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Richard Stallman

Richard Stallman is the founder of the FSF and GNU. The following past articles mentioned him.

  • 11.27.06 RMS: Deal is GPL2 Compliant
  • 06.01.07 Will Richard Stallman Leave the FSF As Well?
  • 07.17.07 Richard Stallman Talks About TiVo Concerns (Video)
  • 09.12.07 Mark Shuttleworth Still Dislikes Microsoft’s Linux Deals
  • 10.23.07 Video: Free Software, GPL, DRM, Copyrights, and Software Patents
  • 11.29.07 A Reader’s Take on the Dangers of Software Patents and Microsoft’s Role
  • 12.19.07 New Richard Stallman Interview
  • 01.19.08 Qt Goes GPLv3, is KDE Next?
  • 03.10.08 Richard Stallman Explains Software Patents (Video)
  • 05.02.08 What Might Be Behind OpenBSD’s Attack Against Peers
  • 05.07.08 Quick Mention: Richard Stallman’s Latest Talk Available as High-Quality Video
  • 05.14.08 Mono “..and still nothing on whether WinForms is legally safe to use.”
  • 06.30.08 Stallmanians and Torvaldsians Will Be Stronger Together
  • 08.11.08 Richard Stallman Saw Microsoft’s Plans Against GNU/Linux Back in 2004
  • 10.01.08 Interview with Richard Stallman, Founding Father of Free Software
  • 01.30.09 Quote of the Day: Richard Stallman on Mono
  • 04.16.09 Richard Stallman’s New Talk at Philadelphia is Released
  • 04.16.09 Stallman Explains Why Software Patents are Wrong
  • 06.26.09 Why free software shouldn’t depend on Mono or C# — by Richard M. Stallman
  • 07.01.09 Poll: 62% Don’t Trust Microsoft on Mono
  • 07.13.09 Is Mono’s Latest Strategy to Vilify Richard Stallman?
  • 07.17.09 GPL and Stallman FUD Now Arriving from the Freedom-apathetic or Freedom-hostile
  • 07.17.09 Video: Stallman Says C# Only for Running Existing Programs (Updated: Ogg)
  • 08.30.09 Richard Stallman on “Open Source” (as Ogg)
  • 09.11.09 Microsoft Confirms Attack on GNU/Linux, Stallman Interception by Microsoft Contract Seemingly Confirmed Too
  • 09.21.09 Miguel de Icaza “is Basically a Traitor to the Free Software Community,” Says Richard Stallman
  • 09.26.09 Richard Stallman is Not the Bad Guy
  • 09.28.09 Patents Roundup: Richard Stallman Versus Software Patents in NZ, Opposition to Monopolies, and Microsoft Hypocrisy
  • 10.05.09 Lest CodePlex perplex – by Richard Stallman
  • 10.06.09 Miguel de Icaza Compares Richard Stallman to George Bush
  • 10.07.09 Richard Stallman Defended in Argument with Novell VP
  • 10.07.09 Richard Stallman Explains Why Not SUSE
  • 10.11.09 OpenSUSE Adds to Novell’s Hostility Towards the Free Software Foundation
  • 10.14.09 Richard Stallman’s Message to Brazil
  • 11.18.09 Richard Stallman: For Avoidance of Misunderstandings
  • 01.23.10 Richard Stallman: Freedom Campaigner
  • 01.28.10 Richard Stallman: “Bill Gates and Steve Ballmer Still Spineless and Greedy” (Regarding Censorship)
  • 03.23.10 Who does that server really serve? (by Richard Stallman)
  • 04.12.10 Microsoft Really Loves Suppressive and Corrupt Regimes
  • 04.21.10 Richard Stallman’s Life Dedication to Software Freedom
  • 06.18.10 Who Are the Communists?
  • 08.04.10 Richard Stallman Explains Why Microsoft is ‘Infiltrating’ Free/Open Source Software Events
  • 09.06.10 New Video: Richard Stallman on Amrita TV
  • 09.23.10 New Richard Stallman Interview About Software Patents
  • 08.24.11 Links – Deepwater Horizon Spews, Big Boats, RMS on Unitary Patents
  • 12.19.11 New Richard Stallman Interview (Updated: WebM Version)
  • 07.17.12 TechBytes Episode 69: Richard Stallman on Restricted Boot (UEFI), Coreboot, GRUB, and Boot Freedom
  • 11.02.12 Richard Stallman Suggests Defanging Software Patents in the US
  • 01.26.13 2013 Richard Stallman Talk
  • 03.16.13 Richard Stallman Turns 60
  • 03.21.13 Richard Stallman Explains Why We Need the Four Freedoms
  • 03.21.13 How Richard Stallman Started GNU Project
  • 03.22.13 Richard Stallman’s Views on Hacktivism and Online Protest
  • 06.20.13 Richard Stallman Interviews – an Exclusive Techrights Series
  • 07.04.13 TechBytes Episode 80: Richard Stallman on Universal Back Door in Microsoft Windows and His Search Engine Habits
  • 07.08.13 TechBytes Episode 81: Richard Stallman on Anonymity, Censorship, DPI, and Copyright Policing
  • 07.17.13 Panorama of Richard Stallman: The P Series (2013)
  • 07.17.13 TechBytes Episode 83: Richard Stallman on Data Collection and Encryption
  • 08.05.13 TechBytes Video: Richard Stallman on Wasted Votes
  • 08.25.13 Richard Stallman on Control by Users
  • 08.30.13 Richard Stallman on Steve Jobs and Apple
  • 09.05.13 Richard Stallman on Plutocracy
  • 10.21.13 Richard Stallman: How Much Surveillance Can Democracy Withstand?
  • 10.25.13 Richard Stallman on Employment
  • 10.30.13 Richard Stallman on Banks and Foreclosures
  • 11.03.13 Richard Stallman on the Penal System
  • 11.20.13 Richard Stallman on Software Patents in Europe
  • 11.21.13 Richard Stallman Explains ‘Hacking’ to Judge
  • 11.28.13 More Questions for Richard Stallman
  • 12.03.13 GNU is Not Linux: Richard Stallman Explains the Origins of GNU
  • 01.27.14 Richard Stallman on How He Started GNU
  • 02.09.14 Stallman’s Views: 10-Part Series of Opinions on Non-GNU Matters
  • 02.10.14 Richard Stallman Explains His Position on Google
  • 02.16.14 Richard Stallman Talks About Diaspora and Whether It’s Worth Joining
  • 03.16.14 Richard Stallman on Google+ and Twitter
  • 03.24.14 Richard Stallman on YouTube and Video Formats Issues
  • 03.30.14 Richard Stallman Talks About Internet Trolls Who Demonise Him
  • 04.06.14 Richard Stallman Explains How He Became Political
  • 12.19.14 Richard Stallman: What Does It Mean for Your Computer to Be Loyal?
  • 12.30.14 Our Richard Stallman Interviews in 2012-2014
  • 12.31.14 Freedom in your computer and in the net – New Talk by Richard Stallman
  • 05.13.15 Open Source Revisionism of GNU and Free Software History
  • 01.31.16 Richard Stallman: European Software Patents Are Back With the Unitary Patent Court (UPC)


  • 12.08.07 Quote of the Day: Richard Stallman on the GNOME Desktop
  • 07.05.08 It’s not the Gates, it’s the bars (by Richard Stallman)
  • 07.21.08 Quick Mention: Richard Stallman Explains Software Patents in New Interview
  • 10.02.08 Richard Stallman on European Patent Office “Corruption”
  • 10.24.08 On Mixed Source, Mono, and Other Forms of ‘Piracy’
  • 06.28.09 Responses to Richard Stallman’s Verdict on Mono
  • 07.08.09 Microsoft Confirms Mono is Not Safe, Stallman Agrees
  • 09.02.09 Microsoft Shoots Down Stallman’s Public Speech in Argentina — Claim
  • 10.20.09 Mono, Open Core, and Other Bizarre Forms of Open Source
  • 12.10.09 Richard Stallman on [GNOME Code of Conduct and Foundation Membership]
  • 12.14.09 Microsoft RMS Denies Access to People’s Own Documents
  • 12.16.09 Recent Attacks on GNU and Richard Stallman Based on Distortions, Lies
  • 12.20.09 Bruce Perens on the Recent Attacks on Richard Stallman and GNU
  • 02.19.10 Richard Stallman and Bruce Perens Defamed by Troll
  • 05.17.10 Bad Apple, Part II: Apple Carries on Armament With Software Patents, Harms Firefox
  • 07.05.10 Best Explanation So Far of the Anti-Richard Stallman Trolling
  • 07.11.10 Richard Stallman’s Presentation From 2009 – eLiberatica (as Ogg)
  • 07.20.10 Richard Stallman Reiterates Threat of Mono, Wikipedia Censored by Mono Boosters
  • 09.16.10 Richard Stallman’s Introduction to Software Freedom Day
  • 11.15.10 Different Perspectives on Harms of Microsoft
  • 12.15.10 Novell, OIN, and AttachMSFT: Why It Confirms Novell Was Trouble All Along
  • 01.21.11 Richard Stallman: “The danger is that Microsoft is probably planning to force all free C# implementations underground some day using software patents”
  • 04.28.11 Fake Patent Reforms and Abolition of Software Patents
  • 09.09.11 Cablegate: “42 Percent of Argentine Firms Use Linux on at Least Some of Their Computers”
  • 07.23.12 Stallman Interviews Series
  • 07.24.12 TechBytes Episode 70: Richard Stallman on How Browsers and Social Networking Sites Facilitate Surveillance
  • 07.26.12 TechBytes Episode 71: Richard Stallman on Surveillance, the NSA, and Mobile Phones
  • 07.31.12 TechBytes Episode 72: Richard Stallman on News Sources Bias, GPL.next Misinformation, and Software Patents
  • 08.03.12 TechBytes Episode 73: Richard Stallman on Corporate Secrecy and US Politics
  • 02.22.13 Stallman Speaks About Ubuntu
  • 06.24.13 TechBytes Episode 78: Richard Stallman Speaks About Surveillance in the Post-Leaks Era
  • 06.27.13 TechBytes Episode 79: Richard Stallman Speaks About Back Doors
  • 07.15.13 TechBytes Episode 82: Richard Stallman on Data Protection, Collective Responsibility as Tyrannical Tool, and Encryption of Data
  • 07.19.13 The Foot in Stallman’s Face: Bill Gates Still Redefines Free Software
  • 07.20.13 Microsoft Collusion With the NSA Shows the Harms of Monopoly: No Perceived Threat in Hurting Users
  • 07.29.13 TechBytes Video: Richard Stallman on Privacy
  • 08.12.13 Richard Stallman Discusses War on Sharing
  • 08.19.13 Richard Stallman on Corporate Press
  • 09.26.13 Coming Soon: Richard Stallman Interview for 30th GNU Anniversary
  • 10.26.13 Richard Stallman on Lobbying
  • 11.18.13 Richard Stallman on Government Aggression Without Trial
  • 11.22.13 Richard Stallman on Splitting Companies
  • 11.25.13 Richard Stallman on Censorship and Libel
  • 11.27.13 Richard Stallman About Protests, Boycotts
  • 01.07.14 Happy GNU Year: Richard Stallman on How He Created GNU on Proprietary Systems 30 Years Ago
  • 01.09.14 Happy GNU Year: Richard Stallman Talks About His First GNU Programs
  • 01.13.14 Happy GNU Year: Richard Stallman on How Many People Contributed to GNU in the 1980s
  • 01.17.14 Happy GNU Year: Richard Stallman on Naming GNU
  • 01.20.14 Happy GNU Year: Richard Stallman on Meeting Goals of GNU
  • 02.23.14 Richard Stallman Explains His Account in Identi.ca and Distributed Social Networks
  • 03.03.14 Richard Stallman Talks About Facebook ‘Useds’
  • 03.10.14 Richard Stallman on Storing Files Online
  • 03.28.14 Mark Shuttleworth With a Beard Starts Sounding More Like Richard Stallman
  • 03.12.15 Richard Stallman: Why We Need Free Digital Hardware Designs
  • 11.30.15 Richard Stallman and Eben Moglen on the Microsoft-Red Hat Deal
  • 02.03.16 Richard Stallman: Patentes Europeas de Software Regresan con la Corte Unitaria de Patentes (UPC)


  • 11.20.06 Can Novell’s Protection Racket Swing a Timebomb?
