.09 Red Hat Replaces Tomboy with Gnote, Removes Mono Dependency
  • 06.06.09 Does Microsoft Moonlight Do to Firefox What Microsoft Does to Firefox?
  • 07.11.09 Microsoft Shares Destiny with Partners That Promote Its Agenda
  • 07.21.09 Revisited: The FSF’s and Red Hat’s Position on Mono
  • 07.31.09 More Countries Move to ODF, But What About Portugal?
  • 08.06.09 What a Difference a Decade Makes
  • 08.09.09 More SCO Headlines and What Comes Next
  • 09.10.09 Red Hat: Microsoft Marketed Its Patents for Trolls to Attack Free Software
  • 09.23.09 What is ‘Club SCO’ Doing Near the Linux Foundation with Novell?
  • 10.09.09 Microsoft and Novell Throw “IP” FUD at Red Hat, Novell Spins Figures
  • 10.20.09 Patents Roundup: Microsoft Patent Tax, FireStar-Red Hat Revisited, US Patent Crisis
  • 11.11.09 At What Stage Can Novell be Called “Microsoft Subsidiary”?
  • 12.03.09 OpenLogic — Like Novell — Supports Red Hat Clone
  • 12.22.09 Put the Red Hat on
  • 12.22.09 “The Moonlight/Mono World Does Not Work That Way Though.”
  • 01.20.10 Red Hat Formally Complains About Novell’s Masquerading
  • 01.21.10 The Register Gloats About Microsoft Vapourware and Daemonises the Victim Red Hat, Which Microsoft/Novell Are Assaulting
  • 01.28.10 What the Yahoo! Deal Means for Ubuntu GNU/Linux (and Mono)
  • 02.04.10 What Microsoft’s Attack on GNU/Linux at HP Teaches Us
  • 02.18.10 Patents Roundup: Centrify Brings Microsoft Patents to *NIX, Red Hat Denounces the Patent Trolls, and Google Still Endorses Software Patents
  • 02.28.10 Novell’s Anti-Red Hat Pitch, Comments Squad, and “Boosters” Team
  • 03.08.10 What Would Happen to “Boycott Novell” If Novell Was Sold in Pieces
  • 03.22.10 Novell Accused of Lying About Red Hat Products (Again)
  • 04.02.10 Red Hat/Fedora Deliver GNOME Without the Mono
  • 04.12.10 Red Hat Converts C# Code to Java While Apple Outright Rejects C#
  • 04.15.10 ‘Little Microsoft’ Accuses Red Hat
  • 04.21.10 OpenDocument Format (ODF) Shows That It Would Have Been Better If IBM Bought Sun
  • 05.04.10 Patents Roundup: Red Hat on Patent Trolls; Apple Antitrust; Microsoft Attacks Theora, Which is Needed to Save Our Video Culture
  • 05.06.10 After Acacia Case Red Hat is Free, SUSE is Still Not Free
  • 05.07.10 AMD Should Have Given RadeonHD Driver Project to Red Hat
  • 05.13.10 Kuwait Government Dumps Novell/Microsoft for Red Hat
  • 05.14.10 Kuwait Move From SUSE to Red Hat Shows That Novell and Microsoft Deceive on ‘Interoperability’
  • 05.18.10 Is Novell Spamming Google News With Anti-Red Hat Whitepapers and TechRepublic’s Help?
  • 06.01.10 A Glimpse Back at Red Hat’s and Novell’s Stance on Software Patents in 2005
  • 06.04.10 Red Hat’s CEO Dismisses Software Patents and Microsoft Uses Tuxera to Spread Them to Linux/Android
  • 06.04.10 What Novell is Down to This Week
  • 06.08.10 Software Patents Still Fought Against by Red Hat, Brad Feld
  • 06.24.10 New Zealand’s Legislation Regarding Software Patents Shows That the US is the Boss
  • 06.25.10 Red Hat’s Microsoft Collaboration Without Software Patents; Forrester Bribed by Microsoft and Novell to Help Promote Linux Patent Deals
  • 06.30.10 IEEE Hates Software Freedom, Now Makes it More Official
  • 07.21.10 Apple Patents That Retard GNU/Linux/X Font Rendering Finally Expire, Microsoft Still a Barrier (ClearType Patents)
  • 08.11.10 Vice President of Engineering at Novell (Andy Fox) Not Surprised That Google Pulled the Plug on Wave
  • 08.25.10 Red Hat Does the Free(dom) Way What Novell Does the Proprietary Way
  • 08.25.10 Novell is Up for Sale, Not Red Hat
  • 08.30.10 Gates Foundation and Microsoft Both Hate Sharing, Love Taking
  • 08.31.10 Why Paul Allen (Interval Patent Troll) Targets Companies That Do Not Cross-license With (or Pay) Microsoft
  • 09.02.10 Red Hat Now Worth Almost 3.5 Times What Novell is Worth
  • 09.10.10 Red Hat Site Remarking on Fake Blogging/Reviews (Like Microsoft’s and Apple’s)
  • 09.26.10 What Everyone Needs to Know About Wikileaks and Microsoft Lobbyists Like Anke Domscheit-Berg, Zuck, and Maybe Florian Müller
  • 10.01.10 Microsoft Offers More Filesystem Patent Traps (While Suing Over Them Again), Red Hat’s Rob Tiller Speaks
  • 10.06.10 Red Hat Needs to be Transparent and Explain the Acacia Settlement
  • 10.11.10 Microsoft Thinks That Tax and Arrests Will Make Up for Security Flaws in Windows
  • 11.10.10 Novell’s Hallmark of a Company That’s Already Dead
  • 11.16.10 Nature Calls Microsoft in Red Hat’s Back Yard
  • 11.16.10 Microsoft is Paying Red Hat Foe Acacia and Bruce Perens Criticises Red Hat Over Acacia NDA
  • 11.18.10 Canadian Government to Challenge Amazon’s Spreading of Software/BM Patents, Which Red Hat Wants Abolished and Microsoft Still Collects
  • 11.20.10 Venture Capitalists Want to Get Rid of Software Patents, Pro-Patents Guy Commends “Smart Red Hat Employees” for Patent Stance
  • 12.13.10 Red Hat Pushes for Patent Reform While Microsoft Patent Trolls Are Suing, Sometimes Losing
  • 12.16.10 Red Hat Employees Accuse Mac Asay of Lying About GPLv3
  • 12.21.10 Fresh Allegations That Gartner is Corrupt and Magic Quadrant Positions Are ‘for Sale’
  • 01.20.11 Amid Risk of Disappearance, Novell Pays to Lie About Red Hat and Rivals, Uses Mono Similarly
  • 01.31.11 Marketing Spin and Fake News: All That Novell Has Left
  • 03.01.11 Red Hat is Not Transparent Enough
  • 03.14.11 Novell Rips Red Hat Off and Rips the Community Apart, Brings Microsoft and Patent Tax Into it
  • 04.02.11 Red Hat’s Obfuscated Patches Harm Small GNU/Linux Players and Help Microsoft/Novell
  • 04.10.11 Novell’s Patents Will Harm GNU/Linux, Proving That Everyone’s Software Patents Are Bad
  • 05.03.11 Acacia Extorts Red Hat Again
  • 05.08.11 How Red Hat Gets Extorted by Microsoft and Its Patent Trolls
  • 05.12.11 What the Skype Takeover Means for Microsoft Patents (and Other Software Patents News)
  • 05.31.11 Another Microsoft Partnership That Killed: Novell Left Broken, Managers Who Signed the Microsoft Deal Vanish
  • 06.14.11 Ubuntu is Canonical Alias, Fedora is Red Hat incubator, OpenSUSE Becomes Attachmate’s Volunteers Magnet…
  • 06.30.11 As Microsoft Managers Keep Fleeing, Microsoft Attacks Small Players That Offer Linux (Updated)
  • 07.06.11 Red Hat President: Novell would “try to switch them to the stuff that wasn’t open source.”
  • 08.10.11 Latest Evidence That the USPTO is Morbidly Ill, Costing the Economy; Real Reform Likely
  • 08.19.11 Arguments That Google’s Motorola Move Was Defensive (Amid Bidding War)
  • 08.26.11 Microsoft/Novell Software Patents Strategy Failed to Submerge Red Hat, Patent Trolls Do the Job Better
  • 09.05.11 What We Learn From Novell’s Patents
  • 09.16.11 SAP Offers Lip Service to Red Hat But Continues to Pay Microsoft for GNU/Linux, Thanks to SUSE
  • 10.27.11 Patents Roundup: Microsoft Patents PR, Red Hat/Groklaw’s Response, and Apple’s Slide to Unlock Thermonuclear War
  • 12.22.11 Techrights Interview With Jim Whitehurst, Red Hat’s President and
  • 01.27.12 Microsoft Looks for New Ways to Tax All GNU/Linux Servers, Red Hat Included
  • 02.22.12 Patents Roundup: Oracle Lessens Android Demands, Red Hat Suggests Cure to Trolls, Debian Adopts New Patent Policy
  • 02.22.12 FOSS-Hostile Patent Policies in Europe and the FFII’s Response to That
  • 04.01.12 SUSE POS is Repackaged Red Hat, Largely Ignored by the Press
  • 04.20.12 Patent Pledges Are Pointless, Here’s What Red Hat Can Learn From Twitter
  • 06.05.12 Microsoft’s Monopolistic Abuses Continue as Red Hat and Fedora Tax Are Put in Place
  • 06.09.12 Red Hat Criticised for Advancing Microsoft’s UEFI Agenda
  • 06.19.12 Red Hat Fails to Convince That UEFI is Tolerable, Uses ‘Security’ as Talking Point
  • 06.27.12 Answers to Microsoft’s UEFI Plot Summarised, More Pretence That Microsoft is ‘Open’
  • 07.05.12 Canonical and Red Hat Receive Negative Publicity Over Submissive UEFI Choices
  • 07.12.12 Debian Follows the FSF’s — Not Red Hat’s — Footsteps Regarding UEFI
  • 07.25.12 Microsoft Dictatorship Divides and Conquers Linux With Novell, Red Hat, and Ubuntu
  • 07.30.12 Home of S.u.S.E., Germany, is Relying on Red Hat and Avoiding Microsoft Extortion Tax
  • 02.25.13 Torvalds Curses Over UEFI Stupidity, Gets Upset at Red Hat (Updated)
  • 03.31.13 Rackspace and Red Hat Battle Against Vile Troll (‘Uniloc USA’) Can Help Weaken Software Patents in the US
  • 04.19.13 Electronic Frontier Foundation, Google, Red Hat et al. Should Work to Eliminate Software Patents, Not Just Patent Trolls
  • 07.16.13 Zimbra: The Microsoft Competitor That Got Thrown Around and Now Finds Relative Independence Again, in ASP.NET-Connected Company
  • 07.22.13 TechBytes Episode 85: Listeners’/Readers’ Questions About FreedomBox, FSF Sponsorship, and Technical Decisions by Canonical and Red Hat
  • 09.27.13 Microsoft’s Patent Mafia Called the Proof That Patent Trolls Must be Eradicated or Patent Law Changed
  • 10.03.13 ‘Microsoft Linux’ (aka SUSE) No Longer a Threat to Red Hat
  • 10.18.13 Red Hat’s Desktop Efforts (e.g. Fedora) Lag Behind the Debian Camp
  • 11.11.13 Red Hat Matures and Wins Government Contracts
  • 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
  • 11.24.13 Trusting Trust and Trusting Red Hat et al.
  • 12.03.13 Apple and Microsoft Claim Patent Tax on GNU/Linux, Red Hat’s Response Too Weak
  • 12.24.13 Despite US Roots, Red Hat Appears to Have Benefited From NSA Scandals
  • 01.26.14 IBM Shows That Collaborations With the NSA Are a Company’s Death Knell
  • 01.30.14 This Week’s Big News in Great Britain Shows That Free Software is Doing Great
  • 02.06.14 Poll: Only 39% Trust Red Hat Over Back Doors
  • 02.11.14 What Debian Does is a Very Big Deal
  • 03.03.14 Open Source Initiative, Free Software Foundation, SFLC, Red Hat and Others Fight Against Software Patents at SCOTUS Level
  • 03.11.14 OpenStack Advocacy and Promotion (Especially From Red Hat) and Other Stack Initiatives
  • 01.28.15 Qualys Starts Self-Promotional FUD Campaign, Naming a Bug That Was Already Fixed 2 Years Ago and Distros Have Covered With Patches
  • 01.30.15 Qualys Admits That Its Scare Campaign (So-called ‘GHOST’) Somewhat Baseless
  • 04.08.15 Security FUD Against Free Software Resurfaces, Using Promotional Branding From a Microsoft-Linked Firm, So Red Hat Finally Responds
  • 10.07.15 OIN Turns 10, IDG Floods the Web With Puff Pieces That ‘Normalise’ Software Patents
  • 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
  • 11.10.15 Only Days After Red Hat Legitimised Microsoft’s Patents Against Linux Another Linux-Using Company Falls Victim to Microsoft’s Patent Extortion
  • 11.17.15 Still No Disclosure From Red Hat Regarding Patent Agreement With Microsoft
  • 11.20.15 Patents Roundup: Alice Decision Still Upsets Patent Lawyers, Microsoft AstroTurf Group Lobbies on FRAND, Google and Red Hat Recalled
  • 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
  • 10.03.16 Software Patents Are Against the First Amendment, Rules a CAFC Judge in Historic Decision That is Another Nail in the Software Patents Coffin
  • 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
  • 03.25.17 It Certainly Looks Like Microsoft is Already Siccing Its Patent Trolls, Including Intellectual Ventures, on Companies That Use Linux (Until They Pay ‘Protection’ Money)
  • 09.06.17 Juve Reveals That Ingve Stjerna is the ‘UPC Slayer’ While the EPO Continues to Lobby, Mislead
  • 01.21.18 Unified Patents Says That RPX, Which Might Soon be Owned by Patent Trolls, Paid Patent Trolls Hundreds of Millions of Dollars
  • 01.27.18 Somebody Should Explain to the Federal Circuit That GUIs are Not Inventions Because PTAB Already Knows It
  • 04.30.18 Like a Pack of Spoiled Brats, Patent Maximalists and Media That They Control Bash the Oil States Decision and Distract From It
  • 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
  • 06.10.18 Deception on § 101/Alice Continues, Courtesy of Firms That Are Making Money From Worthless (Bunk) Software Patents
  • 09.02.18 Cryptocurrency Patents Are Bogus (Abstract) Patents and Red Hat Ought to Quit Pursuing Blockchain (Software) Patents
  • 12.13.18 Latest Talk From IBM’s Manny Schecter Shows That IBM Hasn’t Changed and After the Red Hat Takeover It’ll Continue to Promote Software Patents
  • 12.22.18 Patent Attorneys Still Insult Judges Because Their Clients, Notably Patent Trolls, Hate 35 U.S.C. § 101 (and Courts Are Correctly Applying It)
  • 01.27.19 Always Remember That Red Hat Also Considered Microsoft as a Buyer
  • 02.01.19 Stupid Acquisition of the Month (or Year): Red Hat Selling Itself to the World’s Biggest Lobbying Power for Software Patents
  • 04.16.19 Reader’s Claim That Rules Similar to the Code of Conduct (CoC) Were ‘Imposed’ on LibrePlanet and the FSF


  • 11.17.06 I thought Novell said there were no Infractions
  • 11.18.06 Two Quick Things – Censorship & SCO (v.)
  • 11.19.06 Mono Officially a Minefield, is OOO Too?
  • 11.19.06 Was Oracle Linux One Competitor Too Many?
  • 11.20.06 Can Novell’s Protection Racket Swing a Timebomb?
  • 11.23.06 Analysing the Rationale for the Deal
  • 11.23.06 Novell Sought Peace… for Self
  • 11.24.06 Time to Retract?
  • 11.25.06 SUSE Dev Speaks Ubuntu
  • 11.25.06 Commonalities with the Sun Microsystems Deal
  • 12.06.06 2700 Signatures and Climbing
  • 12.08.06 First CEO to Lose Their Job Over Microvell?
  • 12.10.06 Mono’s Demise Good News for Free Software
  • 12.11.06 Embrace Microsoft, or Join With Us (In our Embrace with Microsoft)
  • 12.11.06 Novell: Join Us on the Dark Side, Ubuntu
  • 12.11.06 Who’s Afraid of Oracle Linux?
  • 12.12.06 Microvell Survey Questions Mary Jo Foley Would Ask
  • 12.12.06 New Microvell Survey
  • 12.12.06 Windows Users Undisclosed Balance Sheet Liability
  • 12.13.06 “Commies” on the New York Stock Exchange
  • 12.14.06 Developers Still Flock to Open Source Software
  • 12.16.06 Transcript of Stafford Masies Q&A at CITI Forum in South Africa
  • 12.16.06 The Cycle of (FUD) Abuse
  • 12.17.06 Novell, The Eight Hundred Pound Penguin
  • 12.18.06 Freedom vs. Features – Ubuntu’s Search for Bling
  • 12.19.06 FOSS: The Low Cost of Exit
  • 12.21.06 Microsoft: It’s an “Intellectual Property” Deal
  • 12.21.06 Oracle Linux is Doing Errr… Bad
  • 12.22.06 A Chair Flies in Waltham?
  • 12.27.06 Stafford Masie Presentation at CITI Forum: Transcript
  • 12.28.06 Quote of the Day
  • 12.29.06 Novell Clings on to Its Proprietary Roots
  • 12.31.06 Our Interview with Jeremy Allison
  • 01.01.07 From Beating Microsoft to Virtualisation, to Conceding the Race Altogether
  • 01.02.07 More on Novell’s Mixed-Source Model
  • 01.04.07 Novell Could Buy a Virtualisation Company
  • 01.05.07 Microvell Acquisition of XenSource Confirmed by Ray Ozzie?
  • 01.06.07 Assorted Links and Weekend Video
  • 01.09.07 Oracle Returns to Headlines, Speculation Suggests It May Try to Acquire Yet Another Open Source Competitor
  • 01.10.07 3 Distinct Statistics: Page Hits, Downloads and Users
  • 01.15.07 Novell’s Software Patent Strategy in South Africa
  • 01.23.07 Walmart Accepts Microsoft’s Stay-Out-Of-Court-Free Coupons
  • 01.25.07 Sun Looking for Acquisition Targets?
  • 02.06.07 Samba Team Walked Out on Novell? (Corrected)
  • 02.07.07 News Digest: No Sun Acquisition, No GNU, No Patents (and Nothing Beyond)
  • 02.09.07 All is Well at Samba, Interoperability Challenges Addressed, Without Novell
  • 02.10.07 Self-serving Articles versus the Voices of Freedom
  • 02.12.07 Novell News from the Past Week
  • 02.14.07 Microsoft/Novell Deal Has No Impact on Linux Market, Say Analysts
  • 02.15.07 Ron Hovsepian Defending Microvell Deal
  • 02.17.07 Novell News, Opinions and Analysis: A Roundup
  • 02.24.07 Debian, the “Other” Enterprise Distribution
  • 03.02.07 Novell Must Change Its Way of Thinking
  • 03.08.07 It’s Gonna Take More than Coupons to Get Ya Saved
  • 03.13.07 Will Novell Get Access to Microsoft’s “Undocumentation”?
  • 03.15.07 Novell Criticism Hits from Two Fronts
  • 03.15.07 New Virtualisation Pact: Novell and SWsoft
  • 03.16.07 80-85% of Open Source Community Backs Microvell Deal?
  • 03.16.07 Some Novell Clients and Developers Unhappy with Microsoft/Novell Deal as a ‘Sizeable Number’ Departs
  • 03.17.07 Microsoft Sponsors Conference of the ‘Bad Guy of the Linux Community’
  • 03.20.07 Roundup: NASDAQ Warning, Novell Training, GPLv3 Roadmap, and Anti-Linux Efforts
  • 03.22.07 The Net is Abuzz Over Novell’s Impact
  • 03.22.07 New Spoof Ads from Novell (Videos)
  • 03.23.07 Ellison Continues to Exaggerate
  • 03.24.07 Does Novell Spread Its Mono Along with FUD?
  • 03.26.07 Microsoft and Oracle Pull the FUD Manoeuvre
  • 03.27.07 Oracle to Join Open Invention Network
  • 03.29.07 When Will GPLv3 Come Into Effect? (Updatedx2)
  • 03.29.07 The Samba Project Still Affected by the Novell/Microsoft Deal
  • 04.04.07 Mono and Patents, Putting a Price Tag on Linux
  • 04.07.07 Novell Responds With More Spin
  • 04.11.07 Open Source Consortium (UK) Against Microvell Anti-GPLv3 FUD
  • 04.23.07 Novell Puts Its Cards on a .NET Linux
  • 04.24.07 More Dell Desktop Linux Speculation
  • 04.29.07 The Attitude Problem: Competing Against an Enemy of Your Enemy
  • 05.01.07 No Dell for Novell
  • 05.02.07 Microsoft’s Silverlight for GNU/Linux? Only If You Accept Mono. (Updated)
  • 05.05.07 Mark Webbink on Trust, Oracle and Novell
  • 05.09.07 Buying Linux from Microsoft — Is This the Future in Novell’s Eyes?
  • 05.09.07 Interoperability Shouldn’t Require an Agreement
  • 05.09.07 Novell: Remember, Mixed Source includes Open Source
  • 05.12.07 Novell Sidles with IBM’s Rival, Repeats Mistakes
  • 05.12.07 Novell Rejected by One Blogger (and Ex-Novellist) While We Get Dismissed by Another (Updated)
  • 05.15.07 Business as Usual for Linux Companies (Updated)
  • 05.15.07 Users of Free Software, Companies Yawn at Microsoft’s Vague Claims
  • 05.15.07 Collective Yawn at Microsoft’s Scare Attacks
  • 05.16.07 Speculation: Did Microsoft Try to Get Sun to Sue Linux? (Updated)
  • 05.16.07 Patents Troll, Bully, or Both? (External Sources)
  • 05.17.07 Identity Management Contract for Novell, But Is It Open?
  • 05.18.07 Interoperability Based on Tax (Novell) versus Open APIs (Free Software)?
  • 05.22.07 Helping Linux by Cloning Novell SUSE and Redistributing?
  • 05.23.07 Here Comes the PR Stunt, Puts Spin on All the Bullying
  • 05.23.07 It’s Novell’s Blunder and Microsoft’s PR Disaster (External Sources)
  • 05.24.07 Interoperability the Wrong Direction and the Wrong Way (Updated)
  • 05.24.07 Mixed Signals — Novell Takes Open Source and Proprietary Routes
  • 05.25.07 The Economics of FUD
  • 05.28.07 Unafraid of Software Patents, the World Points at the Real Issue
  • 05.28.07 If You Lack Good Software, Then Produce “Scareware”
  • 05.30.07 New Articles on Novell and Patents (Updated)
  • 06.06.07 When Boycotts Are Misunderstood, Due to Wrong Assumption/Information
  • 06.08.07 The Latest GPL Myths Get Busted
  • 06.08.07 Ubuntu Founder Denounces Microsoft’s Racketeering
  • 06.09.07 Interoperability Mockery in Europe – Microsoft Dumps 30,000 Pages of Text
  • 06.12.07 Will We Ever See Oracle Battling Microsoft Over Linux FUD?
  • 06.16.07 Shuttleworth: No Microsoft Negotiations
  • 06.18.07 The End of Windows and the Arrival of GPLv3
  • 06.18.07 Does Novell Sell Proprietary Windows Virtualisation? (Corrected)
  • 06.19.07 First Fruit of Novell’s (Known) Microsoft Patent License?
