Companies That Harm Software Freedom

From Techrights

Contents 1 Notable 1.1 Proprietary 1.2 Patent Trolls 1.3 Security 1.4 Proxies 1.5 Patent Menace 1.6 Reporting 2 Lesser Damaging

[edit] Notable

[edit] Proprietary

• Microsoft
• Apple
• Blackboard
• SCO
• Nokia
• SAP
• Adobe

[edit] Patent Trolls

• MOSAID
• Uniloc
• MPEG-LA

[edit] Security

• McAfee
• Symantec
• Trend Micro

[edit] Proxies

• Likewise
• Protecode
• T3
• Neon
• Wolfram Research (flagship product Mathematica)
• Black Duck
• OpenLogic
• Centrify
• Tuxera

[edit] Patent Menace

• Nortel
• Kodak

[edit] Reporting

Controlled Press:

• BBC
• IDG (parent company of IDC)
• The Guardian
• CNET, ZDNet (CBS)

[edit] Lesser Damaging

Ambivalent:

• Motorola
• TiVo
• Amazon
• Samsung
• LG
• HTC
• Facebook (partly owned by Microsoft)
• VMware
• EMC
• Twitter
• Goldman Sachs
• Intel

Non-companies:

• CPTN
• ITC
• USPTO
• CSIRO
• SCOTUS
• FTC
• ISO (not a company per se)

Controversial GNU/Linux Players:

• Canonical
• Novell
• Xandros/Linspire
• Turbolinux

Also see the drones list.