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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.

Filing for Justice

• Apple vs HTC
• TurboHercules vs IBM
• Comes vs Microsoft
• i4i vs Microsoft
• Companies That Harm Software Freedom
• Techrights Legal

Free Software Advocacy

• Making the Move to GNU/Linux

Elimination/Limitation of Software Monopolies

• Bilski Case (United States)
• Software Patents in India
• Software Patents in Europe
• Software Patents in South Africa
• Software Patents in New Zealand
• Software Patents Around the World

Inside Apple

• Apple Deception
• Apple's Dark Side
• Apple Versus Partners
• Apple on Software Patents
• Apple vs HTC
• hypePad Watch
• Apple Helping Microsoft

Microsoft Monitor

• Comes vs Microsoft
• OOXML Abuse Index
• Microsoft Reality Log
• Microsoft PR Agencies
• Microsoft Technical Evangelists
• Patent Trolls Connected to Microsoft
• Microsoft influence in the United States government
• Microsoft influence in the Indian government
• Microsoft influence in Europe
• Microsoft influence in Asia
• Microsoft - Windows
• Microsoft - Office
• Microsoft - Consumer Hardware
• Microsoft - Dead Divisions or Products
• Microsoft - Layoffs
• Microsoft - Major Departure
• Microsoft - Financials
• Microsoft - Tax
• Microsoft - Legal
• Microsoft - Sweatshops
• List of Microsoft Sins
• How Microsoft attacked a charity, OLPC
• Gates Foundation Critique
• Call Out Windows
• Skype is Spy Campaign

News Stories (External)

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Latest Stories

• IRC Proceedings: May 12th, 2013-May 18th, 2013

     19 May 2013 :: IRC logs for May 12th, 2013 (and subsequent days until May 18th, 2013)

• Microsoft Spin Regarding Skype Spying Does Not Withstand Scrutiny

     19 May 2013 :: Microsoft's response to allegations that Skype is spying on all users is full of holes

• MPEG-LA Ruined the Licence of WebM, Made it Less Freedom-Respecting

     19 May 2013 :: The Microsoft-, Nokia-, and Apple-backed patent troll appears to have ruined the freedom assured by Google's multimedia format, which was previously made free only after public pressure

• Microsoft-controlled Nokia is Lobbying to Enable Bans on Android Imports (Linux Phones as a Whole in Danger)

     19 May 2013 :: Nokia is shown lobbying for embargoes while it is also suing -- with limited success -- Android handsets makers

• Courtroom and New Book Recognise That Software Patents Correspond to Mathematics and Mathematics Abused in Court

     19 May 2013 :: Important observations about the nature of computer-implemented 'inventions', or software patents

• The Reality Distortion Field of Patent Lawyers Helps Impede Abolition of Software Patents

     18 May 2013 :: How widespread coverage and talking points from the tiny minority which is patent lawyers have contributed to biased and at times utterly distorted reporting on the subject of software patents around the world

• Eugene Kaspersky Says Patents Harm Innovation

     18 May 2013 :: Some more criticism of the patent system and software patents in particular, courtesy of Eugene Kaspersky

• UEFI Restricted Boot Good for Microsoft Agenda, Not for Security

     17 May 2013 :: News and analysis of UEFI 'secure boot' (lockdown), including the new role played by the Microsoft-funded SUSE

• Anniversaries

     17 May 2013 :: Sites that deal with patents and with FUD as well as their respective ages

• EFF, Newegg, and the Canadian Patent System All Take a Stance Against Software Patents

     17 May 2013 :: Hostility towards the practice of patenting software is seen in a nonprofit organisation, a corporation, and a government branch responsible for patenting

• Microsoft’s Fake ‘Open Source’ Front is “Pushing Software Patents” (Updated)

     17 May 2013 :: Microsoft's front group which pretends to support Free/Open Source software (FOSS) is using a guest post to entertain the idea of software patents inside Free/Open Source software

• Links 17/5/2013: 0.9 Billion Android Activations, New Devices, Android Studio

     17 May 2013 :: Links for the day

• Links 16/5/2013: Firefox 21 Out, Android 4.3 Foreseen

     16 May 2013 :: Links for the day

• More Android FUD From Former Microsoft Staff in CBS

     16 May 2013 :: New examples of anti-Android sentiments being spread by the Apple- and Microsoft-funded media conglomerate, CBS, which pays current and former Microsoft staff to act as "journalists"

• Where Fear of FOSS Comes From

     16 May 2013 :: More Microsoft ties to some of the latest FUD about Free/Open Source software (FOSS)

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