  • 06.19.07 Mandriva Not Interested in Paying Protection Money
  • 06.19.07 Novell Helps Microsoft Build Its World Wide Web Fortress of Lockin
  • 06.24.07 Struggling Linux Distributors Find Profitable New Product: Anti-Linux FUD
  • 06.28.07 Linspire Sells Us Linux FUD, Not GNU/Linux
  • 06.29.07 Do-No-Evil Saturday: Opensuse Does Well and Novell Goes Deeper into Identity Management
  • 07.02.07 Big Companies Welcome GPLv3, Adoption of the Licence Rises Quickly
  • 07.04.07 Novell, AppArmor, and the Linux Kernel
  • 07.04.07 Putting a Price Tag on Free Software by Holding Interoperability Hostage
  • 07.06.07 Support for GPLv3 Keeps Growing with Apache Foundation Co-Founder’s Nod
  • 07.16.07 Interoperability is Not Open Standards
  • 07.16.07 Mono Cleanup: Work in Progress (Updated)
  • 07.17.07 Linus Torvalds Escapes the Novell Question, Dismisses Microsoft’s “FUD”
  • 07.21.07 Interoperability Does Not Require Deals, Which GPLv3 Annuls Anyway
  • 07.23.07 More Document Formats Coverage (Updatedx2)
  • 07.24.07 Marten Mickos: Nothing Can Stop the Open Source Movement Anymore
  • 07.25.07 OpenDocument Disinformation — A Cautionary Note
  • 07.26.07 Free as in ”Free Standards“ and ”Free ‘Interoperability’ Deals“
  • 07.26.07 Linspire Forsakes International Standards, Chooses Loose ‘Interoperability’ Instead
  • 08.01.07 As the Saying Goes, Who Invited These Guys to the “Free Software” World?
  • 08.06.07 Another Major Victim of Microsoft’s Linux Deals? Linspire’s CEO Abandons the Ship.
  • 08.08.07 Do-No-Evil Wednesday: LinuxWorld Has Buckets to Offer
  • 08.12.07 When Management and Investors Betray Free Software and Corrupt Honest Reporting
  • 08.12.07 OpenSUSE Developers Still Appear to be Microsoft/Novell Victims
  • 08.13.07 IBM’s Perspective on the Novell/Microsoft Deal (Video)
  • 08.13.07 GNU/Linux is Not Being Divided, But the ‘Extended Family’ Fractures to Alienate Its Foes
  • 08.15.07 Is Oracle a Patent FUD-Fighter to Be?
  • 08.16.07 Microsoft’s Linux Hijack Continues. Latest Victims: Scalix, Xen (Updatedx2)
  • 08.17.07 Do-No-Evil Saturday: OpenSUSE, Clients, and Senforce Acquisition
  • 08.18.07 The Novell/Microsoft Deal Dissected
  • 08.19.07 Virtualisation Debate Revisited: VMWare, Citrix, Xen, Novell, and Microsoft
  • 08.20.07 There Are Those Who Sell Linux and Those Who Sell Out
  • 08.24.07 Do-No-Evil Saturday: OpenSuse 10.3 Beta2 Released, SUSE Gains on the Desktop
  • 08.25.07 ODF/OOXML Watch: Information of Interest, Latest Batch
  • 08.27.07 Evidence We Have About the Novell/Microsoft/Dell ‘Conspiracy’ (and Another New Video)
  • 08.30.07 Watch and Learn How Microsoft Hijacks Rival Companies by Proxy
  • 08.31.07 Novell Brought Back to Court, Long-term Financial Uncertainty Looming
  • 08.31.07 Do-No-Evil Saturday: OpenSUSE Faster and Better, Novell’s Financial Results Lift Stock
  • 09.05.07 Dana Blankenhorn: Novell is ‘Massaging’ Its Financial Figures
  • 09.05.07 Novell’s Trust in Oxymorons
  • 09.07.07 Do-No-Evil Saturday:OpenSUSE @ Beta3, SLED Preloads, Virtual Iron, and More
  • 09.10.07 Novell Attempts to Defend Moonlight, But Sinks Deeper in the Mud
  • 09.11.07 Bright Future Ahead for OpenOffice.org and ODF (Updated)
  • 09.14.07 Is Novell Saving Microsoft from Europe’s Antitrust Wrath…?
  • 09.18.07 Will Everybody Get Interoperability, Even Without Patents Deals?
  • 09.21.07 Linux-Windows Interoperability is Set Free
  • 09.28.07 Do-No-Evil Saturday: OpenSUSE 10.3 Almost There, Novell Gives Many Open Source Drivers
  • 09.30.07 Glyn Moody on the GNU GPLv3
  • 09.30.07 Novell Gets the (Digital) Spanking from Groklaw, Matt Asay
  • 10.01.07 Robber Barons Think Alike (Microsoft and Novell)
  • 10.01.07 Quote of the Day: Sam Varghese on Novell’s FUD Affinity
  • 10.03.07 Could a Microsoft Appeal Deny Fee/Patent-free Interoperability?
  • 10.04.07 Why Novell’s Chief Salesman (Microsoft) Cannot be Trusted
  • 10.05.07 Do-No-Evil Saturday – Part II: The Better Side of Novell
  • 10.05.07 Do-No-Evil Saturday – Part III: Novell in the Press
  • 10.06.07 New Version of ‘Microsoft’s Linux-based Mail Server’ Brings Questions to Mind
  • 10.08.07 Ballmer’s FUD Makes a Comeback (and Microsoft Real ‘Open Source’ Plan is Unleashed) (Updated)
  • 10.11.07 Here Come the Patent Infringement Suits (Updated)
  • 10.15.07 Is Acacia SCO 2.0? Or was it Microsoft? Or Novell?
  • 10.15.07 Patent (In)Sanity – Recent Links
  • 10.17.07 Patent State is the States of the Bully
  • 10.20.07 Acacia’s Deal with Novell and the Pointlessness of Patent Deals
  • 10.20.07 Do-No-Evil Saturday – Part III: Novell Products and Novell Wins
  • 10.21.07 SUSE Replaced by Ubuntu for eSys Machines, Apparently
  • 10.22.07 More on Microsoft’s Plan to Acquire (Extinguish) the Open Source Threat
  • 10.22.07 (At Least) 3 Generations of Microsoft Anti-Linux Lawsuits, by Proxy
  • 10.23.07 Citrix, XenSource, Xen, and Their ‘Commitment to Continued Innovation on the Windows Platform’
  • 10.25.07 Microsoft and Novell Work in Isolation to Weed Out Common Threat (Free Linux)
  • 10.25.07 XenSource and Novell Come to Microsoft’s Rescue
  • 10.28.07 Disinformation on the Rise, Shameless Linux FUD Makes a Comeback
  • 10.29.07 Studying Exclusionary Deals with OEMs
  • 11.01.07 Add MuleSource CEO to the List of Novell Slammers
  • 11.01.07 (Software) Patent News: Getting Better, Then Worse, Then Better Again…
  • 11.02.07 Quick Mention: Linux Has Many Patents, Too
  • 11.07.07 Clarifications About GNOME
  • 11.07.07 Today’s Lessons on Software Patents
  • 11.07.07 Quick Mention: SUSE as Complicated as Novell’s Affairs?
  • 11.07.07 “Microsoft Admirer“ Hijacks Open Source
  • 11.08.07 Microsoft and Novell Get Even Closer (Updatedx2)
  • 11.10.07 ”It’s Not a Patent Deal, It’s a Novellperability Deal”
  • 11.10.07 GPLv3 Brings Patent Remedies When They Are Most Needed
  • 11.11.07 Is Vanity Culture Infectious?
  • 11.12.07 OpenDocument ‘Traitors’ Group is Out, Belgium is In
  • 11.12.07 Quick Mention: Pieter Hintjens on Novell, Dell, and Patents
  • 11.14.07 GPLv3 is Good Enough for Sun Microsystems
  • 11.14.07 A Quick Word on Trademarks
  • 11.16.07 Patent Roundup: Acacia’s Trolling Suffers Prior Art Barriers
  • 11.16.07 It all Comes Together Again: OSI, Port25, Novell, Patents…
  • 11.16.07 Oracle’s Linux Moves — Novell/Microsoft Reminiscence
  • 11.17.07 Request for Contributions (Posts) from Readers
  • 11.18.07 Quick Mention: Marketing Linux Not with FUD
  • 11.23.07 Amazon Likes Linux and FLOSS, But Also Loves Patent Abuse, Apparently
  • 11.24.07 Do-No-Evil Saturday – Part II: Things for Novell to be Thankful for This Week
  • 11.25.07 An Issue of Mistrust: Bill Gates, BayStar, Acacia, SCO, and Linux
  • 11.25.07 Responses to GNOME Foundation’s OOXML Statement
  • 11.26.07 Patent Roundup: Acacia-Microsoft Hypothesis Revisited, Microsoft Loses Patent Case
  • 11.27.07 One Year Later: ”Novell: From hero to zero in sixty seconds…”
  • 11.27.07 Quick Mention: Don Marti on the KDE Conspiracy Theory
  • 11.30.07 Novell OpenOffice.org, $348 Million, and the Story Nobody Covered
  • 12.04.07 Novell Vice President Again Defends Microsoft’s OOXML
  • 12.06.07 Quick Mention: Centeris and Novell
  • 12.07.07 Novell Bashing in Today’s Register Podcast
  • 12.08.07 Analyst Firms, Including IDC and Gartner, Named and Shamed for Serving as Microsoft Mouthpieces
  • 12.10.07 Most Recent Podcast Reactions (GNOME and OOXML)
  • 12.13.07 Quick Mention: Fedora Beats SLED 10 in CRN Test
  • 12.13.07 Xandros, Linspire, OpenSUSE Fail to Keep Up With (K)Ubuntu
  • 12.14.07 Novell: The Enemy of Myself is My Friend
  • 12.17.07 On Patent Deals, Fonts, Apple, and OOXML
  • 12.17.07 The Mono Trap and the Open/Closed Promises
  • 12.18.07 Quick Mention: Alan Cox on Software Patents, Standards and Beyond
  • 12.18.07 Entering Paranoid Mode in the Face is Paranoia-imposing FUD
  • 12.19.07 Is Microsoft Using OOXML and Novell to Further Divide the Communuity?
  • 12.21.07 Memo to Katherine Egbert: Time to Call it Quits?
  • 12.21.07 Do-No-Evil Saturday – Part I: OpenSUSE Reviews and Praises Amid Holiday Preparations
  • 12.21.07 Microsoft Takes Stage Centre in the Year of the Patent Trolls (2007)
  • 12.24.07 Novell’s Annual Report 2007 – Quick Analysis
  • 12.29.07 Do-No-Evil Saturday – Part II: Novell’s Business and Business Partners
  • 12.29.07 Do-No-Evil Saturday – Part I: Leaving SCOX in the Past
  • 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 Masuran’s on 2007, a Year of Microsoft FUD and Bribes
  • 01.02.08 Matt Asay: “Novell is a Mere Vassal to Microsoft”
  • 01.05.08 Do-No-Evil Saturday: New Year, New Dawn for Novell
  • 01.06.08 Novell’s Deal Makes OpenSUSE a Just Last Resort to a Linux User
  • 01.12.08 Do-No-Evil Saturday – Part II: Dell, Lenovo and Their SUSE Offers
  • 01.13.08 LinuxToday Responses to Novell’s Good News
  • 01.15.08 Samsung is Down, Lenovo Disappoints with ‘Microsoft Tax’
  • 01.16.08 Stirring Things Up from the Inside (Or the ‘Civil War’ Strategy)
  • 01.18.08 Has Microsoft Fired Its CIO Because Hotmail Secretly Runs on Free Software?
  • 01.18.08 Quick Mention: Why Software Patents Are a Dangerous Game
  • 01.22.08 Microsoft Grabs Anything and Everything Away from Rivals
  • 01.23.08 Brent Williams on the Microsoft/Novell deal
  • 01.23.08 Microsoft Gives GNU/Linux the Finger on Valentine’s, Using Silverlight
  • 01.24.08 Xen is Citrix and Cirtix is Microsoft (Open Source Hijack)
  • 01.26.08 Novell Still Kisses Bloggers’ Behinds for Positive Publicity
  • 01.26.08 Do-No-Evil Saturday – Part II: OpenSUSE 11.0, 10.3, and 10.1 in German Government
  • 01.26.08 Software Patents and Standards are Inherently Incompatible
  • 01.27.08 Microsoft Shill Alert: Burton Group FUD Attack Against VMWare
  • 01.28.08 Quote of the Day: On Mono, Novell and Microsoft
  • 01.28.08 Trolltech + Nokia = Bad News
  • 01.29.08 Putting the Eggs in More Than One Basket
  • 01.30.08 Novell and Microsoft Amass Patents While Free Software Comes Under Fire
  • 01.30.08 Novell’s Mono Seen as Controversial
  • 01.30.08 Nokia-Trolltech: the ‘Vacuum Cleaner’ Deal
  • 02.02.08 Do-No-Evil Saturday – Part III: Financial Lift for Novell, Courtesy of Jefferies
  • 02.02.08 Meet Microsoft: World’s Chief Acquisitions Policeman
  • 02.02.08 Do-No-Evil Saturday – Part IV: Novell’s Partners and Industry Support
  • 02.02.08 Software Patents Insanity; Patent Compensation Six Times Your Market Value
  • 02.02.08 Do-No-Evil Saturday – Part II: SUSE as SLES and SLED; Novell’s Core Business
  • 02.02.08 Do-No-Evil Saturday – Part I: Another Week of Alpha 1, BBC Uses OpenSUSE
  • 02.09.08 Do-No-Evil Saturday – Part I: Week of Zonker in OpenSUSE World
  • 02.11.08 Survey Indicates Microsoft/Novell Deal Did Damage to SUSE
  • 02.12.08 Microsoft’s Burton Group Asked for an Apology, Other Proxies Explored
  • 02.14.08 FUD Tactics and Jim Whitehurst’s Latest Interview
  • 02.15.08 How GNU/Linux Gets Contaminated with Software Patents from the Back Door
  • 02.16.08 Stephen Norris: Why SCO? And Why Now?
  • 02.17.08 OpenSUSE Rants, KDE Mono Bindings
  • 02.18.08 OpenDocument Event to Take Place in the Back Yard of the Shenanigans
  • 02.19.08 Poor Microsoft Gives Poor Software to Youngsters, Hoping to Remain Relevant
  • 02.19.08 Links on President’s Day 2008: Censorship Soars, GNU/Linux Accepted by Governments, Microsoft Has Problems
  • 02.19.08 Site Reader Explains Why Microsoft Released Its Office Binary Formats Specifications
  • 02.20.08 If You Live in Australia, Justice Needs Your Help
  • 02.20.08 Did Microsoft Hijack XenSource Like It Tries to Hijack Yahoo?
  • 02.21.08 Microsoft, Siemens and Phillips Named for Software Patents in Europe
  • 02.21.08 Microsoft Introduces New Taxoperability Program
  • 02.22.08 A Quick Look at More Reactions to Microsoft’s Taxoperability
  • 02.24.08 Novell’s Mono in Fedora 8
  • 02.25.08 Was Thursday’s Non-announcement a Case of Betrayal?
  • 02.25.08 OSBC 2008 Conquered by Microsoft
  • 02.27.08 Michael Tiemann’s Rebuttal to Torvalds’ Response to Taxoperability
  • 02.27.08 Citrix Confirms Its Masters Are in Redmond, Xen for Linux is Passe (Updated)
  • 02.28.08 Software Patents and Tax; Is Sun Messing with MySQL’s Mind?
  • 02.28.08 Microsoft-funded Analysts Firm Pretty Much Confirms Software Patent Pill is in ‘Openness’ Pledge
  • 02.29.08 Week of OOXML Corruptions Ends, No Causalities Claimed
  • 03.01.08 Quick Mention: Miguel de Icaza @ Microsoft (Updated)
  • 03.03.08 More Linux Security FUD, Matthew Broersma Named
  • 03.04.08 ODF/OOXML: Summary of the Latest News and BRM Reports
  • 03.06.08 From the OOXML BRM: “I Have Never Seen a Person So Nervous and Ashamed in My Life”
  • 03.06.08 Novell Enters a Microsoft Partners Triangle
  • 03.06.08 Patents Roundup. Microsoft is Faking it Again
  • 03.07.08 Is Mono Now Officially a Software Patent Trap?
  • 03.08.08 Do-No-Evil Saturday – Part III: Novell’s NCR, SAP and Sitescape Business (with Videos)
  • 03.08.08 OOXML/ODF: Why Everyone Must Care
  • 03.08.08 Do-No-Evil Saturday – Part II: Xandros and Linspire
  • 03.11.08 Is OpenOffice.org Leaving Novell and Linspire Further Behind the GNU/Linux Leaders?
  • 03.14.08 OOXML Against ODF a Case of Microsoft Against the Rest of the Industry
  • 03.16.08 Stephane Rodriguez’s Latest on OOXML Intra-operability, Munich’s Mayor Protests Against OOXML
  • 03.19.08 Another Large Migration to OpenDocument Format (ODF), Germany Elevates ODF
  • 03.20.08 Novell Takes Pride in Microsoft’s Taxoperability Precedence
  • 03.20.08 Might There Be Staffing/Skill Shortages at Novell, Despite Looming Layoffs?
  • 03.20.08 Microsoft Gold Partners and Their Sudden Awakening in Pakistan and Egypt
  • 03.22.08 Do-No-Evil Saturday – Part I: SUSE News, Including BrainShare Announcements
  • 03.24.08 Summary of Mono’s Danger to GNU/Linux and the Free Desktop
  • 03.25.08 ISO: Fail?
  • 03.27.08 Microsoft/Munchkin ‘Breaks’ the Web to Break Open Document Standards (Again)
  • 03.28.08 Microsoft’s OSBC As a Showcase of Battles Against GNU/Linux
  • 03.28.08 OOXML Believed to be on Path to a Loss at ISO (ITNews) (Updated)
  • 03.29.08 Boycott Novell Contradicts Lies, Damn Lies and Statistics
  • 03.29.08 OOXML Force-feeding Still a Wait-and-Watch Game
  • 03.31.08 PR Lies, Ron Hovsepian Takes the PR Role
  • 03.31.08 Today’s Lessons on Evil Software Patents and Microsoft Abuse of the System
  • 04.01.08 Hewlett-Packard Does Microsoft’s Dirty Job Again, Lobbies for the Monopoly
  • 04.03.08 Novell’s Ron Hovsepian Slammed by Sun Employee
  • 04.03.08 Despite Rigging, The World’s Population Said “No” to OOXML
  • 04.04.08 More Failures of ISO and Failures of US Regulators
  • 04.04.08 Interlude: Tough Time for Microsoft and Other ‘Old-age Empires’
  • 04.04.08 Do-No-Evil Saturday – Part II: Novell’s SUSE Linux and Virtualisation News
  • 04.08.08 The Dodging “Novell Slams Microsoft Patent Licensing Agreement” Article
  • 04.08.08 When Microsoft Shenanigans and Novell Stomp on Your Open Standards
  • 04.09.08 The Passionate Fight Against Software Patents Continues
  • 04.09.08 Signs of Progress for OpenDocument Format, Microsoft-imposed Disinformation Abound
  • 04.10.08 Patents Roundup: EPO Patent Numbers Decrease; Bilski Revisited
  • 04.12.08 Increased OpenOffice.org Support in Germany; Updegrove Pitches Real Standards in Texas
  • 04.12.08 Do-No-Evil Saturday – Part III: Novell’s Present in the News This Week
  • 04.12.08 Do-No-Evil Saturday – Part II: Novell’s Past in the the Past Week’s News
  • 04.12.08 Quick Mention: Simon Phipps Dismisses Novell’s Dismissive Remarks About Sun Microsystems
  • 04.13.08 Microsoft and Novell As a Joint Venture, Now Joint Staff
  • 04.14.08 US Commerce Secretary Wants to Restore Some Patent Sanity, Microsoft-Novell as Role Model of Abuse
  • 04.14.08 Microsoft Linux/MSN/OOXML/Software Patent Partners: Down from 4 to Just 3 Any Time Soon?
  • 04.19.08 Do-No-Evil Saturday – Part I: OpenSUSE 10.3, 11 Beta; CNR Sidles with Ubuntu (Like a Leech) (Corrected)
  • 04.19.08 Why Again is the Novell/Microsoft Deal So Darn Ugly?
  • 04.19.08 Do-No-Evil Saturday – Part II: Linux Announcements and SUSE Linux Business at Novell (Corrected)
  • 04.20.08 Microsoft Will Try to Break the Web at All Costs, Using XAML
  • 04.21.08 Is Alex Brown Trying to Save His Job by Criticising Microsoft’s ‘Own’ OOXML?
  • 04.22.08 Reactions to Novell’s Crackdown on Linux ‘Piracy’ in China (Microsoft Linux ‘Tax’) (Updated)
  • 04.24.08 Microsoft No Longer Able to Hide Financial Decline, More Losses to GNU/Linux in Russia
  • 04.24.08 How Microsoft and Novell Make GNU/Linux More Expensive to Purchase Than Windows
  • 04.26.08 Do-No-Evil Saturday – Part II: Novell Business Overview, New Activities and SCO
  • 04.27.08 Open Invention Network (OIN) Gets New Leadership, Other Software Patents News
  • 04.28.08 Novell+Ximian=SLED.NET, Sun+Java=SuSE GNU/Linux/Solaris
  • 04.29.08 Latest Microsoft Spin: Another Anti-FOSS Move Spun as “GNU/Linux Support”
  • 04.29.08 Quoteworthy: Taking SuSE Back from Novell and Procurement Laws from ISO’s Influence
  • 04.30.08 Of OpenSUSE, Xandros, and Microsoft…
  • 04.30.08 Wither Web Standards? (The Adobe and Microsoft Threat)
  • 05.01.08 OOXML-ODF Roundup: Chronic Deniers versus Developers and Consumers
  • 05.02.08 Selling a Proprietary GNU/Linux by Spitting in Its Pool of Life
  • 05.03.08 Do-No-Evil Saturday – Part I: Various Bits and Bobs from the Past Week
  • 05.03.08 Week of SCO/Novell in Court Culminates in Novell ‘Pulling an SCO’
  • 05.03.08 Do-No-Evil Saturday – Part II: On OpenSUSE (11b2), SUSE, JeOS and Novell
  • 05.04.08 Marriages of Inconvenience
  • 05.04.08 Gratis and Libre GNU/Linux Beats Ballnux, Which is Neither
  • 05.05.08 Clarifications on the State of GNU/Linux on the Desktop
  • 05.06.08 Why Novell Became a Threat to Java and the GNU GPL
  • 05.06.08 Why Novell’s Equivalents Are Nowhere As Harmful
  • 05.08.08 Thoughts About the “Novell Will Kill OpenSolaris” Kerkuffle
  • 05.08.08 Novell’s Hierarchy of Needs
  • 05.09.08 Software Patents, Microsoft Trolls and Intellectual Monopoly Miscellany
  • 05.09.08 KOffice + ODF; ODFDOM is Released
  • 05.09.08 Richard Steel’s and Microsoft Ballnux Franchise (Updated)
  • 05.13.08 GNOME Evolution into Poison.NET (Corrected)
  • 05.13.08 The Difference Between US Stance and EU Stance on Intellectual Monopolies
  • 05.16.08 Dennis Byron Loses It (Updatedx2)
  • 05.16.08 "/o/2008/05/16/patent-summary-eu-uk/ Patents Roundup: From the Fight Against EU Sanity to Novell, Microsoft, and Moonblight [sic]]
  • 05.16.08 How Microsoft Uses Novell to Fight GNU/Linux, Xen to Fight VMWare and GNU/Linux
  • 05.19.08 All-time High for GNU/Linux: 44.6% Market Share
  • 05.20.08 Novell Gets Sued by Its ‘Partner’ Astrum
  • 05.21.08 OOXML Roundup: Complaints, Competition, Cracks and Complacency
  • 05.21.08 Kicking Novell Out of the Mainframes
  • 05.21.08 Stormy Peters Comments on the Novell/Microsoft Deal and the Need for Vigilance
  • 05.22.08 Groklaw: Microsoft’s ODF Moves Vapourware, Possible Trojan Horse for Software Patents
  • 05.22.08 Novell’s Second-Class SUSE Citizens
  • 05.23.08 Op-Ed: Novell Pollutes Free Software (and GNU/Linux) in Preparation for Microsoft Attacks
  • 05.24.08 Novell and Microsoft as Virtualisation Partners, Collecting/Colocating Assets and Companies
  • 05.24.08 OOXML Incidents Index: From A to C
  • 05.24.08 Watch and Learn How Intellectual Monopoly Laws Are Passed
  • 05.24.08 OOXML Roadblock Now in Place; Please Contact Your National Standards Body Within Days
  • 05.24.08 Do-No-Evil Saturday – Part II: SLED/SLES Service Pack, More Xandros at Asustek
  • 05.25.08 OOXML Incidents Index: From Denmark to Greece
  • 05.26.08 OOXML Incidents Index: From Thailand to Vietnam
  • 05.28.08 Moonlight: Patent Bait Inside Your GNU/Linux Distribution
  • 05.29.08 Matt Asay Misses the Point (on Why Free Software Hurts Microsoft the Most)
  • 05.30.08 Novell and Mono: The Kiss of Death to Free Software
  • 05.31.08 Do-No-Evil Saturday – Part II: Keeping Track of Microsoft-taxed GNU/Linux Distributions
  • 05.31.08 Novell’s SUSE: Xen Exclusive for Citrix and Microsoft
  • 06.01.08 Novell’s Bold Mission to Clean Up ‘Unlicensed’ GNU/Linux
  • 06.02.08 Fedora Forbids Moonlight
  • 06.02.08 Software Patent Deals, Mono, and Other Legal Timebombs
  • 06.02.08 Novell’s Financial Hocus Pocus: How Poorly is It Really Doing? (Updated)
  • 06.03.08 Making Silverlight a Trojan Horse and Anti-competitive Tool
  • 06.03.08 Novell and IBM Again: Open Collaboration Solution?
