Summary: Some quick new facts about the TomTom-Microsoft settlement
IT MAY BE TRUE that the TomTom case is just a history lesson despite OIN's response, but a source has just told us privately that "TomTom paid less the half a million EUR to Microsoft because otherwise they have to file it at the Dutch Tax authorities."
Here is a video from last month. It's about patents and Free software, but we could not produce an Ogg version. ⬆
Recognise that slop isn't intelligence; it's a generational excuse for plagiarism and privatisation of not only the Commons but also proprietary knowledge (without authorisation)
The apologists of social control media, including press that got "addicted" to such fake "media", are helping dictators and oligarchs grab the public attention away from the real press
When you hire people illegally, to work for cocaine users and keep quite about the cocaine use, what will be the impact on the reputation of an institution?