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Sam Ramji

  • 09.11.09 Microsoft Turncoat Quits
  • 02.14.15 More People With Microsoft Roots Enter the Linux Foundation, Occupying Top Positions
  • 05.13.15 When ‘Former’ Microsoft Influence Lands in Free/Open Source Software
  • 06.03.15 Only Months After Microsoft’s Ramji Enters the Linux Foundation Microsoft Gradually Joins Him


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


  • 08.08.07 Novell Surrenders to Windows in the Datacentre
  • 08.19.07 Virtualisation Debate Revisited: VMWare, Citrix, Xen, Novell, and Microsoft
  • 11.09.07 Novell/Microsoft Deal — The Success That Wasn’t
  • 02.05.08 Quick Mention: Details About Attempts to Crush GNU/Linux, Inherit FOSS (Updatedx2)
  • 03.07.08 Microsoft Now Tries to Invade Eclipse, Apache (Updated)
  • 03.11.08 Speculation: Who or What is Walli? (Or “How Microsoft Invades FOSS”)
  • 03.21.08 Why Novell is Bad for Linux: Reason #100 (Virtualisationovell-only)
  • 04.02.08 Microsoft Latest Incursions and Subversion of Open Source
  • 05.20.08 Microsoft’s Response to GNU/Linux Adoption: Roundup of Latest Incidents
  • 06.13.08 If Microsoft’s Marketing Ploy Continues, “Open Source” is Passé
  • 07.17.08 Why Microsoft Resorts to Dirty Tricks with Virtualisation
  • 07.26.08 Microsoft Pays for a More Microsoft-Obedient Apache
  • 07.27.08 Microsoft Open Sores (May Contain Patents)
  • 07.29.08 Reactions to Microsoft’s ‘Embrace’ of Open Source at OSCON 2008
  • 08.01.08 Don’t Play Politics and Diplomacy with Microsoft
  • 08.01.08 Hey, Microsoft, Leave Them Reporters Alone
  • 08.05.08 Of Microsoft’s Plans for GNU/Linux and Tinfoil Hats
  • 08.07.08 OSCON and Microsoft
  • 08.21.08 Novell Resentment: OSI, Others Begin to Wake Up
  • 09.02.08 Microsoft and Novell Grab Open Source Soapboxes
  • 10.26.08 What to Make of Nokia… Regarding Licences, Patents, and Formats
  • 10.30.08 Does Apache Show That Money Talks?
  • 11.09.08 Microsoft Starts the Media Charade Ahead of Apache Conference
  • 12.15.08 Microsoft Appoints Robert Duffner to Fight Freedom and Harm GNU/Linux
  • 12.30.08 SDTimes Explains Why Microsoft Wants Open Source
  • 02.06.09 Microsoft is Hunting for More Anti-Linux People
  • 02.20.09 Novell Promotes ASP.NET, Demotes OpenSUSE
  • 03.04.09 Another Company Affiliated with Microsoft Sues Red Hat Using Software Patents
  • 03.29.09 Red Hat, Microsoft, EU Lobbyists, and Software Patents
  • 04.14.09 Then They Lie, Then They Fight You, Then They Choose Your Products
  • 04.15.09 Ousted Microsoft Employees Was Right; Microsoft Admits XBox 360 is Still Defective
  • 04.16.09 Coverage of Microsoft’s Pathetic Patent Attacks on GNU/Linux
  • 04.21.09 Microsoft Loses to Google and Free Software
  • 04.29.09 Film Director Blasts Microsoft for Exploitation
  • 07.12.09 Mono Roundup: Microsoft Following, Deception, and the Moonlight ‘Extend’ Phase
  • 07.16.09 Boycott Melco
  • 07.21.09 Verdict on Microsoft’s Linux Patch: Embrace, Extend, and Assimilate
  • 08.01.09 Groklaw on Microsoft’s GPL Violation and Microsoft on the GPL
  • 09.07.09 The New Ubersoft
  • 09.09.09 Best Buy Reminds Us of the “New” Microsoft, the *Real* Microsoft
  • 09.10.09 Red Hat: Microsoft Marketed Its Patents for Trolls to Attack Free Software
  • 09.11.09 Linux Foundation Lashes Out at Microsoft Over Attacks on GNU/Linux
  • 09.11.09 Trouble in Novell/Microsoft Paradise
  • 09.12.09 Why Microsoft’s CodePlex Foundation is a Promoter of Proprietary Software
  • 09.13.09 Microsoft Member of the Board Quits the Company
  • 09.13.09 OIN Receives Thanks from Many, CodePlex Foundation Receives Thumbs-Down from Many
  • 09.14.09 More Thoughts About the Microsoft CodePlex Foundation: New Links
  • 09.14.09 Microsoft Runs Away from the Press After Trying to Have GNU/Linux Sued by Proxy
  • 09.17.09 gNewSense Gets Rid of Mono While Mono Gets Closer to Microsoft
  • 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
  • 09.30.09 Groklaw Groks Mono, Miguel de Icaza, Microsoft, and More
  • 10.05.09 Lest CodePlex perplex – by Richard Stallman
  • 10.10.09 Novell VP Brushes Off Microsoft’s Attacks on GNU/Linux, Promotes .NET
  • 10.15.09 Microsoft Hooks up with the Press and the Government to Cement Protectionist Measures
  • 10.29.09 Microsoft Tries to Use Eclipse for Microsoft Lock-in
  • 11.05.09 Open Source Subsumed by Microsoft and Blackboard
  • 11.09.09 Some New Examples of FUD Against Linux, GNU, and the GPL
  • 12.10.09 Microsoft New Zealand Technology Officer Jumps Ship, Ending More Pretense
  • 12.12.09 Microsoft is Apparently Push-polling for Patent Tax on GNU/Linux
  • 12.14.09 Microsoft is Looking to Hire a New Shill
  • 12.30.09 Microsoft’s EDGI Still Alive, Under “Linux and Open Office Compete”
  • 12.31.09 Another Microsoft General Manager Quits the Company, Microsoft Refuses to Say Why
  • 01.11.10 Miguel de Icaza Groomed by Microsoft with MVP Award
  • 02.24.10 Hugging Free Software to Death and Novell’s Embrace of Proprietary Platforms
  • 07.25.10 Microsoft’s Worst Open Source ‘Infiltration’ Ever
  • 08.04.10 Microsoft’s Latest Coup in South America
  • 08.25.10 Microsoft is ‘Openwashing’ Azure
  • 11.14.10 Cronología de Microsoft Extorsión de Patentes Contra GNU/Linux
  • 01.24.11 Proprietary Software Company With Microsoft Roots Organises ‘Open Source Think Tank’
  • 03.03.11 IDG is Again Advertising and Whitewashing Microsoft in Articles About ‘Open Source’
  • 06.19.11 Linux-Hostile Patent Lobbying Disguised as Analysis
  • 10.12.11 Microsoft Patent Tax From the Back Door
  • 02.01.12 Bill Gates is Hijacking Open Source While Attacking It Using Lobbyists, Patents, and Patent Trolls
  • 06.27.13 Insulting GNU/Linux and Free Software, Courtesy of Microsoft Moles
  • 07.06.13 Too Many Microsoft Proxies Inside the FOSS World
  • 02.19.14 Nadella is Not in Charge of Microsoft, the Big Criminals Are Still in Charge
  • 10.13.14 Microsoft’s Disdain for Women Steals the Show at a Women’s Event
  • 02.21.15 Microsoft AstroTurfing War on GNU/Linux is Still Going On, But Hidden Better, Uses API as Instrument of Lock-in
  • 04.27.15 Microsoft is Interjecting Itself Into GNU/Linux and Free Software News, Even Events and Foundations
  • 08.12.15 Painting Microsoft as ‘Friend’ of Free/Open Source Software and GNU/Linux to Help it Devour All Data, Workloads
  • 08.31.15 Microsoft Crowd Rocks the Media With Misleading Claims and Deliberate Lies About GNU/Linux, Vista 10, and Free/Open Source Software
  • 12.09.15 GNU/Linux Hosted by Microsoft Means Lock-in, Ransom, and Back Doors
  • 10.08.17 Microsoft Lobbying, the EPO, and Software Patents Disguised as ‘Internet of Things’
  • 01.27.19 From Attacking to Stealing


