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Open Source Initiative

The Open Source Initiative (OSI) is the guardian of the Open Source brand, which seeks to take credit for -- and power from -- the work started by GNU and the Free Software Foundation (FSF) of Richard Stallman. Microsoft entryism at the OSI took a giant leap around 2017. Before the OSI became so submissive (2020) there were still hopes of a recovery.

07.16.07 OSI General Counsel Says Companies Should Prepare for GPLv3

07.27.07 OSI and Microsoft: Open Source ‘Divide and Conquer’? (Updated)

07.30.07 The OSI Invasion Merely Follows the Linspire/Xandros/Novell/Turbolinux Invasion

07.31.07 Microsoft Brings IP FUD into OSI, Deters Adopters

08.01.07 Quote of the Day: What Microsoft Tries to Achieve by Invading OSI

08.10.07 Here Come the Microsoft Apologists from the Open Source Initiative and the Linux Foundation (Updated)

08.11.07 A Wooden Horse Knocks on the Door of the Open Source Initiative City

08.18.07 Not Everyone in the OSI Shows “Respect for Microsoft”

09.01.07 Eric Raymond Sees ISO Abuse and Tells Microsoft Where to Stick Its OSI Trojan Horse

09.07.07 Broken Patent System: When the Fox Met the Hen

09.26.07 Quote of the Day on Knowing Our OSI ‘Buddies’ Wannabes

10.16.07 Another Successful Invasion: Microsoft ‘Stung’ by the Open Source ‘Plague’

10.25.07 Microsoft Separates Camps, Divides Open Source and Free Software Community, Breaks Linux Compatibility

10.28.07 How Can the Press, the OSI, and the ISO be So Biased and Foolish?

10.30.07 Microsoft Has Already Hijacked (to Kill) Open Source

11.16.07 It all Comes Together Again: OSI, Port25, Novell, Patents…

03.19.08 Support Bruce Perens’ Fight Against ‘Invasion of the Borgs’

03.23.08 Document Freedom Day Coming Shortly with Plenty of Support

03.25.08 OOXML is Just the Beginning, Part of a Broader Assimilation Strategy

03.31.08 MSOSBC, the OSI and Microsoft’s Software Patents Demand

04.12.08 The Linux Foundation, OSI and the Neglected Values of Freedom

08.15.08 Assorted Updates: Patents, OSI, Mono, KDE and Novell

08.21.08 Novell Resentment: OSI, Others Begin to Wake Up

02.18.09 Whatever Microsoft Touches, Microsoft Ruins

07.14.09 How the Gates Foundation Helps Getting Children Addicted

05.29.10 Google to Make WebM GPL Compatible — Claim

06.22.10 Faking Freedom

07.21.10 Links: OSI Finds Its Spine, ‘Open’ Core Called Out

03.20.11 OSI Still Distances Itself From Microsoft

03.20.11 ES: La OSI Todavía se Distancia a Sí Misma de Microsoft

12.28.11 Cablegate: Indian Ambassador Criticises UNESCO for Signing a Software Agreement With Microsoft (Updated)

05.11.12 Microsoft Hijacks Its Opposition, Removes Opposition

07.03.12 Microsoft Moles in FOSS World

11.25.13 President of the OSI Calls IBM, Microsoft and Other Companies Patent Trolls, Explains the Role of OIN

09.28.17 Microsoft is Doing to ‘Open Source’ (OSI) What it Did to W3C

12.25.17 Raw: PEACES Initiative of the Staff Union of the EPO

04.07.18 Microsoft — Like BlackBerry — is Nowadays a Patent Extortion Company, So Ignore the ‘Shared Innovation Initiative’ Nonsense

03.24.19 Microsoft Paid the Open Source Initiative. Now (a Year Later) Microsoft is in the Board of the Open Source Initiative.

06.08.07 Do-No-Evil Saturday: Opensuse Initiatives and New Novell Partnerships

07.01.07 Hypocrisy Defined: Microsoft Sponsors Initiative Againt ‘Junk Patents’

07.19.07 Microsoft Uses Position of Power to Impose OOXML on National Assets

07.23.07 More ‘Funny Business’: Microsoft-funded Body (Initiative for Software Choice) Among Its Document Format Lobbyists

08.07.07 Using OSI Endorsement and Linux Deals to Promote Lock-ins

09.10.07 Choosing Novell for Your Business is Like Choosing XenSoft (sic)

09.21.07 Open Source Initiative, Like Neelie Kroes, Says “Non” to Microsoft

10.02.07 Losing Your Job for Opposing a Monopoly Abuser? (Lassi Nirhamo)

11.01.07 What’s in Microsoft’s Halloween Documents on Novell, ISO, OSI, GNU GPLv3, EC, and OSS?

12.18.07 Entering Paranoid Mode in the Face is Paranoia-imposing FUD

03.21.08 OSI Says OOXML Needs to Die and Sutor Thinks Microsoft’s Search is Broken by Design

08.17.08 Eye on Microsoft: ‘Pulling a Mammootty’, Exposing Windows PCs, Daemonising Opposition

11.14.08 Open Source Initiative President Requests a “No” to Microvell

04.15.09 Patents Roundup: OSI and Patents, Demise of Patents, Microsoft and the BSA

07.14.09 Microsoft Lobbies Come Under Fire by the Open Source Initiative (OSI) and Linux Journal

07.18.09 Why Novell and Ubuntu Suppress Opposition of Mono

06.30.10 Bill Gates Successfully Lobbies Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper Ahead of G8 to Make Countries (Taxpayers) Pay for His Initiatives

08.23.10 Techrights Announces TechCHOICES Initiative: Get Your Vista 7 Refund and Show the World How to Do It

08.27.10 Generosity by Publicity

10.07.10 Patents Roundup: Opposition to Software Patents and General ‘Ownership’ of Software Ideas

01.20.11 OSI and FSF Unite in Face of Common Enemy CPTN/Microsoft

04.18.11 Losing the Battle Against Software Patents?

04.19.11 OSI President: Microsoft Florian is Spouting Nonsense (About CPTN/Microsoft-Novell Patents)

04.22.11 ES: El Presidente de la OSI: Microsoft Florian Está Diciendo Insensateces (Acerca de las CPTLN/patentes entre Microsoft y Novell)

09.11.11 Cablegate: Chancellor Merkel Organises Initiative Striving for “Increased Support for Cooperation Between U.S. and EU Patent Agencies”

02.25.13 EFF Opposition to Software Patents Strong, But Not Strong Enough

03.28.13 OSSI is Not the OSI

05.04.13 Microsoft ‘Open’ Technologies Designed to Isolate Microsoft From FOSS Community, Claims OSI President; Microsoft’s Patent Extortion and Sabotage of FOSS Continue

05.30.13 SFLC Refutes OSI President’s Claim, Says WebM Licence is Still Fine (Updatedx3)

07.22.13 OSI President Accuses Microsoft Proxy Black Duck of Spreading FUD

03.03.14 Open Source Initiative, Free Software Foundation, SFLC, Red Hat and Others Fight Against Software Patents at SCOTUS Level

03.27.14 OSI Strikes Back Against Microsoft Deception, Which Keeps Distorting the Meaning of Open Source

09.22.15 The European Patent Office’s Autocracy Has Proven the Streisand Effect, Amplifying Its Opposition’s Messages

09.13.16 The Duke Law Patent Quality Conference and the Planned Erosion of Patent Quality at the EPO, for the Sake of So-called ‘Production’

10.23.16 Open Letter Exposing the Farce Which Was Battistelli’s ‘Social Conference’ Coinciding With Further (New) Attacks on EPO Staff Representatives

03.22.18 Japan is Becoming Firmer on Patents, Whereas China Goes in the Opposite Direction

08.15.18 Open Invention Network (OIN) Member Companies Need to Become Unanimous in Opposition to Software Patents

03.09.19 European Patent Office Press Releases (Two in Two Days) Are Disguised as ‘News’ and Tell the Opposite of the Truth