  • 06.03.08 Beware the Novell Talking Heads and Passive Sympathisers
  • 06.04.08 Novell Slams Free (Gratis) GNU/Linux
  • 06.04.08 FUD Gauge Oscillates in Slashdot and SourceForge Again
  • 06.05.08 Microsoft Becomes Software “IP Thief” and Hardware “IP Cop”
  • 06.07.08 Do-No-Evil Saturday – Part IV: Award, Anniversary and Other Positives
  • 06.07.08 Microsoft Shows Bad Sportsmanship with Deliberate GNU/Linux Exclusion
  • 06.07.08 Further Financial Analysis of Novell (Looking Grim, Despite Grooming)
  • 06.07.08 Do-No-Evil Saturday – Part I: OpenSUSE 11 Evaluations, Pre-orders
  • 06.07.08 Do-No-Evil Saturday – Part II: SUSE (SLED/SLED) News
  • 06.07.08 MS Buys Codecs from MS
  • 06.10.08 Decision on OOXML: Potentially Months Ahead
  • 06.10.08 Microsoft Still Insists Free Software Tax in Europe
  • 06.13.08 BECTA’s Latest Disappointment: ‘Open Source’ from a Windows Shop?
  • 06.13.08 ODF News Roundup: More Power to the International Standard
  • 06.14.08 The Great Microsoft Innovation Lie (and Software Patent News)
  • 06.14.08 Does Novell Rave Before Its Fall?
  • 06.14.08 Do-No-Evil Saturday – Part I: OpenSUSE 11.0 Just Days Away
  • 06.14.08 Do-No-Evil Saturday – Part II: SUSE on Desktops, Marketing and Roadmap
  • 06.15.08 Trend Micro Soft Patent Against Lower-cost Competition
  • 06.16.08 Reactions to Nokia’s Latest Mistake
  • 06.17.08 The Novell Danger (to Free Software) Becomes More Widely Recognised
  • 06.18.08 OOXML Cover-up, ODF Adoption is Up
  • 06.18.08 Sys-Con’s Continued Press Release Xeroxing/Plagiarism
  • 06.19.08 Why Is Mono in Fedora? Nobody Knows… It’s Possibly a Secret
  • 06.19.08 Microsoft’s Bad Smell Follows OpenSUSE
  • 06.20.08 Fedora Project Mitigates Mono Dependency
  • 06.20.08 Microsoft Says It Has Lost the Battle for Documents Lock-in
  • 06.20.08 OpenSUSE and the Novell/Microsoft Curse
  • 06.21.08 Monopoly Abuser Feels the Wrath of Intellectual Monopolies
  • 06.21.08 Novell ‘Pulls a Microsoft’ (Which Brings Faux History Back)
  • 06.21.08 Novell, Microsoft… and IBM… Maybe Oracle Too (Part I)
  • 06.21.08 Do-No-Evil Saturday – Part I: OpenSUSE 11.0 GM Roundup
  • 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)
  • 06.24.08 Microsoft’s Open Source Land Grab Continues
  • 06.25.08 Microsoft Goes Fighting GNU/Linux in Open Source Conference
  • 06.26.08 OpenSUSE 11.0 Weaknesses — in the Words of Others
  • 06.27.08 Microsoft Virtualisation ‘Forgets’ Competition, Lumps the Novell Partner in
  • 06.27.08 Free Software Exploitation: Novell’s Poor Business Strategy
  • 06.28.08 Do-No-Evil Saturday – Part IV: Novell’s Upgrade, Buybacks, PlateSpin, Security, and Identity
  • 07.02.08 Microsoft Lobbyists Abound for Software Patents in Europe
  • 07.02.08 Xandros-Linspire-Microsoft Marriage is Now Official
  • 07.03.08 Novell Breeds Notion of “Non-certified” GNU/Linux Distributions
  • 07.04.08 Links – Independence Day: K|X*Ubuntu 8.04.1 Released; Dangers of Proprietary SaaS Revisited
  • 07.05.08 Intellectual Monopolies Insanely Out of Control
  • 07.05.08 Do-No-Evil Saturday – Part II: Novell SUSE and Xandros for Business as Usual
  • 07.07.08 Novell is a Microsoft Company in the Making
  • 07.08.08 No, Virginia, There Won’t be Spire Under Xandros
  • 07.09.08 Theory: Why EMC Gave VMWare to Microsoft (Employee)
  • 07.09.08 IBM Gets Its Microsoft-taxed GNU/Linux for the Mainframes
  • 07.12.08 Do-No-Evil Saturday – Part I: OpenSUSE’s Week of Build Service
  • 07.14.08 Another Small Defeat for Software Patents (and Win for Free Software) in the US
  • 07.15.08 Novell Loses Business to Its ‘Partner’ Microsoft
  • 07.15.08 Free Software and Patent Settlements: It’s All Wrong
  • 07.17.08 Why Microsoft Resorts to Dirty Tricks with Virtualisation
  • 07.18.08 Latest Live Examples of Patent Failure™
  • 07.18.08 Patently Absurd: Microsoft, BSA, IDC, Alsup, and Trend Micro
  • 07.19.08 Do-No-Evil Saturday – Part I: OpenSUSE Still a Subject of Discussion
  • 07.20.08 "/o/2008/07/20/linus-complains-about-patents/ Microsoft Sued Over Patents Again, Linus Complains, USPTO Welcomes P2P[atent]]
  • 07.22.08 Intellectual Monopolists Unite
  • 07.26.08 Do-No-Evil Saturday – Part I: Miscellaneous Novell News Items
  • 07.26.08 Do-No-Evil Saturday – Part II: OpenSUSE 11.1 Appears as Alpha, SLES in the Press
  • 07.26.08 Mr. Shuttleworth Misunderstands Microsoft’s Software Patents Tactics
  • 07.27.08 Microsoft Open Sores (May Contain Patents)
  • 07.30.08 Snapshot of the Software Patents Situation in the US, India, EU
  • 08.03.08 Waggener Edstrom, Maureen O’Gara and Other Microsoft Shills
  • 08.04.08 Novuel’s de Icaza: The Man Who Gives GNU/Linux to Microsoft
  • 08.04.08 Even Microsoft Uses Free Software, So Why Does Novell Harness Microsoft?
  • 08.06.08 Novell Still in Exodus Mode: Channel Chief Quits Just Months After Joining
  • 08.07.08 Novell’s Mono in Microsoft’s Clouds
  • 08.08.08 Microsoft and Novell Starve in Land of Buybacks
  • 08.09.08 Do-No-Evil Saturday – Part II: Virtualisation, Security and Legacy
  • 08.10.08 Software Patents: India, OIN, the Trolls, and the Monopolists
  • 08.15.08 No Mono in Fedora 10 (“Cambridge”) Live CD
  • 08.17.08 Protest in India Against Software Patents
  • 08.18.08 ISO Pegged Its Own Vote to Shelter Microsoft OOXML
  • 08.19.08 IPv6 Suffers from FUD and Lagging Because of Microsoft Windows
  • 08.20.08 Increased Investment in Microsoft SUSE
  • 08.21.08 Coupons from Steve Capone
  • 08.22.08 Non-compete, By Association
  • 08.23.08 Novell Befriends the School’s Bully, Fights GNU/Linux with MS-IP/Ballnux
  • 08.23.08 Do-No-Evil Saturday – Part III: Miscellaneous Novell News, Press Releases
  • 08.23.08 Do-No-Evil Saturday – Part I: SUSE, Xandros and Turbolinux
  • 08.27.08 Eye on Microsoft: Anti-GNU/Linux Move, Pressure to Downgrade to Vista
  • 08.27.08 Novell’s Hack Week: Mono, Ports to Windows, Mac OS X
  • 08.28.08 He Who Imitates Microsoft Will Suffer from Its Flaw
  • 08.28.08 Who Ever Said Novell Was a “Prince”?
  • 08.29.08 How Much Did Novell Fool Wall Street This Time Around?
  • 08.30.08 Do-No-Evil Saturday – Part II: SUSE Minutes, Turbolinux Releases
  • 09.01.08 On ‘Citizens’ Against Government Waste (CAGW), Microsoft, and Novell
  • 09.02.08 IBM Influence in Novell
  • 09.02.08 Microsoft and Novell Grab Open Source Soapboxes
  • 09.03.08 Microsoft Might Sabotage Google’s Big Announcement Using Shills
  • 09.05.08 Novell’s Zen (or Xen)
  • 09.06.08 Does Microsoft Do VMware’s Thinking ‘on Its Behalf’?
  • 09.06.08 Do-No-Evil Saturday – Part III: Some New Novell Figures, Products, But No Source
  • 09.06.08 Do-No-Evil Saturday – Part II: SUSE, Samsung, and Free/Linspire
  • 09.07.08 The GNU/Linux Kidnap Theory (Microsoft, 2005)
  • 09.08.08 Eye on Microsoft: Failures on the Desktop, Server, Console, and Mobile
  • 09.08.08 Stock Market.NET: Fail
  • 09.09.08 Novell, rPath, Citrix/Xen, VMware: Microsoft Virtualisation Axis?
  • 09.10.08 A Loss for Ballnux is Not a Loss for GNU/Linux
  • 09.10.08 Maritz and Tucci’s Microsoft Slog Against VMware
  • 09.11.08 Novell Keeps the Beast Happy
  • 09.12.08 Novell Picks (Virtualisation) Side: Software Patents and Microsoft
  • 09.12.08 Already-exposed Microsoft Shill Oozes VMware Poison
  • 09.12.08 How Novell Learned to Stop Worrying About Microsoft FUD and Started Embracing It
  • 09.13.08 Microsoft May Be Buying Its Competitors (Xen)
  • 09.14.08 Eating Suzie’s Lunch
  • 09.14.08 Microsoft ‘Media Mole’ Goes on the Payroll
  • 09.16.08 Microsoft Acquires Novell(‘s Direction)
  • 09.18.08 Microsoft Guru Quits, But Where Will He Land?
  • 09.20.08 Software Freedom Day: A Lesson in Free GNU/Linux Distributions
  • 09.20.08 Do-No-Evil Saturday – Part III: Another Load of Novell News
  • 09.20.08 Guest Post: Why Not Mono – Part II
  • 09.20.08 Do-No-Evil Saturday – Part II: SUSE and Ron Hovsepian at Interop
  • 09.21.08 An Interview With Pamela Jones, Founder and Editor of Groklaw
  • 09.21.08 Microsoft Still Takes Business Away from Novell
  • 09.23.08 Fedorans Like This Web Site
  • 09.24.08 Novell: From StopTheFUD to JoinTheFUD
  • 09.25.08 India Might Can ISO; IBM Opposition Backed by LF, Seeks Broader Crowd
  • 09.25.08 Hello World
  • 09.26.08 Novell’s Got the NAC
  • 09.30.08 Patents, Financial Collapse and Microsoft (News Roundup)
  • 10.03.08 A Question About Patents: IBM, OIN, Linux Foundation, and Novell
  • 10.04.08 Do-No-Evil Saturday – Part I: SUSE and Some Mentions of Xandros and TurboLinux
  • 10.04.08 Do-No-Evil Saturday – Part III: Two Weeks of (Mostly) Proprietary Novell Technology
  • 10.06.08 Sell Out Linspire, Then Blame the Founder
  • 10.07.08 Microsoft Influence in Novell’s Management Increases, More .NET Focus
  • 10.08.08 Latest Evidence of ‘Novell | Microsoft Axis’
  • 10.09.08 Patents Roundup: Symbian Derails UKIPO, Monopolists Try to Ruin Indian Law
  • 10.12.08 Patents Roundup: Trolls, Acacia vs. GNU/Linux, and Software Patents at Jeopardy
  • 10.14.08 Novell Incorporated: Convergence of Windows and GNU/Linux Since 2006
  • 10.15.08 Microsoft Mouths in the Press: Michael Gartenberg
  • 10.18.08 Do-No-Evil Saturday – Part II: SUSE (SLES|SLED) Deployments
  • 10.19.08 MicroFOSS and Other Oxymorons: How Can Anyone Be So Gullible?
  • 10.21.08 Microsoft and Novell Still Fight Against Freedom of Software, But Is Horacio Gutierrez Lying?
  • 10.21.08 Internet Explorer’s 12.5% Market Share (and Windows’ 43.9%)
  • 10.24.08 Citrix, Microsoft and Novell Come Together
  • 10.24.08 On Mixed Source, Mono, and Other Forms of ‘Piracy’
  • 10.24.08 Horacio Gutierrez’s Latest Threat Against GNU/Linux Was Seeded by Microsoft
  • 10.25.08 Do-No-Evil Saturday – Part II: Business Around SUSE (SLE*) and Xandros
  • 10.25.08 Do-No-Evil Saturday – Part III: Novell Products with Focus on Governance
  • 10.26.08 Patent System Status in the United States, European Union
  • 10.27.08 Standards Conference ‘Stacked’ by Microsoft & Cronies, Cancelled
  • 10.29.08 More Interesting Prebundling Moves
  • 11.01.08 Do-No-Evil Saturday – Part III: Legacy, Mail, and Partnerships
  • 11.01.08 Microsoft: 800 lb. Guerrilla
  • 11.01.08 Do-No-Evil Saturday – Part II: SUSE and Lenovo, Few Xandros Bits
  • 11.02.08 IDC, Gartner and Yankee Group’s Latest Press Attack on Customer’s Competitors
  • 11.03.08 Does OpenSUSE Board Member Shelter Microsoft’s Patents?
  • 11.04.08 Xandros, Brought to You by Microsoft Show
  • 11.05.08 Going Out of Business Together with Novell
  • 11.07.08 Patents Roundup: Microsoft, India, Bilski and Some More Cronies
  • 11.08.08 Do-No-Evil Saturday – Part I: OpenSUSE Board Discussion, 11.1 @ Beta 4
  • 11.08.08 Do-No-Evil Saturday – Part II: Userful, Lenovo, SUSE (SLES/SLED), Scalix and Xandros
  • 11.12.08 Novell Still Insults Competing GNU/Linux Distributions and Sun’s OpenOffice.org
  • 11.14.08 Open Source Initiative President Requests a “No” to Microvell
  • 11.15.08 Microsoft’s Plan to Harm GNU/Linux and ODF via the Web
  • 11.15.08 Novell is Losing the Few Supporters It Had Left
  • 11.15.08 Do-No-Evil Saturday – Part II: SLES, SLERT, HPC, SLED, and Xandros
  • 11.17.08 On Novell and Microsoft Office Web Applications (Silver Lie)
  • 11.18.08 Novell Information, in the Words of Anivar Aravind
  • 11.18.08 Calling Ubuntu, Fedora and OpenMoko to Resolve Mono Problem, Not Ignore It
  • 11.19.08 Analyst Lies and Novell Business Growth
  • 11.19.08 AstroTurfers Pretend to be GNU/Linux Users?
  • 11.20.08 Marcel Gagné on Microsoft/Novell (Video)
  • 11.20.08 Reader’s Post: The Windows Software Development Minefield, and Mono
  • 11.21.08 Why Novell Was Wrong to Attend Kochi Conference
  • 11.21.08 Microsoft Helps Novell Fight GNU/Linux with Ballnux
  • 11.21.08 rPath Looks Beyond Ballnux and Novell/Microsoft
  • 11.22.08 Do-No-Evil Saturday – Part II: SUSE at Wyse, IBM; Linspire Tiff; Some Turbolinux
  • 11.22.08 Latest Update on Microsoft’s Plans with Software Patents
  • 11.25.08 Jose Explains Why Not Mono
  • 11.28.08 More Microsoft Abuses in Italy and Europe
  • 11.28.08 Novell Linux: Another Platform (as in Kernel) for Windows?
  • 11.29.08 SCO Death Watch
  • 11.29.08 Do-No-Evil Saturday – Part II: SLED at Lenovo and Wyse, SLES, Xandros
  • 12.02.08 FOSDEM 2009: Sponsored by Microsoft Partner
  • 12.02.08 Patents Roundup: From Microsoft’s Trolls to Obama Policies
  • 12.04.08 How Novell and Microsoft Cooperate Behind the Scenes
  • 12.06.08 Why is Linux.com Promoting Microsoft/Novell’s Fork of OpenOffice.org?
  • 12.06.08 Do-No-Evil Saturday – Part II: SUSE Galore.. SLES, SLED, SLEPS, and OES
  • 12.07.08 Novell’s Financial Results for Q4: Synopsis
  • 12.08.08 Memo to IBM: Enough with Software Patents, Please
  • 12.12.08 World’s Computing Thugs Fight Governments and Continents
  • 12.12.08 This is Journalism???
  • 12.13.08 Do-No-Evil Saturday – Part II: Big Deal with H-P and Some SLES
  • 12.13.08 Novell Builds Bridges… for Microsoft to ‘Steal’ Open Source
  • 12.13.08 Do-No-Evil Saturday – Part I: OpenSUSE 11.1 Days Away
  • 12.13.08 Do-No-Evil Saturday – Part III: Finance, PlateSpin, Groupwise
  • 12.15.08 How Software Patents Impede Standards and GNU/Linux Development
  • 12.17.08 10 Novell Predictions for 2009
  • 12.18.08 Why It’s Important to Weaken Novell and SUSE
  • 12.20.08 Do-No-Evil Saturday – Part II: SLES, SLED, Novell Personnel and Sentegrity/Xandros
  • 12.21.08 Patents Roundup (Europe): Confusion and Lobbying
  • 12.22.08 New Low for Novell
  • 12.24.08 Novell and Microsoft: All About Cooperation on (Intellectual) Monopoly
  • 12.24.08 It’s Not a “Crusade”
  • 12.24.08 Links Xmas Eve: OLPC in Colombia, Mandriva 2009.1 @ Alpha
  • 12.24.08 Stephen Pollack (PlateSpin CEO) Quits Novell; More Shuffles in Canada
  • 12.26.08 We Live in Interesting Times
  • 12.28.08 Is Novell Attacking OpenOffice.org Again?
  • 12.30.08 Unmasking “hAl”, Pro-OOXML Fighter
  • 01.02.09 Noted: Indian Express and The Times About 15,000 Microsoft Jobs at Risk (Updated)
  • 01.02.09 AMD and Novell: Kisses Then Tears
  • 01.03.09 SCO News Roundup
  • 01.04.09 Is Microsoft ‘Pulling an EDGI’ on Kerala? (Updated)
  • 01.09.09 Interview with Non-Sun OpenOffice.org Contributor, Charles-H. Schulz
  • 01.10.09 Do-No-Evil Saturday – Part III: Idle Week with Some GWAVACon and Legacy
  • 01.10.09 Do-No-Evil Saturday – Part II: Very Little About SUSE and Turbolinux
  • 01.10.09 Do-No-Evil Saturday – Part I: OpenSUSE Trials, Packaging, YaST2 Video
  • 01.12.09 Survey: Novell Likely to be Acquired (by Microsoft?)
  • 01.13.09 SCOwboys Left Shivering in Their Bots
  • 01.14.09 Microsoft Chief: “Under NO Circumstances Lose Against Linux”
  • 01.16.09 EDGI Finale: Microsoft’s “Linux Compete Squad”
  • 01.16.09 UNIX/Linux Offer More Security Than Windows: Evidence
  • 01.17.09 Novell News Summary – Part III: Busy Week’s Assortment
  • 01.18.09 Microsoft Studies How to Use Intellectual Property Against GNU/Linux
  • 01.18.09 Microsoft’s Jim Allchin: “I am Scared [of GNU/Linux” (Analysts Cartel Part II)]
  • 01.21.09 Patents Roundup: Acacia Extortion, European Lobby, and Failed Systems
  • 01.21.09 Jim Allchin (2002): “There’s Going to Be a Patent Lawsuit on Linux” (Analysts Cartel Part V)
  • 01.23.09 Preliminary Look at Microsoft’s Layoffs and Hogwash
  • 01.24.09 Novell News Summary – Part III: Strategy, CMDB, Virtualisation and More
  • 01.26.09 Microsoft’s “Talking Point” Memo and the Anti-GNU/Linux Studies
  • 01.28.09 Antitrust: How Microsoft Schemed to Derail Dell GNU/Linux
  • 01.30.09 Linus’ Old Employer Swept by Microsoft’s Patent Übertroll
  • 02.02.09 Novell News Summary – Part II: Heaps of Novell News
  • 02.06.09 Vista 7 is Should be… KDE4? (Updated: Ogg Added)
  • 02.07.09 Microsoft Distorts the Linux and Virtualisation Markets
  • 02.07.09 Novell News Summary – Part II: Virtualisation, GWAVACon, GroupWise and More
  • 02.08.09 Windows is Dying, Long Live Vapourware
  • 02.09.09 Why Did Dell Choose Ballnux (Microsoft-Taxed GNU/Linux) for Thin Clients?
  • 02.09.09 Why Moonlight is Not Free, and How Microsoft “Addicts” People
  • 02.10.09 Impressed by OpenOffice, Bill Gates Schemes to Use Software Patents Against It
  • 02.13.09 Novell’s Patent Deal — Like SCO’s Lawsuits — a Miserable Failure
  • 02.13.09 How Steve Ballmer Was Schmoozing Neelie Kroes
  • 02.14.09 Moonlight 1.0 is NOT News, So Why All the Hype and Press Coverage?
  • 02.14.09 Never Blame Microsoft, Blame Users and Exploits
  • 02.14.09 OpenSUSE: One Week, No News
  • 02.14.09 Novell News Summary – Part II: SUSE on Desktops, Servers, Clouds, and in the Channel
  • 02.17.09 Microsoft’s Patent Roadshow and Trolls
  • 02.18.09 “Novell Is Bleeding to Death”
  • 02.20.09 Patents Roundup: Linux, Acacia, Microsoft, Samsung and More
  • 02.20.09 SUSE Crisis Watch
  • 02.21.09 Novell News Summary – Part II: SUSE in China and DreamWorks
  • 02.21.09 Novell News Summary – Part I: OpenSUSE 11.1 Reviews and Regrouping
  • 02.24.09 Microsoft’s Virtualisation Oligarchy Expands (Citrix/Microsoft)
  • 02.25.09 How Microsoft ‘Bought’ Xen to Remove/Reduce Choice (Is Novell Next?)
  • 02.26.09 Microsoft Uses Pressure Groups to Push Software Patents Into Europe
  • 02.26.09 Novell Results Are in: Net is Down Very Sharply (36%)
  • 02.27.09 Novell CEO Loots the Company: Receives Huge Bonuses for Failed Business
  • 02.27.09 Virtualization Makes For Strange Bedfellows
  • 02.28.09 Novell News Summary – Part III: More on the Financial Results, Novell Figures
  • 02.28.09 Patents Roundup: Microsoft Trolls, Lobbyists, and Ending Software Patents (ESP)
  • 02.28.09 Novell News Summary – Part II: All About SLES Virtualisation
  • 03.02.09 Novell Committed to Microsoft Technologies, But Not so Much to Free Desktop (RadeonHD)
  • 03.05.09 European Action Organised Against “Economic Parasite” (Microsoft) After TomTom Lawsuit
  • 03.05.09 Final Analysis of Novell’s Q1 Results and Consequences
  • 03.07.09 Innovative Microsoft
  • 03.07.09 Novell News Summary – Part I: New OpenSUSE is Fichte; A Little SLE* News
  • 03.07.09 SUSE is Slowing Down
  • 03.07.09 Novell News Summary – Part III: Virtualisation, Mail, and Staff Shifts
  • 03.08.09 Microsoft Wants to Make Something Out of Nothing to Fight GNU/Linux
  • 03.08.09 Were Yahoo and Lenovo Poisoned from the Inside?
