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  • 11.13.07 Attempts to ‘Infect’ Google’s Android with Microsoft IP Tax?
  • 11.02.08 IDC, Gartner and Yankee Group’s Latest Press Attack on Customer’s Competitors
  • 12.24.08 Links Xmas Eve: Red Hat Leaps, Garmin Picks Android
  • 01.06.09 Quick Mention: Mono Goes Fighting Java on Android
  • 02.16.09 Androids ‘Bricked’ by Microsoft Mono
  • 07.29.09 Why is Acer Curtailing Its Linux Efforts?
  • 09.15.09 Android Phones to Avoid: LG
  • 01.05.10 Nice New Feature in Google’s Linux Phone (VIdeo)
  • 01.10.10 History of Microsoft’s “Slog” Against Android Brainchild
  • 03.17.10 Novell Wants to Bring Microsoft, Moonlight, and Mono to Linux Phones (Android)
  • 03.24.10 Kyocera and Sanyo (Not Just Samsung and LG) Help Microsoft ‘Tax’ Android
  • 03.27.10 Novell News Summary – Part II: SUSE (SLES/SLED) in BrainShare 2010, Samsung and Kyocera With Android
  • 04.21.10 Adobe Turns to Linux After Apple Snub
  • 04.28.10 HTC Sells Out to Microsoft (Microsoft ‘Android Tax’)
  • 04.30.10 Keeping Mono Out of Ubuntu 10.04 and Android; HTC Sued Again for Software Patents
  • 05.17.10 GM to Compete Against Ford and Microsoft Using Google’s Linux; Microsoft Belittles Google’s Office Suite
  • 05.17.10 Microsoft Settles With VirnetX After Patent Violations, is i4i Next?
  • 05.25.10 Microsoft Has Already Lost to Google’s Linux and Google’s Gmail
  • 05.31.10 Microsoft is Right. The Slate is Nice. (With Linux)
  • 07.05.10 Linux is Winning the Smartphones Competition
  • 07.20.10 Links: Motorola Fails at Android Freedom, Android Comes to Tablets
  • 07.21.10 Links: Android Takes the Stage at the Expense of Other Platforms
  • 07.23.10 ABI Research on a Bright Future for Linux in Devices
  • 07.29.10 Freedom in Phones Under a Regime of Software Patents, DRM Jail, and Other Forms of Malice
  • 07.29.10 Fedora’s Wildeboer Says Microsoft Uses Intel-Like Illegal Tactics to Marginalise Competition
  • 08.16.10 “Microsoft is Cashing Innovation Tax (aka Patent License Money) for Android, Now Oracle Joins the Scheme.”
  • 08.27.10 Microsoft Can’t Compete in Phones, Wants to Control Linux Phones Instead
  • 09.02.10 It’s True, Android is Not Free (Because of Microsoft Patent Extortion)
  • 09.04.10 Death Patents Now Challenged and Software Patents Continue to be Used by Apple and Microsoft Against Linux
  • 10.03.10 Vista Phone 7 is Dead on Arrival, So Microsoft Resorts to ‘Chill Attack’ on Linux/Android
  • 10.06.10 Update on Android Lawsuits
  • 10.11.10 Apple Shuts Down Factory Production of Linux Phones
  • 10.28.10 MPEG-LA Codecs and Microsoft Racketeering Challenge the Redistributability of Linux
  • 11.20.10 HTC Sued Over Patents by Company Already in Court With Microsoft
  • 12.04.10 Apple is Bullying Competitors — Including Linux — Using Software Patents
  • 12.15.10 At Novell, Apple Comes Before Linux
  • 12.27.10 Thumbs Up to Linux Phones for Rejecting Apple-esque Censorship
  • 01.12.11 Microsoft Enjoys Copyright Tax — Not Just Patent Tax — on Linux-powered Competitors
  • 01.17.11 Microsoft’s Partner Tuxera Tries to Add Patent Tax to Android Through Linux, Intel Plays Along With MeeGo
  • 01.17.11 Microsoft’s Patent Troll Intellectual Ventures Is Reportedly Extorting Linux Now
  • 01.21.11 In Defence of OIN and Android
  • 04.12.11 Why Google Should Yank MonoDroid
  • 04.22.11 comScore Miscounts Linux
  • 04.24.11 Shades of SCO in Action Against Android
  • 05.09.11 The Threat of Mono on Android and on Ubuntu is Not Totally Gone Yet