11.27.06 This Could Be Uncomfortable

12.08.06 ECMA Open XML Approved Despite IBM Objection

12.11.06 Embrace Microsoft, or Join With Us (In our Embrace with Microsoft)

12.16.06 Transcript of Stafford Masies Q&A at CITI Forum in South Africa

12.21.06 Oracle Linux is Doing Errr… Bad

01.29.07 Novell Boasts Bandit-Higgins Interoperability

02.12.07 When Companies Eat Microsoft Bait, It Means Trouble

04.13.07 Another Blast from the Past (1999): Microsoft Says Novell Raises Its Ugly Head Again

05.15.07 Further Evidence That Microsoft’s Patent Claims are an Ineffective Farce

05.21.07 Microsoft Dismisses Being Subjected to GPL, Uses Novell as a Proxy

05.23.07 Microsoft Collaborates with Linux Company on Security

05.27.07 How’s that MS Office Native ODF Support Coming?

06.06.07 Pay-to-play for Windows Clone Products

07.03.07 The “OpenXML Lie”, the “Patent Lie”, the “Security Lie”, and “Get the Facts”

07.16.07 The OOXML Translator is a Hoax (and so is the ISO)

07.20.07 Do-No-Evil Saturday: Build Service, Contracts, Success Stories, Even a Video

07.27.07 Bill Hilf and Microsoft’s ‘Terror Culture’

07.27.07 Do-No-Evil Saturday: A Look at the Latest OpenSUSE Alpha and Other Novell Products

07.28.07 GPLv3 Proves Its Business Value

07.30.07 Healthcare Developer Gives GPLv3 the Nod

08.01.07 Microsoft Shills Praise Microsoft in the Press (Public Relations Stunts)

08.01.07 As the Saying Goes, Who Invited These Guys to the “Free Software” World?

08.02.07 Open Source Becomes Web 2.0 and Novell 2.0 (or SCO 3.0)

08.04.07 The Anatomy of Invade-to-Subvert Strategies

08.05.07 Microsoft Honours Competition…… Not.

08.08.07 Even Windows Projects Consider a GPLv3 Move, GNU GPL for Hardware a Great Success

08.08.07 OOXML Watch: Funny Business Comes to Switzerland, ECMA Speaks, Apple Falters

08.13.07 GNU/Linux is Not Being Divided, But the ‘Extended Family’ Fractures to Alienate Its Foes

08.23.07 Microsoft Deals That Kill

08.27.07 Has Microsoft ‘Bought’ the Vote for OOXML in Vietnam?

08.28.07 GPLv3 — From Strength to Strength

08.29.07 GPLv3 is a Case Against Future Sellouts

08.29.07 OOXML Watch: Latest Stories of Deception, Corruption, and Disapproval

08.30.07 Watch and Learn How Microsoft Hijacks Rival Companies by Proxy

08.31.07 Do-No-Evil Saturday: OpenSUSE Faster and Better, Novell’s Financial Results Lift Stock

09.02.07 OOXML in Norway, Denmark, and Poland… Looking More Closely at the Stories (Updated)

09.07.07 ISO Reform Demanded, OpenISO Formed by Norbert Bollow (Updated)

09.10.07 The Kernel You Crave, But the Licence Won’t Let You Have

09.12.07 Mark Shuttleworth Still Dislikes Microsoft’s Linux Deals

09.21.07 Do-No-Evil Saturday: OpenSUSE @ RC, Linux Deployments, and ‘Legacy’ Products

09.30.07 “Show Us The Code” — The Letter That’s No More

10.03.07 Microsoft Unleashes the Death Trap to Mono (Updated)

10.17.07 ISO No Longer Matters…

10.18.07 Other Reasons for Microsoft to Invade the Linux and Open Source Worlds

10.19.07 Eric Raymond Has Left Linspire’s Board

10.22.07 The D-I-Y Linux — A Windows-based Winix?

11.01.07 Critical Problem for Novell

11.02.07 Microsoft ‘Joins the Club’ Because Government Policies Favour Open Source

11.07.07 “Microsoft Admirer“ Hijacks Open Source

11.09.07 Off Topic: Microsoft Crime/Dirty Tricks Watch (Updated)

11.10.07 One-Year Anniversary ‘Celebrations’ — Bruce Perens on the Novell/Microsoft Deal

11.20.07 Korea Chooses OpenDocument Format

11.21.07 OpenDocument Format Accessibility and Disinformation (Updated)

11.24.07 Do-No-Evil Saturday – Part II: Things for Novell to be Thankful for This Week

11.26.07 HOWTO: Divide a Community and Get OOXML Approved

11.28.07 Patent Trolls, Intel and Microsoft Betray the Children

12.01.07 Public Letters Protesting Against Department of Justice Decisions

12.06.07 Quick Mention: OOXML/GNOME Podcast Finally Online, Text Summary Posted

12.08.07 Analyst Firms, Including IDC and Gartner, Named and Shamed for Serving as Microsoft Mouthpieces

12.09.07 Might Microsoft Money ‘Buy’ Love?

12.10.07 Quick Mention: Novell Security Issues Persist

12.11.07 Microsoft’s Assimilate-to-Destroy Tactic (Everything for OOXML)

12.14.07 Novell, Sun Microsystems, Red Hat, and Microsoft Patents

12.21.07 Microsoft Takes Stage Centre in the Year of the Patent Trolls (2007)

12.26.07 Fighting the Cost Advantage of GNU/Linux Using Software Patents

12.27.07 How Microsoft ‘Bought’ Nicolas Sarkozy, France, and Parts of Europe

12.28.07 Format Siege — Buying One’s Way Through Pressure, Using Incentives

12.31.07 How Microsoft Operates in China and Parts of Asia

01.07.08 Is Microsoft Already Redefining ‘Open Source’?

01.09.08 Microsoft Keeps Its Enemy Closer (and Away from GNU/Linux)

01.09.08 With Novell’s OOXML Support, Microsoft Lobbies and Deceives in the Philippines

01.09.08 Novell’s Privilege Escalation Vulnerability and the Microsoft Software Police

01.12.08 Open as in… “Open to Abuse”

01.14.08 FCC-Comcast-Microsoft and the Freedom Antagonists Axis?

01.14.08 Patents Roundup: Google, Patent Reform, and “The Eco-Patent Commons”

01.17.08 Bill Gates Invades the Land of Linus, Uses Dumping Techniques

01.26.08 Do-No-Evil Saturday – Part II: OpenSUSE 11.0, 10.3, and 10.1 in German Government

01.27.08 Selling Services Without Selling Fear of Licences

02.02.08 Microsoft Against the “L”, Courtesy of Novell

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

02.06.08 Don’t Start Unnecessary Wars. Give Palamida a Break…

02.08.08 In Microsoft Speak, Alliance Means Devour, Extend

02.14.08 Novell Welcomes a Friend (Microsoft) to Linux Conference

02.15.08 OpenDocument Format Already Implemented in the Netherlands; OOXML Crimewatch Tidied Up

02.22.08 A Quick Look at More Reactions to Microsoft’s Taxoperability

02.25.08 The GPLv3 Not Strict Enough (Should Be Stricter), According to Samba

02.25.08 Zonker Responds to Matt Asay After Novell Swing

02.27.08 Michael Tiemann’s Rebuttal to Torvalds’ Response to Taxoperability

02.27.08 It’s Official: Microsoft Has Redefined “Open Source”

03.02.08 Patents Roundup: From [Apple to [O]OXML (and Undercover Lobbyi$T$)]

03.03.08 What We Can Learn About Novell from Intel-Microsoft-Dell-Hewlett-Packard Collusions

03.04.08 ODF/OOXML: Summary of the Latest News and BRM Reports

03.04.08 Microsoft Uses Pressure, Lawmakers, Precedence (Novell) to ‘Illegalise’ Free Linux

03.06.08 Novell Enters a Microsoft Partners Triangle

03.06.08 USPTO As Broken as Always, Proof Herein

03.06.08 Patents Roundup. Microsoft is Faking it Again

03.07.08 OOXML Players: Novell is Microsoft, ECMA is Microsoft

03.08.08 Do-No-Evil Saturday – Part IV: ‘Spillaneous’ Items About Novell

03.08.08 Now Comes the OOXML Patent Tax (Microsoft Lied)

03.19.08 Microsoft Invades Eclipse and Java

03.22.08 Behind the OOXML “No” Vote in India Remains a Fiasco

03.23.08 BrainShare 2008 Press Roundup: Part III

03.24.08 Summary of Mono’s Danger to GNU/Linux and the Free Desktop

03.25.08 Quick Mention: Microsoft Still Determined… Taxoperability and Its Own ‘Open’ ‘Standards’

03.25.08 Software Patents and FOSS Revisited

03.26.08 Guess Who Invited Microsoft to the Open Source Business Conference? Matt Asay.

03.26.08 ‘Microsoft is Stealing from Linux’

03.27.08 Microsoft’s Anti-Linux Dumping Crusade: Chapter 11.1

03.27.08 Microsoft Invited Over to Enter the Gates and Serve the Bill

03.27.08 Microsoft/Munchkin ‘Breaks’ the Web to Break Open Document Standards (Again)

04.02.08 Microsoft Latest Incursions and Subversion of Open Source

04.12.08 OpenDocument Format Already a Winner in Brazil, Philippines Named for OOXML Irregularities

04.12.08 Do-No-Evil Saturday – Part III: Novell’s Present in the News This Week

04.13.08 Microsoft Reaches Out to Children and Young Adults Again

04.14.08 McAfee Throws Some More FUD at Free Software

04.14.08 Microsoft Linux/MSN/OOXML/Software Patent Partners: Down from 4 to Just 3 Any Time Soon?

04.18.08 Microsoft Still Tries to Invade the Open Solutions Alliance

04.18.08 More Legal Trouble for a Microsoft Patent Partner (Fraud); Google Stumbles

04.22.08 Bill Gates Ridicules the GPL While Novell Mops Up with Software Patents

04.23.08 Novell Meets rPath in Raleigh, North Carolina (Hometown of Red Hat)

04.24.08 How Microsoft and Novell Make GNU/Linux More Expensive to Purchase Than Windows

04.25.08 Quick Mention: Microsoft Intersection with the United States Government

04.25.08 In the Land of Microsoft, China-like Search Engine Censorship Now a Standard

04.30.08 Of OpenSUSE, Xandros, and Microsoft…

05.01.08 OOXML-ODF Roundup: Chronic Deniers versus Developers and Consumers

05.02.08 Updates on Microsoft OOXML in the UK and South Africa

05.06.08 Why Novell Became a Threat to Java and the GNU GPL

05.06.08 Microsoft’s Continued Crusade to Make Free Software Not Free

05.07.08 If Even the Drug Industry Collaborates, Why Software Patents?

05.10.08 Novell and SCO: A Final Shakedown

05.21.08 Software Patents in Europe and Microsoft’s Huge Lobbying Budget as of Late

05.22.08 What People Say About That Mythical Microsoft Service Pack

05.24.08 OOXML Incidents Index: From A to C

05.26.08 OOXML Incidents Index: From [Thailand to [V]ietnam]

05.27.08 Free Software versus Today’s Intellectual Monopolies — Overview

06.01.08 Bringing Free Software Values Back: Please Welcome Equitable Open Source

06.02.08 ODF: Open Standard; OOXML: The New and Unimproved .DOC/.XLS/Other

06.05.08 Clearing the F[og|UD: Microsoft Fought ODF Like Fire]

06.06.08 Be Careful Who You Trust (on Document Standards)

06.08.08 Scum of the Day: Association for ‘Competitive’ Technology (ACT)

06.12.08 What Open Source Means to Microsoft, Nokia

06.13.08 If Microsoft’s Marketing Ploy Continues, “Open Source” is Passé

06.15.08 Despite ISO and Microsoft Apologists, ODF Rises in Europe

06.16.08 The Open Source ‘Census’ Lost Its Credibility

06.16.08 Microsoft ‘Buys’ Parts of the Open Source Movement – Part Deux (Updated)

06.19.08 Reader’s Take on OpenDocument Foundation and Microsoft (Updatedx3)

06.23.08 Microsoft to ODF Technical Committee: Come Enter the Belly of the Beast

06.30.08 Tackling Intellectual Monopolies the Wrong Way: An OIN for the Wealthy

07.05.08 Intellectual Monopolies Insanely Out of Control

07.09.08 Embargo, Ignore Microsoft-Controlled ISO

07.18.08 Patently Absurd: Microsoft, BSA, IDC, Alsup, and Trend Micro

07.20.08 "/o/2008/07/20/linus-complains-about-patents/ Microsoft Sued Over Patents Again, Linus Complains, USPTO Welcomes P2P[atent]]