  • 10.02.09 Links 02/10/2009: Australian Moves to GNU/Linux, Ubuntu 9.10 Reaches Beta
  • 12.15.09 Links 15/12/2009: Elive 1.9.52 Released, Nook Liberated
  • 09.30.12 Links 30/9/2012: Slackware 14.0 is Out
  • 05.10.16 Links 10/5/2016: Zorin OS in Italy, CoreOS Funding
  • 05.26.16 Links 26/5/2016: CentOS Linux 6.8, Ansible 2.1
  • 09.14.16 Links 14/9/2016: Arya.ai’s Braid, MySQL Exploit Patched
  • 09.29.16 Links 29/9/2016: Russia Moving to FOSS, New Nmap and PostgreSQL Releases
  • 11.15.16 Links 15/11/2016: “498 out of 500 of the Speediest Computers on the Planet Are Running Linux”
  • 11.18.16 Links 18/11/2016: Apache at 17 (Years), GNU Octave 4.2
  • 11.19.16 Links 19/11/2016: KDE Applications 16.12 Beta, Zorin OS 12
  • 05.28.17 Links 28/5/2017: Mesa 17.1.1, Wine 2.9, KDevelop 5.1.1
  • 04.18.19 Links 18/4/2019: Ubuntu and Derivatives Have Releases, digiKam 6.1.0, OpenSSH 8.0 and LibreOffice 6.2.3