  • 03.09.09 Quote of the Day: Michael Tiemann on Microsoft
  • 03.10.09 Tough Time for Proprietary Software Companies (Novell, Microsoft, and Apple)
  • 03.11.09 Novell Becomes Closer to Microsoft — Abolish Mono and Moonlight
  • 03.11.09 At Novell, Polluting GNU/Linux with Microsoft Technologies is “Taking Over the World”
  • 03.11.09 Open Source Business Conference 2009 Opened by Steve Ballmer’s Partners
  • 03.12.09 Patent Trolls — Including Acacia — Attack Linux Users/Devices
  • 03.12.09 Department of Homeland Security ‘Poisoned’ by Microsoft; Vista 7 is Open to Hijackers Again
  • 03.14.09 Novell News Summary – Part I: Ballnux Downtime, Presto Instant-on, and Other Xandros News
  • 03.14.09 Novell News Summary – Part II: Finance, Virtualisation, GWAVACon Videos and Staff Moves
  • 03.14.09 Microsoft’s Path of LAMP Destruction: From Novell to Apache (the L to the A)
  • 03.16.09 India Moves to Free Software, So Microsoft Fights Back with Gentle Bribes and Partners
  • 03.16.09 Microsoft Literally Buys Its Way Into OSBC; Open Source India Tech Days ‘09 and Open Source Symposium Likewise
  • 03.18.09 Novell and Microsoft Market Almost the Same Products Together
  • 03.18.09 Patents Roundup: Backlash, Pseudo Reform, Patent Trolls and Microsoft
  • 03.21.09 Novell News Summary – Part III: Acresso Deal, Groupwise, and BSM
  • 03.21.09 Microsoft Novell Tag-Team
  • 03.21.09 Novell News Summary – Part II: SLE 11 is Near; Xandros/Presto Boots Fast
  • 03.23.09 Open Invention Network (OIN) Extends The Linux Ecosystem As TomTom Becomes Licensee
  • 03.25.09 Microsoft’s “Burning The Ships” is Corporate Patent Propaganda (and How Novell Helps It)
  • 03.26.09 IRC: #boycottnovell @ FreeNode: March 25th, 2009 – Part 2
  • 03.26.09 Why Microsoft Has Already Crashed OSBC 2009
  • 03.26.09 Is VMware Turning Into a Microsoft Subsidiary?
  • 03.28.09 IRC: #boycottnovell @ FreeNode: March 27th, 2009 – Part 2
  • 03.28.09 Novell News Summary – Part III: Novell Products, People, and Toxic Waste
  • 03.28.09 Novell’s SUSE Linux Enterprise 11 Release: An Overview
  • 03.28.09 Novell News Summary – Part II: SUSE Aside from the SLE* 11 Release, Xandros and Presto Coverage
  • 04.01.09 IRC: #boycottnovell @ FreeNode: March 31st, 2009 – Part 1
  • 04.01.09 Microsoft and Novell Still Grow Closer
  • 04.03.09 Novell Downgraded
  • 04.03.09 Hypocritical Novell Lacks a Sense of Humour
  • 04.04.09 Novell News Summary – Part III: SCO, Finance, Netware, GroupWise, Partners, Hardware, and Marketing
  • 04.04.09 Novell News Summary – Part II: SUSE Post SLE11 Release, Open Cloud Revisited
  • 04.04.09 TomTom Case is Closed, But the Fight Over FAT Can Hurt Microsoft
  • 04.07.09 Novell Downgraded Again
  • 04.09.09 IRC: #boycottnovell @ FreeNode: April 8th, 2009 – Part 1
  • 04.09.09 Microsoft’s Latest Assaults on GNU/Linux, Free Software, and Open Standards
  • 04.10.09 Did Novell Hijack a Linux Foundation Panel?
  • 04.10.09 Novell and the Linux Foundation Legitimise a Microsoft Shill (IDC|IDG)
  • 04.11.09 Leaked Microsoft Memo: How Microsoft Changes the Prices at OEMs to Block GNU/Linux Sales
  • 04.11.09 Microsoft’s Armament Against Free Software and Other Software Patents News
  • 04.11.09 Novell News Summary – Part I: OpenSUSE on ARM
  • 04.15.09 CNET Senility of the Day: Sun Buying Novell
  • 04.15.09 Does The Register Call Novell Opposers ‘Idealists’/’Purists’?
  • 04.18.09 The Linux Foundation Abandons Xen After Microsoft/Windows ‘Hijacked’ It
  • 04.18.09 Novell Partners Promote Silverlight, Zeitgeist at Risk of Mono(polists)
  • 04.18.09 Novell News Summary – Part I: OpenSUSE on Shuttles and Sub-notebooks
  • 04.18.09 Novell News Summary – Part III: Past, Present, and Former Novellers All Over the Place
  • 04.18.09 Novell News Summary – Part II: SUSE in the News and More Presto from Xandros
  • 04.20.09 The Positive Thing About Oracle Buying Sun and Its Bundle:
  • 04.22.09 Latest FUD Attack on GNU/Linux-powered Sub-notebooks Comes from Microsoft-influenced Lenovo
  • 04.23.09 Novell’s Business Strategy Called “Murky, Messy”
  • 04.24.09 Patents Roundup: Attack on Science, Lobby for Software Patents in EU and India, More Rebellion
  • 04.25.09 Official Novell/Microsoft Web Site (MoreInterop) Calls Moonlight “Microsoft Moonlight”
  • 04.25.09 Novell News Summary – Part II: SCO, GroupWise Migrations, Lots of Sentinel, and McAfee Partnership
  • 04.28.09 OIN Keeps Its Promise, Strikes Back at Microsoft’s FAT
  • 04.29.09 Hewlett-Packard: You Will Pay Microsoft for Any Laptop You Buy
  • 04.30.09 Microsoft Interoperability Crushed by the TomTom Case
  • 04.30.09 Microsoft Wants to Control GNU/Linux, Novell and Xandros Help with This
  • 05.01.09 Microsoft Teaches Spanish Schools How to Smoke Windows
  • 05.01.09 Another Pillar of the Microsoft Press Falls Over
  • 05.01.09 Leaving Novell and Leaving SUSE
  • 05.01.09 Utah Press Writes About Novell Layoffs, But Does Not Include Numbers
  • 05.02.09 General Electric Joins Microsoft’s Fight Against Free Software
  • 05.02.09 Novell News Summary – Part III: SCO-Novell, DMTF, Security, and Partners
  • 05.02.09 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
  • 05.03.09 Gnote Enters Fedora
  • 05.06.09 Novell General Manager: Microsoft Won’t Bid for Novell, But You Can Never Say Never
  • 05.06.09 IRC: #boycottnovell @ FreeNode: May 6th, 2009 – Part 2
  • 05.06.09 Three New Articles Question Net Applications’ Integrity
  • 05.08.09 Microsoft Moonlight in the News
  • 05.08.09 Microsoft in Trouble with the Law Again
  • 05.09.09 Novell News Summary – Part II: SLED on ProBook, Moblin, Wyse; SLES and ScaleMP; Xandros and Presto
  • 05.09.09 Maureen O’Gara is Again Spinning SCO’s Defeat
  • 05.09.09 Novell News Summary – Part III: Virtualisation, GroupWise, People, and Videos
  • 05.11.09 Will Microsoft Sign an MOU with Indonesia?
  • 05.12.09 Software Patents Want to Enter Europe from the Back Door
  • 05.14.09 Linux Magazine Shows Its SUSE Bias
  • 05.18.09 Novell News Summary – Part II: Moblin, ProBook, Certification, and Xandros/Presto
  • 05.18.09 A Look at Microsoft’s Uneven Layoff Patterns Around the Globe, More Likely Coming
  • 05.18.09 Novell News Summary – Part III: Very Quiet Week for Novell
  • 05.19.09 DDOS and Migration (Updated)
  • 05.20.09 Jonathan Zuck (ACT) Jumps to Defend Intel for Committing Same Crimes as Microsoft
  • 05.20.09 Microsoft Does Not Think it Will Buy a Company Like Novell at This Point
  • 05.23.09 Novell News Summary – Part II: More SUSE and Xandros
  • 05.24.09 Reader Explains “Microsoft Innovation”
  • 05.24.09 Microsoft Sued Over Its Corruption in Switzerland, Microsoft Debt Revisited
  • 05.24.09 Myth Busting: GNU/Linux Takes So Long to Install and Set Up
  • 05.24.09 Novell News Summary – Part III: SCO, Finance, Older Technology and a Little More
  • 05.28.09 Week of Microsoft Government Affairs: a Look Back, a Look Ahead
  • 05.28.09 Microsoft Has NASA Block GNU/Linux Users
  • 05.29.09 Lawsuit Against Microsoft/Switzerland Succeeds So Far, More Countries/Companies Should Follow Suit
  • 05.30.09 Novell News Summary – Part II: More Moblin, SLES, and SLED
  • 05.30.09 Microsoft Windows as Matter of National Insecurity
  • 05.30.09 Novell News Summary – Part III: GroupWise, Security, People, and the Demise of SiCortex
  • 05.31.09 Microsoft’s Numbers a Lot Worse Than IDC Tells
  • 05.31.09 Microsoft SQL Server and DirectX Enable Full Machine Compromise
  • 06.01.09 Latest Reports on Microsoft Bulk Deals Being Blocked in Switzerland, New Zealand
  • 06.02.09 Easy-LTSP Dumps Mono/C#, Rewritten in Python Instead
  • 06.03.09 Xandros: “We Are Kind of Getting Away from Being a Linux Company”
  • 06.03.09 GNOME Zeitgeist Decides Not to Go with Mono
  • 06.03.09 Microsoft Gets Smaller
  • 06.03.09 Ubuntu Users Plead to Keep Novell’s Banshee Out (and Other Miscellaneous Mono News)
  • 06.04.09 Hungary Makes ODF a National Standard
  • 06.04.09 “I Believe Gnote is Also Slated for Inclusion by Default in Debian and Ubuntu”
  • 06.05.09 Fedora Leaves Mono Out, OpenSUSE Has Second Thoughts, and So Should Ubuntu
  • 06.06.09 Swiss Government and Federal Computer Weekly: Why the Hostility Towards Free Software?
  • 06.06.09 Novell News Summary – Part II: SUSE Videos, Some Moblin, and Just a Little More
  • 06.08.09 Patents Roundup: OASIS Takes Stance Against Software Patents, Microsoft Loses Again
  • 06.10.09 Novell Develops for Windows Development Tools
  • 06.10.09 Is Microsoft Pulling a Xen on Vyatta?
  • 06.11.09 Rally to Put More Mono in Ubuntu Backfires, Users Left Concerned by Mono
  • 06.12.09 In Fedora, Tomboy and Banshee Depend on Winforms
  • 06.13.09 Fedora “Concerned” About Mono for Legal Reasons, Ubuntu Debate Carries on
  • 06.14.09 Novell News Summary – Part II: GeekoBuilder and Novell’s Imaginary Open-Source Apps Store
  • 06.14.09 Novell News Summary – Part III: SCO, GroupWise, Videos, and Utah
  • 06.15.09 GNU/Linux is Winning, Apple and Microsoft Entangled in Stagnation
  • 06.15.09 Microsoft’s Anti-Google Whisper Campaign
  • 06.15.09 Signs of Mono Unrest, Legal Issues
  • 06.16.09 Canonical to Look Into the Question of Mono/Microsoft Patents in Ubuntu
  • 06.17.09 Microsoft and Novell Share a Goal of Eliminating Free GNU/Linux, Imposing Software Patents
  • 06.17.09 Switzerland and the UK Under Fire for Perpetual Microsoft Engagements
  • 06.18.09 Microsoft on Competition: “We Need to Create the Reputation for Problems and Incompatibilities to Undermine Confidence”
  • 06.19.09 Do Citrix and Black Duck Help Microsoft Embrace (and Extend) “Open Source”
  • 06.19.09 Poll: 72% Say No to Mono in GNU/Linux (and Other Mono News)
  • 06.20.09 Novell News Summary – Part I: Some OpenSUSE 11.1 Reviews, Fedora Gratitude
  • 06.20.09 Novell News Summary – Part II: A Lot About SLES, Little About Scalix and Xandros
  • 06.20.09 Whisper Campaigns Against Gnote
  • 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”
  • 06.26.09 Latest Lies and Denials from Mono Advocates, Microsoft
  • 06.27.09 Reader’s Article: Mono as a One-way Bridge (to Windows)
  • 06.27.09 Novell News Summary – Part III: Novell Videos, Marketing at Twitter, and Few Minor Things
  • 06.27.09 SCO “Wants to Sue Linux Users Some More” After Another Mysterious Cash Injection
  • 06.29.09 GNOME’s Evolution Proceeds as Planned?
  • 06.29.09 Microsoft and Novell Still Fight for .NET Inside GNU/Linux
  • 07.01.09 Government of Portugal Ignores Procurement Rules and Gives Taxpayers’ Money to Microsoft
  • 07.01.09 Poll: 62% Don’t Trust Microsoft on Mono
  • 07.09.09 Reader’s Article: Microsoft’s Empty “Community Promise” (Mono) is a Sham
  • 07.11.09 Novell News Summary – Part III: Mostly Videos, Kablink 2.0 Release, and Utah Event
  • 07.11.09 Mono Roundup: Still Dangerous, Still Not Acceptable
  • 07.11.09 Norway Embraces Open Standards, Many Others Follow Suit
  • 07.11.09 Novell News Summary – Part II: SLE* News (with Many Videos) and Portions of Xandros/Scalix
  • 07.12.09 Gartner Group Pretends Only Microsoft Competes with VMware, Novell Helps Microsoft Too
  • 07.12.09 Mono Roundup: Microsoft Following, Deception, and the Moonlight ‘Extend’ Phase
  • 07.13.09 Leaked 2002 Document: Microsoft Compares Windows XP and Office to GNU/Linux and StarOffice
  • 07.14.09 How the Gates Foundation Helps Getting Children Addicted
  • 07.15.09 Mono Applications Get Integrated with Microsoft Moonlight
  • 07.16.09 Microsoft + Ecosystem Block ODF, OpenOffice.org, Firefox
  • 07.16.09 ODF Officially Approved as Malaysian Standard, Brazil Offers Massive Endorsement Too
  • 07.18.09 Novell News Summary – Part I: OpenSUSE, SLES, and Turbolinux
  • 07.18.09 Novell and Xandros Promote Microsoft Patents, SFLC Warns About “Microsoft Patent Aggression”
  • 07.19.09 Another Microsoft Product Dies as the Company Prepares for Horrible Financial Results
  • 07.22.09 Microsoft and Novell Love Microsoft’s Self-serving Linux Patch (Updated)
  • 07.24.09 GPLv3 Reaches High Acceptance Rates, Novell Bans It, More Responses to Linus Appear
  • 07.24.09 The Impact of GNU/Linux on Microsoft’s Sharply-declining Numbers
  • 07.24.09 Microsoft Claims GPL Compliance Came Before Any Violation Claims
  • 07.24.09 Microsoft’s Goodwill is to Obey the Law
  • 07.24.09 Something Rotten at NASSCOM and Microsoft (Again)
  • 07.25.09 Novell News Summary – Part III: PlateSpin, GWAVA, Security, People, and Partnerships
  • 07.26.09 Linux Demonstrates the Upper Hand of the GPL and Microsoft’s Inability to Defeat It
  • 07.29.09 HSBC, a Participant in Microsoft’s Linux Racket, Snubs Firefox, GNU/Linux, and Mac Users
  • 07.30.09 More New Evidence of the Incestuous Relationship Between the BBC and Microsoft
  • 07.30.09 Eye on Microsoft: Windows and Insecurity
  • 07.31.09 CentOS is NOT Dying, It’s Just Bad Reporting
  • 08.01.09 Groklaw on Microsoft’s GPL Violation and Microsoft on the GPL
  • 08.01.09 Novell News Summary – Part III: PlateSpin Protect 8.1, Sentinel, and Few Other Things
  • 08.01.09 Novell News Summary – Part II: SUSE, Scalix and eApps
  • 08.04.09 Does the Open Invention Network (OIN) Become a Patent Harvester?
  • 08.05.09 Why GNU/Linux is Microsoft’s #1 Desktop Threat, Shareholders Are Finally Being Informed
  • 08.06.09 How GNU/Linux Devoured Microsoft’s Business Model
  • 08.06.09 Microsoft Confirms Existence of Anti-GNU/Linux Teams
  • 08.08.09 Novell News Summary – Part II: SUSE Studio, National Vision, and Xandros
  • 08.10.09 The Google-Microsoft Tensions Revisited
  • 08.11.09 Microsoft Migrations Without Approval
  • 08.11.09 Patents Roundup: Britannica Loses, SpinVox Shamed, FFII Updated, and More
  • 08.12.09 The Patent Trolls and McKool Smith Show Why OOXML and Software Patents Should be Shunned
  • 08.15.09 Novell News Summary – Part III: SCO, PlateSpin Forge, Teaming, GroupWise, and More
  • 08.17.09 Mono Team Puts Microsoft’s GPL-incompatible Licence and Patents-encumbered Software Inside GNU/Linux
  • 08.22.09 Novell News Summary – Part I: OpenSUSE Talks Weekly News, Controversy Over KDE Promotion
  • 08.22.09 Novell News Summary – Part II: SUSE Studio, IDC, and Inland Revenue (NZ)
  • 08.25.09 Comes: Microsoft’s Anti-GNU/Linux Presentation and Explanation of Bribery
  • 08.25.09 More Monkey and MonkeyLight Business
  • 08.25.09 Vista 7 Campaign Starts Tomorrow
  • 08.28.09 World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) Detoxicated from Microsoft Influence, But Regains Microsoft and Apple Presence
  • 08.29.09 Novell News Summary – Part III: Novell’s Delicate Proprietary Business Apparently at a Standstill
  • 09.01.09 Comes Antitrust: Microsoft McCarthyism Exposed
  • 09.01.09 Microsoft Reporter Believes Vista 7 and Office 2010 Keep Getting Worse with ‘Ribbons’
  • 09.02.09 Microsoft Shoots Down Stallman’s Public Speech in Argentina — Claim
  • 09.03.09 Rob Tiller Explains Why Software Patents Are a Tax on Innovation (Video)
  • 09.05.09 Novell News Summary – Part III: Channel Changes, Revenue Drop, Virtualisation, and More
  • 09.05.09 Novell News Summary – Part II: SLES/SLED and Xandros in the News
  • 09.11.09 Linux Foundation Lashes Out at Microsoft Over Attacks on GNU/Linux
  • 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
  • 09.13.09 OIN Receives Thanks from Many, CodePlex Foundation Receives Thumbs-Down from Many
  • 09.17.09 Microsoft’s Nathan Myhrvold in 1998: GNU/Linux is a “Serious Competitor”
  • 09.17.09 Sharing is Better Than Not Sharing — New Video
  • 09.19.09 Novell News Summary – Part II: SUSE and Xandros Achieve Nothing Substantial
  • 09.21.09 Microsoft Cheats and Bribes Again to Distort the Reality Regarding Vista 7
  • 09.22.09 If Vista 7 is as Good as Microsoft Says, Then Why is Microsoft Actively Attacking GNU/Linux?
  • 09.23.09 Novell Helps Microsoft Zune and CodePlex Foundation Helps Novell
  • 09.26.09 Microsoft Abuse with Software Patents Carries on
  • 09.26.09 Novell News Summary – Part II: SUSE Rep Positive About Desktop GNU/Linux, SGI Supports SLES
  • 09.27.09 SCO, Stephen Norris, the Bush Family, and Prince Al-Waleed bin Talal Al Saud
  • 09.28.09 Microsoft Signs Another Potentially Illegal Deal with the UK Government, EU Commission Asleep at the Wheel
  • 09.30.09 Google Cracks SharePoint and Office Lock-in, Microsoft Still Morbidly Obsessed with GNU/Linux
  • 10.03.09 Novell News Summary – Part II: Distribution Channel, Virtualisation, Mail, Identity, Security, and More
  • 10.04.09 Amicus Avalanche Opposing Software Patents in the United States (Novell Still Missing)
  • 10.05.09 Microsoft Gets Its Way in Ireland, As Usual
  • 10.06.09 Linux Climbs Fast in Mobile, Microsoft ‘Screws’ Badly with Windows Mobile 6.5
  • 10.08.09 Microsoft Still Creates Barriers to ODF
  • 10.10.09 Novell News Summary – Part II: SUSE Studio and BridgeWays, Novell’s Proprietary Side Also
  • 10.12.09 Patents Roundup: Microsoft’s Software Patents Trick in the EU Revisited and Google Patents Spellchecker
  • 10.14.09 Patents Roundup: Another Nobel Laureate Opposes Intellectual Monopolies, New Briefs in Bilski Case
  • 10.15.09 Jeremy Allison Recommends Passing Mono Software to Basket of Proprietary Software
  • 10.17.09 Novell News Summary – Part II: SLED on Compaq/HP, Other Cases of SUSE Support and SP3
  • 10.17.09 Novell News Summary – Part III: SCO, SAP, GroupWise Abandonment in LA
  • 10.17.09 Lockheed Martin Shoots Own Foot with Microsoft
  • 10.19.09 FSFE Adds Weight to Call for Mono Resistance
  • 10.23.09 Novell’s de Icaza on VMware’s Potential GNU/Linux Distribution
  • 10.24.09 Novell News Summary – Part I: Build Service, OpenSUSE 11.2, and Teradata
  • 10.24.09 Novell Uses IDG to Promote Mono
  • 10.25.09 FSF Hostility/Disagreement from a Libertarian, TechDirt, and Microsoft General Counsel
  • 10.28.09 Patents Roundup: OIN Grows, Microsoft Ally LG Uses Patent Bullies, Microsoft and Amazon Advance Anti-Free Software Laws
  • 11.02.09 Novell Told Off by Former Employee, the Public
  • 11.04.09 New Problems at Novell: Media Backlash, Layoffs, Pension Takeaways
  • 11.06.09 Gnote Would Fit Nicely in Ubuntu 10.04 (Default Install)
  • 11.07.09 More on Novell and Microsoft Layoffs; Software Patent Drones
  • 11.07.09 Novell News Summary – Part III: Pulse, SCO, Los Angeles and More
  • 11.07.09 Novell News Summary – Part I: OpenSUSE 11.2 Days Away, Events Organised, New Board Needed
  • 11.08.09 Mozilla and Opera Still Object to Microsoft’s Deal with the Commission
  • 11.09.09 Some New Examples of FUD Against Linux, GNU, and the GPL
  • 11.09.09 Just One Way (Among More) Microsoft Cheats in Vista 7 Number Games
  • 11.10.09 Microsoft Lies About Security
  • 11.10.09 Novell and Microsoft Expand Relationship to Boost Windows, .NET, Visual Studio, Linux Patent Tax
  • 11.10.09 Vista 7 Giveaways Are Not Windows Sales
  • 11.11.09 How Microsoft is Profiteering from Conficker
  • 11.11.09 Novell’s Work Popular… in Microsoft Blogs
  • 11.12.09 Patents Roundup: Bilski Links and Other Stories
  • 11.13.09 Patents Roundup: OIN Calls for Patent Reform, Microsoft’s ‘Sudo’ Revisited
  • 11.19.09 Can’t Trust Microsoft with Code, So Why is Fedora 12 Mono and Winforms Dependent?
  • 11.20.09 Fedora 12: Video
  • 11.20.09 Hypothesis: Mono Proponents Will Replace GIMP with Paint.NET
  • 11.20.09 Mono: Deaf to the Facts
  • 11.21.09 European Commission Keeps Getting Filled with Microsoft Cronies
  • 11.21.09 Novell News Summary – Part III: SCO Updates, Company Financials, and Tech Data Arrangements
  • 11.22.09 Novell and Microsoft Have Big XAML News in Store
  • 11.23.09 Patents Roundup: Bilski, USPTO and Justice for the Rich Only; ‘Community’ Patent and ‘Harmonisation’ in Europe
  • 11.23.09 Do Patent Deals with Microsoft Knock GNU/Linux Vendors Out of GNU/Linux Business?