07.23.08 Microsoft Attacks Another Legitimate Critic, Tries to Get Him Fired?

07.27.08 Microsoft Open Sores (May Contain Patents)

07.28.08 The Games Microsoft Plays in GNU/Linux-bound South Africa

07.31.08 Sam Ramji, the Man Who Wants to Politely Steal from GNU/Linux

08.07.08 Microsoft’s Aggressive Push to Assimilate FOSS to Microsoft

08.10.08 Groklaw: Microsoft and Novell Poison OpenOffice.org; Watch Out, KDE

08.11.08 Eye on Microsoft: Tough Weekend

08.15.08 Eye on Microsoft: More Lawsuits and a Very Grim Vista

08.16.08 Do-No-Evil Saturday – Part II: SCO, GWAVA, and Some Minor Developments

08.16.08 Do-No-Evil Saturday – Part I: SUSE, Xandros, and Turbolinux Catch-up

08.18.08 ISO Pegged Its Own Vote to Shelter Microsoft OOXML

08.22.08 Non-compete, By Association

08.24.08 Patents Roundup: Microsoft Sued, Health Care Weighs in, McCreevy Denounced

08.25.08 Watch Out, OASIS

08.27.08 Another Global Effort to End Software Patents Once and For All

09.01.08 Another Microsoft Shill: Americans for Technology Leadership (ATL)

09.07.08 The GNU/Linux Kidnap Theory (Microsoft, 2005)

09.10.08 A Loss for Ballnux is Not a Loss for GNU/Linux

09.11.08 More Wins for ODF, Another Potential Loss for ISO’s Reputation

09.13.08 Do-No-Evil Saturday – Part II: SUSE at Schools, Linspire Inside Xandros, Xandros Still Nowhere

09.19.08 The EPO Crisis and Microsoft’s Patent Trolls

09.20.08 Do-No-Evil Saturday – Part III: Another Load of Novell News

09.22.08 Eye on Microsoft: Marketing Problems and Dumping

10.03.08 Here Come the Anti-GNU/Linux (Yet ‘Open’) Software Licences from Microsoft

10.03.08 Another Feather Falls off ISO’s Cap Due to Microsoft OOXML

10.03.08 Microsoft is Exploiting Portuguese Taxpayers to Build Nation of ‘Addicts’

10.08.08 Microsoft’s Magalhães Laptops Scam and OOXML Scandals in Portugal Associated with Fraud?

10.10.08 Novell Hires a Dose of Microsoft-obedient Analyst

10.11.08 Novell’s Linux Poison® (Mono) Reaches 2.0, Contains Extra Cyanide (WinForms)

10.14.08 Novell Incorporated: Convergence of Windows and GNU/Linux Since 2006

10.14.08 Media Reality Check: Microsoft Silverlight a Big Programming Scam

10.16.08 Mono Watch: Where Is It All Coming From?

10.16.08 Silver Lie

10.21.08 Microsoft and Novell Still Fight Against Freedom of Software, But Is Horacio Gutierrez Lying?

10.23.08 Rumour: Bill Gates Could Develop/Foster Yet Another Patent Troll, Maybe Lobby

10.24.08 On Mixed Source, Mono, and Other Forms of ‘Piracy’

10.24.08 Important Step for Software Patents in the European Union

10.29.08 Use of False Promises to Attract Free Software Developers

10.29.08 More Interesting Prebundling Moves

11.03.08 Does the USPTO Like Its System Broken?

11.04.08 Experts Indicate That re Bilski Does Impact Software Patents

11.08.08 Do-No-Evil Saturday – Part II: Userful, Lenovo, SUSE (SLES/SLED), Scalix and Xandros

11.12.08 Patents Roundup: Microsoft, Free Software Innovations and Impending Changes to Patent Law

11.12.08 Microsoft Calls It Open Source, But It’s Not

11.19.08 Patents Roundup: Microsoft Sues, Patents Critic Become Nobel Laureate, and More

11.24.08 States Are in Huge Debt, But Microsoft Keeps ‘Crime Money’ in Bank

11.28.08 More Microsoft Abuses in Italy and Europe

12.03.08 Quick Mention: Novell is Helping Microsoft OOXML Again

12.03.08 “Twisted Ideological Crusade” and Other Excuses

12.07.08 Microsoft Keeps ‘Embracing’ and ‘Extending’ Education

12.10.08 Economics, Trolls, and Software Patentability Revisited

12.10.08 The Patent System is Broken.. and How NOT to Fix It

12.10.08 ODF Alliance Newsletter – 10 December 2008

12.11.08 Linux Defenders: Obeying — Not Challenging — a Broken System

12.12.08 Reader’s Take on Microsoft Open Source

12.15.08 How Software Patents Impede Standards and GNU/Linux Development

12.17.08 OpenDocument Gains Traction, So the Redmond Bully Returns

12.22.08 B.A.D. Microsoft

12.24.08 Novell and Microsoft: All About Cooperation on (Intellectual) Monopoly

12.25.08 Quote of the Day: Bradley M. Kuhn (SFLC) on Microsoft

12.30.08 Ray Niro, Microsoft, and Other Patent Failures

01.01.09 Microsoft History of Exploiting Free Labour Repeats Itself

01.04.09 Is Microsoft ‘Pulling an EDGI’ on Kerala? (Updated)

01.09.09 Novell Vice President, Javier Colado, Acknowledges Novell’s Channel is Broken

01.09.09 Why Apple Supports OOXML

01.10.09 Microsoft’s Dumping Strategy Versus GNU/Linux (EDGI Continued)

01.11.09 Environmental Disinformation in the Microsoft Press

01.12.09 Bill Gates: “Where Are We on This Jihad?” (Against Linux at Intel)

01.14.09 Microsoft’s Internal Presentation on How to Fight GNU/Linux

01.14.09 Is UK Government/Education Accepting Soft Bribes from Microsoft Rather Than Adopt Free(dom) Software?

01.15.09 Microsoft’s EDGI in India: Fighting GNU/Linux in Education

01.16.09 EDGI Finale: Microsoft’s “Linux Compete Squad”

01.16.09 Has Microsoft Just ‘Pulled an EDGI’ on 72,000 Schools?

01.19.09 Gartner Group Corrupted by Microsoft (Analysts Cartel Part III)

01.24.09 DNS Suspended by Microsoft Windows Botnets

01.28.09 Antitrust: How Microsoft Schemed to Derail Dell GNU/Linux

02.04.09 Patents Roundup: Linux, Microsoft, Apple, Patent Trolls and Reform

02.04.09 ‘Sabotaging’ Motherboards to Work Only with Windows

02.07.09 Quick Mention: Microsoft Lackey Lands in ODF Community List

02.07.09 Novell News Summary – Part II: Virtualisation, GWAVACon, GroupWise and More

02.08.09 Patents Roundup: Apple, Microsoft Trolls, and Linux

02.11.09 Microsoft as Political Movement in the US, Maybe India Too

02.11.09 Microsoft and Novell Approach Convergence

02.14.09 Moonlight 1.0 is NOT News, So Why All the Hype and Press Coverage?

02.14.09 Novell News Summary – Part II: SUSE on Desktops, Servers, Clouds, and in the Channel

02.15.09 Microsoft Promotes, Punishes So-called ‘Pirates’; Promotes Slavery and Public Looting

02.16.09 Red Hat-Microsoft Agreement Not Malicious, But Was It Smart?

02.19.09 Microsoft’s Anti-GNU/Linux Fund (EDGI) Gets New Leadership

02.21.09 If You Care About Freedom, Don’t Support Apple

02.21.09 Summary of the Red Hat-Microsoft Story

02.21.09 Novell News Summary – Part II: SUSE in China and DreamWorks

02.24.09 Patents Roundup: Microsoft, RAND, Extortion, and Ending Software Patents

02.25.09 Huge 180 in Favour of Free Software and ODF in the UK

02.27.09 European Open Source Software Workgroup a Total Scam: Hijacked and Subverted by Microsoft et al

02.28.09 ODF Alliance Newsletter: Latvia and UK Join the ODF Bandwagon

03.01.09 Why Microsoft is Likely to Lose the TomTom Case (Plus Summary)

03.02.09 Bill Gates’ Dad and His Connections with the BSA (Plus Examples from the News)

03.02.09 Bully on the Internet

03.03.09 Portugal Stands Up Against Microsoft Corruption

03.06.09 Patents Roundup: TomTom, Microsoft, Patent Trolls, Red Hat, IBM, Google, Bilski and Reform

03.08.09 Microsoft Wants to Make Something Out of Nothing to Fight GNU/Linux

03.09.09 Quote of the Day: Michael Tiemann on Microsoft

03.11.09 Bruce Perens Calls Novell a “Highly Paid [Microsoft Mouthpiece”]

03.20.09 Microsoft’s Live@Edu Scam Finally Leaked

03.23.09 Microsoft Still Misleads Developers and Redefines ‘Open’

03.24.09 Does the European Commission Harbour a Destruction of Free/Open Source Software Workgroup?

03.27.09 Jonathan Zuck and ACT: What is It Anyway?

03.28.09 Novell’s SUSE Linux Enterprise 11 Release: An Overview

03.31.09 Open Cloud Manifesto Would be Absolutely Right to Exclude ISO Corrupter, Microsoft

03.31.09 Novell Releases Poisonware Factory 2.0 (MonoDevelop)

04.01.09 Microsoft and Novell Still Grow Closer

04.01.09 Authorities in China and Australia ‘Sell’ Their Children to Microsoft

04.02.09 How OLPC Failed Where Industry Succeeded with GNU/Linux

04.11.09 Novell News Summary – Part III: From SCO to Utah

04.11.09 Microsoft’s Armament Against Free Software and Other Software Patents News