  • 11.23.06 Analysing the Rationale for the Deal
  • 11.27.06 DO NOT Buy, Use or Redistribute SUSE
  • 11.29.06 Q&A with Ron Hovsepian
  • 12.01.06 GNU/Solaris under GPL3?
  • 12.03.06 This Covenant Will Self Destruct in…
  • 12.06.06 2700 Signatures and Climbing
  • 12.06.06 Groklaw: Why the Microvell Deal is Bad
  • 12.11.06 Embrace Microsoft, or Join With Us (In our Embrace with Microsoft)
  • 12.12.06 Windows Users Undisclosed Balance Sheet Liability
  • 12.17.06 Stafford Masie: “We Will Be GPLv3 Compliant, Trust Me”
  • 12.27.06 Stafford Masie Presentation at CITI Forum: Transcript
  • 01.03.07 SUSE Linux Was Ready for the Desktop, But Novell Sold Out
  • 02.05.07 Why Not Have A GPL 2.1 As Well?
  • 02.27.07 How We Got Into This Mess and How We Shall Get Out
  • 03.08.07 Microsoft Gets the C|Net Soapbox, Criticises Free Software
  • 03.22.07 Bruce Perens: Clearing up Anti-GPL3 FUD
  • 03.26.07 Eben Moglen Expects More Novell-like Attacks by Microsoft
  • 03.26.07 Journalists Attack Free Software — The Next Anti-Linux Crusade?
  • 03.31.07 Novell Could Lose Access to at Least 15% of Its Codebase
  • 04.01.07 The Fool on Microvell
  • 04.03.07 LGPLv3 Draft Released; What Do People Say About Novell?
  • 04.05.07 Consensus on GPLv3 No Longer a Distant Dream
  • 04.06.07 Microsoft Lobbyist Attacks the GPL in the Press
  • 04.08.07 Weekend Roundup: Noteworthy Links and Stories
  • 04.11.07 Open Source Consortium (UK) Against Microvell Anti-GPLv3 FUD
  • 04.19.07 Roundup: Novell in the News (Updated)
  • 05.14.07 Selected Quotes: Why Software Patents Must Not Exist
  • 06.01.07 Novell/Jim Finkle’s Pump-and-Dump or Just Careless Journalism?
  • 06.01.07 Jim Finkle and Reuters Busted (Again) (Updated)
  • 06.01.07 Is Novell in a Deep State of Denial? (Updated)
  • 06.03.07 Tivoization Misconceptions and the Real Purpose of GPLv3
  • 06.05.07 Microsoft Put Novell’s ‘GPL Grace’ to the Test
  • 06.07.07 GPLv2 and v3 To Gain Compatibility?
  • 06.10.07 Standards and Patents – From Victim and Skeptic to Attacker and Abuser
  • 06.26.07 It’s a Fine Day for Free Software (Updated)
  • 06.28.07 Patent Abuse: Greed’s Fight Against Science
  • 06.30.07 Better-than-expected Welcome to the New GPL (Updated)
  • 06.30.07 GPLv3 & iPhone – Looking Beyond the Disinformation (Corrected)
  • 07.01.07 Changelog: FSF, SFLC, OOXML, and Questions to Mark Shuttleworth
  • 07.05.07 GPLv3 Cluebat Hits Microsoft, Which Has Just Entered the ”Denial” Stage of Its Agony (Updated)
  • 07.11.07 Linspire Continues Bragging About OOXML Support
  • 07.12.07 Video of the Announcement of GPLv3 Now Available Online
  • 07.14.07 No Software Patents in Europe (Bad Ideas Rejected Yet Again)
  • 07.20.07 Do-No-Evil Saturday: Build Service, Contracts, Success Stories, Even a Video
  • 07.22.07 The ‘Cost’ of GPLv3 is the Loss of All Threats to Free Software
  • 07.23.07 More ‘Funny Business’: Microsoft-funded Body (Initiative for Software Choice) Among Its Document Format Lobbyists
  • 07.28.07 GPLv3 Proves Its Business Value
  • 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)
  • 08.10.07 An Anti-Linux Dan Lyons Mind Replaced by Another Forbes Magazine Writer That Slams Novell
  • 08.28.07 GPLv3 — From Strength to Strength
  • 09.14.07 The SCO Ship Throws Anchor in the Middle of the Pacific (Bankruptcy) (Updated)
  • 10.01.07 Why Microsoft/Novell Keep Talking About “Intellectual Property” and Not “Patents”
  • 10.29.07 GNU vs Linux Wars Escape the Real Issues — Patent Trolls and Microsoft
  • 11.08.07 GNOME’s Stance on OOXML — Clarifications on Their Way
  • 11.09.07 This Web Site is Not a Distro War or a Desktop Environments War
  • 11.17.07 Request for Contributions (Posts) from Readers
  • 11.17.07 France Gets It Wrong on GNU/Linux
  • 11.17.07 Yahoo VP Explains Patent Trolling (Video)
  • 11.26.07 Quick Mention: Glyn Moody on the Inexistence of “Intellectual Property“
  • 11.29.07 GNOME Foundation, Please Stop Attacking the Messenger and Please Listen
  • 11.29.07 A Quick Look at Mono Licensing and Microsoft Licensing
  • 11.30.07 GNOME’s Position on OOXML is Still Hurting OpenDocument Format
  • 12.10.07 Most Recent Podcast Reactions (GNOME and OOXML)
  • 12.19.07 Is Microsoft Using OOXML and Novell to Further Divide the Communuity?
  • 12.21.07 A Patent Reform, Acacia’s Greatest Hits, and the Risk to GNU/Linux
  • 12.21.07 Open XML and Its Media Coverage Are Flawed by Design
  • 12.21.07 Anti-standards Roundup: GNOvell and Microsoft OOXML
  • 12.26.07 Fighting the Cost Advantage of GNU/Linux Using Software Patents
  • 01.02.08 Economist Calls Patents Government-granted Monopolies
  • 01.07.08 Bruce Byfield Misattributes Quotes (Updatedx4)
  • 01.08.08 Patent News Roundup: USPTO Madness, Novell’s Role, and Patent Shame
  • 01.08.08 There is No Community and There is No Communism, Either
  • 01.09.08 Novell’s Privilege Escalation Vulnerability and the Microsoft Software Police
  • 01.11.08 Patents and Dirty Tricks Roundup: Qualcomm and Microsoft
  • 01.12.08 (Software) Patents Degradation in the American and European Systems
  • 01.13.08 Mozilla Firefox Meets Silverlight and Novell’s Impact on This Web Hijack
  • 01.14.08 Patents Roundup: Google, Patent Reform, and “The Eco-Patent Commons”
  • 01.14.08 Quick Mention: Novell Groks “Intellectual Property”
  • 01.16.08 Stirring Things Up from the Inside (Or the ‘Civil War’ Strategy)
  • 01.16.08 Why Sun’s Acquisition of MySQL is Bad News to Linux
  • 01.23.08 When They Don’t Want Microsoft, Microsoft Will Pay Them to Want It…
  • 01.25.08 Software Patents Anticompetitive by Nature
  • 01.26.08 On Beagle’s Increasing Mono-ization and Novell’s Role
  • 01.26.08 Software Patents Hinged on Money and Political Influence
  • 01.27.08 America Invades Britain (with Software Patents)
  • 01.30.08 Glyn Moody Against Intellectual Monopoly (aka Patents)
  • 01.31.08 Wake Up Already, GNOME, Please Wake Up
  • 02.04.08 BSD vs. GPL: But Why Are PEOPLE Fighting???
  • 02.06.08 WHATIS: The OpenDocument Foundation
  • 02.06.08 Don’t Start Unnecessary Wars. Give Palamida a Break…
  • 02.22.08 The Overlooked Issue of Development with .NET in GNU/Linux
  • 02.25.08 Bullying, Intimidation and Smears, Courtesy of Microsoft
  • 03.10.08 Would You Trust a Microsoft Lobbying Arm When It Comes to Eliminating Software Patents?
  • 03.19.08 Support Bruce Perens’ Fight Against ‘Invasion of the Borgs’
  • 03.26.08 ‘Microsoft is Stealing from Linux’
  • 04.12.08 The Linux Foundation, OSI and the Neglected Values of Freedom
  • 04.14.08 US Commerce Secretary Wants to Restore Some Patent Sanity, Microsoft-Novell as Role Model of Abuse
  • 04.17.08 Has Novell’s Deal with Microsoft Ruined Red Hat Desktop? (Updated)
  • 04.18.08 Microsoft Dealt Another Big Blow in Europe (UK), Pawns Exposed Further
  • 04.28.08 Novell Under the (Microsoft) Bridge
  • 04.30.08 Novell’s ‘Binary Bridges’: Could SUSE Ever Inherit the Anti-Features of Windows?
  • 05.02.08 Quick Mention: Microsoft Gets Stung by Software Patents Again
  • 05.07.08 MySQL’s Mixed-Source Dilemma
  • 05.13.08 The Difference Between US Stance and EU Stance on Intellectual Monopolies
  • 05.15.08 MySQL Juggles Business Models, Life with Sun, and Software Patents
  • 05.17.08 Patent Sanity in the United States: A Lost Cause?