  • 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 Novell News Summary – Part III: WordPerfect Changes Hands Again, SCO Case Updates, and More
  • 11.28.09 Novell News Summary – Part II: SUSE on Jaguar XT5, Xandros Dimming, LG Boots Ballnux Fast, Samsung Makes Bada/E17
  • 11.29.09 Microsoft Grabs More Control of Schools in United States, Serbia, Still Looking to Derail Brazil
  • 12.02.09 Who is Behind Psystar?
  • 12.05.09 Novell News Summary – Part II: SUSE and GroundWork, Samsung and LG
  • 12.11.09 Austria and Switzerland Complain About Microsoft Lock-in, Latvia and Assam Escape Lock-in
  • 12.12.09 Novell News Summary – Part III: AutoZone-SCO Case Ends, Financial Leftovers, Partner Academy Launched in India
  • 12.12.09 Novell News Summary – Part II: Intelligent Workload Management, Ballnux, and Bada
  • 12.12.09 Lawsuit Over Alleged Microsoft Corruption in Switzerland Escalates to Federal Court
  • 12.14.09 Don’t Mention the L Word!
  • 12.17.09 Eben Moglen Sets Record Straight Regarding Microsoft/Novell After Novell Lied
  • 12.17.09 Microsoft Smears — Not Embraces — Free Software Projects
  • 12.19.09 Novell News Summary – Part II: SLES in IBM Mainframes and HP, Other Ballnux Distributions (Bada)
  • 12.19.09 Moonlight and Hyper-V Still Novell-Only and SUSE-Only in Some Ways
  • 12.19.09 Novell News Summary – Part I: OpenSUSE Gets the KDE Vote, OpenDesktop.org-Build Service Integration
  • 12.20.09 Microsoft Allegedly Pays $500,000,000 for Verizon to Remove Google
  • 12.25.09 ODF Roundup: More Developer Support, But More FUD as Well
  • 12.26.09 Novell News Summary – Part III: Novell Drives Nowhere Special
  • 12.26.09 Novell News Summary – Part II: SLES+Itanium, Xandros, Samsung+Bada
  • 12.27.09 Groklaw Suspects Microsoft May be Behind Neon’s Attack on GNU/Linux in Mainframes
  • 12.31.09 Links: Happy GNU Year Special
  • 12.31.09 David Kappos Can Reprimand IBM for Mocking the USPTO’s Intelligence
  • 01.01.10 Centrify, Microsoft, and Software Patents
  • 01.03.10 Update on Microsoft-Staffed Patent Troll and Its Lawsuits Against GNU/Linux
  • 01.05.10 “Denny’s Uses Linux”
  • 01.06.10 CIO Prediction: Novell to be Acquired in 6 Months
  • 01.09.10 Novell News Summary – Part II: Ballnux and MSI/HP Return, More Ballnux at CES 2010
  • 01.09.10 Novell News Summary – Part III: Plugs in the Press and SCO Case Galore
  • 01.16.10 Novell News Summary – Part III: Minor Developments, Major Security Problems, Brainshare in Amsterdam
  • 01.16.10 Novell News Summary – Part II: SUSE (SLES/SLED), Samsung-Moblin, and LG-Microsoft Partnership
  • 01.20.10 “Technet.microsoft.com Hacked”
  • 01.20.10 Novell’s Latest Acts of Misery
  • 01.20.10 Microsoft Tries to Pollute Standards with Software Patents Where It is Illegal
  • 01.21.10 ODF Roundup: Norway, Germany Migration, ODF 1.2 Support, and ODF 1.1 Interop Profile
  • 01.22.10 Thoughts on Canonical’s Approach to Non-Free (Non-Libre) Software
  • 01.23.10 Microsoft Takes a Hit at Linux with More FAT Patents; John Ward, John Olivo, and McKool Assist Some More Patent Trolling
  • 01.25.10 Novell Spreads Microsoft Inside GNU/Linux Whereas LINA Spreads GNU/Linux Inside Windows
  • 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)
  • 01.28.10 Novell is Still Promoting Microsoft SharePoint™ and Silverlight™
  • 01.30.10 Mainstream Press Misses Billions of Dollars Bill Gates Earns in Africa (Gates Foundation as Monsanto Front)
  • 01.30.10 Novell News Summary – Part II: SUSE Appliance Toolkit, Samsung, and LG
  • 01.30.10 ODF is Winning in Europe; ‘Microsoft Press’ Spreads ODF FUD as OpenOffice.org Passes to Oracle
  • 01.31.10 Novell News Summary – Part III: File Management Suite
  • 02.03.10 Relationships Map
  • 02.08.10 Ubuntu Perspectives: Signs of Change
  • 02.08.10 Facebook and Microsoft Revisited; New Examples of Microsoft Entryism
  • 02.09.10 More Mono and Patent Poison from Novell
  • 02.10.10 Microsoft’s Touch of Death
  • 02.13.10 Novell News Summary – Part II: Update on SUSE, OES, Linspire, Samsung, LG, and Kyocera Mita
  • 02.13.10 Novell News Summary – Part III: SCO Updates, Financial Results Are Near
  • 02.13.10 ODF Roundup: News from Scandinavia, OpenOffice.org 3.2, and Symphony 3.0 Beta 2
  • 02.14.10 Novell Market Start is Virtually Dead; Novell’s Meeks Disses JavaFX, OpenSUSE 11.2 is Broken
  • 02.22.10 Bill Gates Invests Heavily in Deception About Global Warming and in Abusive Monopolies
  • 02.22.10 Novell’s Mac-only Mono and Some Notes About Ubuntu
  • 02.22.10 Another University Dumps Novell Mail, VMware’s Parent Helps Zimbra’s Direct Rival
  • 02.23.10 Microsoft’s Deal With Amazon is Extortion and Should Get Reported
  • 02.24.10 Hugging Free Software to Death and Novell’s Embrace of Proprietary Platforms
  • 02.25.10 Free Software Must Not Fight Fire With Fire
  • 02.25.10 Microsoft Uses Vapourware and ‘Piracy’ (Empty Slurs) to Block Competition
  • 02.26.10 Patents Roundup: Google Versus Patent Trolls, Patents Unrest, Microsoft’s Friend Fraunhofer to Report on Software Patents in Europe
  • 02.26.10 Novell’s Patches for Linux (Kernel) Drop Sharply
  • 02.27.10 Novell News Summary – Part II: Two Weeks of SUSE, Samsung, and LG
  • 02.27.10 Novell News Summary – Part III: Pulse, Brainshare 2010, Proprietary Products, SCO, Virtualisation, and Security
  • 03.02.10 Microsoft’s Extortion Battle Against GNU/Linux and Lawsuits by Proxy Against Google
  • 03.03.10 Ron Hovsepian Receives Another Large Lump of Cash as Novell Sale Looms
  • 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)
  • 03.07.10 Despite (or Because of) Microsoft’s Patent Extortion, Novell Continues to Focus on Mono
  • 03.07.10 Novell News Summary – Part II: SCO Case Resumes, Cloud Security Alliance (CSA) Hits the Headlines as Novell Makes Announcement
  • 03.07.10 Novell News Summary – Part I: OpenSUSE and SUSE Amid Probable Takeover
  • 03.07.10 Vulture Fund Still the Only Bidder for Novell
  • 03.10.10 Microsoft and Insecurity: Vulnerabilities, Botnets, and a Whole Lot of Nerve
  • 03.13.10 Vulture Fund Rumoured to be Planning to Break Novell Apart, Vultures Deny the Claim
  • 03.13.10 Patents Roundup: Acacia, i4i, Tuxera, Monsanto, Apple, and Microsoft
  • 03.16.10 ACTA Booster Luc Pierre Devigne Redefines Open Standards (With Software Patents Included)
  • 03.16.10 Mono Influence Increases in the GNOME Foundation
  • 03.17.10 More Evidence of Potential Microsoft Involvement in Apple-HTC Lawsuit Against Linux/Android (and Microsoft Loses to Virnetx)
  • 03.19.10 Novell Hires More Mono People (Despite Sacking SUSE Developers) and Microsoft Buys an OSBC Spot/Seat
  • 03.20.10 Señor de Icaza Meets Other Microsoft MVPs
  • 03.20.10 Novell News Summary – Part II: IBM, Novell, SUSE Appliances, and Ingres
  • 03.22.10 Government Cronyism Watch: Microsoft Inside FCC, California, Washington, and Bahrain
  • 03.23.10 Microsoft Proxy Attack on GNU/Linux Continues With TurboHercules
  • 03.27.10 BrainShare 2010
  • 03.27.10 Citrix and Amazon Climb on Microsoft’s Bed
  • 03.27.10 Novell News Summary – Part II: SUSE (SLES/SLED) in BrainShare 2010, Samsung and Kyocera With Android
  • 03.28.10 Novell News Summary – Part III: Pulse Beta and Many New Adverts
  • 03.29.10 Microsoft and Its Patent Trolls Remain #1 Threat to Free Software
  • 03.31.10 The ‘Conspiracy’ of Mono
  • 04.03.10 Novell News Summary – Part II: SUSE and IBM Cuddle, Android’s Patent Problem in Asia
  • 04.03.10 Novell News Summary – Part III: Pulse, ZENworks, NetWare, and idOnDemand
  • 04.06.10 IBM Uses Software Patents Aggressively
  • 04.06.10 The Microsoft Crowd Promotes Patent Tax on GNU/Linux, Running GNU/Linux Only Under Windows
  • 04.06.10 Mono Team Develops More Windows Software and Mocks Critics
  • 04.07.10 IBM Will Never be the Same After Taking Software Patents Out of Its Holster
  • 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 SchoolOS to Remove Mono, Apple ‘Blocks’ MonoTouch
  • 04.14.10 Black Duck: Proprietary Software for Proprietary Software
  • 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
  • 04.17.10 First Time, Shame on You — Second Time, Shame on Microsoft
  • 04.17.10 Novell News Summary – Part II: SUSE Reliant on IBM and Verizon, Hosts Proprietary Software or SaaS
  • 04.19.10 “Patent Absurdity” Looks for Translations Amid Lobbying from Florian Müller and Microsoft
  • 04.21.10 Microsoft’s Browser Ballot is Broken Again and Internet Explorer 8 is Critically Flawed
  • 04.22.10 IBM Might Pay Microsoft Even More for Imaginary Software Patents (in Linux) Through SUSE/Novell
  • 04.24.10 Novell News Summary – Part III: Last News Summary; SCO Updates and BrainShare Amsterdam
  • 04.24.10 Novell News Summary – Part II: Novell and IBM in Studio
  • 04.28.10 HTC Sells Out to Microsoft (Microsoft ‘Android Tax’)
  • 04.28.10 Novell Spins the Numbers Again
  • 04.30.10 Acacia’s Case Against GNU/Linux is Dead
  • 05.02.10 Yahoo! and Microsoft! Are Like Novell! and Microsoft!
  • 05.03.10 Behind the Microsoft Puppetmaster: SCO-Type Libel, Acacia-Type Patent Trolls, and Novell-Type Patent Deals to Make GNU/Linux Not Free (Gratis)
  • 05.05.10 HTC-Microsoft Was Not an Agreement, It Was Apparently an Extortion
  • 05.05.10 Apple and Microsoft a Threat to Culture (Data), Not Just Software (Tools)
  • 05.05.10 The Cost of Patent Trolls Who Attack Linux
  • 05.05.10 “The fight has been around a long time, now the target of Microsoft is Theora”
  • 05.06.10 Free Software Foundation Europe Likens Apple/Microsoft Behaviour to Blackmail
  • 05.06.10 Canonical, Ubuntu, and Software Patents
  • 05.07.10 Symptoms of the Sickness of the Patent System and Apple’s Infinite Greed
  • 05.07.10 When Brands Become Cults
  • 05.08.10 Apple Does Not Support Standards; Neither Does Microsoft
  • 05.10.10 Why In Re Bilski Could Wipe Microsoft off the Map
  • 05.10.10 Software Patents Rumble: Apple, Microsoft, Nokia, and GNU/Linux
  • 05.11.10 Despite Security Lies and Security Failures, Microsoft Instructs Worldwide Cybersecurity Summit
  • 05.12.10 20-Year Microsoft Veteran Becomes HP Vice President in Charge of Software and Solutions Business
  • 05.12.10 Patents Roundup: Cracks in the USPTO, Patent Trolls, and More About Theora
  • 05.13.10 Open Standards Out of EU Digital Agenda; EBoA Does Not Stop Software Patents in Europe
  • 05.13.10 Ubuntu’s Path to Freedom From Mono Now a Short One
  • 05.14.10 Patents Roundup: EmDebian Considers OIN Membership, EBoA Makes the Legal ‘Industry’ Happy, Phones Industry Harmed by Patents
  • 05.15.10 “US International Trade Commission Supports Patent Trolls”
  • 05.15.10 Apple Lies About “Open Source” (and More on Apple/Microsoft AstroTurfing)
  • 05.15.10 Reuters: “Novell Has Put Itself up for Sale”
  • 05.15.10 SAP Could Buy Novell Just Like It Bought Sybase
  • 05.17.10 Bad Apple, Part II: Apple Carries on Armament With Software Patents, Harms Firefox
  • 05.17.10 Yes, “Microsoft is Turning Into a Toothless Tiger” (Sort of)
  • 05.19.10 Novell’s Neighbour LANDesk is Up for Sale, More on Novell’s Defeat in Kuwait, Novell’s Payments to Microsoft and Reliance on Google
  • 05.19.10 Siemens Betrays Germans by Legalising Software Patents in Europe
  • 05.19.10 Patents Roundup: Google and Apple Still Conspire With Software Patents, Firefox Forked Due to Software Patents, EPO Slammed and DPL Potentially Reformed
  • 05.19.10 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
  • 05.20.10 Techrights Welcomes Google’s WebM/VP8 Push
  • 05.21.10 Who to Blame for Germany’s Dangerous Decision Regarding Software Patents
  • 05.21.10 Patent Troll Larry Horn and Steve Jobs Prepare to Attack Google’s VP8, According to FUD Sites
  • 05.24.10 Walmart Chairman, Warren Buffett, Notorious Bankers, Timothy Geithner, and Even Queen of Jordan Come to Microsoft
  • 05.25.10 Samba Lawyer About Software Patents: The Only Solution is Abolition
  • 05.25.10 GNU/Linux Versus Microsoft Entryism Challenges
  • 05.25.10 Microsoft Attacks Linux Competition Using Lawsuits and Threats (With Software Patents), Pays Acacia/IP Innovation After Anti-Linux Lawsuit
  • 05.26.10 BSA Attacks the Right to Software Freedom in the Czech Republic; Similar Offenses in the UK, Finland
  • 05.26.10 Why Novell is the Next Sun and OpenSUSE Should be Forked
  • 05.26.10 Novell Spin-off — Not Just Novell — is Up for Sale (Key Day Today)
  • 05.26.10 Latvia’s Digital Independence Under Attack by Microsoft
  • 05.26.10 Patents Roundup: USPTO Workshop, Bilski Action, and Patents-Imposed Death
  • 05.27.10 US State Department and the Redefining of LAMP
  • 05.28.10 Novell’s Results Not Enough to Prevent Takeover
  • 05.29.10 Pequot Capital, Microsoft, and SCO
  • 05.29.10 Fedora 13 Replaces F-Spot (Mono) With Shotwell (Vala), MeeGo Still Mono Encumbered
  • 05.31.10 Microsoft Finally Admits Numbers of Vulnerabilities It Reports Are Fake
  • 06.02.10 IDG Approaches Microsoft-Funded and Microsoft-Hired ‘Analysts’ (Without Disclosure) to Defend Windows Security
  • 06.02.10 Why Novell Has Gone Rogue (and is Better off Eliminated)
  • 06.02.10 Microsoft Has Just 1% in Top500 (HPC), Novell Would Like to Help Microsoft
  • 06.04.10 Quebec Opens the Floodgates to Litigation for Pro-Microsoft Discrimination in Governments
  • 06.04.10 Architect of Microsoft’s Patent Strategy Has Left the Building
  • 06.05.10 Linux Oggcasts Speak About Novell’s Imminent Sale
  • 06.07.10 US Education Steps Aside for Bill
  • 06.07.10 Windows Insecurity Spreads From Desktop to Mobile, Which Fails Badly for Microsoft
  • 06.09.10 Linux Magazine: “Microsoft Has Already Approached Canonical Pressuring Them to Sign up to a Patent Deal, But They Turned it Down.”
  • 06.10.10 IDG/IDC is Belittling GNU/Linux Again, Using Known Distortions
  • 06.10.10 Novell: The Microsoft-Taxed Fog Computing Solution
  • 06.10.10 It’s Final: Novell Owns UNIX. Now, Who Will Buy Novell With UNIX?
  • 06.12.10 Latest Examples of Microsoft’s “Embrace, Extend, Extinguish” (EEE)
  • 06.12.10 Canonical Searches for Its Strategy, Confused About ‘Patent Protection’ for Ubuntu
  • 06.12.10 Software Patents Debate in LinuxTag 2010 and Elsewhere in Europe
  • 06.15.10 Patents Roundup: No Bilski Yet, Gene Patents Revisited, Microsoft Partners With Patent Aggressor (Against Free Software) NetApp, Microsoft at LinuxTag 2010
  • 06.15.10 Debate Rages on Regarding the Open Invention Network (OIN)
  • 06.16.10 Striding Towards Codec Freedom to Remove ‘Linux Tax’ from Dell
  • 06.17.10 Bilski Decision Likely Released This Monday, USPTO Urgently Needs a Reform
  • 06.18.10 European Commission Still Lobbied by Microsoft, OASIS Does Not Support Software Freedom
  • 06.22.10 Framework for Legalising Software Patents in Europe Falls Over, So Why Does Canonical Join the OIN?
  • 06.22.10 Microsoft Advertises Patent Scare in GNU/Linux, Using Novell
  • 06.23.10 Novell Exodus: More Managers Escape the Company
  • 06.24.10 OpenSUSE May Distance Itself From Novell/Microsoft ‘Linux Tax’
  • 06.25.10 Microsoft Patents a Trick Related to Web Browser Tabs and Apple Attacks Linux With Junk Patents
  • 06.25.10 New JavaZone Trailer (as Ogg)
  • 06.26.10 Why is Florian Müller Sometimes Promoting Microsoft’s Agenda? (Updated)
  • 06.28.10 Novell Still a Threat to OpenOffice.org
  • 06.28.10 Recommendations for OIN, IBM, and 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 Microsoft/French Government Should Be Sued in France for ‘Pulling a Quebec’
  • 07.01.10 Microsoft Executives-Run VMware Harms GNU/Linux and Wants to Grab Ruby on Rails
  • 07.02.10 Microsoft Under Pressure in Europe
  • 07.02.10 Rumour: Microsoft Executives-Run Company to Buy Novell (Updated)
  • 07.02.10 Freedom Defenders Look at the Glass Half Full in the Bilski Aftermath
  • 07.03.10 SUSE as Host for Proprietary Software From Novell
  • 07.05.10 Further Debating the Idea of VMware Buying Novell
  • 07.05.10 The Crumbling of SUSE in Novell’s Hands
  • 07.07.10 When Microsoft-Only/Lock-in is Defined as “Technology”
  • 07.08.10 Microsoft’s Courtois Uses the “Religious” Slur to Denounce Freedom Goals and Sell Fog Computing
  • 07.08.10 Eye on Security: Banking on Windows
  • 07.11.10 GNU/Linux Wins, Even on Desktops (and I’m Taking a Break)
  • 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 More Criminal Activity in Bill Gates’ Past (Corbis Fraud), Russian Spies at Microsoft
  • 07.21.10 Fraunhofer FOKUS and the Software Patents Lobby in Germany
  • 07.21.10 Links: Linux News (SSHFS, Drivers), Applications, Instructionals, Unigine Game, and Distributions
  • 07.22.10 Links: Distribution Reviews, Sabayon Linux 5.3 “Extra Spins”, Fedora Community Web Site Design
  • 07.22.10 Links: GNU/Linux Spreads in India, Netbooks
  • 07.23.10 Quote of the Day: Peer To Patent is a “Colossal Waste of Time When It Examines Software Patents”
  • 07.23.10 Links: GNU/Linux Breakthrough in India, Linux 2.6.35 News
  • 07.23.10 Patents Roundup: Identifying Real Patent Foes and Conflicts of Interests
  • 07.23.10 Microsoft Hides Security Flaws, Then Brags About Transparency
  • 07.23.10 Novell Too Busy (With Proprietary Software) to Promote OpenSUSE
  • 07.23.10 Links: Many New Releases of GNU/Linux, More Tablets
  • 07.24.10 Patents Roundup: The Spreading of Software Patents and Microsoft ‘Patent Tax’ on GNU/Linux
  • 07.24.10 Links: GNU/Linux in China, India, Many Other Places
  • 07.25.10 Microsoft’s Worst Open Source ‘Infiltration’ Ever
  • 07.26.10 Why New Zealand Should Also Abolish Patents on ‘Embedded Software’
  • 07.27.10 Source Seems to be the Hardest Word
  • 07.27.10 US Supreme Court May Have Another Chance to Eliminate Software Patents, But It’s Up to Microsoft
  • 07.28.10 Talk in Spanish: Presente y futuras amenazas a la libertad del software
  • 07.28.10 Interest in SUSE is Decreasing
  • 07.29.10 Why Crackers Prefer Windows on Cash Machines
  • 07.29.10 Former Chair of Fedora: “Canonical is a Marketing Organization Masquerading as an Engineering Organization”
  • 07.29.10 Novell-Funded IDC Sees ‘Studies’ Used by Novell to Deny Loss of Market Impact
  • 07.29.10 Fedora’s Wildeboer Says Microsoft Uses Intel-Like Illegal Tactics to Marginalise Competition
  • 07.30.10 Microsoft’s Top Competitors Are GNU/Linux or Users and Vendors of GNU/Linux
  • 07.30.10 Why We Defend Ubuntu in the Latest GNOME Kerkuffle
  • 07.31.10 The Ubuntu-GNOME Debate Carries On (Updated)
  • 08.02.10 Greg DeKoenigsber Backtracks in Case of Canonical Critique
  • 08.02.10 Adoption of Vista 7 is Poor and SP1 Not Out Until Next Year
  • 08.03.10 Microsoft Laughs at — Then Deceives on — Interoperability
  • 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
  • 08.05.10 Novell is Awarding hypePads
  • 08.05.10 As Novell Looks for Buyers SUSE is Almost Silent
  • 08.06.10 Adam Williamson on Sub-notebooks With GNU/Linux
  • 08.06.10 Why SCO is Like ASCAP
  • 08.06.10 Software Patents Lobbyists Disguised as ‘Open Source’ Friends/Companies
  • 08.08.10 Another Vice President Quits Microsoft: Birger Steen
  • 08.09.10 Groklaw Repeats Warning About Mono as a Patent Threat
  • 08.11.10 Dr. Bill Claybrook (Linux Product Marketing) Quit Novell
  • 08.11.10 Novell Connects Mono and Fog Computing (Microsoft ‘Patent Tax’ Included)
  • 08.12.10 Amazon EC2 Has Just Become Even More Infected With Microsoft ‘Patent Tax’ on Linux (Ballnux Added)
  • 08.12.10 Rob Tiller and A.J. Venter Explain Why Software Patents Are Bad, Apple Clarifies Patenting Other People’s Software Ideas
  • 08.13.10 ‘Team Microsoft’ Uses Oracle Action Against Google to Promote C#
  • 08.16.10 Apple News in July-August, Culminating in Fraud
  • 08.16.10 Microsoft is Chucking Apple After Using Apple to Promote OOXML
  • 08.16.10 Oracle’s Java Aggression Spills to Other Sun Projects
  • 08.16.10 “Microsoft is Cashing Innovation Tax (aka Patent License Money) for Android, Now Oracle Joins the Scheme.”