04.11.09 Novell News Summary – Part II: SLED, Sub-notebooks, iFolder, and Xandros

04.12.09 OOXML BRM Convenor or OOXML Cheerleader?

04.12.09 Microsoft Sneaks Out of Treason and Homophobia Charges

04.13.09 How Microsoft (and Apple) Wants to Own GNU/Linux, in the ‘Intellectual’ Sense

04.16.09 Ecuador’s Adoption of ODF Formalised, ODF Turkey Takes Off

04.21.09 FBI, CIPAV, and the Windows Back Doors Revisited

04.21.09 Microsoft Loses to Google and Free Software

04.23.09 Does Microsoft Use Extortion to Sign MOUs?

04.25.09 The Bully Says It Wants to be Open Source and ODF Friend

04.26.09 Microsoft and Gates ‘Donate’ Training for Microsoft

04.26.09 Microsoft, Google Sued; Microsoft Funds Legal Action Against Google

05.02.09 Novell News Summary – Part III: SCO-Novell, DMTF, Security, and Partners

05.04.09 Subject: [PATCH Add CONFIG_MONO_NO_CREATE WITH_MS_PATENTS option]

05.06.09 IRC: #boycottnovell @ FreeNode: May 6th, 2009 – Part 2

05.09.09 Novell News Summary – Part III: Virtualisation, GroupWise, People, and Videos

05.11.09 Will Microsoft Sign an MOU with Indonesia?

05.14.09 Killing Spurious Patents Before They Kill Us

05.20.09 Jonathan Zuck (ACT) Jumps to Defend Intel for Committing Same Crimes as Microsoft

05.22.09 2 Months and No Disclosure from the European Parliament

05.24.09 Microsoft Sued Over Its Corruption in Switzerland, Microsoft Debt Revisited

06.01.09 ODF Alliance Newsletter: Ecuador Joins the Club

06.03.09 Fraunhofer Again Lobbies for Microsoft Lock-in

06.06.09 Swiss Government and Federal Computer Weekly: Why the Hostility Towards Free Software?

06.13.09 Fedora “Concerned” About Mono for Legal Reasons, Ubuntu Debate Carries on

06.21.09 Novell News Summary – Part III: Novell’s Proprietary Business

06.22.09 Reader’s Article: The Gates Foundation and Genetically-Modified Foods

06.22.09 Microsoft Brings ‘American EDGI’ to Illinois, Virginia, and Indiana

06.29.09 What People Say About Microsoft’s Alleged Anti-Linux Lawsuit (via T3)

06.30.09 Another Microsoft Product Dies: MSN Web Messenger

07.13.09 Patents Roundup: Software Landmines in New Zealand, the US, and Microsoft/Linux

07.16.09 ODF Officially Approved as Malaysian Standard, Brazil Offers Massive Endorsement Too

07.16.09 Patents Roundup: Peer-to-Patent Annual Report; FFII, FSFE and IBM Weigh in

07.17.09 GPL and Stallman FUD Now Arriving from the Freedom-apathetic or Freedom-hostile

07.20.09 Patents Roundup: Microsoft Stung, Microsoft’s Troll Speaks to Facebook, Alternatives Considered, and USPTO Head Calls Patents “Monopolies”

07.24.09 Microsoft’s Response to OOXML Abuses is a No-Response

07.24.09 Something Rotten at NASSCOM and Microsoft (Again)

08.08.09 Novell News Summary – Part III: PlateSpin, GWAVA Conference, and More

08.10.09 Signs That Microsoft Might Prepare for ‘Patent Terror’ Against Rival Office Suites

08.20.09 Microsoft Hijacks Maharashtra’s Education, to Teach Many Children How to Smoke Windows

09.01.09 Comes Antitrust: Microsoft McCarthyism Exposed

09.04.09 Microsoft’s Latest Anti-GNU/Linux Moves Are Sign of Agony

09.05.09 Novell News Summary – Part III: Channel Changes, Revenue Drop, Virtualisation, and More

09.12.09 Nicholas Negroponte Blames “Giants Who View Children As a Market”

09.12.09 Microsoft’s Latest Mischiefs Justify Need to Watch the Patent Trolls

09.12.09 Latest Wins for OpenDocument Format

09.13.09 OIN Receives Thanks from Many, CodePlex Foundation Receives Thumbs-Down from Many

09.14.09 IDG on IDC+BSA Deception, OpenOffice.org Growth, and Thoughts on ODF

09.16.09 CodePlex Foundation Loves Software Patents and What MonoTouch Means to Microsoft

09.19.09 Novell News Summary – Part I: OpenSUSE 11.2 Reaches 7th Milestone, Conference Takes Place

09.20.09 Microsoft Dumping in SXSW, Barnardos, and Samsung

09.21.09 Microsoft and the OLPC Strategy, as Interpreted by a Reader

09.23.09 ODF Olympiad 2009 Announced, Now Accepting Submissions

09.24.09 IBM Pressured to Help Advance Desktop GNU/Linux in the West

09.26.09 Richard Stallman is Not the Bad Guy

09.28.09 With Friends Like These, Who Needs Microsoft?

09.29.09 Mono and Moblin as the Microsoft-approved “Open Source Solution”

10.02.09 Microsoft Fights Back as More Nations Adopt ODF

10.02.09 Company That Attacks ODF Gains More Control of ODF (and Why Open Source Should be Careful, Too)

10.03.09 Novell News Summary – Part II: Distribution Channel, Virtualisation, Mail, Identity, Security, and More

10.04.09 Microsoft Interjects Itself into Free Software Using Novell

10.17.09 ISO Urged to Invalidate OOXML as Microsoft’s Role Gets Shown; More Smears of ODF Come from Microsoft

10.17.09 Novell News Summary – Part I: OpenSUSE 11.2 RC, OpenSUSE Junior Jobs

10.21.09 Vista 7 is Not a Game

10.24.09 Gates Keepers to Keep Track of Gates Foundation

10.30.09 MSN Direct Added to List of Microsoft Products That Die

11.07.09 Novell News Summary – Part III: Pulse, SCO, Los Angeles and More

11.07.09 No Sense of Shame Left at Microsoft

11.13.09 Microsoft, the EPO, and the European Patent Mafia (Sisvel) Join Hands

11.15.09 Microsoft Breaks the Law, Teaches World That ‘Evil’ GPL is ‘Viral’

11.18.09 Revisionism and Moles in Land of the Fee

11.25.09 Complaints About Perverted EIF Continue to Pile Up

11.29.09 Microsoft Grabs More Control of Schools in United States, Serbia, Still Looking to Derail Brazil

11.30.09 Helge Sander Helps Microsoft Again by Blocking ODF in Denmark

12.07.09 Microsoft Seizes Control of Grameen and Uses it to Dump Against Free/Libre Software; Microsoft Dumping Comes to Latin America and Maryland

12.12.09 Novell News Summary – Part II: Intelligent Workload Management, Ballnux, and Bada

12.17.09 “Boycott Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation in China”

12.19.09 Novell News Summary – Part II: SLES in IBM Mainframes and HP, Other Ballnux Distributions (Bada)

12.19.09 Novell News Summary – Part III: SAP and Novell Kiss Again, Groupwise Shamed in Public by Google

12.21.09 Microsoft’s Expansions in India and EDGI in India Lead to Call for a Boycott

12.21.09 Microsoft Crimes Emit Another $4,415,258 in Arizona, Amid Newer Crimes

12.27.09 Microsoft’s Gates Seeks More Monopolies

01.03.10 Microsoft Bribes to Make Education Microsoft-based

01.05.10 OSS Watch Pretends That Microsoft’s Attacks on Free Software Do Not Exist

01.06.10 Thousands of Italians May Sue Microsoft for Forcing Them to Buy Windows

01.22.10 Bruce Perens on Open Source Versus Free Software

01.27.10 Microsoft Hijacks More of Education Sector in Carolina, Michigan, and Georgia

01.30.10 Mainstream Press Misses Billions of Dollars Bill Gates Earns in Africa (Gates Foundation as Monsanto Front)

01.30.10 ODF is Winning in Europe; ‘Microsoft Press’ Spreads ODF FUD as OpenOffice.org Passes to Oracle

02.03.10 Relationships Map

02.04.10 Computer History Development Timeline: Microsoft Perspective

02.06.10 Canonical Gets New Chief Operating Officer Who Already Defends Microsoft’s Biased ‘Search’

02.09.10 Eye on Microsoft: Signs of Game Over

02.10.10 British Library and Microsoft Corrupt the Meaning of “Open Source”

02.10.10 Georgia, Kentucky, Colorado, and Sunderland Receive the Microsoft EDGI Treatment

02.14.10 Patents Roundup: Escalations in Europe, SAP Pretense, CCIA Goes Wrong, and IETF Opens Up

02.18.10 The “Microsoft Everywhere” Vision of Novell

02.18.10 ODF Alliance Newsletter: February 2009

02.22.10 Microsoft Media Seemingly Masquerades as Government Media

02.23.10 Microsoft Takes Over Yahoo! Search to Increase Brainwash of the Public

02.25.10 Microsoft Unleashes the Hounds on Google While Abusing the Law With Warrantless Spying

02.28.10 Novell’s Anti-Red Hat Pitch, Comments Squad, and “Boosters” Team

03.02.10 Microsoft Wants to Capture Education, Healthcare, and Citizen IDs; Uses Goldman Sachs Event as Platform to Promote This