  • 05.24.08 Do-No-Evil Saturday – Part III: Novell’s Latest Losses and Wins
  • 05.25.08 Pondering Novell Mono and DRM
  • 05.25.08 When Technology Meets Politics
  • 05.27.08 Free Software versus Today’s Intellectual Monopolies — Overview
  • 05.30.08 Novell and Mono: The Kiss of Death to Free Software
  • 06.08.08 Scum of the Day: Association for ‘Competitive’ Technology (ACT)
  • 06.10.08 Decision on OOXML: Potentially Months Ahead
  • 06.16.08 ODF Op-Eds from South Africa, Malaysia
  • 06.19.08 Intellectual Monopolist to Keep Eye On: Commissioner Mccreevy
  • 06.22.08 Microsoft Jack: “Tilt Lotus Into the Death Spiral” Was Humour (Updated)
  • 06.22.08 ‘Anti-FOSS’ Laws Status (DMCA, Contamonisation)
  • 06.22.08 Novell, Microsoft… and IBM… Maybe Oracle Too (Part II)
  • 06.23.08 “Money Trumps Justice”, Vendor Control Trumps Truth
  • 06.24.08 Trend Micro’s SCO-esque Business Model Backfires, Acacia Sued for Defamation
  • 06.27.08 Quick Mention: Bill Gates’ Political Crusade Has Already Begun
  • 06.27.08 The Games Microsoft Plays in Portugal to Fight Free Software
  • 07.01.08 ISO Sweeps Abuses Under the Rug While Microsoft Extends Anti-GPL Scope
  • 07.04.08 Fear and Loathing in Digital Cornerstone Incorporated, Formerly Known as Linspire
  • 07.04.08 OpenDocument on a Roll (Next Stop: Uruguay)
  • 07.08.08 Nobel Laureates Come Out Against Intellectual Monopolies
  • 07.08.08 Embracing and Extending SVN — the Microsoft Way
  • 07.08.08 No, Virginia, There Won’t be Spire Under Xandros
  • 07.10.08 Off Topic: Snapshot of ‘Soviet Internet’ Proposal
  • 07.11.08 ISO and Microsoft: The Corruption Resumes
  • 07.12.08 Microsoft@SourceForge and More Software Patents Poison
  • 07.15.08 Free Software and Patent Settlements: It’s All Wrong
  • 07.16.08 “ODF Has Truly Won,” Say OOXML Voices Again
  • 07.20.08 "/o/2008/07/20/linus-complains-about-patents/ Microsoft Sued Over Patents Again, Linus Complains, USPTO Welcomes P2P[atent]]
  • 07.24.08 ODF/OOXML Roundup: A Catastrophe in Detail, Better Days Ahead
  • 07.30.08 Snapshot of the Software Patents Situation in the US, India, EU
  • 07.31.08 Perens on Microsoft Crimes: From SCO to OOXML
  • 08.07.08 Microsoft’s Aggressive Push to Assimilate FOSS to Microsoft
  • 08.08.08 Patents Roundup: Linux, India, Microsoft, the Trolls, and the USPTO
  • 08.10.08 How Microsoft and Intel Conspired Against the GNU/Linux/AMD Laptops
  • 08.13.08 Patent News: The Big Myth, Microsoft vs. Avistar, Trolls, and Urgent Reform
  • 08.19.08 British Government Laughs at Digital Standards Organisation with a Straight Face
  • 08.21.08 Reminder: Protest Against Software Patents This Weekend
  • 08.23.08 CRN, DaniWeb® Think Novell Could Be Microsoft One Day
  • 08.24.08 A Candle-light Vigil to Protest Patenting Software
  • 08.25.08 Software Patents Riot Spreads to Four Continents
  • 08.28.08 Quick Mention: Miguel de Icaza Loves .NET, Dislikes GNU GPL
  • 08.29.08 Eye on Microsoft: Intel Collaborations, Dumping, and Search Redux
  • 08.29.08 Novell, the Microsoft Windows Company
  • 09.03.08 Citibank Signs Deals with Microsoft, Deliberately Blocks GNU/Linux Users
  • 09.04.08 Patent Shakeup: AT&T Protests, Free Software IP FUD, Microsoft Under siege
  • 09.15.08 Companies That Fear GNU/Linux Versus Companies That Don’t
  • 09.16.08 Patents Roundup: Renewed Backlash, GPLv3 Beyond 3,000
  • 09.22.08 Patents Roundup: India Fights Software Patents, BSA Intervention, Trolls League
  • 09.25.08 India Might Can ISO; IBM Opposition Backed by LF, Seeks Broader Crowd
  • 10.02.08 Microsoft’s OOXML Corruptions Have Ruined Standard Norway
  • 10.04.08 Patent Systems Under Fire, IAM Magazine Concerned
  • 10.05.08 The Free Software Foundation No Longer Interested in .NET Cloning?
  • 10.07.08 Threats Are Cheap
  • 10.12.08 ODF Keeps Winning; No Wonder Microsoft Went Corrupt Against It
  • 10.20.08 Patents Roundup: Microsoft’s Own Patent Trolls Subjugate Indians; New Evidence of Ill Systems
  • 10.22.08 Novell’s Michael Meeks Gets Software Patent from the UK
  • 10.23.08 Videos: Presidential Candidates and Software
  • 10.24.08 Horacio Gutierrez’s Latest Threat Against GNU/Linux Was Seeded by Microsoft
  • 10.25.08 Do-No-Evil Saturday – Part I: OpenSUSE 11.1 Reaches Third Beta, Gets Early Reviews
  • 10.28.08 European, Indian and American Patent Systems: Time for a Reform
  • 11.01.08 Patent Problems: Google Unresolved, Bilski Resolved, EPO to be Resolved?
  • 11.03.08 Presidential Candidates: Deregulation and Lobbying
  • 11.03.08 Does the USPTO Like Its System Broken?
  • 11.04.08 ACTA: More Patent Trolls, Less Democracy
  • 11.04.08 Experts Indicate That re Bilski Does Impact Software Patents
  • 11.04.08 First They Ignore… Then They Dump… Then They ‘Bribe’
  • 11.09.08 European Patent Office: From Riot to Order?
  • 11.13.08 When Microsoft Threatens Democracy
  • 11.15.08 Monoment [sic of Novell’s Demise]
  • 11.18.08 Novell Information, in the Words of Anivar Aravind
  • 11.19.08 Patents Roundup: Microsoft Sues, Patents Critic Become Nobel Laureate, and More
  • 11.19.08 AstroTurfers Pretend to be GNU/Linux Users?
  • 11.20.08 Microsoft Uses Novell to Say Open Source Software Supports OOXML
  • 11.20.08 How Bill Gates Sabotaged PCs to Make Business
  • 11.21.08 Microsoft Tries to Dodge Vista Collusions Lawsuit as Ballmer Deposition Nears
  • 11.23.08 CUSAT and Microsoft as Suppressors of Freedom
  • 11.23.08 Visvesvaraya Technological University Sells Out, ‘Sells’ Children to Microsoft
  • 11.27.08 Happy Thanksgiving
  • 11.29.08 Why Journalism is Junk
  • 12.02.08 FOSDEM 2009: Sponsored by Microsoft Partner
  • 12.03.08 Quick Mention: Novell is Helping Microsoft OOXML Again
  • 12.04.08 Microsoft Layoffs Worse Than Initially Reported
  • 12.06.08 OOXML is Patent Trap, Royalties Render it Obsolete
  • 12.08.08 Memo to IBM: Enough with Software Patents, Please
  • 12.11.08 Linux Defenders: Obeying — Not Challenging — a Broken System
  • 12.13.08 Patents Roundup: Pools, Apple, Google and Obama Appointment
  • 12.15.08 How Software Patents Impede Standards and GNU/Linux Development
  • 12.16.08 Gentle Warning About OSBC 2009 and OSCON 2009
  • 12.18.08 Patents Roundup: Microsoft’s Intellectual ‘Welfare’, Litigation Rising, Abuse Beyond USPTO
  • 12.19.08 Another Microsoft Vice President Calls It a Day, Quits
  • 12.19.08 Wine Project Responds to Microsoft FUD Award
  • 12.24.08 Links Xmas Eve: OLPC in Colombia, Mandriva 2009.1 @ Alpha
  • 12.27.08 The End of an Era (SCO), The Beginning of Another (Microsoft & Patents)
  • 12.28.08 How the Microsoft Kickbacks Cycle Works
  • 12.28.08 Brokerage Firm Asks Microsoft to Fire Over 9,000 Employees
  • 01.08.09 Microsoft Dumps on India, South Africa, Malta
  • 01.09.09 Novell|Microsoft Sued by Patent Troll
  • 01.13.09 FOSS DEMonstration Against Novell
  • 01.15.09 Microsoft’s EDGI in India: Fighting GNU/Linux in Education
  • 01.17.09 Off Topic: Politics of Software (and Everything Else)
  • 01.19.09 Acacia Bites Dell with Software Patents, Reform Sought at Tilburg
  • 01.30.09 Microsoft Puts the “P” in “Propaganda”; Windows Zombies Make More Extortions
  • 01.31.09 Novell Lays Off Around 1,000 Employees (Corrected)
  • 02.01.09 Fake Charities, Microsoft-Lenovo, and Microsoft-VMware
  • 02.01.09 ODF Alliance Newsletter January 2009
  • 02.10.09 Microsoft & Acacia’s Extortions Roadshow
  • 02.11.09 Microsoft as Political Movement in the US, Maybe India Too
  • 02.15.09 Moonlight Called “Patent Encumbered“, Crashes Firefox
  • 02.20.09 Patents Roundup: Linux, Acacia, Microsoft, Samsung and More
  • 02.21.09 If You Care About Freedom, Don’t Support Apple
  • 02.24.09 Patents Roundup: Microsoft, RAND, Extortion, and Ending Software Patents
  • 03.05.09 European Action Organised Against “Economic Parasite” (Microsoft) After TomTom Lawsuit
  • 03.13.09 US Justice Department Adds Microsoft ‘Splitter’, Microsoft-Affiliated Professor Slams EU Commission
  • 03.14.09 Microsoft’s Path of LAMP Destruction: From Novell to Apache (the L to the A)
  • 03.17.09 Is the EPO Selling Out to Microsoft?
  • 03.20.09 European Patent Office Continues March for Software Patents
  • 03.21.09 Amazon’s Linux-powered and DRM-laden Gadget Sued for Patent Infringement
  • 03.21.09 Microsoft is Having an Affair with the UK and Ireland
  • 03.24.09 The Mono Trap
  • 03.25.09 Microsoft’s “Burning The Ships” is Corporate Patent Propaganda (and How Novell Helps It)
  • 03.26.09 IRC: #boycottnovell @ FreeNode: March 25th, 2009 – Part 2
  • 03.27.09 Is Apple Sued for Patent Infringement Over Third-Party Software?
  • 03.28.09 IRC: #boycottnovell @ FreeNode: March 27th, 2009 – Part 2
  • 03.29.09 Red Hat, Microsoft, EU Lobbyists, and Software Patents
  • 04.01.09 IRC: #boycottnovell @ FreeNode: March 31st, 2009 – Part 1
  • 04.02.09 Patents Roundup: OIN, ESP, Microsoft and Apple
  • 04.02.09 The War Against USENET Symbolises an Assault on Free Speech
  • 04.04.09 Novell News Summary – Part III: SCO, Finance, Netware, GroupWise, Partners, Hardware, and Marketing
  • 04.07.09 Novell Joins Microsoft Seminar While Microsoft Hits Red Hat with “IP” Slurs
  • 04.07.09 Did Tomboy Learn from TomTom? Project Forked, Moves Away from Microsoft ‘Standards’
  • 04.09.09 IRC: #boycottnovell @ FreeNode: April 8th, 2009 – Part 1
  • 04.15.09 Does The Register Call Novell Opposers ‘Idealists’/’Purists’?