  • 08.17.10 Novell Still Negotiating Sale – Touching Base With the News
  • 08.19.10 Microsoft is Already Down-Speccing KINect, Loses an Exclusive
  • 08.21.10 Bogus Oracle Patents, Broken USPTO, Apple’s Patent Aggression, and Acacia Gets More Money to Troll
  • 08.23.10 Groklaw Responds to FUD About OIN
  • 08.23.10 Apple Under Investigation for Competition Abuses in EU and US; Should Apple be Allowed to Take Over X Server?
  • 08.26.10 Microsoft AstroTurfer Jonathan Zuck (ACT) Falsely Represents Small European Businesses, Other RAND Pushers Named
  • 08.26.10 Apple Lessens Its Commitment to Server Market
  • 08.26.10 Chrome OS Tablet to be Ballnux (Microsoft Tax)
  • 08.26.10 Novell ‘Rebranding’ Suggests Novell Keeps All the Power
  • 08.27.10 “Merely Slapping the WorkloadIQ Name… Cannot Change“ Novell’s Demise
  • 08.27.10 Florian Müller is a .NET Developer (Exclusively), Uses Very Latest of Microsoft Software
  • 08.27.10 Second Microsoft Co-founder Becomes a Patent Troll Just Like Bill Gates, Sues Microsoft Competitors
  • 08.28.10 Mozilla Avoids MPEG-LA’s Latest Poison Pill and Rejects Patents Just Like Samba Does
  • 08.30.10 Paul Allen’s Patent Troll Obviously Did Not Sue Microsoft, But Why Did Amazon Get a Free Pass?
  • 08.30.10 Mono Project Seems to be Dying (Development Virtually Halted) (Updated)
  • 09.01.10 Microsoft Florian Promotes MPEG-LA at the Expense of Free Software, Defends Intellectual Monopolies Too
  • 09.03.10 “Only Idiots Want to Pay for Novell” (Corrected)
  • 09.06.10 New Video: Richard Stallman on Amrita TV
  • 09.13.10 Novell’s Decline, OpenSUSE, Ballnux Tax, Proprietary Software and Fog Computing Obsessions
  • 09.15.10 Novell’s SUSE Believed to be Bought by Former Microsoft Executives
  • 09.15.10 SUSE Proponents Guess Who’s Buying SUSE
  • 09.16.10 SCO is Selling UNIX® Assets and Novell (UNIX® Owner) is Selling Too
  • 09.16.10 Microsoft’s Patent Lobby and Scott Cleland as Anti-Google Weapon
  • 09.16.10 The Latest Novell News is Important
  • 09.17.10 Symantec, Warner and Sony Music Are AstroTurfing in Blogs, Just Like Novell and Microsoft
  • 09.17.10 Goodbye, Novell
  • 09.17.10 Taking Over Linux, by Proxy
  • 09.17.10 Microsoft Obeys Neither Open Standards Nor Open Source Software Doctrine
  • 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
  • 09.21.10 FBR Capital Markets and Morgan Stanley Both Cut Microsoft Estimates While Microsoft is Hiding the Losses and Layoffs Are Rumoured for Next Month
  • 09.22.10 Crimson Consulting Group Paid by Microsoft to Lie About GNU/Linux
  • 09.22.10 Mozilla Pays for a Shield From Software Patents, Free Software Proponents Cautiously Sceptical
  • 09.22.10 Novell Does Not Want GNU/Linux Choices
  • 09.24.10 Novell Down 7% Today, Buyers Deemed Unsuitable, and Sale Value Estimated at $2.8 Billion
  • 09.28.10 LibreOffice is Launched, Offering Independence from Oracle
  • 09.28.10 USPTO Receives Overwhelming Opposition to Software Patents
  • 09.28.10 Novell News Roundup: GroupLink, Bahrain’s MOSD, Messaging Architects, SAP, and Training in India
  • 09.28.10 Outercurve – Just Another Microsoft Proxy/Group
  • 09.28.10 Novell Sales Are Hurt by VM_Bware Plan to Acquire SUSE
  • 09.30.10 Strong Momentum in the Fight Against Weak Patents
  • 09.30.10 Novell Vice President Becomes VMB_ware Channel Director Amid Acquisition Plans, IDG Propaganda Begins
  • 09.30.10 KDE Still Does Not Support LibreOffice
  • 09.30.10 LibreOffice Has the Potential to Altogether Replace Oracle OpenOffice.org (OOOo)
  • 09.30.10 Novell Crash Disrupts Campus and British Department for Health Dumps Novell
  • 10.01.10 New Examples of Gates Foundation Proximity to Government, Big Banks, Monsanto
  • 10.03.10 SUSE is Getting More Restrictive and Virtualisation-centered Ahead of Expected Sale to VMB_ware
  • 10.06.10 Update on Android Lawsuits
  • 10.06.10 Black Duck (Created by Microsoft Veteran) Adds More Microsoft Veterans by Buying Ohloh
  • 10.07.10 Software Patent Lawsuits Around Linux (Roundup)
  • 10.08.10 Microsoft Pays Acacia Again and It Also Pays ACCESS Co.
  • 10.10.10 Microsoft’s Allegedly Illegal Swiss Contracts to Take People to Court Again
  • 10.10.10 EU Concerns Highlight Need to Remove Windows From the Network
  • 10.11.10 Apple Shuts Down Factory Production of Linux Phones
  • 10.12.10 Windows Worms Allegedly Crash Satellites Now, Proceed to More Damage in More Countries
  • 10.12.10 Groklaw Compares Microsoft’s Lawsuits Against Linux/Android Vendors to SCO Lawsuit
  • 10.14.10 Microsoft Attacks Open Source by Comparing Today’s Products to Open Source Rivals From Windows 2003 Era
  • 10.15.10 Novell Persists With Non-Free Software Focus
  • 10.18.10 Bill Gates’ Successor Quits Microsoft!
  • 10.18.10 Microsoft’s and Apple’s #1 Weapon Against Software Freedom (Including Linux) is Software Patent Monopolies
  • 10.21.10 Apple Copies GNU/Linux (Poorly), Then Spreads FUD About It, Receives More Backlash
  • 10.21.10 Free Software Proponents Expose the Microsoft-Funded (F)RAND Lobbyists and Their Lies, Microsoft to Lobby Directly in SOSOCON 2010
  • 10.22.10 Microsoft is Killing Its Own ‘Open Source’ Projects as .NET Camp Loses and Resorts to Slog/FUD
  • 10.23.10 Latest Examples of Mobbyists and Failed Microsoft Attempts to Co-opt Open Source Mind Share
  • 10.23.10 From Copyrights to Patents: How Software Patents Became the Top Linux Issue
  • 10.24.10 ACCESS Co. (Source of Mobbyism and Attacks on the Free Software Foundation) Linked to Acacia
  • 10.28.10 MPEG-LA Codecs and Microsoft Racketeering Challenge the Redistributability of Linux
  • 10.30.10 Apple is Suing Linux Again, Increasingly Resembling Microsoft
  • 11.01.10 TechBytes Episode 1: Apple, Microsoft, Bundling, and Fedora 14 (With Special Guest Brandon Lozza)
  • 11.03.10 Google Sues the Government for Serving Microsoft and Not the Industry, Should Sue Microsoft for Racketeering Too
  • 11.05.10 Patent Trolls Including Microsoft’s Co-founder Are Attacking, IBM is Not Really Defending (Unless IBM is Attacked)
  • 11.06.10 Another Example of IDC Giving Bogus (Meaningless) Numbers and Mary Jo Foley Failing to Report the News
  • 11.11.10 Acacia Slanders GNU/Linux
  • 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
  • 11.14.10 Cronología de Microsoft Extorsión de Patentes Contra GNU/Linux
  • 11.16.10 India Says No to RAND and Europe Should Pay Attention
  • 11.16.10 Cost of Proprietary and Patented ‘Microsoft-Only’ Memory Cards
  • 11.20.10 Brand Dilution: “Seattle Creates Their Own ODF”
  • 11.21.10 India dice No a la RAND y Europa Deben Prestar Atención
  • 11.22.10 SUSE, OpenSUSE, and Why AttachMSFT Won’t Care
  • 11.22.10 Boycott Novell Becomes Similar to Boycott Microsoft
  • 11.22.10 Hovsepian’s Mission Accomplished – Novell Decommissioned, Microsoft Gets the Patents and Maybe UNIX
  • 11.23.10 AttachMSFT and Novell for Fog Computing, Worse Than Proprietary Software
  • 11.23.10 April (or Others) Should Sue the French Government for Illegal IT Procurement Favouring Microsoft
  • 11.23.10 Novell is Not an Open Source Company and Neither is AttachMSFT
  • 11.24.10 When the BBC Talks About Computers It Means Microsoft Windows
  • 11.27.10 La India Enseña a Occidente Cómo Lidiar con los Monopolios Intelectuales
  • 11.27.10 Microsoft Sellouts Join Microsoft’s Racket Intellectual Ventures and Not OIN
  • 11.27.10 IBM and Tandberg Abuse Software Patents by Using Them to Rip Off Real Innovators
  • 11.27.10 Groklaw: Florian Müller is “Still Pushing Microsoft and Patents.”
  • 11.27.10 India Teaches the West How to Deal With Intellectual Monopolies
  • 11.28.10 FOSDEM 2011 Infiltrated by Microsoft
  • 11.28.10 Groklaw: Florian Müller “Sigue Presionando por Microsoft y las Patentes de Software.”
  • 11.29.10 Novell’s Last Week – Part III: AttachMSFT’s Promise to OpenSUSE is Not a Legal Commitment
  • 11.29.10 Novell’s Last Week – Part IV: The Ugly Side of the AttachMSFT Game
  • 11.29.10 Novell’s Last Week – Part I: Novell Was Bought by Microsoft, Argue Pundits
  • 11.29.10 Novell’s Last Week – Part V: AttachMSFT Might Sell UNIX
  • 11.29.10 Not Even Oprah Winfrey’s Fake Endorsements Can Save Microsoft’s Vista Phony 7
  • 12.04.10 Microsoft-funded ‘Satellites’ With Software Patents
  • 12.08.10 Microsoft Creates Confusion Around Freedom and Price
  • 12.11.10 Microsoft Software Less Secure Than Ever; Time for Governments to Adopt GNU/Linux
  • 12.13.10 FSFE Scrutinises European Governments for Stance on Proprietary Software in Procurement
  • 12.15.10 Novell, OIN, and AttachMSFT: Why It Confirms Novell Was Trouble All Along
  • 12.15.10 SAP Uses SUSE to Compete Against Novell and Promote Proprietary Software
  • 12.15.10 International Business Times Thinks Microsoft is Becoming a Patent Troll as GNU/Linux is Taking Its Lunch
  • 12.17.10 UNIX Battles Carry on Whilst OpenSUSE is Being Lost
  • 12.19.10 Microsoft Lobbyists Corrupt the European Interoperability Framework to Marginalise Software Freedom
  • 12.19.10 Jeff ‘Bison Slayer’ Hawn Forgets OpenSUSE
  • 12.20.10 Los grupos de presión Microsoft Estan Dañado el Marco de Interoperabilidad Europeo Marginalizando el Software Libre
  • 12.21.10 Groklaw Lashes Out at Novell for Promoting OOXML (With Lock-in and Patent/RAND Traps)
  • 12.27.10 Novell Being Bribed by Microsoft to Support OOXML is Not News
  • 12.29.10 Exploring Novell’s Passing of Software Patents to Microsoft – Now Reported to The Competition Authorities
  • 01.03.11 Raw Interview With Linux Format Magazine
  • 01.04.11 ES: Entrevista Exclusiva con la Revista Linux Format
  • 01.04.11 As India Picks ODF, Novell-Microsoft Influence in LibreOffice Raises Questions (the Unfortunate ‘Go-OO Factor’)
  • 01.05.11 Turning Vulnerable People Into Microsoft Drones, Under Guise of ‘Donation’
  • 01.06.11 Microsoft’s Allegedly Illegal US Procurement Gets Frozen After Lawsuit
  • 01.08.11 Mono Boosters in Ubuntu Have Conflicts of Interest, LibreOffice Under Similar Threat
  • 01.11.11 Microsoft-run Patent Cartel Retreats Following Formal Complaint, But Why? (Updated)
  • 01.12.11 OpenSUSE Board (Non-Novell Part) Realises There Are Novell Ownership Issues, Novell Exploits the Community
  • 01.12.11 Microsoft is Collapsing Based on Staff Exodus
  • 01.12.11 Vista Phony 7 is Broken, Cracked
  • 01.12.11 Tales of Fedora and Windows
  • 01.13.11 Upon Exit, Ronald Hovsepian and Co. May ‘Loot’ Novell One Last Time
  • 01.16.11 Novell Promotes Proprietary Software, Including Microsoft’s Fog Computing and Apple’s hypePhone Prison
  • 01.16.11 Novell Does More Harm Than Good at This Stage
  • 01.17.11 Identi.ca Helps Determine Who Cares About Software Freedom
  • 01.19.11 Latest Examples of the Failure of the USPTO, With Emphasis on Software Patents
  • 01.21.11 European Commission Disappoints Regarding Free Software and Patents
  • 01.21.11 Microsoft’s Influence in the MSBBC, Intel, Nokia
  • 01.22.11 SCO, CPTN, and UNIX
  • 01.26.11 From UNIX Battles to .NET Battles
  • 01.28.11 Eric S. Raymond and John C. Dvorak Declare the Death of Vista Phony 7
  • 02.03.11 “The Goal of Likewise Was to Go Into Mac/Linux Enterprises and Convert Their Directory Servers into MS ActiveDirectory”
  • 02.05.11 Google is Starting to Fight Against Software Patents
  • 02.07.11 If Microsoft Speaks for Patent ‘Reform’, for FOSS, and for Small Businesses
  • 02.07.11 Belittling the ‘Open Source Community’ for Stance on Patents, Worshipping Microsoft Patents
  • 02.09.11 Copyright and Patent Battles Against Linux Carry on (the Usual Suspects)
  • 02.09.11 New Zealand and Europe Should Both Actively Fight Against Software Patents
  • 02.10.11 USPTO Has Patents Blocking American Innovation, Brainwashed European Minority Wants to Emulate This Mess
  • 02.10.11 Eclipse Foundation Director: “Software Patents Are Basically a Bad Idea”; IBM Still Celebrating Patents
  • 02.11.11 ES: Nueva Zelanda y Europa Deben Luchar Juntos Activamente Contra las Patentes de Software
  • 02.18.11 Microsoft Bans Mono
  • 02.20.11 Novell is Being Ditched
  • 02.21.11 Due to Novell, Microsoft Still Profits From the London Stock Exchange and From Watson in ‘Jeopardy!’
  • 02.24.11 Eye on Apple: Losing to Linux, Facing Unrest and Probes
  • 03.01.11 UK Drama: MSBBC Blames Google — Not Microsoft — for London Stock Exchange Site Malware, Sabotage Still Suspected
  • 03.04.11 The Patent Reform Act is a Joke
  • 03.04.11 ES: La Ley de Reforma de Patentes es una Broma
  • 03.16.11 Triumph Against Software Patents in Europe as EU Treaty Brought Up
  • 03.18.11 ES: Triunfo Contra las Patentes de Software en Europa Como fue Creado el Tratado de la Unión Europea
  • 03.19.11 Microsoft-hired Lawyer Deletes Reference to Microsoft Employment and Goes GNU Hunting Amid New FUD Campaigns
  • 03.20.11 OSI Still Distances Itself From Microsoft
  • 03.20.11 ES: La OSI Todavía se Distancia a Sí Misma de Microsoft
  • 03.30.11 Why Today’s European Commission Could Face Legal Action for Selling Out to Microsoft
  • 03.30.11 Patents Roundup: Ill-conceived System Under Siege, Microsoft’s Attacks on Linux and Google’s Response
  • 03.31.11 Software Freedom Perspective: 2006-2011
  • 04.01.11 ES: Porqué la Comisión Europea de hoy Podría Hacer Frente a Una Demanda Legal Por Venderse a Microsoft
  • 04.01.11 Legalising Corruption in Europe, the Microsoft Way
  • 04.02.11 Novell Leeching More, Creating Less
  • 04.02.11 ES: Perspectiva de la Libertad del Software: 2006-2011
  • 04.04.11 Software Patent Supporters Among ‘Us’
  • 04.05.11 When All Else Fails, They Use Patents Against Linux
  • 04.05.11 Links /4/2011: Mourning Mozilla Messaging, Celebrating Simple Java API for ODF
  • 04.10.11 The Androidisation of GNU/Linux
  • 04.11.11 Groklaw Defamed by Microsoft Boosters as Pamela Jones Steps Down Victorious
  • 04.13.11 Novell is on Microsoft’s Side
  • 04.16.11 Moving Closer Towards Operating Systems Unbundling in Europe
  • 04.22.11 SCO’s Strategic Consultant Mike Anderer Foresaw Microsoft-Organised Patent Lawsuits Against Linux (Through Small Companies)
  • 04.22.11 ES: El Presidente de la OSI: Microsoft Florian Está Diciendo Insensateces (Acerca de las CPTLN/patentes entre Microsoft y Novell)
  • 04.26.11 The Lobby Against Linux
  • 04.26.11 Why Google Will Invalidate Linux-Hostile Patents
  • 04.27.11 Patent Question Becoming Central in the Software Freedom Debate
  • 04.27.11 Federal Agents Should Prosecute Microsoft for Market Abuses With Patents Following Extortiongate
  • 04.28.11 Fake Patent Reforms and Abolition of Software Patents
  • 05.03.11 Patent Threat to GNU/Linux a Top Issue to Address
  • 05.04.11 Microsoft’s Elop is Like Rick Belluzzo – Hijacks Nokia, Sells to Microsoft, Then Exits
  • 05.05.11 The USPTO Has Gone Corrupt
  • 05.06.11 Microsoft Still Uses Nokia to Attack Linux
  • 05.08.11 Microsoft Infiltrator Wants Canonical to Foster Mono as Canonical CTO (Who Opposed Mono) Leaves
  • 05.09.11 IBM and Google Still Not Committed to Crushing Software Patents
  • 05.10.11 ES: IBM y Google No Mantienen El Compromiso de Triturar las Patentes de Software
  • 05.10.11 Huffington Post Helps Belittle Android Using Falsehoods
  • 05.11.11 ES: El Huffington Post Ayuda a Menospreciar Android Usando Falsedades
  • 05.12.11 Bedrock Loses as Linux Emerges Victorious
  • 05.13.11 Patent Defence Cartels Versus Abolishing Software Patents
  • 05.14.11 Windows is Getting Less Secure Over Time While GNU/Linux Grows Bigger
  • 05.15.11 ES: Windows es Cada Vez Menos Seguro a Través del Tiempo Mientras que GNU/Linux Crece Cada Vez Más
  • 05.15.11 ES: Los Defensa de los Cárteles de Patentes vs. La Total Supresión de Patentes de Software
  • 05.16.11 A Bright New Future for Groklaw Under Mark Webbink’s Leadership (Updated)
  • 05.17.11 IDG Helps Sell the Illusion of Microsoft as ‘Friend’ of Open Source
  • 05.17.11 ES: Un futuro brillante Para El Nuevo Groklaw bajo la dirección de Mark Webbink (Actualizado)
  • 05.17.11 OpenSUSE Status: Not Good
  • 05.18.11 Beware Fog Computing/Proprietary Software Peddlers Disguised as ‘Open Source’
  • 05.20.11 SUSE’s Future Explained: Less Mono, Hopefully More Rebuttals to SCO (Whose Employees End up in Microsoft)
  • 05.22.11 Eric Doyle: Novell’s Bright Hopes for SUSE Failed to Shine
  • 05.24.11 Software Patents Spread Like a Plague Owing to US-based Multinationals
  • 05.25.11 DistroWatch: Fedora Keeps Mono in Rawhide
  • 05.26.11 Phasing Out OpenSUSE
  • 05.28.11 Introducing Eduardo Landaveri, Administrator of the Spanish Portal
  • 05.31.11 Still No Commitment to OpenSUSE, Just Proprietary Software From Attachmate
  • 05.31.11 Why Europe Must Prepare to Abolish and Block All Software Patents
  • 06.01.11 ES: ¿Por qué Europa debe Prepararse Para Aboler y Bloquear Todas las Patentes de Software?
  • 06.02.11 Lodsys Patent Attacks on Android (Linux) Developers Come From Microsoft’s Former CTO
  • 06.07.11 OpenSUSE Stuck (Progress Report About the Project)
  • 06.07.11 Microsoft Uses the Broken US Patent System to Attack Linux/Android From Multiple Sources, Wants Nokia’s Patents Too
  • 06.10.11 Q&A With Puppet Labs’ James Turnbull Regarding Pro Puppet
  • 06.10.11 ES: Microsoft Utiliza el Sistema de Patentes de los EE.UU. Para Atacar a Linux/Android Desde Múltiples Frentes, Quiere las Patentes de Nokia También
  • 06.10.11 Government Procurement in the UK
  • 06.11.11 Patents Roundup: Unconstitutional Patent Reform, SCOTUS Ruling on i4i and University Patent Rights, More Calls to Abolish Software Patents
  • 06.13.11 ES: Las Compras del Sector Público en el Reino Unido
  • 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
  • 06.26.11 Software Patents Depress Progress, Shows James E. Bessen of Boston University
  • 06.28.11 ES: Las Patentes de Software Detienen el Progreso, lo Muestra James E. Bessen de la Universidad de Boston
  • 06.28.11 Without GNU/Linux or BSD as a Platform, There Can be No Freedom
  • 06.30.11 ES: Mientras los Directivos de Microsoft Siguen Huyendo, Microsoft Ataca Jugadores Pequeños Que Ofrecen Linux (Actualizado)
  • 07.02.11 Microsoft and Apple Form Another Cartel to Allegedly Attack Linux (With Nortel Patents)
  • 07.13.11 Regulators in the US/Canada Authorise Linux-hostile Patent Cartel, Google Must Help Abolish Software Patents Now
  • 07.14.11 Novell Business is Lost Following the Staff Loss
  • 07.15.11 Google Should Invest Wealth in Reformists, Not Patent Lawyers
  • 07.15.11 ES: Los Reguladores de EE.UU./Canadá Autorizan al Cartel de Patentes Hostiles a Linux, Google Debe Ayudar a Abolir las Patentes de Software Ahora
  • 07.17.11 ES: Google Debe Invertir Riqueza en los Reformistas No en los Abogados de Patentes
  • 07.18.11 Linux FUD and Android FUD
  • 07.25.11 100,000,000 Reasons to Boycott SUSE
  • 07.30.11 Weekend Links 2011/07/30 – Amazing New OLPC and Patent Insanity
  • 08.08.11 White House is Microsoft’s House
  • 08.10.11 Windows — Just Like Microsoft — Does Not Play Nice With GNU/Linux
  • 08.12.11 Global Dimming for the Cult of Patents
  • 08.16.11 Microsoft’s Latest FUD Against GNU/Linux Hinged on SEC Filing, Boosted by Pretend ‘Journalists’
  • 08.18.11 SUSE is Microsoft’s Dragon
  • 08.20.11 SUSE Wants Credit After Selling Out to Microsoft and Legitimising Patent Extortion
  • 08.25.11 Steve’s Duopoly Against Linux
  • 08.31.11 July 2011 Interview With Muktware
  • 08.31.11 Corruption Pays off for Microsoft in Tamil Nadu
  • 09.02.11 Microsoft Confirms Role in Preparing to Litigate Using Patent Trolls as Proxies
  • 09.04.11 Microsoft’s Embrace of Linux is Deceitful, Malicious, a Likely Antitrust Violation
  • 09.05.11 As Attachmate Distances Itself From SUSE, Commitment to UNIX Copyrights Doubted
  • 09.05.11 TechBytes Episode 59: Privacy, Tablets, and Dream Studio
  • 09.06.11 Wikileaks and Other Leakers Help Expose Microsoft Corruption, Cause Officials to Backtrack
  • 09.10.11 Cablegate: European Commission Worried About Microsoft’s Browser Ballot Screen Being Inappropriate
  • 09.10.11 Carol Bartz: Her Job is Done
  • 09.10.11 Cablegate Makes Considerable Difference in IT
  • 09.14.11 Mobile Patent Wars Merely a Symptom of a Broken Patent System
  • 09.16.11 Improper Conduct Identified as Cause for Disappointing Acceptance of FOSS in EU Authorities
  • 09.17.11 Impact of America Invents Act on Patent Trolls
  • 09.19.11 USPTO’s Violation of the First Amendment, Competition Laws, and Spirit of Creation
  • 09.21.11 Disclosures
  • 09.22.11 TechBytes Episode 60: Microsoft Versus Dual Booters, Google Competition Matters, and Google+
  • 09.22.11 Microsoft Finds Another Excuse to Block GNU/Linux
  • 09.27.11 Novell/Attachmate Emphasises Fog Computing/Hypervisors Rather Than Open Source
  • 09.29.11 Microsoft: Blocking GNU/Linux, Then Distracting/Lying to the Press
  • 09.29.11 Patent Trolls Demystified and Patent Reform Demanded
  • 09.30.11 Microsoft’s Patent Troll (IV) Helps Increase Microsoft Tax, BSA Changes Intellectual Monopoly Laws
  • 10.04.11 Attachmate Apathetic and SUSE No Better Than Free GNU/Linux (With No Microsoft Tax)
  • 10.09.11 SUSE is Led by Microsoft
  • 10.12.11 OpenSUSE: Openwashing Microsoft Linux (or Why Not to Participate in OpenQA)
  • 10.29.11 Attachmate/Novell/SUSE Do Not Complain About Microsoft Abuses
  • 11.01.11 Latest Analysis of Patent Assault on Linux
  • 11.04.11 Canonical/Ubuntu Considers Dumping Mono From Ubuntu LTS
  • 11.10.11 As Microsoft Extortion Continues, Submission Filed to the Department of Justice for Patent Abuse
  • 11.14.11 Links – Anti-Trust and US Parasite Laws.