03.04.10 DigitalEurope.org an Example of How Microsoft Interests Take Over EU Commission Web Sites

03.04.10 Simon Phipps: “Seems Even With Microsoft’s Support Novell Couldn’t Cut It”

03.07.10 Novell News Summary – Part II: SCO Case Resumes, Cloud Security Alliance (CSA) Hits the Headlines as Novell Makes Announcement

03.11.10 Microsoft Tries to Destroy Online Competitors Rather Than Improve Its Own Products

03.14.10 The Microsoft Elephant in the Open Source Room

03.15.10 Apple’s and Microsoft’s Patent Attacks and Why the Linux Foundation’s Response Disappoints

03.16.10 Schwarzenegger Sells Out to Microsoft

03.17.10 Gates Roundup: Monsanto, Colonisation, Clinton Ties, and Control of Education

03.18.10 Magalhães + Microsoft = Corruption

03.18.10 Former Microsoft Employees and Boosters Call Microsoft MVP Miguel de Icaza and Other Microsoft Apologists “Most Powerful Voices” in Open Source

03.19.10 Novell Hires More Mono People (Despite Sacking SUSE Developers) and Microsoft Buys an OSBC Spot/Seat

03.22.10 Gates Foundation Roundup: (Mis)Education With Spin; GAVI, Pfizer, Merck, and the African Ventures

03.23.10 Bruce Perens Sheds Light on How Microsoft Controls the Government, Using Lobbyists

03.28.10 Gates Foundation Roundup: Schools, Vaccines Monopoly, and “Fatally Flawed” Studies

04.07.10 The World According to Gates: Constructing a System of Profitable Philanthropy

04.09.10 Why IBM Does Deserve Scrutiny (Updated)

04.11.10 Microsoft Supports the Digital Economy Bill, Delisted from NASDAQ Global Sustainability Index

04.14.10 India Chooses Life Over Patents; Microsoft Chooses Poorly-Paid Labour in India

04.17.10 New Papers Explain the Harms of Software Patents

04.18.10 Microsoft Malaysia and Malaysian Apologists Lobby Against Malaysia’s Independence

04.19.10 Gates Foundation Accused of “Steer[ing State and National Policy in Education” (Monopolising Schools)]

04.19.10 Gates Foundation Retreats After Being Exposed as Funder of Big Tobacco

04.19.10 Microsoft’s American EDGI Proceeding to State of the Tax Dodge (Nevada), Kentucky, and More

04.22.10 ACTA Versus Software Freedom

04.23.10 Free Software Enables Developing and Developed Countries to Unshackle Themselves From Intellectual Monopolies

04.24.10 Novell News Summary – Part II: Novell and IBM in Studio

04.25.10 Patents Roundup: Patent Absurdity More Widely Understood, New Zealand’s Case Against Them Made Clearer, and Why Free Software Must Reject Them

04.26.10 Bill Gates Sr. Lobbies to Keep Tax Agenda Off Gates’ Tax Exemptions and Microsoft’s Tax Evasion

04.26.10 Monsanto Investor Bill Gates Finds Way for Taxpayers to Fund His Patents (on Dangerous Life Forms)

04.27.10 Gates Foundation (and Microsoft) Take the Libraries Takeover Global

04.29.10 Microsoft is Contacting Publications, Asking Them to Add More Anti-Linux Slant

05.03.10 Journey With Novell/Microsoft Moonlight (and How it Broke Firefox While Microsoft Keeps Breaking Antitrust Law)

05.07.10 ‘IP’ People Want to Add Software Patents to New Zealand and Europe

05.07.10 Microsoft Extorts GNU/Linux While Distorting the Meaning of “Open Source”

05.11.10 Bill Gates and Microsoft Guard Their Interest in Schoolchildren and Colleges

05.14.10 Microsoft et al. “Embrace and Extend” That Whole “Open Thing”

05.17.10 Backlash Against The European Patent Office (EPO), The Extended Board of Appeal (EBoA), and Trolls-Friendly Patent Systems

05.17.10 FFII and End Software Patents (ESP) Respond to Enlarged Board of Appeal (EBoA) Regarding Software Patentability

05.18.10 Philanthrocapitalism

05.19.10 EU: NoSoftwarePatents and FFII Respond to Google’s VP8 Announcement

05.20.10 Techrights Welcomes Google’s WebM/VP8 Push

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 Eric Raymond Explains Why Linux (Android) ‘Outguns’ Apple in ‘Technology and User-visible Features’

05.26.10 WebM/VP8 is Not Open Source

05.28.10 Today We Conquer Algorithms, Tomorrow… Earthly Life!

06.01.10 Microsoft Has Your Facebook and Twitter Data, Tightens Relationship With Those Companies

06.02.10 Microsoft Has Just 1% in Top500 (HPC), Novell Would Like to Help Microsoft

06.04.10 Novell is Knowingly Seeding GNU/Linux, MeeGo and Android With Microsoft Patents

06.04.10 Patent Promiscuity is Failure, Patent Selectively is Success

06.06.10 Microsoft Wants Canada’s Health Records, Telus Gives Them Away

06.07.10 US Education Steps Aside for Bill

06.07.10 Simon Phipps: “MPEG-LA is a Parasite Using Standards Bodies as Its Host, Whether They Want it or Not.” (and a Rant About Banshee/Mono)

06.07.10 Patents Roundup: More Regarding Red Hat, Klaus-Heiner Lehne, Patents on Genes, and USPTO Speed Lane

06.07.10 As Promised, Google Delivers GPL Compatibility and GNU/Linux Starts Embedding VP8/WebM Support

06.08.10 Microsoft Has a New Lock-in Model: Fog Computing

06.12.10 Canonical Searches for Its Strategy, Confused About ‘Patent Protection’ for Ubuntu

06.16.10 United States of Microsoft?

06.22.10 Oracle Doesn’t “Go Bananas Over EIF 2.0” Being Subverted by Microsoft and Friends

06.22.10 Bill Gates and Microsoft Use Government Support to Turn Public Schools Into Private Business

06.23.10 The Real Debate About OIN

06.24.10 Fake Friends of Linux or Software Freedom

06.29.10 IBM’s Black Helicopters

06.30.10 The Gates Foundation May Be Turning School Teachers Into State-funded PR Agents

07.01.10 KIN is Dead, Zune May Naturally Jump the Shark Next

07.05.10 Microsoft Plays Government

07.07.10 Microsoft’s Undercover Lobbyists for Software Patents in Europe

07.20.10 Microsoft’s CodePlex Foundation Expresses Views on Free Software

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 South African Government Surrenders to Microsoft Again

07.21.10 Apple Patents That Retard GNU/Linux/X Font Rendering Finally Expire, Microsoft Still a Barrier (ClearType Patents)

07.21.10 Links: Apache Software Foundation Board Members, Mozilla Bug Bounty, Governments Approach Free Software

07.25.10 Microsoft’s Worst Open Source ‘Infiltration’ Ever

07.27.10 Michael Widenius Lobby Against Oracle a Matter of Self Interest

07.29.10 Freedom in Phones Under a Regime of Software Patents, DRM Jail, and Other Forms of Malice

08.03.10 Bill Gates’ Forced Parenthood of Africa Receives Press Backlash

08.06.10 How India’s Legal Rule Regarding Patents Gets ‘Regulated’ by the West, Facebook is Hoarding Software Patents

08.06.10 Microsoft Refuses to Fix Known Security Vulnerabilities for Years, Anti-Virus (AV) Software Turns Useless

08.09.10 Bill Gates Sells Drugs in Less Developed Nations (for Profit)

08.11.10 Open Invention Network (OIN) and Linux Foundation Still Legitimise Software Patents

08.16.10 Oracle’s Java Aggression Spills to Other Sun Projects

08.24.10 “Microsoft Hates the Term “Free Software” or “Freedom”, They Prefer to Use Open Source”

08.26.10 Novell ‘Rebranding’ Suggests Novell Keeps All the Power

08.28.10 Mark Ballard Shows Why British Government Must Move to ODF as Doorway to Software Freedom

08.30.10 Microsoft’s Boosters Continue to Attack Linux/Android and Say Microsoft Loves Open Source

09.03.10 No, Virginia! APIs, Visual Studio, and Apple Are Not Open Source

09.08.10 Likewise Software is Faking Open Source, But So Do Many Others

09.09.10 Teachers Demand That Bill Gates Gets Thrown Out of the Education System and Stops Controlling Coverage

09.14.10 Open Tech Exchange Explains How Microsoft Derailed GNU/Linux in Governments, Using “Corruption”

09.15.10 SCO Owes $10,000 to Woman (Pretend Journalist) Who Attacks Groklaw

09.17.10 Novell’s Transition Into a Fog Computing (Proprietary) Asset and Its Legacy Remembered

09.21.10 Steve Ballmer Lobbies to Pay Less Tax

09.22.10 Gates Foundation, the World Bank, and the Urgent Need for Population Control

09.24.10 Microsoft Bribes and Tax Avoidance

09.28.10 LibreOffice is Launched, Offering Independence from Oracle

09.28.10 Outercurve – Just Another Microsoft Proxy/Group

09.30.10 Novell Vice President Becomes VMB_ware Channel Director Amid Acquisition Plans, IDG Propaganda Begins

10.01.10 New Examples of Gates Foundation Proximity to Government, Big Banks, Monsanto

10.06.10 ACTA – October 2010 – As Text

10.12.10 Belgian EU Presidency and BSA Threaten Europe’s Digital Future With Software Patents

10.16.10 United Fruit Company 2.0: How Microsoft is Colonising South America

10.19.10 BSA Lobbying Against Standards in Europe is Old News

10.19.10 “OMGUbuntu Makes a Dig at Mono?”