  • 04.16.09 Revolt Against Software Patents in Europe
  • 04.19.09 Software Patents Roundup: Protests in the EU, OLPC Suffers, Microsoft Seeds More Patent FUD
  • 04.20.09 Patents Roundup: Microsoft, CSIRO, Patent Hawk, and “Corrupt, Malicious” EPO
  • 04.21.09 Microsoft Loses to Google and Free Software
  • 04.22.09 Patents Roundup: Oracle, Backlash Against Software Patents, and In Re Bilski (Again)
  • 04.23.09 Announcement: Mono-Free Tomboy Replacement (Gnote) Releases Version 0.2.0
  • 04.24.09 Patents Roundup: Attack on Science, Lobby for Software Patents in EU and India, More Rebellion
  • 04.24.09 From “Microsoft Religion” to “Mono Religion”
  • 04.28.09 Charles McCreevy is Still Advancing Software Patents in Europe
  • 04.29.09 The Novell (and Microsoft) Factor in US Technology Policy
  • 05.01.09 Microsoft Teaches Spanish Schools How to Smoke Windows
  • 05.01.09 Microsoft: Red Hat Should be Happy to Take Microsoft Patents
  • 05.03.09 The Path to Mono-free GNOME-based Distributions is Foreseeable
  • 05.05.09 Is Jupiter Broadcasting’s Linux Action Show Anti-GNU/Linux?
  • 05.08.09 Goodbye, Alison Brimelow (EPO President)
  • 05.08.09 Microsoft Moonlight in the News
  • 05.09.09 Who Covers Mono Again? Microsoft.
  • 05.10.09 EPO in State of Turmoil, Patents Kill
  • 05.20.09 Microsoft Proud of Digital Colonialism in Africa
  • 05.21.09 Latest Report About Microsoft’s Newly-Found Affair with Software Patents (as Anti-FOSS Mechanism)
  • 05.22.09 2 Months and No Disclosure from the European Parliament
  • 05.25.09 Can the United Kingdom and Hungary Still be Sued for Excluding Free Software?
  • 05.26.09 Gnote Gets Positive Reviews, Its Developer Runs for GNOME Foundation’s Board of Directors
  • 05.28.09 Week of Microsoft Government Affairs: a Look Back, a Look Ahead
  • 06.02.09 Mono: An Infectious Disease — An Article by Chris Smart
  • 06.05.09 The EPO Does Not Work for European Citizens
  • 06.05.09 Microsoft Copies Wikipedia and Links to a GNU Licence
  • 06.09.09 What on Earth is the EPO Doing?
  • 06.13.09 End of Microsoft Money Shows Why Free Software is Better and Standards Are Important
  • 06.13.09 Fedora “Concerned” About Mono for Legal Reasons, Ubuntu Debate Carries on
  • 06.15.09 Microsoft Corporation Joins Hand with the Pharmaceutical Cartel
  • 06.15.09 Signs of Mono Unrest, Legal Issues
  • 06.24.09 Microsoft Betrays American Workers and Rewards Irish Workers for Tax Haven
  • 06.25.09 Formal Complaint Against European Commission for Harbouring Microsoft Lobbyists
  • 06.27.09 Reader’s Article: Mono as a One-way Bridge (to Windows)
  • 06.29.09 Microsoft and Novell Still Fight for .NET Inside GNU/Linux
  • 06.29.09 Mono Proponents Do Not Address the Real Questions
  • 06.30.09 More People Say “No” to Mono, Including the Software Freedom Law Center (SFLC)
  • 07.01.09 Who Promotes Mono? Microsoft and Novell
  • 07.11.09 Mono Roundup: Still Dangerous, Still Not Acceptable
  • 07.12.09 Mono Roundup: Microsoft Following, Deception, and the Moonlight ‘Extend’ Phase
  • 07.13.09 Correction: About Schlesinger, ‘Fink’, Etc. (Updated)
  • 07.13.09 Patents Roundup: Software Landmines in New Zealand, the US, and Microsoft/Linux
  • 07.14.09 Microsoft Lobbies Come Under Fire by the Open Source Initiative (OSI) and Linux Journal
  • 07.14.09 Another Angle on Personal Attacks from Mono
  • 07.15.09 Mono Applications Get Integrated with Microsoft Moonlight
  • 07.16.09 Confirmed: Novell Puts Mono (and Moonlight) at Centre of the GNU/Linux Desktop
  • 07.18.09 Commenting Policy to Change Due to Abuse and Intimidation from Trolls
  • 07.18.09 More on Mono, Microsoft, and Novell
  • 07.18.09 David Schlesinger “Uses the Little Spat as an Example of Zealotry”
  • 07.23.09 Are Speakers for FOSS Actually FOSS Supporters?
  • 07.24.09 GPLv3 Reaches High Acceptance Rates, Novell Bans It, More Responses to Linus Appear
  • 07.24.09 Mono Roundup: Suppression of Speech, Extension, and Deception
  • 07.26.09 Linux Demonstrates the Upper Hand of the GPL and Microsoft’s Inability to Defeat It
  • 07.27.09 Links Bank Holiday Monday: Schools and GNU/Linux
  • 07.28.09 Linus Torvalds’ Attitude Towards Free Software is Not News
  • 07.30.09 Time to Drop the Word “Zealot” from Software Debates?
  • 07.31.09 Why Microsoft Hates Java and How Novell’s Mono Helps Microsoft Fight It
  • 08.04.09 Does the Open Invention Network (OIN) Become a Patent Harvester?
  • 08.05.09 ODF 1.2 Gains Approval, Garners Support, Microsoft Carries on Lying
  • 08.12.09 Novell Ignores Microsoft’s Community Promise Limitations
  • 08.16.09 Criticism of Microsoft Deals in Minnesota, US Army, and Wroclaw University (Poland)
  • 08.20.09 WIPO: By the Elites, for the Elites
  • 08.27.09 FSF Campaign Upsets Exactly Those Whom It Ought to Have Upset
  • 08.29.09 Microsoft and Its Followers Compare Free Software to Terrorism
  • 08.30.09 The Group from Boston That Makes Microsoft Scared (Not Novell)
  • 08.31.09 “Why So Negative?”
  • 09.03.09 Patents Roundup: Patent Propaganda from the BBC, IBM in the Shadows, and Early Mistakes from David Kappos
  • 09.04.09 Unrest in OpenSUSE Grows, Mono Faces Opposition Also
  • 09.09.09 Proprietary Infiltrations
  • 09.11.09 Microsoft Turncoat Quits
  • 09.12.09 Why Microsoft’s CodePlex Foundation is a Promoter of Proprietary Software
  • 09.15.09 Microsoft Badmouths Linix [sic in 1998, Envisions a “Nightmare”]
  • 09.21.09 Microsoft Breaks the Law Again for the Sake of Office and Manages to Get Away with It
  • 09.22.09 Microsoft Slashes Benefits to Its Covert Partners
  • 09.23.09 What is ‘Club SCO’ Doing Near the Linux Foundation with Novell?
  • 09.23.09 Novell Helps Microsoft Zune and CodePlex Foundation Helps Novell
  • 09.24.09 ZDNet Embeds Placements for Anti-Free Software Companies
  • 09.28.09 “Open Source is Dead. Long Live Free Software”
  • 09.28.09 With Friends Like These, Who Needs Microsoft?
  • 09.29.09 Mono and Moblin as the Microsoft-approved “Open Source Solution”
  • 09.30.09 Groklaw Groks Mono, Miguel de Icaza, Microsoft, and More
  • 09.30.09 Freedom and the Fallacy of Market Share
  • 09.30.09 If There is a “Microsoft Hater” Label, Should There Also be an “Apple Hater” Label?
  • 10.01.09 Now It’s Groklaw’s Turn
  • 10.03.09 Microsoft Games — Not Just Consoles — Are Defective, Failing
  • 10.04.09 Amicus Avalanche Opposing Software Patents in the United States (Novell Still Missing)
  • 10.04.09 Microsoft Interjects Itself into Free Software Using Novell
  • 10.09.09 Samsung Brings Microsoft’s ‘Linux Tax’ to Android As Well
  • 10.10.09 Novell VP Brushes Off Microsoft’s Attacks on GNU/Linux, Promotes .NET
  • 10.21.09 Mono Programs Removed from gNewSense
  • 10.21.09 IDG Gives Novell a Podium, Zonker Denouncements Come
  • 10.23.09 Free Software Foundation Daemonised for Resisting Non-Free(dom) Software
  • 10.24.09 Novell Uses IDG to Promote Mono
  • 10.26.09 Microsoft Has Lobbyists and Cronies Around European Commission, Working to Shatter MySQL and Defend IE Monoculture
  • 10.30.09 Microsoft, Ask, and the AstroTurf Against Yahoo! Remembered
  • 11.02.09 Novell Told Off by Former Employee, the Public
  • 11.09.09 Some New Examples of FUD Against Linux, GNU, and the GPL
  • 11.15.09 Microsoft Breaks the Law, Teaches World That ‘Evil’ GPL is ‘Viral’
  • 11.16.09 Why Are Critics of Criminal Activity Portrayed as ‘Bad Guys’?
  • 11.16.09 Revisionism from Microsoft’s Partner, Likewise
  • 11.19.09 The Quest to Daemonise Critics of Microsoft
  • 11.19.09 An Inventors’ System Hijacked by Lawyers
  • 11.22.09 Novell and Microsoft Have Big XAML News in Store
  • 11.23.09 O’Reilly Does Not Know What Open Means (Let Alone Free)
  • 11.25.09 Open Letter to Microsoft
  • 11.27.09 Black Friday Film: What the Bill Gates-Backed Monsanto Does to Animals, Farmers, Food, and Patent Systems
  • 11.29.09 Developers Betrayed by Apple Are Uniting, Microsoft EULA Repels
  • 12.02.09 Tim Berners-Lee: “Software Patents Are a Terrible Thing”
  • 12.04.09 Mono Bullies
  • 12.07.09 Novell’s Zonker Slammed for Lying About Microsoft/Novell Deal
  • 12.11.09 GNOME Interests Seemingly Bought by Corporations
  • 12.11.09 Patents Roundup: Microsoft’s FAT Ambush, RPX “Protection Racket”, and Life-threatening Patents
  • 12.11.09 The Christian Science Monitor for Ending the Patent System
  • 12.12.09 Microsoft as Communism, Revisited
  • 12.12.09 GNOME at Risk of Losing Its GNU Status
  • 12.14.09 Push-Polling Against the “G” in GNOME
  • 12.15.09 Quote of the Day: Church of Emacs
  • 12.15.09 Freedom is Not a Religion
  • 12.17.09 Microsoft-Funded “Analysts” Fight Against the Truth
  • 12.18.09 SFLC Critics
  • 12.18.09 Microsoft Gave Moonlight “Blessings” in 2007
  • 12.20.09 ‘Microsoft Press’ Acknowledges Microsoft’s Free Software-Hostile EU Deal
  • 12.20.09 Microsoft Allegedly Pays $500,000,000 for Verizon to Remove Google
  • 12.21.09 Google and Microsoft Fight Over Data and Contracts
  • 12.24.09 Microsoft Domains Host Pharmaceutical SPAM, Australian Government Suffocates the Internet
  • 12.26.09 Reactions to Microsoft’s Novell Software Inside GNU/Linux
  • 12.27.09 gNewSense Abandons Ubuntu, Microsoft’s Mono Agenda Revisited
  • 12.28.09 New Moonlight Covenant Claimed Worse Than the Old One, More Holes Found
  • 12.29.09 Microsoft’s Racketeering with Patents and Abolition of Software Patents Reexamined
  • 12.31.09 Another Microsoft General Manager Quits the Company, Microsoft Refuses to Say Why
  • 12.31.09 David Kappos Can Reprimand IBM for Mocking the USPTO’s Intelligence
  • 01.01.10 Novell’s Christmas Presents for Microsoft
  • 01.01.10 Bernie Marren is Not a Patent Troll, He is a Patent Toll
  • 01.04.10 Latest Vista 7 Failures, Xbox 360 Failures, and Microsoft Cartel
  • 01.05.10 Wave of Software Goes Free (Mostly GPL)
  • 01.09.10 Ximian Founder Quits Novell
  • 01.11.10 Miguel de Icaza Groomed by Microsoft with MVP Award
  • 01.14.10 If Microsoft Loves Miguel and Novell, Then They Must be Good for GNU/Linux, Right?