  • 11.18.11 MOSAID, Microsoft, and Antitrust
  • 11.23.11 Potentially the Beginning of the End of Microsoft’s Patent Extortion
  • 12.14.11 SUSE in Clouds, OpenSUSE in Marketing Mode
  • 12.27.11 The Exodus of Novell Executives and Life After Novell
  • 12.28.11 Links – Microsoft, Big Publishers in decline, and Fools keep pushing for SOPA.
  • 01.11.12 Linux/Android Still Faces Proxy Challenge
  • 01.16.12 OpenSUSE: Out of Stock. SUSE: Good for Microsoft’s Stock
  • 01.18.12 Microsoft Tries to Spin Anti-Linux UEFI Measures, Ubuntu Tablets Possibly Affected
  • 01.23.12 EULA and Lawyers — Not Engineering — Define Today’s Technology Winners
  • 01.24.12 Microsoft Media Partners Spin the UEFI Abuses
  • 01.25.12 Patents Roundup: Oracle, Microsoft (via MOSAID), and Apple Lawsuits Against Linux/Android
  • 01.27.12 Android Gains Upper Hand in Battle to Defend Android, Microsoft Lobbyists Still Spin the Subject
  • 02.01.12 Greg Kroah-Hartman Exits SUSE
  • 02.15.12 Why Microsoft’s Blackmail Campaign Against Linux/Android May be Headed Towards the Garbage Can
  • 02.16.12 Trusting Microsoft-friendly Companies When It Comes to GPL Trending (Updated)
  • 02.20.12 Patent Parasites and the Bubble of Software Patents
  • 02.25.12 SUSE: Brain Drain, Partners Down the Drain
  • 02.25.12 Making GNU/Linux More Expensive With Lawsuits and FRAND/RAND
  • 03.05.12 Novell Decommissioned
  • 03.07.12 Apple Wants ‘Linux Tax’, OIN Still Unable to Do Much
  • 03.10.12 A Chance to End Software Patents in the United States
  • 03.13.12 Update on Patents Versus Android/Linux, New Rants Against Software Patents
  • 03.13.12 Apple Likes to ‘Steal’ Stuff
  • 03.21.12 hypePad 3 is Hot
  • 03.22.12 Nokia Inevitably Realises Linux is Better Than Windows
  • 03.25.12 More Calls, Hopes to End Software Patents in the United States
  • 03.28.12 Press Covers Software Patents Amid Their Possible Elimination
  • 04.07.12 SUSE: Still Repackaging Other People’s Works, Taxing Them
  • 04.12.12 Journalism and SUSE, Samba
  • 04.17.12 Collateral Damage in Oracle’s Case Against Android
  • 04.20.12 Florian Müller: Liar/Spinner for Sale, But He is Not Alone
  • 04.20.12 Linux Device for Retro Games, Raspberry Pi Pre-orders @ 350,000
  • 04.21.12 Google Should Follow Twitter’s Lead on Patent Mutilation
  • 05.26.12 Google Beats Oracle’s Patents, But the Plague of Software Patents Remains
  • 06.08.12 Oracle Starts Fighting a Good Fight, Should Drop Case Against Android
  • 06.09.12 Aiding Criminals
  • 06.22.12 Ubuntu and UEFI
  • 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 New Evidence Arrives to Support Patent System Overhaul While EFF Pressures Congress
  • 06.29.12 SUSE Still Alive, But Far From the Top
  • 06.29.12 With UEFI, Microsoft Assaults the General Public License (GPL) and Computing Freedom in General
  • 07.01.12 Apple Bans Android/Linux Imports, Linux Foes Pretend to be FOSS Players
  • 07.01.12 The FSF Moves From Petition to Recommendations Regarding UEFI Fight
  • 07.03.12 Coverage of the Free Software Foundation’s Response to UEFI
  • 07.05.12 OpenLogic Helps Microsoft Again
  • 07.10.12 Microsoft Libelled Android/Linux
  • 07.12.12 The End of the Road for Windows Amid Losses, Security Flaws, and Unstoppable Android Expansion
  • 07.15.12 UEFI Debate Rages on While New Workarounds and Advice Surface
  • 07.17.12 TechBytes Episode 69: Richard Stallman on Restricted Boot (UEFI), Coreboot, GRUB, and Boot Freedom
  • 07.17.12 UEFI Problems Addressed by Linux Developers, Not Distributions
  • 07.20.12 Oracle Spreads GNU/Linux FUD
  • 07.25.12 FUD Busting is Back at Groklaw
  • 07.28.12 Amdocs Helps Microsoft Attack Linux Freedom and Engage in Racketeering
  • 07.28.12 Microsoft’s Bad Mouth Causes Linux Havoc
  • 07.31.12 Microsoft Corporation — Not Just Microsoft Windows — a SPAM Leader; UEFI Not the Answer
  • 08.02.12 SUSE: Ambitious Claims, But Short on Delivery
  • 08.05.12 How Microsoft Expands the Patent Racket Against Android/Linux
  • 08.13.12 Bill Gates is Openly Promoting Patent Trolls Which Attack Linux
  • 08.13.12 SUSE to Help Microsoft With UEFI Agenda
  • 09.25.12 Trolls in a State of Denial
  • 09.25.12 Ubuntu Acknowledges UEFI Mistake by Taking FSF Advice
  • 09.27.12 Patent Troll Uses Software Patents to Attack Free Software Hosting
  • 09.29.12 Microsoft Says Free Software Has No Copyrights
  • 10.06.12 US Congress Unhappy With Patent System, Australia Consults the Public
  • 10.06.12 Patent Trolls and Parasites
  • 10.12.12 Imposing OOXML and Microsoft Lock-in on Android Users
  • 10.14.12 Linux Wins the Devices OS War, Microsoft Tries to Lock it Out With UEFI
  • 10.17.12 Microsoft Lobbying and Political Corruption in Europe
  • 10.19.12 Twin Peaks Spreads FUD Against the GPL
  • 10.24.12 IntraLinks Absorbs Novell Executives
  • 10.29.12 Microsoft is AstroTurfing for Vista 8
  • 10.31.12 Linux Heavyweights Speak Out Against Patents
  • 10.31.12 Microsoft Can’t Understand Security (Lesson for UEFI Apologists)
  • 11.05.12 Garrett a Microsoft Apologist
  • 11.05.12 Patent Reform Widely Promoted in the News
  • 11.18.12 Vista 8 is Not Selling, But Microsoft’s UEFI Scheme Blocks Linux Installations/Booting
  • 11.21.12 Microsoft Proves Techrights Right by Screwing UEFI ‘Partners’
  • 11.22.12 Culture of Litigation Versus Business, Innovation, and Production
  • 12.04.12 SCOTUS Can Show Support for Public Interests by Stopping USPTO’s Systemic Corruption
  • 12.11.12 Apple’s Android Lawsuits, Extortion, and Inevitable Market Declines
  • 12.13.12 Stop Fighting Software Patents the Way Lawyers Say We Should
  • 01.01.13 2013: The Age of Linux-Hostile PCs
  • 01.12.13 Vista 8 a Downfall for Microsoft in Linux/Android Era, Microsoft Downgraded
  • 01.24.13 Confirmed: Microsoft Coordinated Propaganda Against Munich’s Migration to GNU/Linux
  • 01.29.13 Attack of the Proxies
  • 01.31.13 Microsoft’s Anticompetitive Attack on GNU/Linux Booting is Bricking Laptops
  • 02.03.13 While Laptops Bricked Due to Microsoft’s Anti-Linux Tactics, Media Spin About Microsoft Liking Linux
  • 02.05.13 Former Novell Employees in Microsoft’s Fight Against GNU/Linux Adoption
  • 02.07.13 Boycott Dell
  • 02.10.13 Appeals Court Gets Another Chance to Abolish Software Patents in the United States
  • 02.15.13 Microsoft Partners IDC and Trustwave Spread GNU/Linux FUD
  • 02.18.13 Search and Security a New FUD Vector for Microsoft
  • 02.19.13 ZaReason Criticises Microsoft’s UEFI Restricted Boot Practices
  • 02.25.13 OIN Going After Unpaid Staff to Help Legitimise Software Patenting
  • 02.27.13 Microsoft Much Worse Than Proprietary With ‘Secure Boot’ Scam, Pretends to be ‘Open’
  • 03.02.13 UEFI Restricted Boot: Torvalds Asks Developers Not to “Please Microsoft by Doing Idiotic Crap Approach”, Petition Set Up to Nail Microsoft for This Antitrust Abuse
  • 03.02.13 New Complaints About the US Patent System and Another Upcoming Reform
  • 03.08.13 FreeBSD Makes UEFI Mistake
  • 03.08.13 Militarisation of Patent Battles: Militant Patents and Microsoft Spying (Skype, Kinect, Audio/Video Surveillance)
  • 03.08.13 Trustwave, a Microsoft Partner, is Still Spreading Linux FUD
  • 03.16.13 Microsoft Control Over Users
  • 03.21.13 Microsoft Bribery Amid the UK Government’s New Software Policy
  • 03.21.13 US House Hearing on Patents a Sham, Stacked With Lawyers/Corporations
  • 03.22.13 Grooming Microsoft as the Voice of Free/Open Source Software
  • 03.24.13 SUSE in Microsoft’s Fog Computing
  • 03.26.13 European Commission Finally Receives Complaint About Microsoft’s UEFI Restricted Boot Scheme
  • 04.07.13 UEFI Restricted Boot No Longer Valid for Security, Keys Leaked
  • 04.09.13 Those Who Push for Patent Reform and Those Who Protect Protectionism
  • 04.09.13 The Linux Foundation and Microsoft Take Another Step Ahead
  • 04.21.13 The SCOTUS-endorsed USPTO’s Bet Against Public Life and the Bribery for Patent Policy
  • 05.12.13 Prominent GNU/Linux/KDE Developer Jonathan Riddell Complains About UEFI Restricted Boot, Calling it “a giant Microsoft conspiracy to make installing Linux more faffy than it already is.”
  • 05.12.13 Todd Simpson From Mozilla Joined an Angry Patent Troll, IBM Tries to Warp Debate About Software Patents to Focus Just on Trolls
  • 05.15.13 Man From Microsoft Runs the Ubuntu Project Now
  • 05.21.13 Software Patents Eligibility Likely to be Decided by SCOTUS
  • 05.22.13 IBM Ignores Small Companies’ Interests, Denies Patent Scope is a Problem, Focusing on Its Own Problems (Trolls) Instead
  • 05.27.13 ‘Defensive’ Software Patents Useless Against Patent Trolls
  • 06.04.13 Canonical’s New Bug #1: Android Has Majority Market Share
  • 06.10.13 White House Should Go After the Trolls’ Ringleaders, Not Just Patent Trolls
  • 06.18.13 Judge Jackson Dies While Microsoft Continues to Abuse the System, This Time Using Nokia as a Front
  • 06.27.13 Insulting GNU/Linux and Free Software, Courtesy of Microsoft Moles
  • 06.28.13 Corporate Debates About Patent Trolls Versus Debates About Patents (or Software Patents in Isolation)
  • 07.01.13 Ingesting Microsoft Traps: FAT and Restricted Boot
  • 07.06.13 Too Many Microsoft Proxies Inside the FOSS World
  • 07.10.13 Intellectual Ventures Pays for Another Propaganda Campaign Advocating Patent Trolls
  • 07.14.13 Patent Troll: I Am Not a Troll
  • 07.18.13 Privacy Scandals Are Destroying Microsoft as the Company Fails to Deny Its Abuses
  • 07.20.13 Microsoft Collusion With the NSA Shows the Harms of Monopoly: No Perceived Threat in Hurting Users
  • 07.25.13 Debate About Patents Focused Only on Trolls
  • 07.29.13 In Debating Patents, Avoiding the Excessive Focus on Patent Trolls
  • 08.03.13 Who Focuses on Patent Trolls and Who Targets Real Reform or Advocates Elimination of Software Patents?
  • 08.05.13 More Patent Lawsuits Target GNU/Linux, Response Includes Calls to End Software Patents
  • 08.07.13 Patents on Designs One Can Print for Oneself
  • 08.23.13 The Rise of Google’s ChromeOS and Chrome
  • 08.23.13 Linux is Growing ‘Too Fast’, Greg Kroah-Hartman Wants to Slow Development Down
  • 08.24.13 US Government Accountability Office Refutes White House on Patent Reform, Identifies Software Patents — Not Trolls — as the Key Issue
  • 08.26.13 Fedora’s Recent Choice of Codenames Hurts the Project
  • 08.26.13 Microsoft Drops Further in Web Servers Ranking, But Latest Contender to Beat Microsoft is Proprietary Nginx
  • 09.17.13 New Zealand Shows the United States How to Deal With Software Patents
  • 09.20.13 Gabe Newell (Formerly Microsoft, Now Valve’s Head) and Intel Declare GNU/Linux Desktop Victorious
  • 09.23.13 Fedora is Deprecating Yum
  • 09.24.13 Degree of Freedom — Not Wealth — Should be Measure of GNU/Linux Success
  • 09.27.13 Aren’t There Too Many Car Types and Brands? The Type of Question Apple/Microsoft Boosters Ask About GNU/Linux…
  • 10.03.13 Fedora Turns 10, Release 20 Approaches
  • 10.07.13 How Windows Limitations Actively Cripple GNU/Linux, Hindering Its Superior Features Set
  • 10.08.13 Latest Disruptions in Databases Favour Free/Libre Software
  • 10.08.13 Debian GNU/Linux Popular in Education
  • 10.08.13 GNOME News Roundup: Wayland, GNOME 3.10, and GNOME “Flashback”
  • 10.18.13 The Amazing Rise of Drupal
  • 10.23.13 Mozilla Gains More Credibility by Hiring Xiph.org Founder Monty Montgomery
  • 10.24.13 Free Software/Open Source-Related Links for September-October 2013
  • 10.24.13 Freedom in Education
  • 11.07.13 The “Year of the Linux Desktop” Predicted in the Corporate Press
  • 11.08.13 Mandriva Still a Desktop Powerhouse
  • 11.11.13 Fedora: Where a Lot of GNU/Linux Originally Comes From
  • 11.11.13 The End of Windows XP Will Help GNU/Linux
  • 11.12.13 Kaspersky: Russian Nuclear Plant Runs Windows, Gets Infected With Malware Developed by the NSA (Stuxnet)
  • 11.14.13 In This Age of Fog/Cloud (Surveillance-Friendly) Computing, Can OwnCloud Be Trusted?
  • 11.17.13 Programming Links 17/11/2013
  • 11.18.13 Fedora 20 Reaches Beta, New Screenshots Published
  • 11.18.13 GNU/Linux is Taking Over Everything and the Code is Freely Shared
  • 11.25.13 Linux in Government and Why There is Still NSA Agenda to Keep Wary Eye on
  • 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 GNU/Linux Chases Monopolists Out of the Server Rooms
  • 12.05.13 A Western Assault on GNU/Linux Security and Privacy
  • 12.06.13 To Oracle, ‘Community’ Means Paying Oracle Customers
  • 12.09.13 Fedora 20 About a Week Away
  • 12.10.13 Docker: Yet Another Software Deployment Endeavor
  • 12.10.13 FreeBSD Lost Trust in Hardware Makers, Alleging NSA Tampering
  • 12.16.13 NSA Confirms Remote Computer Bricking by BIOS (or UEFI) as a Real Strategy
  • 12.16.13 NSA Roundup: Latest News in a Nutshell
  • 12.19.13 Yes, Chrome OS is a GNU/Linux Distribution and Google is Still Worth Supporting
  • 12.19.13 Fedora 20 is Out, Fedora 21 Already in the Planning
  • 12.24.13 Mandriva Moving Forward With PCLinuxOS and Mageia
  • 12.24.13 Christmas a Good Time to Install Fedora 20, But Not Upgrade to It
  • 12.26.13 Urge Hardware Companies to Stop Using UEFI (or Boycott Them), Don’t Work on UEFI
  • 12.27.13 Ubuntu Derivatives Can Gain as Canonical Reduces Commitment to GNOME
  • 12.30.13 Wrapping Up a Year of NSA Disgrace, Propaganda Film Advocating State Abuses Already in Preparation (Starring Benedict Cumberbatch Again)
  • 01.02.14 OpenStack Follows the Trajectory of GNU/Linux, Joined Into Linux Protection Programme
  • 01.03.14 Fedora 20 Brings Wayland to GNOME and Abandons Blobs
  • 01.06.14 In Mobile, GNU and Linux Victories Are Everywhere, So Microsoft Tries to Interject Itself Into Linux
  • 01.10.14 Black Duck Left Headless Again
  • 01.14.14 For Systems Administrators, GNU/Linux (and UNIX) Becomes Key Skill
  • 01.14.14 Indebted to Fedora, the GNU/Linux Factory
  • 01.14.14 Korora Claimed Better Fedora Than Fedora, and It’s Growing!
