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Techrights, part of Bytes Media, is a progressive site which supports software freedom and advocates digital diversity through standardisation (naturally, it is against monopoly). The different sections address multiple areas or companies, e.g. Novell which can be found further down on this page. One way to organise tens of thousands of pages is this archive, but another way is as follows.

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Filing for Justice

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     22 May 2013 :: Links for the day

     22 May 2013 :: How Microsoft and Apple are using patents in bulk (sometimes acquired in unison, e.g. from Novell and Nortel) to artificially lower market saturation of the Android operating system or drive costs up

     22 May 2013 :: New examples of power being acquired and investments (i.e. for profit) being funnelled into the beneficiaries

     22 May 2013 :: How Bill Gates' staff is entering positions of financial power, indirectly giving Gates power over US (national and international) finance

     22 May 2013 :: How David Kappos and IBM (his longtime employer) continue to ignore the obvious problem which kills small businesses and everyone is complaining about

     21 May 2013 :: Eamonn Fingleton is rewriting history in the US' top newspaper, insinuating that patents contributed to the rise of software duopolists

     21 May 2013 :: Analyses suggest that an escalation by appeal to SCOTUS is likely to be the next stage in 'Bilski 2.0'

     21 May 2013 :: Renting Microsoft software rather than using Free (as in freedom, or libre) software?

     21 May 2013 :: Links for the day

     20 May 2013 :: Links for the day

     20 May 2013 :: Microsoft cannot bypass public tenders, based on a ruling from a court of law in Europe

     20 May 2013 :: Software security 'standard' to be led by the company which made insecurity an acceptable engineering practice?

     20 May 2013 :: With Microsoft's common carrier and browser share down considerably Microsoft finds itself increasingly irrelevant and it tries subversive means of making another comeback

     20 May 2013 :: A recollection of very dirty tactics from Microsoft, which uses money to oppress, overthrow, and even hijack its opposition

     20 May 2013 :: How the so-called 'free' trade agreements help spread patent policy which favours software patents


Boycott Novell

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This is the main initiative of this Web site, which is also conducted in an IRC channel.

Introduction

Boycott Novell is an initiative that was conceived (see history) after Novell had signed a patent deal with Microsoft, an abusive monopoly. This deal was sought after by Novell and it has initiated:

In this Web site, we strive to address these issues, mostly by informing. The following sets of pages organise the information we have accumulated so far. It is permanently under construction and by creating an account you can help us edit and expand.

More Information

Index of Portals

Miscellaneous Pages

  • Drones list :: List of people who are serving Microsoft's business agenda
  • Articles index :: A broad list of topics that are listed cohesively

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