  • 01.16.10 Reader’s Article: Alternate Time-lines
  • 01.16.10 GNOME Should Learn from Novell’s Mistakes
  • 01.20.10 New Opinions on Mono, Miguel de Icaza, and the “Windows Stratagem”
  • 01.21.10 Patents Roundup: ACTA Threatens Free Software in New Zealand, the Rambus Extortion Racket Expands, and Google Earns New Monopoly
  • 01.22.10 Bruce Perens on Open Source Versus Free Software
  • 01.29.10 Fans of Apple Disappointed by iPad; Hype is Paid for by Apple
  • 02.02.10 Zonker’s (Novell) Disdain for the FSF and IDG’s Conflict of Interests
  • 02.06.10 Canonical Gets New Chief Operating Officer Who Already Defends Microsoft’s Biased ‘Search’
  • 02.09.10 Patents Roundup: EFF Defends VoIP; Google, Apple, and Black Duck Stifle Progress; Microsoft Joins RPX
  • 02.09.10 United Nations and World Bank Help Bill Gates and Microsoft Colonise Africa
  • 02.11.10 FSF Smears
  • 02.12.10 Alex Brown, Miguel de Icaza, and Full-time Microsoft Employee Smear ODF Again
  • 02.12.10 More Victims Attest to Windows Bricking and Microsoft Halts Patches
  • 02.15.10 The Latest from Microsoft’s Ambassador to Linux (MVP Miguel de Icaza) and Other FSF-Hostile Folks
  • 02.17.10 Microsoft is Still Attacking Free/Open Source Software With Security FUD
  • 02.18.10 Steve Jobs is ‘Pulling a Gates’
  • 02.19.10 Patents Roundup: America, Europe and Asia Share a Problem with Software Patents
  • 02.22.10 Microsoft Media Seemingly Masquerades as Government Media
  • 02.23.10 ZDNet’s “Open Source” Blog Still Hostile Towards Freedom (the “F” in FOSS)
  • 02.24.10 How Microsoft Boosters Are Still Harming ODF in the News
  • 03.02.10 Free Software More Secure, Say Experts
  • 03.04.10 Divisiveness
  • 03.07.10 Broken Laws
  • 03.08.10 Message to Microsoft: Dumping of Zeros and Ones is Not a Donation
  • 03.10.10 Patents Roundup: Lawyer Takeover, Failed Reform, and Policy Laundering With ACTA
  • 03.16.10 BSA Blames Lack of Patents for Europe Being ‘Behind’, EPO Loses €2 Million in Kaupthing Bankruptcy
  • 03.16.10 Microsoft Happy About Apple’s Invocation of Software Patents Against GNU/Linux
  • 03.17.10 Novell Wants to Bring Microsoft, Moonlight, and Mono to Linux Phones (Android)
  • 03.18.10 Former Microsoft Employees and Boosters Call Microsoft MVP Miguel de Icaza and Other Microsoft Apologists “Most Powerful Voices” in Open Source
  • 03.22.10 Report: Microsoft May be Fined 300,000,000 Pesos (~€55 Million) for Illegally Removing GNU/Linux as Option
  • 03.23.10 Bruce Perens Sheds Light on How Microsoft Controls the Government, Using Lobbyists
  • 03.24.10 Software Patents Complication Shows Why Linux Needs the FSF
  • 03.26.10 Deletion of Damaging Article About Mono Explained (Updated)
  • 03.29.10 Microsoft and Its Patent Trolls Remain #1 Threat to Free Software
  • 04.01.10 Questioning Ubuntu’s Direction
  • 04.10.10 Microsoft’s Battle to Consume — Not Obliterate — Open Source
  • 04.11.10 Florian Müller Seemingly Connected to CCIA (Microsoft Proxy)
  • 04.14.10 Apple Treats Mono Like It Treats Flash; GNU/Linux Should Too
  • 04.14.10 Back to Normal Shortly
  • 04.15.10 “Microsoft Sending Its Business Partners (Like in OOXML) in New Zealand to Push for Software Patents”
  • 04.17.10 Apple is Part of the Proprietary Thought Police
  • 04.17.10 First Time, Shame on You — Second Time, Shame on Microsoft
  • 04.19.10 Ina Fried Receives Microsoft Payback as Gates’ Reputation Laundering Tour Kicks Off in US Colleges
  • 04.19.10 Microsoft May be Lying to Dissociate Itself from Kyrgyzstan Fiasco
  • 04.19.10 Monsanto Plants Its Lies in the Gates Foundation-funded NPR
  • 04.19.10 “Patent Absurdity” Looks for Translations Amid Lobbying from Florian Müller and Microsoft
  • 04.20.10 Canonical is Already Aware of the Problem With Mono
  • 04.21.10 Why Apple and Microsoft Operating Systems Are Unethical: New Examples
  • 04.24.10 Some Minor Visual Changes
  • 05.07.10 Symptoms of the Sickness of the Patent System and Apple’s Infinite Greed
  • 05.07.10 Microsoft Makes You a Criminal
  • 05.11.10 Hollywood: Your Software Freedom Stops Here
  • 05.12.10 Patents Shred Europe’s Democracy to Pieces
  • 05.17.10 Microsoft to Use State of Alabama to Indoctrinate Adults, Not Just School Children
  • 05.17.10 FFII and End Software Patents (ESP) Respond to Enlarged Board of Appeal (EBoA) Regarding Software Patentability
  • 05.19.10 Novell is Promoting Vista 7 (DRM Trap) and Fog Computing (SaaS), Could Still be Bought by Microsoft
  • 05.20.10 Microsoft Propaganda in Africa Curses the Whole Population
  • 05.20.10 Techrights Welcomes Google’s WebM/VP8 Push
  • 05.22.10 Microsoft, Freedom, Choice, and Other Terminology Games
  • 05.24.10 The Gates Foundation Nearly Doubles Its Investment in Walmart, Also Invests in McDonald’s and GMO
  • 05.25.10 Samba Lawyer About Software Patents: The Only Solution is Abolition
  • 05.26.10 Canonical Adds Skype (Proprietary Software) to the Ubuntu Repository (Corrected)
  • 05.26.10 Eye on Apple: Abuse of Freedom
  • 05.26.10 WebM/VP8 is Not Open Source
  • 05.28.10 Microsoft is Not an Open Source Company, It’s a Software Patents Company With Lobbyists
  • 05.31.10 Microsoft and Apple Bad for the Environment and for Labour
  • 05.31.10 University of Arizona Enters Microsoft Fog; Steve Ballmer Lobbies Malaysian Prime Minister to Enter Microsoft’s Proprietary Fog Computing Too
  • 06.02.10 Microsoft Has Just 1% in Top500 (HPC), Novell Would Like to Help Microsoft
  • 06.08.10 Microsoft Has a New Lock-in Model: Fog Computing
  • 06.08.10 European Lesson About Novell’s Software Patents, Germany Seemingly Continues to Allow Software Patents
  • 06.11.10 Constructive Critics Defend Spectators’ Freedom, So Why Do Passive Observers Criticise Them?
  • 06.15.10 Debate Rages on Regarding the Open Invention Network (OIN)
  • 06.16.10 Harald Welte Supports Apple in Enforcement Against Apple and Freedom-Hostile Apple Sympathisers Withdraw From GNOME
  • 06.18.10 FSF Hostility From Novell’s Former Managers Amid Fight Against ACTA
  • 06.29.10 More Bilski Analysis/Links (and Microsoft Front Group Commends Florian Müller)
  • 07.01.10 ACCESS Co. is Dying
  • 07.02.10 Freedom Defenders Look at the Glass Half Full in the Bilski Aftermath
  • 07.07.10 Patents Roundup: Call to “Abolish Software Patents”, FFmpeg Has No Patent Danger, and Patent WatchTroll Looks Like “Pure Satire”
  • 07.09.10 Landmark Digital Services is an Aggressive Patent Troll, Attacks Amateur Programmer in Europe
  • 07.10.10 Patents Roundup: FFII Founder on IBM, Shazam Has No Case, Microsoft Wants to ‘Own’ Page-flipping, and Software Freedom is Hurt
  • 07.20.10 Kevin McBride Takes on Linux
  • 07.22.10 OpenSUSE 11.3 Users Sensitive to Microsoft Lawsuit Due to Banshee Bundling
  • 07.25.10 Microsoft’s Worst Open Source ‘Infiltration’ Ever
  • 07.30.10 ACCESS Surrenders to Google
  • 08.04.10 Microsoft’s Latest Coup in South America
  • 08.07.10 Supreme Court Watch: Elena Kagan’s Policy on Patents Scarcely Known
  • 08.13.10 “EPO Still Operating in a Vacuum”
  • 08.13.10 Apple Benefits From Oracle’s Patent Attack on Android
  • 08.16.10 Groklaw Suspects Apple Might Relate to Oracle’s Attack on Android, Jonathan Schwartz’ Story About ‘Pulling a SCO’ Recalled
  • 08.24.10 Patent Trolls Still Rejoice and David Kappos is Change We Can’t Believe in
  • 08.24.10 “Microsoft Hates the Term “Free Software” or “Freedom”, They Prefer to Use Open Source”
  • 08.25.10 Response to Judith Wilcox and Axel H. Horns Regarding Patents to Software Developers
  • 08.29.10 IDG’s Fauxpen Source Blog Adds Microsoft People
  • 08.30.10 Mono Project Seems to be Dying (Development Virtually Halted) (Updated)
  • 08.30.10 Microsoft is Still Attacking “Open Source” and Standards, But Has No Other Choice
  • 09.02.10 Red Hat Now Worth Almost 3.5 Times What Novell is Worth
  • 09.04.10 Readers Respond to IDG’s Fauxpen Source Blog
  • 09.05.10 U.S. Military Hit by Windows, Learns Nothing From Microsoft Negligence
  • 09.10.10 01 Communique Uses Software Patents Against Dell, LogMeIn; IBM Still a Mockery of the USPTO Its Employee Runs
  • 09.11.10 “The USPTO Has Blown Smoke and Lived in a World of Denial and Obfuscation”
  • 09.11.10 European Patent Law is Being Abducted by Big Business and Patent Lawyers
  • 09.16.10 Nokia, Zeitgeist, MeeGo/Maemo, and Moonlight/Mono Threat
  • 09.18.10 If Patent Offices Ran the World
  • 09.22.10 Context of Steve Jobs’ “Leave Us Alone” Remark Helps Reveal More Arrogance
  • 09.22.10 The Free Software Foundation Fights Software Patents in the Southern Hemisphere
  • 09.23.10 Key Microsoft Figure (Internet Explorer Platform Architect) Quits Microsoft, Joins Google
  • 09.24.10 Microsoft Bribes and Tax Avoidance