  • 01.15.14 Links: Ubuntu/Canonical in January 2014
  • 01.17.14 For Real Security, Use CentOS — Never RHEL — and Run Neither on Amazon’s Servers
  • 01.21.14 Restricting Use of Free (as in Freedom) Software in Surveillance, Censorship, Assassinations, and Wars
  • 01.21.14 NSA Watch: Latest News About Privacy
  • 01.24.14 Finding Database Software Without Back Doors
  • 01.24.14 Amid NSA Scandals and Revelations Delhi Government and European Governments Are Moving to GNU/Linux and Free Software
  • 01.24.14 Why a Deletion of Pear OS From the Web (Including SourceForge) is Mysterious
  • 01.25.14 Palm’s Patents Heading Towards Android Backer
  • 01.25.14 Privacy Watch: NHS Sells Out, Snowden Makes Headlines, GOP Uses NSA for Anti-Obama Partisanship, NSA Program Deemed Illegal, Bieber Rips NSA Coverage
  • 01.26.14 Mageia 4 Out Next Week, Mandriva and PCLinuxOS Still Very Much Alive
  • 01.26.14 Never Ever Use Coprocessors for Cryptology, Especially If Implemented in the United States
  • 01.29.14 East Asia is Taking Over More Parts of the Computer Industry, Bringing GNU/Linux to the Top
  • 02.03.14 Amid Financial Misconduct Microsoft Fights Against Basic Tech Rights, Obviously in an Attempt to Squeeze Out More Money
  • 02.06.14 Don’t Let the Corporate Press Portray GNU/Linux as a Loser
  • 02.07.14 Linux (Kernel) News From the Past Week
  • 02.07.14 OpenDaylight Run by Former Microsoft Man, Funded by Microsoft, Helps Microsoft
  • 02.09.14 Docker Grows Fast and Releases Version 0.8
  • 02.11.14 Recent News About GNU/Linux on Servers
  • 02.12.14 GNOME Watch: Despite New Delays, The GNOME Desktop Excites
  • 02.13.14 Mozilla Sells Out
  • 02.17.14 When ‘Get a Job’ Means Study GNU/Linux and Contribute to Free Software
  • 02.17.14 Linux Deepin/Ubuntu in the Future of China, Showing the Great Power of Debian
  • 02.18.14 Patents ‘Reform’ Debate Still Controlled by Corporations, Price of GNU/Linux Servers at Stake
  • 02.20.14 Free Software News Roundup: Careers, Liberations, and Lots More
  • 02.21.14 ‘Cloud’ Watch: ownCloud, CloudStack, OpenStack, Hadoop and More
  • 02.25.14 Being Against Crime is Not Being Zealous
  • 03.04.14 Skype Chief Executive Quits Microsoft Amid NSA Scandals
  • 03.05.14 GNOME News: GNOME 3.12, Wayland, Numix, GTK+…
  • 03.05.14 GNU/Linux Everywhere: New Stories, More Evidence
  • 03.05.14 Panic Over Transport Layer Security (TLS) Flaw Which is Already Patched
  • 03.05.14 Ubuntu Rising: Desktops, Servers, Phones, and Beyond
  • 03.06.14 Patent Stacking by Microsoft, Apple, Nokia et al. Makes Android/Linux More Expensive, Less Competitive
  • 03.07.14 Debian’s Importance is Growing
  • 03.07.14 Fedora 21 Release Just 7 Months Away
  • 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 News Roundup: Free Software/Open Source Software
  • 03.12.14 News Roundup: Public Services in Europe Rush to Free Software
  • 03.13.14 Kernel News: Linux 3.14 RC6, MOOC, ARM Support in Xen and More
  • 03.14.14 Fedora News: Fedora 21 Features, Fedora 20 Updates, and Ojuba
  • 03.17.14 Wikipedia Got Ruined by the Likes of Microsoft Who Pay People to Edit Articles About Microsoft
  • 03.19.14 When Microsoft is Using (and Paying) Celebrities to Ridicule GNU/Linux
  • 03.19.14 GNU/Linux Rising: Relevant News Items From March
  • 03.19.14 Reforming Copyrights and Challenging Copyrights Stigma With Free/Libre Software
  • 03.20.14 Sharing and Freedom: the Philosophy Spreads Beyond Software
  • 03.24.14 Oracle Releases Java 8 and VirtualBox 4.3.8
  • 03.29.14 Distro News: Makulu, Zorin OS, Pisi, Black Lab, OpenMandriva, Mageia
  • 04.03.14 Latest News About GNU/Linux in Servers and Networks
  • 04.03.14 Linux News: Systemd, Linux 3.14 Release, Future Releases
  • 04.05.14 Linux News: 3.15 Development, Collaboration Summit, Kay Sievers, and Graphics
  • 04.06.14 Resurgence of Open Hardware in the News
  • 04.07.14 Both Apple and Microsoft Compare Their Corporate Causes to Religion
  • 04.08.14 Phoronix Kernel-oriented News
  • 04.11.14 FOSS News: Latest Developments and Breakthroughs
  • 04.14.14 Server News: KVM, ElasticHosts, Other GNU/Linux Items, and Open Network Linux
  • 04.18.14 Some Perspective on Heartbleed®
  • 05.03.14 The Debate About Software Patents is Still Dead Because Large Corporations Killed It
  • 05.28.14 CAFC Historically a Facilitator of Software Patents and Other Abusive Means of Monopolisation
  • 06.03.14 GnuTLS Picked on by Firm of Microsoft’s ‘Former’ Security Chief, FUD Ensues Everywhere
  • 06.12.14 Patent Trolls Still Wrongly Portrayed as the Main Problem With the Patent System and Legislation Follows Suit
  • 06.14.14 US Patent System May Inevitably Be Coming to Europe While Patent Reform Attempts in US Crushed
  • 06.20.14 SCOTUS Finally Smacks Down Software Patents, But Further Action is Needed
  • 06.24.14 Distortion of Facts in Microsoft-Friendly News Sites
  • 06.25.14 Financial Perspective of Patents Misses the Reality of Patent Monopolies
  • 07.20.14 Attacking FOSS by Ignoring/Overlooking Issues With Proprietary Software
  • 07.24.14 UK Government Adopts OpenDocument Format (ODF) and Microsoft Already Attacks the Government Over It, Showing Absolutely No Commitment to Open Standards
  • 07.30.14 Ruling Against ‘Abstract’ Software Patents is Already Derailing Patent Attacks on Linux and Free Software
  • 08.11.14 Another Depressing Look at the Patent Systems in the US and in Europe
  • 09.27.14 Microsoft Fakes ‘Charity’ and Uses Religious Groups to Acquire Lock-in in the Public Sector
  • 09.29.14 More Good News About Demise of Software Patents and Along With Them, Consequently, Patent Trolls
  • 10.08.14 How Microsoft Handles Disasters: Grace Hopper Conference Has Been Infiltrated by “Microsoft Disaster Response”
  • 10.21.14 Criminal Microsoft is Censoring the Web and Breaks Laws to Do So; the Web Should Censor (Remove) Microsoft
  • 11.01.14 Microsoft Still Engages in Criminal Activities Against Linux, Openwashing Efforts Continue Nonetheless
  • 11.15.14 The Terrible Joke Which is Microsoft ‘Loving’ Linux: Nightmares With UEFI ‘Secure’ Boot (i.e. Windows Monopoly Imposed) Continue to Affect GNU/Linux Users
  • 11.23.14 Boycotting Micro Focus International
  • 12.19.14 Another Microsoft Partner Markets Linux FUD Using Logo, Name, and Lies
  • 12.30.14 Our Richard Stallman Interviews in 2012-2014
  • 01.07.15 Microsoft Fired Chief Privacy Officer for Suggesting Real Privacy
  • 01.19.15 Translations of Member of the European Parliament Complaining About European Patent Office (EPO)
  • 02.04.15 German Translation of Ruling Against Željko Topić, the EPO’s Vice-President
  • 02.19.15 The Old Obsession With Patent Trolls Continues to Distract From Debate About Software Patenting
  • 02.22.15 The EPO’s Sham ‘Internal Investigation’ of EPO Vice-President Željko Topić’s Affairs
  • 03.22.15 Michael Silver Back to Acting as Gartner’s Microsoft Agent, Promoting Vista 10 Based on False Promises
  • 04.06.15 Microsoft is Still Openwashing Perfect Apparatuses for Back Doors: Common Carrier (Windows), ‘Cloud’, and Compiler
  • 04.12.15 GNU/Linux is Crushing Windows, So Microsoft Leaps Ahead to X+2 Vapourware (Two Versions Ahead Into the Future)
  • 04.13.15 EFF Uses Alice v. CLS Bank Case to Pressure USPTO to Halt Software Patenting
  • 04.22.15 The Dying Debate Over Patent Scope (Including Software Patents) Replaced by ‘Trolls’ (But Not the Biggest Ones)
  • 05.03.15 PATENT Act a ‘Reform’ for Big Corporations, Hence Does Not Address the Core Issues, Including Patent Scope and Massive Patent Aggressors
  • 05.13.15 Microsoft Wants GNU/Linux Users and Developers Addicted to Microsoft APIs by Means of Cross-Platform Proprietary Software
  • 05.14.15 VENOM® is Not a Serious Bug, It’s Just a Marketing Campaign From CrowdStrike
  • 06.03.15 Microsoft Wants to Remove (or Deprecate) PuTTY From Windows and Replace It With Proprietary Microsoft Software
  • 06.09.15 Microsoft’s Government Stranglehold Collapsing: As Expected, British Government Departments (Tax Authorities First) Dump Microsoft, Will Likely Embrace ODF; India and Sweden Likewise
  • 06.09.15 European Patent Office (EPO) Now Uses Keyloggers to Spy on Staff
  • 06.20.15 Microsoft Has Chosen Patent Extortion and Patent Lawsuits Over Actual Products
  • 06.22.15 Microsoft Injects Its Proprietary Software Into Free Software Stacks and the Open Container Project
  • 06.25.15 DockerCon 2015 Infiltrated by Microsoft
  • 06.26.15 Proprietary Software on Top of Proprietary Software (AV on Windows) Only an Illusion of Security
  • 07.01.15 Microsoft Keeps Shrinking
  • 07.01.15 The Shameless Campaign to Paint/Portray Free Software as Inherently Insecure, Using Brands, Logos, and Excessive, Selective Press Coverage
  • 07.03.15 Patent Lawyers and Their Firms, Still Desperate to Protect the Status Quo, Manipulate the Media
  • 07.08.15 Openwashing of Proprietary Software With Back Doors
  • 07.14.15 Governments-Connected ‘Hacking Team’ Targets UEFI, Reveal Leaks
  • 07.25.15 Vista 10 (Windows 10) Has NSA Back Doors and Front Doors
  • 08.17.15 Patents Roundup: Patent Reform, Google’s ‘Startups’ Ploy, JDate, Fitbit, Cisco, and UPC in the UK
  • 10.02.15 Microsoft-Connected Firm Net Applications Used to Mislead About Vista 10 Share and Mock GNU/Linux
  • 10.11.15 European Pirate Party MEP Julia Reda Says TPP Will Bring Software Patents to Europe and Other Continents/Countries
  • 10.13.15 EPO Management is Running Out of Time as More Media Remarks on Its Abuses
  • 10.19.15 German Media Shows Discriminatory EPO Practices More Than Just a ‘Pilot’ (Reaching Second Half of 2016), Started When Microsoft Pressured EPO (Lodged Complaints)
  • 10.22.15 At All Things Open (ATO) Microsoft is Embracing, Extending, Extinguishing GNU/Linux, Hopes to Do the Same to Android (Updated)
  • 10.31.15 Patents Roundup: Software Patents in India, the US, Microsoft’s Dubious Software Patents, and Mark Cuban
  • 11.12.15 After Patent Deal With Microsoft Canon Gets Sued (Using Software Patents) by a Microsoft-Connected Patent Troll
  • 11.13.15 Linux Voice Stresses the Importance of the Software Patents Question in Relation to Free Software
  • 11.14.15 Microsoft BitLocker Has Bug/Back Doors, Windows Laptop/Desktop Encryption Just a Farce
  • 11.19.15 AllThingsFRAND: The Latest Incarnation (Anti-Linux/Android, Pro-Patents) of Microsoft-Leaning AstroTurf Group Association for Competitive Technology
  • 11.25.15 The Broken Window Economics of Patent Trolls Are Already Coming to Europe
  • 12.05.15 Decreased Focus on Microsoft
  • 12.12.15 The EPO’s Failed (Dismissed) Attempt to Dismiss a Judge Alleged to Have Communicated About EPO Abuses
  • 01.14.16 La Ultima disfrazada de ¨Abierto¨ de Microsoft Dá la FALSA Impresión de su Propietario Spyware/Malware es ¨Abierto¨ y Amigable a Linux
  • 01.14.16 The Latest Openwashing by Microsoft Gives False Impression of Microsoft’s Proprietary Spyware/Malware Being ‘Open’ and Linux-friendly
  • 01.24.16 Patent Lawyers and Their Sites/Media Still a Barrier to End of Software Patents and Patent Wars
  • 01.27.16 Los Abogados de Patentes y sus Sitios/Medios de Comunicación Todavía Son una Barrera para Terminar las Guerras de Patentes
  • 01.28.16 Microsoft is Still Dying
  • 02.18.16 EPO Management Reportedly in a State of Collapse, Rumours Suggest Battistelli Possibly Out Soon, Events Canceled
  • 02.20.16 Business Model of Patent Trolls Terribly Shaken as Their Weapon of Choice (Software Patents) Tackled, New Developments Emerge
  • 03.07.16 Avoid IBM Until It Rescinds/Retracts/Reverses Its Weaponisation of Software Patents
  • 03.12.16 Growing Awareness of Microsoft’s Campaign Against Linux, Based on Poor Quality Software Patents and Secret Settlements
  • 03.14.16 German Transcript of Bayerischer Rundfunk Coverage About EPO
  • 03.15.16 Creciente Conciencia de La Campaña de Microsoft Contra Linux, Basada en Patentes de Software de Baja Calidad y Arreglos Secretos
  • 03.20.16 Latest Vista 10 Scandal Makes Microsoft Indistinguishable From Criminal Malware Makers
  • 03.20.16 More Voices in the Media Against Microsoft’s Patent Aggression Against Linux, Prospects of Joining the Open Invention Network (OIN)
  • 03.22.16 Más Voces en los Medios Contra la Agresión de Patentes de Microsoft Contra Linux, Prospectos de Unirse a la Open Invention Network (OIN)
  • 03.23.16 Microsoft is Pretending to be a FOSS Company in Order to Secure Government Contracts With Proprietary Software in ‘Open’ Clothing
  • 03.25.16 Microsoft Esta Pretendiéndo Ser una Compañíá FOSS Para Asegurárse Contratos con el Gobierno Con Software Proprietarior en Ropaje ‘Abierto’
  • 03.28.16 Kroatische Lobistin für UN im Zentrum des intarnationalen Skandals in EPA
  • 03.30.16 Oracle’s Huge Claims Against Linux/Android Demonstrate the Uselessness of OIN
  • 03.31.16 Microsoft Vows to Stop All Patent Lawsuits and Threats Against Linux, Drops Existing Secret Settlements, Annuls NDAs
  • 04.01.16 Grandes Reclamos de Oracle Contra Linux/Android Demuestra la Futilidad de la OIN
  • 04.04.16 Battistelli’s Inner Circle is Expanding With More Miraculous EPO Promotions and Allegedly More Bodyguards
  • 04.05.16 El Circulo Intimo de Battistelli se Expande Con Más Milagrosas Promociones y Su Guardia Pretoriana También Se Incrementa
  • 04.18.16 EPO Integrity on the Line: The Story of Željko Topić’s Controversial Diploma – Part I
  • 05.08.16 US Bodies Are Locking Up the Commons and Industry Standards in Patent Enclosures, in Order to Benefit Few Monopolists
  • 05.10.16 Patent Policy is a Mess and It’s Not Hard to See Why
  • 06.04.16 Software Patents in Europe and the UPC Already a Problem
  • 06.12.16 Yahoo’s Patent Portfolio Might Soon Be ‘Monetised’ by Passage to Trolls at the Rate of at Least $100,000 Per Patent
  • 06.14.16 Rights Groups, Media, Developers and Others Are Rising Up Against Patent Trolls, But the Problem is Always Software Patents
  • 06.22.16 IP Europe’s UPC Lobbying and the EPO Connection
  • 06.27.16 Techrights (Almost) at 10: From Software Patents to Novell and to Present Focus on EPO
  • 06.28.16 New Efforts to Work Around Barriers to UPC in Light of ‘Brexit’; Behind These Efforts Are Self-Serving Patent Profiteers
  • 06.28.16 Today’s Media Coverage Says Microsoft Loves Linux, But Today Microsoft Extorted Linux Using Software Patents Again
  • 06.30.16 EPO Staff Representative Jesus Areso Explains the Crisis to the Administrative Council
  • 07.13.16 The Open Invention Network Keeps Growing, But It Helps Large Corporations, Not Free/Open Source Software
  • 07.16.16 With ‘Friends’ Like IBM and Its ‘Open’ Invention Network We Legitimise Software Patents Rather Than End Them
  • 07.22.16 Blockstream Has No Patents, But Pledges Not to Sue Using Patents
  • 08.03.16 Lucy in the Sky With Battistelli’s Diamonds (EU Budget) But No UPC in Sight
  • 09.02.16 The Corrupting Influence of Money in the Linux Foundation (Bias for Sale)
  • 09.04.16 Death of Software Patents Almost Everywhere Except the Eastern District of Texas
  • 10.10.16 Towards the End of Software Patents in the United States
  • 10.11.16 “Very Mysterious Things Going on at the IPKat Recently”
  • 10.18.16 Subject of the European Patent Office’s Abuses Raised in European Parliament by Ulrike Müller (ALDE)
  • 10.23.16 EPO and the “Iberian Connection”: Patricia García-Escudero Márquez – Battistelli’s Pet Chinchilla on the Boards of Appeal Committee?
  • 10.31.16 The World Comes Tumbling Down for Software Patents and Patent Trolls
  • 11.22.16 Microsoft Loves Linux Patent Tax
  • 01.01.17 EPO Select Committee is Wrong About the Unitary Patent (UPC)
  • 01.02.17 Europe Should Listen to SMEs Regarding the UPC, as Battistelli, Team UPC and the Select Committee Lie About It
  • 01.11.17 The Patent Microcosm is Already Sucking up to Donald Trump in an Effort to Enrich Itself at Everyone’s Expense
  • 01.19.17 Shame on MapR for Pursuing Software Patents While Pretending to Stand for Free/Open Source Software
  • 01.28.17 An Unexpected Reality: The Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit Emerged as a Champion in Fighting Software Patents in the US
  • 02.05.17 Rapid Collapse of Patent Aggressors’ Patent Strategy: Creative, Microsoft, RPX, LinkedIn, and Fitbit
  • 02.12.17 After Ruinous Kappos (Former IBM) Tenure at USPTO the Big Blue — Along With Front Groups — Muscles Its Way Into US Patent Policy
  • 02.26.17 Google’s Stewardship of GNU/Linux (Android, Chromebooks and More) in Doubt After Company Resorts to Patent ‘First Strikes’
  • 02.27.17 Patent Trolls on Their Way Out in the United States and Their Way Into China, No Thanks to the Open Invention Network (OIN)
  • 03.07.17 With a Week Left Before the Administrative Council’s Meeting, Pressure on Battistelli to Leave the EPO Continues to Grow
  • 03.29.17 Kongstad and Battistelli Have Staged a Coup at the European Patent Organisation (EPO)
  • 03.29.17 March 29th: The Day the Unitary Patent (UPC) Died
  • 04.05.17 Patent Attacks on GNU/Linux Devices, Courtesy of Philips, Ericsson, Microsoft and Its Patent Trolls
  • 04.11.17 PAX Means Peace, But It’s Making Peace With Software Patents Rather Than Destroy Them
  • 04.25.17 Astoundingly, IP Kat Has Become a Leading Source of UPC and Battistelli Propaganda
  • 04.26.17 PatentShield is Not the Solution and It Won’t Protect Google/Android From Patent Trolls Like Microsoft’s
  • 05.06.17 Translations and Speculations About Jesper Kongstad’s Planned Departure From the EPO
  • 05.27.17 The United States Has Already Tackled Both Software Patents and Patent Trolls
  • 05.30.17 Another Amazing Bit of News About Patents: Supreme Court Knocks Out Lexmark a Week After TC Heartland
  • 06.01.17 Patent Trolls in Europe and the Looming Collapse of the UPC
  • 06.11.17 German Media Would Rather Write Articles About Beer Than About Serious and Unprecedented EPO Scandals
  • 06.12.17 German Barrier to the Unitary Patent (UPC) is Bound to Bring the Insidious Plans to a Halt
  • 07.02.17 Microsoft’s Troll Intellectual Ventures, via Dominion Harbor, Goes Patent-Trolling in China
  • 07.16.17 Guest Post: Is Germany’s UPC Ratification Postponement Related to Problems at the  EPO?
  • 07.16.17 In the Face of Malicious Lobbying, High Tech Inventors Alliance (HTIA) and Computer and Communications Industry Association (CCIA) Protect PTAB
  • 07.26.17 “Reprehensible” Rodney Gilstrap Continues to Snub the US Supreme Court by Refusing to Let Non-Texan Companies Move Out of Texas
  • 08.01.17 Heiko Maas May Need to Belatedly Answer Complaint About Illegal Spying on Staff at the EPO
  • 08.03.17 EPO, Lufthansa, and the German Government – Part III: DZIV and EPO Nepotism
  • 08.05.17 EPO, Lufthansa, and the German Government – Part IV: Tena Mišetić, Ivan Mišetić, Croatia Airlines, Lufthansa, and Deutsche Telekom
  • 08.06.17 EPO, Lufthansa, and the German Government – Part V: Lufthansa and Croatia Airlines Overlap
  • 08.07.17 German Media Names António Campinos as Likely Successor of Battistelli
  • 08.07.17 EPO, Lufthansa, and the German Government – Part VI: The Complaint to Merkel
  • 08.09.17 EPO, Lufthansa, and the German Government – Part VIII: Outcome at DZIV (Zagreb) Miraculously Known Six Months in Advance
  • 08.10.17 EPO, Lufthansa, and the German Government – Part IX: Potentially Fatal Injury to Air Plus Trademark Holder
  • 08.11.17 EPO, Lufthansa, and the German Government – Part X: In Closing
  • 08.20.17 The Notorious 1-Click Buying Patent Expired Rather Than Invalidated
  • 08.20.17 The Federal Circuit Has Become the Go-To Place For Patent Appeals Arising From USPTO Errors
  • 08.22.17 News About Patents Dominated by Patent Trolls/Aggressors, Their Press Releases, and Sympathisers
  • 09.05.17 One Week Left for Battistelli’s Coronation of Another Frenchman, António Campinos, to Lobby for UPC?
  • 09.21.17 In an Effort to Push the Unitary Patent (UPC), EPO and the Liar in Chief Spread the Famous Lie About SMEs
  • 09.22.17 Intellectual Ventures, GNU/Linux/Android/FOSS Patents, and the Ascent of European Patent Trolls
  • 09.26.17 Microsoft Brings Its GNU/Linux-Hostile Patent Scheme to China
  • 09.26.17 Dying Computer Giants Turn Patents Into an Extortion Racket
  • 10.07.17 Additional Complaints About the Unitary Patent (UPC) Pile Up in Germany, Here’s How to Submit More
  • 10.08.17 Microsoft Lobbying, the EPO, and Software Patents Disguised as ‘Internet of Things’
  • 10.11.17 Musical Chairs as Battistelli’s ‘Chinchilla’ García-Escudero Márquez Could Reportedly Take António Campinos’ Place
  • 11.09.17 Patent Office of the Netherlands Expresses Uncertainty About UPC, Voices Concern About Benoît Battistelli’s Attack on Staff
  • 11.29.17 PTAB Will Survive the Supreme Court, Admit Even Foes of PTAB Based on This Week’s Hearings
  • 12.19.17 Today’s Report From the Administrative Council (AC) of the European Patent Organisation ‘Tackles’ the Most Important Issue: Judge Corcoran
  • 01.09.18 Watchtroll is Where Information and Facts Come to Die in the Name of PTAB Bashing (Trolls’ Lobbying)
  • 01.18.18 Microsoft, Masking/Hiding Itself Behind Patent Trolls, is Still Engaging in Patent Extortion
  • 01.19.18 The EPO Ignores This Week’s Decision Which Demonstrates Patent Scope Gone Awry; Software Patents Brought Up Again
  • 03.27.18 More Litigation Ventures of Intellectual Ventures (Microsoft’s Patent Troll) Stopped by Unified Patents
  • 04.18.18 Guest Post: Responding to Your Recent Posting “The European Patent Office Will Never Hold Its Destroyers Accountable”
  • 04.29.18 The Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) Lives on and People Whom Patents Were Conceived for (Not Lawyers) Are Happy
  • 05.02.18 RPX, RIP
  • 05.09.18 Microsoft is Attacking the Competition Through Patent Trolls Based in Texas, Armed by Microsoft’s Former Management
  • 05.15.18 A Google-Centric and Google-Led Patent Pool Won’t Protect GNU/Linux But Merely ‘Normalise’ Software Patents
  • 05.15.18 Apple and Microsoft Are Still Suing Companies — Using Patents of Course — Which ‘Dare’ Compete (by Leveraging GNU/Linux)
  • 05.19.18 LOT Network is a Wolf in Sheep’s Clothing
  • 05.28.18 Microsoft and Its Patent Trolls Face an Uphill Battle in a Patent System Which is Increasingly Hostile Towards Software Patents
  • 05.28.18 Companies Now Have the Incentive to Remove/Move All Operations Out of the Eastern District of Texas (If Not Texas in General)
  • 05.31.18 The Open Invention Network (OIN) is Becoming an Even Greater Part of the Problem, Embracing Software Patents Through Hype
  • 06.01.18 Three Years After Openwashing Its Patents Panasonic Gives These Patents to Patent Trolls
  • 06.24.18 Can Alice/35 U.S.C. § 101 Stop Microsoft-Connected Patent Trolls in the US?
  • 07.29.18 Rebellion Against Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) Inter Partes Reviews (IPRs) Comes From Patent Extremists, Demonstrating PTAB’s Success
  • 08.15.18 Open Invention Network (OIN) Member Companies Need to Become Unanimous in Opposition to Software Patents
  • 09.07.18 IAM Media Engages in Trademark Violations While Trying to Misrepresent Free/Open Source Software in Relation to Software Patents
  • 09.09.18 Renaming Patents on Algorithms to Make Them Look and Sound Less Abstract Than They Really Are
  • 09.20.18 It Wasn’t Judges With Weapons in Their Office, It Was Benoît Battistelli Who Brought Firearms to the European Patent Office (EPO)
  • 09.23.18 Open Invention Network is Rendered Obsolete in the Wake of Alice and It’s Not Even Useful in Combating Microsoft’s Patent Trolls
  • 10.05.18 Microsoft Uses LOT Network to Spread Lies and Promote Its Protection Racket
  • 10.10.18 Open Invention Network is a Proponent of Software Patents — Just Like Microsoft — and Microsoft Keeps Patents It Uses to Blackmail Linux Vendors
  • 10.17.18 Ask OIN How It Intends to Deal With Microsoft Proxies Such as Patent Trolls
  • 10.21.18 MIT and the Prior Art Archive Perpetuate Existing Problems
  • 10.30.18 IBM- and Microsoft-Backed Patent Troll Strikes Again and IBM’s Lobbyist for Software Patents Has Just Defended Patent Trolls (Again)
  • 11.04.18 Software Patents Proponents Abound: IAM, IBM, Kappos, OIN and Microsoft
  • 11.05.18 Blockchain Hype Exploited by the EPO and by Patent Law Firms to Wrongly Assert Free/Libre Software Can Coexist With Software Patents
  • 11.09.18 With Patent Trolls Like Finjan and Blackbird Tech out There, Microsoft in OIN Does Not Mean Safety
  • 11.15.18 Ignoring and Bashing Courts: Is This the Future of Patent Offices in the West?
  • 11.17.18 The European Patent Office Comes up With a Plethora of New Buzzwords by Which to Refer to Software Patents
  • 12.02.18 35 U.S.C. § 101 Continues to Crush Software Patents and Even Microsoft Joins ‘the Fun’
  • 12.03.18 The Intellectual Property Owners Association (IPO) and IBM Are Part of the Software Patents Problem in the United States
  • 12.07.18 The European Patent Organisation is Like a Private Club and Roland Grossenbacher is Back in It
  • 12.30.18 2019 in Techrights: New Datacentre, New Focus
  • 01.06.19 Fighting ‘True Enemies’, Not One Another
  • 01.06.19 Pirate Party Championing Free/Open Source Software in Europe
  • 01.10.19 The Emptiness of the Linux Foundation’s Commitment to Linux and Its True Openness… to Corporate Cash (in Exchange for Influence)
  • 01.17.19 US Patent Lawyers Will Need to Change Profession or End up Becoming Abundantly Redundant, Unemployed
  • 01.27.19 From Attacking to Stealing
  • 01.27.19 Just Because It’s Linux Doesn’t Mean It’s Free (as in Freedom)
  • 01.29.19 The EPO Continues to Grant Software Patents Even Though Many European Patents Are Being Invalidated Already
  • 02.14.19 “EPO Lawlessness Again”
  • 03.26.19 Guest Post: The Linux Foundation Needs to Define “Support”
  • 04.02.19 Microsoft Linux Entryism: A Roundup
  • 04.03.19 The EPO Continues Granting Bogus Patents on Mathematics and Nature, But There’s Hope Over the Horizon
  • 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
  • 04.16.19 GNU/Linux is Being Eaten Alive by Large Corporations With Their Agenda
  • 04.18.19 “Mention the War” (of Microsoft Against GNU/Linux)
  • 04.21.19 A Reader’s Suggestion: Directions for Techrights
  • 05.07.19 Microsoft Will Have You Sued for Not Hosting GNU/Linux on Azure (Paying Rents)