10.24.10 How Gates Foundation Censors Publications (Also on Microsoft Matters and Offences) by Bribing Them

11.08.10 ”Microsoft is Like Enron in 2001!“

11.11.10 Mono Advocacy is Deluded, Avoids the Facts and Personally Attacks Critics Instead

11.16.10 India Says No to RAND and Europe Should Pay Attention

11.16.10 Microsoft is Speaking ‘for’ Small EU-based Businesses to Promote Software Patents

11.20.10 David Kappos (USPTO Head) Declines to be Part of the ACTA Treaty Fiasco, Won’t Respond

11.21.10 India dice No a la RAND y Europa Deben Prestar Atención

11.27.10 Techrights Celebrates 12,000 Posts

11.28.10 New Push for Software Patents in Europe (Innovation Union) While UK’s Tim Berners-Lee Opposes (F)RAND

12.04.10 With IBM Funding, Microsoft Software Patents Are Targeted by Peer To Patent

12.08.10 ICOMP is Another Microsoft Drone Like TurboHercules

12.13.10 McCreevy’s Successors Are Getting Their Way With Software Patents in Europe

12.14.10 On the Web, Microsoft Loves Hiding

12.20.10 LibreOffice Finds Some Patent Assurance in the OIN

12.21.10 Groklaw Lashes Out at Novell for Promoting OOXML (With Lock-in and Patent/RAND Traps)

12.21.10 [ES Microsoft, Normas e Incompatibilidad: 1991-2011 – y Una Pistola Humeante de Novell]

12.29.10 Exploring Novell’s Passing of Software Patents to Microsoft – Now Reported to The Competition Authorities

01.04.11 Bill Gates Forms Government Connections to Avoid Paying Tax and Further Exploit the System

01.05.11 Turning Vulnerable People Into Microsoft Drones, Under Guise of ‘Donation’

01.10.11 AGRA-Gates Lobbying for Monopolies on Life

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

01.13.11 Microsoft Patent Cartel (CPTN) Dodges German Federal Cartel Office

01.19.11 OIN is Very Different From CPTN and UNIX Risk is Revisited

01.20.11 Dubious News From Microsoft Boosters

01.22.11 As Expected, Microsoft Breeds Patent Cartels to Fight Against Linux

01.22.11 SCO, CPTN, and UNIX

01.23.11 Adrian Malacoda on Apathy Towards Mono

02.04.11 Elliott and AttachMSFT Got in Touch Before Elliott’s Bid for Novell

02.05.11 Free Software Foundation’s Statement on Microsoft/Novell/CPTN Patent Attack Against Software Freedom

02.05.11 Shock, Horror: International Chamber of Commerce Promotes Intellectual Monopolies

02.07.11 A Paralegal’s Take on Microsoft’s Latest Anti-Google (and Anti-FOSS) Moves

02.09.11 Microsoft’s President Elop is Allegedly Killing Linux Inside Nokia/Intel, Just When MeeGo Gets Android Compatibility (Updated)

02.13.11 Another Senior Vice President Quits Microsoft and Microsoft Sues Departing Executive

02.15.11 When Windows Kills

02.18.11 Microsoft Bans Mono

02.19.11 Simon Phipps: “Mentioning Mono in my article was an interesting experience. It was like mentioning Scientology…”

03.03.11 Microsoft is Still Fueling Anti-Linux ‘IP’ Wars Using Other Companies (SCO, Novell, Maybe Nokia)

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

03.21.11 Patent Extortion Still Microsoft’s Primary Anti-Linux Strategy, Show New Lawsuits

03.25.11 ES: La Extorsión De Patentes Todavía es La Estrategia Primaria Anti-Linux de Microsoft, lo Demuestran Nuevos Pleitos Judiciales

04.06.11 FFII President Denounces Google’s Bid for Patents

04.10.11 Novell’s Patents Will Harm GNU/Linux, Proving That Everyone’s Software Patents Are Bad

04.11.11 Groklaw Defamed by Microsoft Boosters as Pamela Jones Steps Down Victorious

04.13.11 Elop-led Nokia and Bill Gates Lobby Europe Amid New Push Ushering in Software Patents

04.20.11 Apple’s Anti-Linux Patent Lawsuits Give Another Reason for Concern Over CPTN

04.21.11 Having Added Mono and OOXML to OpenOffice.org, Novell Wants to Cash in and Give Patents to Microsoft

04.27.11 Patent Question Becoming Central in the Software Freedom Debate

05.02.11 Computer Weekly Writes About “Susceptibility of That [OOXML Process to Corruption”]

05.08.11 Microsoft Infiltrator Wants Canonical to Foster Mono as Canonical CTO (Who Opposed Mono) Leaves

05.23.11 Patent Lawyers Boast New Tricks for Patenting Software

05.25.11 Funding Behind Xamarin is Microsoft MVP Miguel de Icaza; Fresh Concerns About Attachmate

05.25.11 European Commission Should Also Fine Microsoft for Using Skype to Further Harm Interoperability

05.25.11 Gates Monitor: January 2011 on Dubious Investments (Patents)

05.31.11 Peer To Patent: A Lawyers’ Solution to a Lawyers’ Problem

06.03.11 IBM Brings OIN-Like Mentality to Europe

06.09.11 Microsoft Veterans Making a Profit From Bashing Linux, GPL

06.13.11 France and the United Kingdom Want to Drown in Software Patents Sea of Risk

06.24.11 Microsoft Should Rename Office 365, Call it Office 360 Instead (for 5 Days’ Downtime)

07.07.11 Federal Agents Unhappy About Microsoft’s and Apple’s Patent Strategy, Reversals Possible

07.28.11 The Same Old Microsoft at OSCON

08.12.11 Peer to Patent in the UK Does Not Help the Ending of Software Patents

08.21.11 Bill Gates Buys More Blogs and Papers, Creates Puppet Group “Teaching First” to Lobby the Press

08.23.11 Pressure on Authors and Journals/Journalists to Push Bill Gates’ Agenda

08.25.11 In Russia, Microsoft Polices the Police

08.26.11 Romania Under Pressure to Allow Free/Libre Software

08.28.11 Attachmate Lets Novell Products Rot

08.29.11 Corporate Press Turns Against Patents But Forgets/Neglects to Stress Microsoft and Apple Are an Integral Part of the Problem

09.06.11 Cablegate: Government of Oman is Sponsoring Microsoft, Helping to Indoctrinate the Population

09.06.11 Cablegate: US Taxpayers Sponsor Microsoft Monopolisation/Colonisation Abroad

09.07.11 Cablegate: Head of Microsoft Lobbies With Jimmy Carter (Updated)

09.07.11 Cablegate: Microsoft Uses Drug Addicts in Ski Lanka to Spread Microsoft, Liaises with American Chamber of Commerce to Change Laws (Updated)

09.07.11 Boycott Novell and Attachmate

09.07.11 Cablegate: Microsoft and Government of Oman Inseparable

09.08.11 Cablegate: Microsoft Uses BSA Numbers to Call Algerians ‘Pirates’, Pressure for Law Changes

09.08.11 Cablegate: Microsoft Helps the United States Ban Encrypted Communication in Cuba

09.08.11 Cablegate: Microsoft Uses US Government and Gates Lobbying to Pressure Saudi Arabia to Embrace US-Style Law (Updated)

09.09.11 Cablegate: Microsoft Asks US Government to Help Derail Vietnam’s Migration to GNU/Linux, Wants to Treat Vietnamese Like ‘Pirates’ Instead

09.09.11 Cablegate: Importing the USPTO Into Europe, Using the ‘EU Patent’

09.10.11 Cablegate Makes Considerable Difference in IT

09.11.11 Cablegate: US Embassy Recommends That Argentina is Put on Monopolists’ Watch List, Free Software Adoption Noted

09.11.11 Cablegate: Turkey’s Patents Trajectory on Bad TRIPS

09.11.11 Cablegate: Japan Working to Cultivate More Patent Monopolies in China, Rooting for Global Patent System (With Software Patents)

09.13.11 Bill Gates Piggybacks Vaccination Revolution For Fame and Profit (Patents)

09.15.11 Cablegate: Bill Gates Lobbies to Integrate Programmes in Dubai With Microsoft

09.15.11 Cablegate: Microsoft’s “Relationship With the Government” and Pressure for Countries to Adopt Intellectual Monopolies Using Shame Lists

09.15.11 Cablegate: Luis Tascón Accused of Being “Instrument of the (U.S.) Empire” Having Spent a Month “in the Offices of Bill Gates” (Updated)

09.16.11 Cablegate: Lord Mandelson Meets the Qaddafi Family and Dates the Copyright Lobby

09.17.11 Cablegate: EU Negotiations About EU Patent/Community Patent

09.24.11 Links – Wintel OEM Revolt., Various Environmental and Civil Issues.

09.30.11 Microsoft Systematically Corrupts the Media

10.20.11 The Microsoft Spin Machine Makes Racketeering Seem Acceptable

11.07.11 Patents Roundup: Microsoft’s New Patent Deal, Apple Lawsuits, Lodsys, US Backlash Against Software Patents, and More

11.11.11 Microsoft Lobbyists Help Microsoft Dodge Charges of Patent Extortion and Then Smear Google Instead

11.13.11 Steve Ballmer and His Wife Connie Join Gates and Co. in Their Crusade Against Public Education

11.17.11 Amazon Regrets Software Patenting

12.12.11 Links – Bill Gates the Chinese Nuclear Engineer, Medical Method Patents, Anti-Trust and PR

12.14.11 Open Washing the Tivoization of Windows

12.19.11 The Bill Gates Front Group Further Criticised

12.20.11 Latest Examples of Patents Culture Takeover

12.27.11 Increasing Number of Complaints About Increasing Number of Gates-funded AstroTurf Groups for Education ‘Reform’

12.29.11 Cablegate: Examples of Indonesia Developing Free/Open Source Software

12.29.11 Cablegate: With Microsoft Front Group Taking on Indonesia, a Call for Open Source Software Adoption

12.30.11 Cablegate: Microsoft’s Friends at Frost and Sullivan Bash South Africa’s Migration to Free Software

12.30.11 Cablegate: Venezuela’s Move to Free/Open Source Software “Expected to Reduce the Demand for U.S. Software Products”