  • 09.28.10 LibreOffice is Launched, Offering Independence from Oracle
  • 09.29.10 Microsoft’s Patent Offensives, Patent Trolls, and Other Patent Agitators
  • 09.30.10 Strong Momentum in the Fight Against Weak Patents
  • 09.30.10 LibreOffice Has the Potential to Altogether Replace Oracle OpenOffice.org (OOOo)
  • 10.03.10 ACCESS (ALP) is Now Dead, Freedom Lives
  • 10.04.10 Microsoft Puts Wealth in Hands of Cyber-criminals, Cheapens Real Workers
  • 10.05.10 Bill Gates-Funded Guardian ‘Writers’ Are Again Whitewashing Gates and Attacking Microsoft Rivals
  • 10.16.10 United Fruit Company 2.0: How Microsoft is Colonising South America
  • 10.22.10 Battling the BSA Hydra – Interpretation and Spanish Translation
  • 10.28.10 Michel Barnier Still Has an Agenda Hostile Towards European Software Developers
  • 10.28.10 El Dictionary Urbano Define Mobbyist (Mobbyists – Español)
  • 10.30.10 InformationWeek Global CIO on Today’s Microsoft Possibly Vanishing Within Less Than Five Years
  • 11.08.10 Apple EULA is Still Not Compatible With the GNU GPL
  • 11.10.10 Microsoft Lobbyists ‘Inject’ Pro-Software Patents Agenda Into News About Europe
  • 11.10.10 Linux and ‘Open’ Core
  • 11.14.10 The W3C and Fake Authority
  • 11.16.10 Writing to Americans
  • 11.16.10 Microsoft is Paying Red Hat Foe Acacia and Bruce Perens Criticises Red Hat Over Acacia NDA
  • 11.20.10 Escribiendo a los EstadoUnidenses
  • 11.20.10 Venture Capitalists Want to Get Rid of Software Patents, Pro-Patents Guy Commends “Smart Red Hat Employees” for Patent Stance
  • 11.23.10 AttachMSFT and Novell for Fog Computing, Worse Than Proprietary Software
  • 11.28.10 FOSDEM 2011 Infiltrated by Microsoft
  • 12.08.10 Microsoft Creates Confusion Around Freedom and Price
  • 12.13.10 Chronology of Techrights Focus and Plans for 2011
  • 12.15.10 Patent System’s LLC Syndrome Shows It’s Time for It to Go
  • 12.27.10 Freedom is Not Free
  • 12.27.10 The Voice of Treason
  • 12.28.10 ES: La Voz de Traición
  • 01.09.11 ES: Acuerdos a Puerta Cerrada: la Receta Secreta de Microsoft
  • 01.14.11 Linux Mint Founder Does Not Follow Ubuntu’s Banshee Travesty
  • 01.16.11 Fog Computing a Materialisation of New Microsoft Lock-in Threats
  • 01.19.11 Apple’s CEO Leaves Just as Apple Probed for Monopoly Abuse
  • 01.19.11 OpenSUSE Can Be Steered With Microsoft Money
  • 01.24.11 ES: El Sistema de Patentes – USPTO en Particular – Bajo Fuego
  • 01.24.11 The Patent System — USPTO in Particular — Comes Under More Fire
  • 01.28.11 Patents Roundup: Coverage From the United States, China, Vietnam, South Pacific, and Europe
  • 01.31.11 Possible Connections Between Departure of Eric Schmidt (Former CEO of Novell) from Apple and Google to Complaints
  • 02.01.11 FSF to Challenge Software Patents While Microsoft Uses Them to Extort GNU/Linux
  • 02.02.11 ES: La Fundación de Free Software FSF Desafia las Patentes de Software Mientras que Microsoft las Utiliza para Extorsionar a GNU/Linux
  • 02.05.11 Free Software Foundation’s Statement on Microsoft/Novell/CPTN Patent Attack Against Software Freedom
  • 02.06.11 FOSDEM 2011: Infiltration by Microsoft Photographed
  • 02.09.11 Microsoft’s President Elop is Allegedly Killing Linux Inside Nokia/Intel, Just When MeeGo Gets Android Compatibility (Updated)
  • 02.15.11 ES: El ‘Nuevo Nokia Es Un Problema de Patentes en Europa
  • 02.15.11 The ‘New Nokia’ is a Patent Problem in Europe
  • 02.16.11 Ostracise Miguel de Icaza Like Stephen Elop Should Have Been Ostracised From Nokia
  • 03.20.11 OSI Still Distances Itself From Microsoft
  • 03.20.11 ES: La OSI Todavía se Distancia a Sí Misma de Microsoft
  • 03.25.11 Boycott BT
  • 03.30.11 The FFII Reports Bad Faith at the European Patent Office
  • 04.11.11 Groklaw Defamed by Microsoft Boosters as Pamela Jones Steps Down Victorious
  • 04.22.11 ES: El Presidente de la OSI: Microsoft Florian Está Diciendo Insensateces (Acerca de las CPTLN/patentes entre Microsoft y Novell)
  • 04.24.11 TechBytes Episode 41: Going Rusty
  • 04.26.11 Umbrella for Techrights and an OpenBytes Partnership
  • 04.28.11 Tonnerre Lombard, André Rebentisch (FFII) Talk on Software Patents
  • 05.02.11 Video Criticism of Software Patents
  • 05.05.11 Microsoft’s Three Musketeers (Gates, Allen, Myhrvold) Still Assault the Market With Patents
  • 05.13.11 Patent Defence Cartels Versus Abolishing Software Patents
  • 05.15.11 ES: Los Defensa de los Cárteles de Patentes vs. La Total Supresión de Patentes de Software
  • 05.16.11 Microsoft’s CEO More Likely to Leave After His Disastrous Skype Move
  • 05.22.11 Producing TechBytes
  • 05.28.11 Introducing Eduardo Landaveri, Administrator of the Spanish Portal
  • 06.13.11 IDG Blames Carriers Amid Strategic Shift at Microsoft: Don’t Sell Windows Phones, Tax Linux Instead
  • 06.21.11 USPTO is Driving Away Businesses to Countries Like New Zealand, US-based Multinationals Attack New Zealand With Imperialistic Patent Lobbying to Assimilate Policies
  • 06.27.11 Rights Versus Freedoms
  • 06.28.11 ES: Derechos Versus Libertades
  • 07.18.11 9 Months of TechBytes
  • 07.22.11 ES: La USPTO Alejar a Empresas a Países Como Nueva Zelanda, Multinacionales Con Sede en Estados Unidos Atacan a Nueva Zelanda con Cabildeo de Patentes Imperialistas Para asimilar sus Políticas
  • 07.28.11 The Same Old Microsoft at OSCON
  • 07.30.11 Weekend Links 2011/07/30 – Amazing New OLPC and Patent Insanity
  • 08.08.11 Google Validates Techrights’ Assertion That Microsoft and Apple Are Part of a Cartel Against Linux
  • 08.23.11 Amid Motorola Patents Sale, More Calls to Abolish Patents and More Microsoft Brainwash
  • 08.23.11 Europe Under Threat From Software Patents Through the Back Door, Warns FSF Founder
  • 08.25.11 Steve’s Duopoly Against Linux
  • 08.28.11 Cablegate Reveals US Pressure for EU Patent (Unitary Patent) Alongside ACTA, More Pro-Patents Lobbyists Observed
  • 08.30.11 More Mainstream Backlash Against Software Patents and Patents in General
  • 08.31.11 July 2011 Interview With Muktware
  • 09.11.11 Cablegate: US Embassy Recommends That Argentina is Put on Monopolists’ Watch List, Free Software Adoption Noted
  • 09.15.11 Links – Copyright Maximalists turn on Libraries, Other Horrors. Will Yang Return to Yahoo?
  • 09.19.11 The Re-imposition of Smart Networks.
  • 09.30.11 Microsoft Systematically Corrupts the Media
  • 10.07.11 Steve’s Job
  • 10.10.11 TechBytes Episode 63: Enter KDE
  • 10.11.11 Patents Roundup: Backlash, WIPO, Facebook, and Acacia Attacks Linux/Android
  • 10.14.11 The Free Software Foundation Takes Action Against Microsoft’s Abuses With UEFI
  • 10.16.11 Links – Microsoft Security Failure, Spyware, Pollution and Corruption
  • 10.20.11 Links – Deranged noises and damage from a Dying Microsoft. Corruption all around.
  • 10.23.11 Steve Jobs and His War on Linux, LSD Addiction, and ‘Theft’ of Credit for UNIX, Java, Xerox Inventions
  • 10.28.11 Apple Lost Respect
  • 10.29.11 Apple’s Products Are Far From Perfect
  • 10.31.11 Patents Roundup: Twitter and Amazon, Microsoft and Apple, USPTO and SCOTUS
  • 11.02.11 Links – E-Tyranny Acts
  • 11.03.11 President Obama Ignores the US Population’s Plea to Abolish Software Patents (Updated)
  • 11.16.11 Links – Coordinated attacks against Occupy protests, SOPA, No Porno-Scan for EU.
  • 11.25.11 While Thanking and Celebrating Independence, Freedom…
  • 12.04.11 Links – US crackdown continues, CarrierIQ round up
  • 12.06.11 CarrierIQ Exposes the Flaws of “Best Tool for the Job” Pragmatism
  • 12.08.11 Links – SOPA and NDAA round up.
  • 12.12.11 The Age of Speaking Out Against the Patent System
  • 01.07.12 Links – An Unhappy New Year at the Marriott, Microsoft set backs, GNU/Linux and Free Software Advances.
  • 01.09.12 Links – Kindle, Nook, OLPC and Anti-Trust. Please petition Obama to Veto SOPA.
  • 02.06.12 Bill Gates Indoctrinates Youth in the United States and India, Critics Speak Out
  • 02.15.12 Tim Berners-Lee Finally Takes Action Against Patents on the Web
  • 02.22.12 Patents Roundup: Oracle Lessens Android Demands, Red Hat Suggests Cure to Trolls, Debian Adopts New Patent Policy
  • 02.23.12 Links – TPP evil, Time Zones in the Clear, Corporate Spying and other Fun
  • 02.25.12 While Attacking Android/Linux With FRAND and Lawsuits Apple and Microsoft Pretend to be the Victims
  • 03.05.12 Links – Censorship, Email and Anti-Science
  • 03.31.12 Microsoft’s 352 Patent is a Needle in the Haystack
  • 04.14.12 TechBytes in 2012
  • 04.19.12 Links – CISPA threatens US Citizens. Death to Word
  • 04.24.12 The Big Microsoft Lie is Spreading and It Works
  • 05.14.12 Links – TPP Meeting Infiltrated, More Protest Needed.
