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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

• Links 22/5/2013: Debian GNU/Hurd, New Go Language Release

     22 May 2013 :: Links for the day

• The FRAND Apple-Microsoft Conspiracy Attempts to Destroy Android/Linux, Ban Imports

     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

• Gates Foundation: Buying Influence for Bill’s Ego and Bill’s Profit

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

• Bill Gates Enters Financial Centres With His Goons Becoming US Budget Chief, Top Bankers

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

• IBM Ignores Small Companies’ Interests, Denies Patent Scope is a Problem, Focusing on Its Own Problems (Trolls) Instead

     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

• The New York Times Publishes Factually-Flawed Patent Propaganda Benefiting Microsoft and Apple

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

• Software Patents Eligibility Likely to be Decided by SCOTUS

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

• Does Bill Gates Try to Flush GNU/Linux Down the Toilet in Kerala?

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

• Links 21/5/2013: Handbrake Turns 0.9.9, NetBSD 6.1

     21 May 2013 :: Links for the day

• Links 20/5/2013: First Salifish Smartphone, Mageia 3 Released

     20 May 2013 :: Links for the day

• Microsoft Corruption (Illegal Tenders) Stopped by European Court

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

• Not Satire: Microsoft Wants to Show the World How Security is Done

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

• Microsoft is Struggling to Maintain Industry ‘Standards’

     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

• Microsoft Entryism and Bribery Get the Microsoft Way Implemented

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

• Patent Policy Laundering in the European Union and New Zealand

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

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