12.30.11 Cablegate: BSA Smears Sri Lanka’s Government for Moving to Free/Open Source Software

12.30.11 Cablegate: Business Software Alliance (BSA) Pretends to Speak for Open Source, MPA Creates Imaginary Links to Crime

12.30.11 Cablegate: Peru’s Migration to Free/Open Source Software

12.30.11 Cablegate: UNESCO Was Pro-Free Software Before Gates and Microsoft Intervention

12.30.11 Cablegate: Microsoft Rushes Vietnam to Get Rid of Open Source, Including FOSS Policy

01.12.12 Links – Microsoft Malware and Lockouts, Idiots Press SOPA Forward, US “Bailouts” add up to $16 Trillion

01.29.12 Teachers Still Suspended and Writers Removed for Standing up Against Bill Gates’ Abuses

02.01.12 Bill Gates and Rupert Murdoch Liaise to Take Over Minds of Children

02.03.12 Groklaw Update on Android Patent Cases and Response to FUD From Microsoft Lobbyists

02.15.12 Links – Education Watch, BBC Apologizes for Selling Out, BP Oil Lingers

02.15.12 Tim Berners-Lee Finally Takes Action Against Patents on the Web

02.20.12 Patent Parasites and the Bubble of Software Patents

02.25.12 While Attacking Android/Linux With FRAND and Lawsuits Apple and Microsoft Pretend to be the Victims

03.05.12 Confirmed: Smear Campaign Against Google in Europe is Bankrolled by Microsoft

03.15.12 Patents Roundup: Android/Linux, Yahoo!, and More

03.24.12 Microsoft Proxies Controlling the Open Source Message

04.01.12 Links – An Outbreak of Laws to Justify the Worst Spying. Exposed Racism and Pollution

06.05.12 The United States and Israel Use Microsoft Windows for Cyberwar With Collateral Damage

06.20.12 DPL Wants to Contain/Lock Innovation, EFF Seeks to Defend Innovation by Fighting Software Patents

06.22.12 Abolishing Software Patents

06.24.12 Microsoft Attacks Software Freedom in India With EDGI/MoU Manoeuvre

07.05.12 Microsoft-Led Nokia is Confirmed to be Already Extorting Android/Linux

07.12.12 Leftover Links – Facebook uses your reputation to push political causes without asking you, Catching up With Gates in Education, pollution, corruption.

07.30.12 Software Patents Protest Spreads Everywhere

08.07.12 Backroom Deals Gave Microsoft Europe

08.13.12 Bill Gates is Openly Promoting Patent Trolls Which Attack Linux

09.27.12 Patent Troll Uses Software Patents to Attack Free Software Hosting

10.09.12 Leftover Links for October 10, 2012

10.21.12 Patent Debates After the Apple Debacle

10.29.12 Appalling Apple Apology

11.02.12 FRAND Dies in the United Kingdom

11.06.12 Bruce Perens Accuses Black Duck of B.S. on GPL

11.09.12 Apple Sues Google and Android Over Patents

12.10.12 Microsoft Front Groups Fail to Hurt Google Through Regulators

01.01.13 Egypt Besieged by Microsoft, the Egyptian People Fight the Oppressor

01.06.13 Public Radio International One of the Latest Media Outlets to be Bribed by Bill Gates for Whitewash, Lobbying, and Propaganda

01.09.13 Microsoft-fed Patent Aggressors and Lobbyists Make Free Illegal

01.16.13 Voices Being Hijacked by Patent Lawyers and Proprietary Software Companies

02.03.13 While Laptops Bricked Due to Microsoft’s Anti-Linux Tactics, Media Spin About Microsoft Liking Linux

02.04.13 Black Duck, Founded by Microsoft Marketing Guy and Seemingly Funded by Microsoft (in Part), is Openwashing Microsoft Again

02.19.13 No Genuine Debates About Real Patent Reform, Just Covert Patent Expansion

03.08.13 Reminder: Microsoft Fine a Punishment for Its Crimes

03.16.13 Ongoing Debate on Software Patents Brings up Trade Secrets, FRAND, and Misguided Targeting of Symptoms

03.31.13 Microsoft Publishes List of its Offensive (Weaponised) Software Patents While Google De-Weaponises Its Own

04.11.13 Microsoft is Using Proxies to Fight Linux/Android Yet Again, This Time Alleging ‘Antitrust’ Offences by Free Software

04.13.13 The Notion of “Software Patent Trolls”

05.08.13 Patent Attack on Skype Following Microsoft’s Patent Attacks on Free Codecs, Media/Communication; Some More Microsoft Lobbying Regarding Patents

05.12.13 Unitary Patent Impediments Covertly Addressed by EU Member Governments

05.12.13 Matt Asay is Wrong, Microsoft Does Sue (SLAPP Action), Doesn’t Just Threaten

05.23.13 WebM is No Ogg, It is Not Freedom-Respecting Anymore, Even in Countries That Have No Software Patents

06.07.13 The Good News: White House Knows the Patent System is Broken. The Bad News: It Does Not Understand Why.

06.11.13 Obama Administration Misuses the ‘T Word’ (Troll) to Dodge Serious Issues

06.21.13 Bill Gates Marginalises Teachers and Harvests Schools’ Data for Profit at Expense of Privacy

06.28.13 Corporate Debates About Patent Trolls Versus Debates About Patents (or Software Patents in Isolation)

07.19.13 The Chronicle of Higher Education Criticises Bill Gates’ Agenda of Controlling US Schools (Indoctrination for Profit), the Gates Propaganda Machine Responds Poorly

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?

08.23.13 Criminal CEO Steve Ballmer is Out as Microsoft’s Bribery of Governments (to Hold Citizens Hostage) Revealed More Common Than Previously Believed

08.24.13 The NSA ‘Violates’ Society Worldwide, But We Need to Fight It, Not Surrender to It

09.26.13 Software Freedom and Accountability

09.26.13 GNOME Desktop Approaches 3.10 and Finds Wider Acceptance

10.07.13 Convicted Monopolists Call Software You Develop and Give for Free ‘Anti-competitive’

10.08.13 Latest Disruptions in Databases Favour Free/Libre Software

10.08.13 Phantom ‘Threats’ and Real Threats

10.18.13 Scarcity of Women is Not a Free Software Issue But a Western Issue (Science Stereotypes)

10.18.13 The Amazing Rise of Drupal

10.24.13 The Linux Foundation and OIN Speak About Licensing/Law in Edinburgh

10.24.13 Canonical/Ubuntu-Related Links for September-October 2013

11.01.13 Jamaica’s Ministry of Health and Interior Ministry of France Pave the Way for US to Embrace GNU-Inspired Software Freedom

11.07.13 The Latest NSA Ugliness: Skype Gets Worse, Snowden Speaks to Germany, New Zealand Becomes NSA’s Little Brother, and ‘Paedophilia’ Used to Defend the NSA

11.14.13 The Linux Foundation Appoints Former Microsoft Manager for Management of OpenDaylight

11.17.13 Urgent Need for Copyright Reform

11.17.13 Programming Links 17/11/2013

11.18.13 Android’s GNU/Linux-based Rivals Are Doing Pretty Well

11.19.13 Free/Open Source Software Almost Reduced to Marketing Label

11.24.13 When Hypocrites Speak Out Against Censorship

11.26.13 Privacy Watch: Almost 100 New Links About Privacy

11.27.13 The Cheapening of ‘Open Source’, Where Source No Longer Means Source Code

11.27.13 NSA Shows Why We Should Abandon All Proprietary Software and Verify Trust

11.28.13 Western Censorship: Are We Really Better Than Other Countries?

11.28.13 Governments Complicit in NSA Cracking Crimes and Blackmail

12.04.13 NSA Leaks: Still Yielding New Scandals, But Fewer Than Before

12.05.13 The Copyright Cartel Takes Over Schools to Deceive and Indoctrinate Children

12.12.13 The Linux Foundation’s Unusual Branding Failure

12.18.13 Copyright Infringement/Sharing is the New ‘Terrorism’, No Laws Required for Authorities to Take Extreme (and Sometimes Illegal) Action

12.31.13 When GNU/Linux on Desktops/Laptops Starts to Outsell Apple

01.05.14 Use Bitcoin, Boycott Pierre Omidyar’s PayPal

01.15.14 Lawyers’ Attacks on Free/Open Source Software (FOSS)

01.22.14 Microsoft’s State-Imposed Indoctrination and Back Doors

01.24.14 Amid NSA Scandals and Revelations Delhi Government and European Governments Are Moving to GNU/Linux and Free Software

01.26.14 IBM Shows That Collaborations With the NSA Are a Company’s Death Knell

01.29.14 Copyright Law Still All About Protectionism, Needs Revision

01.30.14 This Week’s Big News in Great Britain Shows That Free Software is Doing Great

02.19.14 Red Hat News: Hortonworks, Server, and Fedora

02.24.14 Sending Letters to Stop Microsoft’s Attack on Real Standards in British Government

03.05.14 An Android World: Limitless Expansion in Tablets, Smaller Devices, and New Hardware

03.05.14 Linux News: 3.14 RC5, LTSI v3.10, kGraft…

03.17.14 Open Source Think Tank is Still Not About Open Source

03.25.14 As Mozilla CEO, Brendan Eich Can Put an End to Mono and Intrusive Ads in Firefox

03.25.14 Nobody Sent to Prison After Microsoft Abused Privacy of Customers

03.26.14 The Politics of Openwashing: How Microsoft Pretends That Windows Has ‘Open Source’, Generates Self-Congratulatory Coverage