  • 05.21.12 New Zealand (NZ) Patent Debates Expand
  • 05.21.12 Articles Against Software Patents and Patent Trolls
  • 05.31.12 Links – Red Hat Deal Highlights the Threat of Microsoft’s “Secure Boot”
  • 06.10.12 Update on Patent Lawsuits Against Android and Google
  • 06.20.12 Microsoft Suffocates the Free Software Foundation (FSF)
  • 06.24.12 Microsoft Attacks Software Freedom in India With EDGI/MoU Manoeuvre
  • 06.24.12 FSF Says Microsoft’s Flagging of Its Site as ‘Gambling’ is Wrong; FSF’s Anti-UEFI Petition Grows Popular, Debian Joins
  • 06.27.12 New Evidence Arrives to Support Patent System Overhaul While EFF Pressures Congress
  • 06.29.12 With UEFI, Microsoft Assaults the General Public License (GPL) and Computing Freedom in General
  • 07.12.12 Leftover Links – Facebook uses your reputation to push political causes without asking you, Catching up With Gates in Education, pollution, corruption.
  • 07.12.12 Microsoft is Propping Up BSD
  • 07.15.12 UEFI Debate Rages on While New Workarounds and Advice Surface
  • 07.15.12 TechBytes Episode 68: Solo With Patents, Apple Bans, and Android World Domination
  • 07.17.12 Gartner Attacks Free Software and Transparency in Government
  • 07.17.12 UEFI Problems Addressed by Linux Developers, Not Distributions
  • 07.18.12 Restricted Boot Arguably Fought Against by Linux, Not Just GNU
  • 07.20.12 The Patent Wars Deepen
  • 07.25.12 Microsoft Imitates Android, LibreOffice Imitates Microsoft
  • 07.28.12 Apple is Already Beaten by Android, Resorting to Litigation and Disinformation
  • 07.28.12 New Reports Confirm That Microsoft Skype is Spying on Users, Sharing Personal Data
  • 08.02.12 The Horizon is Clearer as Software Patents Take a Blow in the United States
  • 08.05.12 Sunday Vote: MP3 Versions in TechBytes
  • 08.06.12 Vista 8′s Catastrophic Arrival Will Make GNU/Linux a Superior Gaming Platform, Claims Creator of Minecraft, Not Just Valve
  • 08.06.12 TechBytes Episode 74: Charles-H. Schulz on ODF, OOXML, and LibreOffice
  • 08.08.12 FSF Says SHIELD Act Does Not Go Far Enough, Wants Software Patents Dead
  • 08.08.12 OEMs Already Dislike Vista 8
  • 08.13.12 Mono and Xamarin After Cash Infusion From Former Microsoft Executives
  • 08.13.12 TechBytes Episode 75: On TechBytes, Techrights, and Site News
  • 10.12.12 Microsoft Breaks the Web and Linux
  • 10.16.12 Apple Aggression Against Linux Continues to Motivate Patents Abolition
  • 11.02.12 Ubuntu Decided to Stay With GPLv3 After Public Backlash
  • 11.03.12 Software Patents Teleforum: No Programmers Allowed
  • 11.05.12 Garrett a Microsoft Apologist
  • 11.05.12 Patent Reform Widely Promoted in the News
  • 11.06.12 Linux Foundation Sells Out (to Microsoft)
  • 11.07.12 CA Becomes Patent Aggressor
  • 11.09.12 Apple Sues Google and Android Over Patents
  • 11.13.12 Apple Censorship Shows Importance of Software Freedom
  • 11.14.12 Peter S. Menell Singles Out Software Patents in His New Paper
  • 11.18.12 Bogus Correlations for Disinformation on Software Patents
  • 11.19.12 The Image That Scares Apple
  • 11.19.12 Europe to Push for Unitary Patent (Software Patents Loophole) at 7 PM CET Tonight
  • 11.22.12 Culture of Litigation Versus Business, Innovation, and Production
  • 11.27.12 Patents Roundup: Microsoft Front the BSA Promotes Software Patents, Kappos Helps the Rotten System
  • 11.30.12 Moving to ODF Before Microsoft Jacks Up the Prices
  • 12.02.12 Fighting Software Patents in the US While SCOTUS Already Moves to Validate Gene Patents
  • 12.09.12 The Story Behind Criticising Ubuntu’s Privacy Settings
  • 12.15.12 USPTO Continues to Fail Where India is Succeeding
  • 12.16.12 The Aftermath of ‘Unitary’ Patent
  • 12.30.12 Vista 8 Fails This Xmas, UEFI Blocks GNU and Linux While Microsoft Tries Collecting in China, Stopping Sales of Open PCs
  • 01.19.13 New Fights Against Software Patents Around the World
  • 01.29.13 Attack of the Proxies
  • 02.15.13 Shining Light on Microsoft Propaganda Against Copyleft
  • 02.25.13 EFF Opposition to Software Patents Strong, But Not Strong Enough
  • 03.02.13 UEFI Restricted Boot: Torvalds Asks Developers Not to “Please Microsoft by Doing Idiotic Crap Approach”, Petition Set Up to Nail Microsoft for This Antitrust Abuse
  • 03.06.13 Challenging Patent Law and Companies That Are Not Obeying Common Law
  • 03.14.13 More Microsoft Employees as ZDNet ‘Writers’, Microsoft Bribes Bloggers for AstroTurfing
  • 03.16.13 Ongoing Debate on Software Patents Brings up Trade Secrets, FRAND, and Misguided Targeting of Symptoms
  • 03.19.13 How Apple Attacked (and Marginalised) the Linux-powered WebOS
  • 03.28.13 Pro-Microsoft Rag ReadWrite is Losing the Microsoft Booster Who Ran It, HubSpot Infected Though
  • 03.31.13 With Unitary Patent Scheme, EPO Pushes Hard for Software Patenting (More Leech Income)
  • 04.04.13 GNU and Linux: It’s Not Just About Attribution But Also Philosophy
  • 04.06.13 Missing the Real Problem With Patents in the United States
  • 04.13.13 Apple Now a Leading Opponent of Linux, Due to Patents in Particular
  • 04.21.13 The Steep Decline of the Patent System: Scope Expanded While Barriers Lowered, USPTO Promotes Yet More Patenting
  • 05.09.13 Microsoft Moles Assimilate FOSS (Microsoft’s Philosophical Opposition) to Microsoft
  • 05.19.13 Courtroom and New Book Recognise That Software Patents Correspond to Mathematics and Mathematics Abused in Court
  • 05.30.13 The EPO Has Gone Rogue, Disregards the Law
  • 05.30.13 Mono Can Now be Treated Like a Microsoft Project
  • 06.01.13 Techrights Calls for Tim Berners-Lee to Drop DRM Support, Regain Control of (Currently Corporations-run) W3C
  • 06.07.13 It’s Official: New Leaks Show US Government Using Fog Computing and Proprietary Computing Culture to Illegally Eavesdrop on Everyone Around the World
  • 06.07.13 The Good News: White House Knows the Patent System is Broken. The Bad News: It Does Not Understand Why.
  • 06.15.13 Confirmed: Microsoft Tells the NSA About Back Doors in Windows
  • 06.30.13 Microsoft and Its Partner Netflix Pollute the Web With DRM Because Silverlight is Dead
  • 07.14.13 Patent Troll: I Am Not a Troll
  • 07.15.13 Ubuntu and SUSE ‘Cloud’ Users Spied on Through Microsoft Windows Azure (With NSA Back Doors)
  • 07.17.13 The War on Freedom of Information
  • 07.19.13 TechBytes Episode 84: Tracking by Facebook and Mobile Phones (Cellphones)
  • 07.20.13 Techrights Needs Readers’ Support
  • 07.22.13 TechBytes Episode 85: Listeners’/Readers’ Questions About FreedomBox, FSF Sponsorship, and Technical Decisions by Canonical and Red Hat
  • 07.24.13 TechBytes Episode 86: Debian GNU/Linux and Firmware
  • 08.05.13 European Commission Takes Next Step Towards Legalising Software Patents in Europe
  • 08.05.13 More Patent Lawsuits Target GNU/Linux, Response Includes Calls to End Software Patents
  • 08.07.13 Management at Microsoft and Rape Charges
  • 08.20.13 Actions of US Government Shut Down Groklaw Pre-emptively; Observing the US’ Sanctions Economy and the Danger of Expansion to Europe
  • 08.28.13 Techrights in 2013-2014 (Eighth Year)
  • 09.20.13 The Linux Foundation’s Big Lie: ‘Linux’ is 22 Years Old
  • 09.24.13 Degree of Freedom — Not Wealth — Should be Measure of GNU/Linux Success
  • 09.25.13 LinuxCon 2013 Shows That Linux is Becoming Big and Professional Like GNU
  • 10.07.13 GNU World Domination, Not Linux World Domination
  • 10.07.13 Catching Up Mode
  • 10.07.13 How Windows Limitations Actively Cripple GNU/Linux, Hindering Its Superior Features Set
  • 10.07.13 GNU/Linux as the Means, Not the Goal
  • 10.16.13 NSA Roundup: New Evidence of Crimes, Greenwald Moves Towards Independence, and More
  • 10.18.13 Open Hardware (Freedom- and Modifications-friendly Hardware) a Growing Force, But Intel Needs to be Kept Away
  • 10.18.13 Sharing Leads to Nobel Prizes
  • 10.22.13 Great Britain Great at Surveillance and Great at Crushing Journalism
  • 10.22.13 Windows Vista 8.1, or Windows ‘Brick Edition’, Shows That UEFI is Malicious, Opposite of ‘Secure’
  • 10.23.13 Risky Energy and the Crushing of Protests
  • 10.26.13 Microsoft’s Common Carrier Dying While GNU/Linux on the Desktop Rising Because Steam Helps Eliminate Gaming Gap
  • 10.28.13 The NSA Causes an Atlantic Blunder
  • 10.30.13 Apple is the Kingdom of Censorship, Deletes and Silences Even Its Own Fans
  • 11.01.13 Free-as-in-Freedom Hardware: Building Together, Speeding up Innovation Through Cooperation
  • 11.08.13 Ikey Doherty Gets a Great Job by Developing GNU/Linux, But What Does That Mean to Free Software?