03.31.14 Health and Environment News: Nature Still Not a Priority

04.02.14 Red Hat and Fedora News: Financial Report, New Partnerships, Fedora 21 Plans

04.03.14 News Links: Aggression and Surveillance

04.05.14 Don’t Be Fooled by Microsoft: .NET is Proprietary Software, Still

04.06.14 Embedded Linux and Devices: Gains in Industry Support, Development Kits, Broadcasting, and Cars

04.07.14 Newegg Beats Patent Troll, Sony Becomes DMCA Troll, NSA/PRISM Dropbox Blocks Accounts Based on Suspicion

04.07.14 Microsoft’s Manipulation of the Media Demonstrated

04.10.14 Red Hat News: OpenStack Training, Google Deal, Fedora 21

04.11.14 FOSS News: Latest Developments and Breakthroughs

04.13.14 Links: Surveillance, Intervention, Torture and Drones

04.18.14 Some Perspective on Heartbleed®

05.04.14 Antitrust Class Action Lawsuit Against Android/Linux Comes From ‘Former’ Lead Counsel for Microsoft (Hiding Behind Proxy)

05.17.14 Mozilla Cannot Claim to Teach People About the Web While Facilitating, Defending and Even Promoting DRM

05.28.14 Microsoft is Hiring More Moles to Attack Free/Open Source Software From the Inside

05.28.14 Microsoft’s Openwashing Propaganda Effective in Blocking Government Use of Free/Open Source Software

05.31.14 TrueCrypt Too Proprietary to be Secure and Corporate Media Should Stop Blaming Free/Open Source Software (FOSS)

06.03.14 GnuTLS Picked on by Firm of Microsoft’s ‘Former’ Security Chief, FUD Ensues Everywhere

07.06.14 Internet of Things Alliance Now Has a Mole, Microsoft

07.20.14 Matt Levy From Patent Progress (and CCIA) Does Not Really Want Patent Progress

07.24.14 Valerie Strauss Explains Why Gates Foundation’s Lobbying for ‘Common Core’ (Privatisation) is a Swindle That Makes Microsoft Richer

07.31.14 Microsoft-Linked Codenomicon and Bluebox in the Business of Smearing FOSS/Linux/Android

08.11.14 Microsoft is Still Attacking Open Standards, So Khronos Does Not Need the Microsoft Moles

08.18.14 Gartner Group Advocates Using Defective Software With Back Doors

08.28.14 We Are Gradually Winning the Battle Against Software Patents

09.04.14 Bill Gates’ God Complex: Common Core a One-Man Campaign of Greed and Control

09.08.14 Suspicion of High-Level Corruption at the European Patent Office (EPO): Part I

09.18.14 ODF on the Rise

09.19.14 The Latest From Microsoft Patent Trolls and Patent Partners

10.08.14 Lawyers’ Propaganda About Software Patents and a New AstroTurf Entity Called Innovation Alliance

10.31.14 Claiming That Microsoft ‘Loves’ Linux While Windows Update Bricks Devices With Linux

11.01.14 Microsoft Openwashing and Hatred of GNU/Linux

11.15.14 Debunking Several Days of Never-Ending Lies About Microsoft and .NET

11.23.14 Boycotting Micro Focus International

01.03.15 Despite Controversy and Backlash From Scientists and Human Rights Activists, the Gates Foundation Continues to Promote Private Prisons and GMO Ventures That It Profits From

01.03.15 Microsoft Does Not Want to Make Windows Secure

01.07.15 Intellectual Property Judges’ Association (IPJA) Speaks Out Against EPO Tyrant Battistelli

01.18.15 Battistelli’s Latest Propaganda War Tries to Convince EPO Staff That Željko Topić’s Many Criminal Charges Don’t Exist

01.24.15 The Latest ‘Microsoft is Open Source’ Propaganda a Parade of Lies

01.30.15 European Unitary Patent and Court System in Trouble

02.07.15 The European Patent Lawyers Association (EPLAW) is Again Protesting Against EPO as More Crackdowns by EPO Management Reveal Depth of Abuse

03.17.15 Rikard Frgačić Explains Željko Topić’s Behaviour and the Lufthansa Case

04.12.15 Microsoft Continues to Attack (and Tax) Linux Using Software Patents

04.18.15 Microsoft Tired of Pretending to be Nice to Free/Open Source Software (FOSS), Microsoft ‘Open’ Technologies Dumped

04.20.15 Embrace, Extend, Extinguish: How Microsoft Plans to Get Rid of Linux/Android

04.20.15 Repeating Microsoft’s Lies Without Any Journalistic Assessment

04.21.15 Googlebombing ‘Microsoft Open Source’ Even When Microsoft Shuts Down Its ‘Open Source’ Proxy

04.21.15 Software Patents Are Still Menacing to Free Software: OIN Expands Scope, HEVC Adds to MPEG-LA Burden/Tax, Google and Facebook Give in on Patents

04.24.15 EPO Management is Trying Hard to Appease Its Critics While Pushing Forth Unitary Patent Agenda

05.19.15 The PATENT Act, Distraction of Trolls, and Lobbying for Software Patents by Protectionists

05.21.15 More Utter Shame Unveiled at Battistelli’s EPO: Intimidation Tactics With Help From ‘Control Risks’

06.06.15 How Microsoft Squashed Free/Open Source Software in Voting Systems in the United States

06.12.15 The Disturbing Rise of Openwashing: Today’s Case of Apple and Microsoft

06.28.15 After Intervention by the Council of Europe Comes a Detailed Summary of the Situation in the European Patent Office (EPO)

07.01.15 They ‘R’ Coming: More Microsoft Money for the Linux Foundation

07.25.15 Vista 10 (Windows 10) Has NSA Back Doors and Front Doors

07.26.15 The ‘Unitary’ Patent Trojan Horse Rammed Down the Throat of Europe

08.04.15 ‘Sanader’s Protégé’ Željko Topić Slammed by Press in His Home Country

09.10.15 Microsoft’s Patches Go Dark (Secret) With Vista 10, Newspapers Say ‘Microsoft is Recording EVERYTHING You Type’

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)

10.30.15 EPO Press Spokesperson and Obvious Conflicts of Interest With Supposed Anti-Corruption Group Transparency International

11.04.15 The EPO’s Investigative Unit Exposed: Part II

11.05.15 More Information Emerges About the Microsoft-Red Hat Patent Agreement

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

11.22.15 President Battistelli Now Pressures/Threatens Politicians Who ‘Dare’ to Complain About Abuses and Unacceptable Conditions at the EPO

11.25.15 Debunking the EPO’s Latest Marketing Nonsense From Les Échos and More on Benoît Battistelli’s Nastygram to French Politician

11.28.15 The Serious Implication of Controversial FTI Consulting Contract: Every Press Article About EPO Could Have Been Paid for by EPO

12.03.15 EPO Staff Protest Statistics: Over 2,600 Signatures (So Far) in Petition, About 800 Staff in The Hague Protest, Much More to Come in Munich

12.11.15 Series Teaser: EPO President Battistelli’s Relationship With Power

01.26.16 The EFF-Recommended Advice on Patents From Juelsgaard/Stanford Law School Potentially Worse Than Useless

02.05.16 Readers’ Article: A Strange Conspiracy of Silence in the German Media (Part II)

02.16.16 Harvard University Becomes a Vassal of Microsoft and Grooms Famous Criminals

02.22.16 It’s Official: Death of Software Patents Reaffirmed in India

02.26.16 In Apple/Samsung Patent Lawsuits Over Android/Linux, Only Patent Lawyers Are Winning (Again)

03.08.16 More Microsoft Layoffs as the Company Tries to Turn GNU/Linux Into Its Own Proprietary Platform

03.10.16 Central Staff Committee of the European Patent Office Asks the Chairman of the Administrative Council to Take Action Next Week or Risk General (Office-Wide) Strike

03.28.16 Kroatische Lobistin für UN im Zentrum des intarnationalen Skandals in EPA

03.30.16 SUEPO Publishes Translations of German Media Reports About the EPO

04.13.16 New Software Patents From Google, Microsoft and Apple, Plus New Lobbying From David Kappos (Paid by Microsoft and Apple)

04.14.16 Croatian News Site Explains Where Criminal Cases Against EPO Vice-President Željko Topić Stand

04.22.16 EPO Integrity on the Line: The Story of Željko Topić’s Controversial Diploma – Part V

04.23.16 The Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP) Threatens to Bring Software Patents to India

04.30.16 India is Having Another Taste of the Dangers of Western Patents, Must Learn to Reject Software Patents in the Face of Great Pressure

04.30.16 Alice Continues to Smash Software Patents So Patent Lawyers, Monopolists’ Lobbyists Etc. Now Attack the Supreme Court for Doing This

05.01.16 [ES Alice Continúa Quebrando Patentes de Software Asi Que los Abogados de Patentes, Cabilderos de los Monopolistas, Etc. Ahora Atacan a la Corte Suprema por Hacer Esto]

05.10.16 Golden Parachute or Not, Battistelli is Wasting Huge Amounts of Money on His Longtime Bodyguards Fetish

05.17.16 Two Months Down the Line, Battistelli Has Done None of What the Administrative Council Told Him to Do; He Should be Sacked Next Month

05.22.16 IP3 Demonstrates That Today’s Patent Systems Devolve Into a Conglomerates’ Game, Won’t Protect the Mythical Small Inventor

06.07.16 EPO Protest Tomorrow: Help the Media (Not ‘Media Partners’ in EPO Management’s Pocket) See What EPO Staff Really Thinks (Updated)

06.17.16 Canonical’s and Red Hat’s Shameful War Against One Another… and Against the Already-Marginalised Linux Media

06.21.16 EPO Self-Censorship by IP Kat or Just Censorship of Opinions That IP Kat Does Not Share/Accept (Updated)

06.27.16 Battistelli May Still be on the Way Out as Pressure Grows in Germany, UPC in Shambles

07.11.16 Benoît Battistelli’s Attacks on EPO Unions, Judges, Boards, and Even Justice Itself the Subject of Media Fascination

07.27.16 OIN Makes Claims About “Open Source Innovation”, But It Produces Nothing and Protects Virtually Nobody

07.30.16 EPO Crushed the Boards of Appeal (i.e. Quality Control) and Insiders Explain Why

08.26.16 Being for Patent Quality or Against Patenting Excess Does Not Make You Anti-Patents

08.26.16 The EPO, USPTO, and Patent Microcosm Peddle Myths About Patents in Public Universities and Research