  • 11.11.13 Canonical’s Mistakes ‘Made and Addressed’, Except the Privacy Violations
  • 11.13.13 Google as Flag Bearer of GNU/Linux
  • 11.14.13 Microsoft Has Taken Over Mono Development, With Miguel de Icaza’s Consent
  • 11.21.13 Learning Who Steve Jobs Really Was
  • 11.27.13 NVIDIA Should Stop With Words and Lead With Actions
  • 11.28.13 Glyn Moody on GNU GPL Against Software Patents and Microsoft Racketeering
  • 11.28.13 A GNU To Be Thankful For
  • 12.01.13 Liberating Devices From Android Using Replicant, Not CyanogenMod
  • 12.03.13 Apple and Microsoft Claim Patent Tax on GNU/Linux, Red Hat’s Response Too Weak
  • 12.04.13 NSA Leaks: Still Yielding New Scandals, But Fewer Than Before
  • 12.10.13 The Time for Freedom-Respecting Routers Has Come
  • 12.10.13 GNU/Linux-Powered and Freedom-Respecting Phones (OpenMoko is Sort of Back)
  • 12.12.13 Beyond Trademarks, Intellectual Monopolies at Canonical Raise Questions
  • 12.25.13 Techrights Plans for 2014
  • 12.26.13 CyanogenMod Integrates Proprietary Software, Replicant Does Not
  • 12.27.13 Ubuntu Derivatives Can Gain as Canonical Reduces Commitment to GNOME
  • 12.30.13 More Reasons to Boycott Apple, Which Abuses Courts, Engages in Competition Crime, and Aids Espionage
  • 01.05.14 Use Bitcoin, Boycott Pierre Omidyar’s PayPal
  • 01.07.14 Convert Your Routers and Hubs to Free Software in Order to Dodge Back Doors
  • 01.14.14 The Future of KDE in the News
  • 01.21.14 GNU News (December-January)
  • 01.23.14 Privacy Watch: Today’s Stories of Interest
  • 01.24.14 Amid NSA Scandals and Revelations Delhi Government and European Governments Are Moving to GNU/Linux and Free Software
  • 01.26.14 Never Ever Use Coprocessors for Cryptology, Especially If Implemented in the United States
  • 01.30.14 This Week’s Big News in Great Britain Shows That Free Software is Doing Great
  • 02.06.14 Note to the Press: Nvidia News is About Linux, Not Linus
  • 03.19.14 When Microsoft is Using (and Paying) Celebrities to Ridicule GNU/Linux
  • 03.19.14 GNU News: What’s New in GNU
  • 03.19.14 Reforming Copyrights and Challenging Copyrights Stigma With Free/Libre Software
  • 03.24.14 Microsoft Says It Will Reward ‘Open Source’ Code That Helps Microsoft Sell Proprietary Software
  • 03.25.14 As Mozilla CEO, Brendan Eich Can Put an End to Mono and Intrusive Ads in Firefox
  • 03.29.14 Canonical Removes Amazon Search From Ubuntu (by Default)
  • 04.01.14 Canonical Breaks Up With Amazon Over CIA Connections
  • 04.02.14 No More Opposition to Ubuntu Over Spyware
  • 04.03.14 Ubuntu is Becoming More Privacy-respecting With Ubuntu One Shutdown
  • 04.06.14 With Incompetence or Back Doors Like These, Who Needs Microsoft/NSA Back Doors?
  • 04.07.14 Both Apple and Microsoft Compare Their Corporate Causes to Religion
  • 04.09.14 GNU News: New Releases, Coreboot Milestone, GNU Linux-libre, MediaGoblin, and Compilers
  • 04.11.14 Microsoft: Let’s Talk About Heartbleed® (Reported by Our ‘Former’ Security Chief) While the World Migrates From XP to GNU/Linux
  • 04.30.14 Newer Approach for Advocating Free Software
  • 05.03.14 The European Union Legitimises Software Patents by Intervening in Android Patent Case
  • 05.07.14 Apple’s Patent Plot a Failure, But It Still Hurts Free/Libre Software
  • 05.07.14 Microsoft Still Imposes Broken ‘Updates’ and Breaks GNU/Linux Through UEFI Boot Restrictions
  • 05.22.14 World’s Largest Population Heading Towards GNU/Linux Because Windows is Not Secure (NSA Trojan Horse)
  • 05.30.14 When NSA/PRISM/Microsoft Skype Turns Voice Conversations Into Text in Real Time
  • 06.20.14 ‘Active Management Technology’ is Quite Likely a Back Door, Along With Intel’s UEFI
  • 07.16.14 Software Patent Applications Already Being Rejected in the US Owing to SCOTUS Ruling, Some Patent Lawyers Are Fuming
  • 08.23.14 Blowback in Chile and Munich After Microsoft Intervention
  • 09.15.14 Željko Topić, Benoît Battistelli, and the European Patent Office (EPO): Part II
  • 09.22.14 European Patent Office/Organisation – Suspicion of Improper Collusion Between EPO President and Chairman of the Administrative Council: Part III
  • 10.16.14 Vista 10 is Still Vapourware, But We Already Know It Will Increase Surveillance on Its Users and Contain Malicious Back Doors
  • 12.11.14 Ubuntu Core Announcement is Not About Microsoft and Hosting Ubuntu on Azure is Worse Than Stupid
  • 12.16.14 Bill Gates’ Pet Troll Intellectual Ventures is Collapsing as Founder Quits
  • 01.02.15 Growing Resistance to Software Patents in the US While USPTO Expected to Review Subject Matter Eligibility
  • 01.07.15 Microsoft Fired Chief Privacy Officer for Suggesting Real Privacy
  • 01.13.15 Microsoft’s Strategy for Dealing With Back Doors: Blame Google
  • 02.20.15 Benoît Battistelli Once Again Threatens EPO Staff That ‘Dares’ to Protest, Battistelli Exploits Terror Attacks to Pretend to Respect Free Speech
  • 04.12.15 Yes, Software Patents Are Dying, But Media Continues to Be Dominated by Those Denying it For a Salary
  • 04.20.15 Embrace, Extend, Extinguish: How Microsoft Plans to Get Rid of Linux/Android
  • 05.13.15 Does Anyone Still View Cyanogen as Anything But a Microsoft Proxy?
  • 05.25.15 Süddeutsche Zeitung Says Talking Helps While EPO Management Back-stabs Other Side of the Table
  • 05.26.15 Patent Scope at the EPO is Totally Out of Control, UPC Will Make Things Worse
  • 05.27.15 Microsoft’s Patent Allies LG and Sony Agree to Put Microsoft Inside Android
  • 05.28.15 Patent Lawyers Fight Hard for the Future of Software Patents
  • 05.28.15 Censorship on Reddit Has Gotten (Condé) Nasty and Silent, Even Actively Silenced
  • 06.20.15 Better Watch Out or the United States Will Export Software Patents to Europe, Along With Patent Trolls
  • 06.25.15 An Estimated 1,000 EPO Staff in Munich Demonstrated Against EPO Management Yesterday Afternoon
  • 07.04.15 Microsoft Windows Unsafe at Any Speed, by Design
  • 07.08.15 Microsoft-Connected Anti-Google AstroTurfing Group Tries to Push Google to Web Censorship, With IDG’s Help (Plus an Attack on Free/Libre Software)
  • 07.30.15 Microsoft’s Mouthpiece Mary Branscombe Tries to Shoot Down Free Software, But Fails Miserably
  • 08.05.15 Vista 10 is Worse Than Spyware, It Adds People’s Computers to a Botnet
  • 08.06.15 Political Battles Over Patent ‘Reform’ in the United States and Tax on Nonexistent Things
  • 08.20.15 Vista 10 Turns PCs Into Zombies: Microsoft to Remotely Delete Software From Windows, Like Amazon Deleted Books From Kindle
  • 08.24.15 Sabine Pfeiler and Otto Seidl Should Take Note as Russia — Like China — is in the Process of Banning Microsoft Windows for Security Reasons
  • 09.01.15 Calling Proprietary Software, Software Patents, Lock-in (Like OOXML) and DRM ‘Open’
  • 09.24.15 EPO Managers, Patent Lawyers, Commissioners and Other Non-Technical Personnel Tackle Democracy, Alter Laws in Bulk and in Secret
  • 10.16.15 EPO is Trademark-Bullying Its Critics, Trying Repeatedly to Remove Bad Publicity With Help From Menacing Legal Threats (SLAPP)
  • 10.22.15 Techrights to Increase Coverage of EPO Scandals and the Unitary Patent
  • 10.30.15 EPO Press Spokesperson and Obvious Conflicts of Interest With Supposed Anti-Corruption Group Transparency International
  • 11.13.15 Linux Voice Stresses the Importance of the Software Patents Question in Relation to Free Software
  • 11.25.15 EPO Management Needs to Finally Recognise That It Itself is the Issue, Not the Staff or the Unions
  • 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
  • 01.08.16 The European Patent Office (EPO) Doesn’t Like Spanish, So Why Should the Spanish Tolerate the EPO?
  • 01.10.16 A La Oficina Europea de Patentes (OEP) no le gusta el Español, Así que PorQué los Espańoles la Toleran?
  • 01.23.16 EPO Implicitly Acknowledges Declining Patent Quality by Agreeing to Finally Dump Some Monsanto GMO Patents
  • 01.28.16 Dutch Television Talks About EPO Conflict and Today’s Protest at The Hague, Previous Protests Too
  • 02.01.16 Slides of New Talk Which Explains the Connection Between the Unitary Patent (UPC) and Software Patents
  • 02.06.16 Diápositivas de Nueva Charla Explican la Connección Entre la Corte De Patentes Unitarias (UPC) y Patentes de Software
  • 02.18.16 The EPO’s Patent Coup in Europe Moves on With Conflict of Interests-Plagued German Authorities for UPC
  • 04.03.16 Microsoft’s Charm Offensive Against GNU/Linux Uses the Same Media Strategy Donald Trump Uses
  • 04.10.16 Avoiding the Vista 10 Trap and Rejecting Microsoft’s Attempt to ‘Jail’ GNU Inside Windows
  • 04.11.16 Evitando la Trampa de Vista 10 y Rechazando el Atentado de Microsoft de ‘Encarcelar’ GNU Dentro de Windows
  • 04.12.16 GNU/kWindows
  • 04.28.16 Latest Black Duck Puff Pieces a Good Example of Bad Journalism and How Not to Report
  • 06.10.16 The EPO is in a Mess So Sordid That It Pays for Positive Publicity, Further Abolishes Labour Rights (to Punish Whistleblowers) and More
  • 09.02.16 The Corrupting Influence of Money in the Linux Foundation (Bias for Sale)
  • 10.05.16 Pieter Hintjens’s Legacy of Fighting Against Software Patents Lives On
  • 10.12.16 Software Patents Are Going Away and Their Proponents Fight Back Harder Than Before
  • 11.18.16 Drunk on ‘Production’, the European Patent Office (EPO) Grants Patents on Recipes
  • 03.03.17 IBM is a Massive Patent Bully That Amasses Software Patents, So Invalidation or ‘Sharing’ of One Single Patent Misses the Point Entirely
  • 03.11.17 Why Techrights is Nowadays Focused on the EPO and UPC (Unitary Patent)
  • 08.02.17 Growing Threat to Free/Libre Software From Software Patents: Apple, Microsoft and Nokia Charge Ahead
  • 09.03.17 Media Hostility Towards Patent Reform in the US, Software Patents on the Chopping Block
  • 09.26.17 Microsoft Brings Its GNU/Linux-Hostile Patent Scheme to China
  • 09.28.17 Microsoft is Doing to ‘Open Source’ (OSI) What it Did to W3C
  • 12.17.17 The EPO Has Found ‘Creative’ New Ways to Bribe the Media and Promote Software Patents
  • 05.13.18 Debunking the Usual Omission of GNU
  • 10.06.18 Techrights’ Position on the Linus Torvalds and CoC Kerfuffle
  • 02.19.19 What Happened in the United States Now Happens in Europe: Lots of Patents Turn Out to Be Bunk, Fake, Bogus, Invalid and Thus Worthless
  • 04.10.19 Guest Post: The Linux Foundation (LF) is “Putting the CON in Conference!” (Part 1)
  • 04.14.19 Guest Post: The Linux Foundation (LF) is “Putting the CON in Conference!” (Part 2)
  • 04.16.19 Reader’s Claim That Rules Similar to the Code of Conduct (CoC) Were ‘Imposed’ on LibrePlanet and the FSF
  • 04.18.19 Concluding the Linux Foundation (LF) “Putting the CON in Conference!” (Part 3)
  • 04.18.19 Freedom is Not a Business and Those Who Make ‘Business’ by Giving it Away Deserve Naming
  • 04.21.19 A Reader’s Suggestion: Directions for Techrights
  • 04.23.19 Code of Coercion