  • 05.20.11 It’s Not a Virus If the User Needs to Actually Install It
  • 06.08.11 New Reality Distortion, Same Florian Müller for Taxing Linux
  • 06.29.11 On GNU and Linux ‘Winning’ (Video Test)
  • 07.14.11 Android/Linux FUD is Calming Down, Microsoft Sympathisers Fantasise About Patents as Cash Cow
  • 07.15.11 ES: La FUD Contra Android/Linux Se Está Calmando, Los Simpatizantes de Microsoft Fantasean a Propósito de Patentes Como Vaca de Efectivo
  • 07.18.11 Linux FUD and Android FUD
  • 08.07.11 Microsoft Has Lost the Mobile War to Linux, Stuck at Around 1% Market Share
  • 08.14.11 Tablets, Phones, Linux, and Android Are Dragged Into Patent Mayhem by Microsoft, Apple, and Their Allies
  • 08.16.11 Links – More Google/Motorola/Android, Wind Power, Wealth and Political Power
  • 08.18.11 Amid Equilibrium in Patent Deterrence, Apple’s Patent Attacks on Linux a Sign of Losing
  • 08.20.11 The ‘Licensing’ FUD Against Android (Leading Back to Microsoft)
  • 09.03.11 Apple Tries Claiming That It Owns Android
  • 09.08.11 Microsoft PR/Lobbyists Incite Android Partners Against Google
  • 10.12.11 Updates on the Patent Fight Against Google
  • 10.25.11 Microsoft Throws More Lobbyists Into the Ring to Ban Linux Phones
  • 11.28.11 Android/Linux Not a Security Concern, Windows Definitely and Demonstrably Remains #1 Target
  • 12.21.11 Latest Patent Attacks on Linux/Android and Why They Matter
  • 12.28.11 Google Patents, Attacks on Android, and Calls for Apple and Microsoft Boycotts
  • 01.06.12 In the Age of Defective Patent Systems, Google Receives Patents to Defend Android From Lawsuits
  • 01.09.12 Software Patents and Bribes Against Android/Linux
  • 01.10.12 Updates on Microsoft/Nokia and Apple Patent Wars on Linux
  • 01.16.12 CPTN (Microsoft, Apple, Oracle) Attack on Android Faces New Setbacks
  • 01.23.12 Patents Roundup: Windows Declining, Microsoft and Apple Attack Linux
  • 01.25.12 Patents Roundup: Oracle, Microsoft (via MOSAID), and Apple Lawsuits Against Linux/Android
  • 01.27.12 Android Gains Upper Hand in Battle to Defend Android, Microsoft Lobbyists Still Spin the Subject
  • 02.14.12 Patent Forecast Improves for Android/Linux
  • 02.15.12 Claims of Imitation Backfire
  • 03.19.12 Android/Linux is Taking Over Tablets
  • 04.02.12 Oracle/Apple Litigation Versus Android/Linux
  • 04.04.12 Microsoft Patent War on Android/Linux is Backfiring, Oracle is Still Unable to Win a Single Case
  • 04.12.12 Apple, Microsoft, Oracle (CPTN) and the Latest Patent Hoard Against Android/Linux
  • 04.28.12 In Apple-Microsoft Attack on Android, Motorola Strikes Back and Wins
  • 05.12.12 Xamarin is Still an Anti-Java Company
  • 05.29.12 Time to Refocus on Microsoft’s Attacks — Including by Proxy — on Free Android
  • 06.10.12 Update on Patent Lawsuits Against Android and Google
  • 06.11.12 Linux World Domination
  • 06.13.12 FUD Campaign Against Android
  • 06.26.12 Apple’s Patent Cases Against Android Continue Falling Apart, Oracle Tries Again
  • 06.29.12 Android Distribution and Freedom Challenged by Apple and Microsoft’s Co-founder
  • 07.01.12 Apple Bans Android/Linux Imports, Linux Foes Pretend to be FOSS Players
  • 07.01.12 Gartner Group Boosts Vista 8 on Devices
  • 07.10.12 Microsoft Libelled Android/Linux
  • 07.12.12 Microsoft is Working to Make Android Non-Free by Extortion, Apple Works to Ban It
  • 07.15.12 Apple Sued by Trolls, Sues Practising Companies Rather Than Trolls, Blocks Android Sales
  • 07.23.12 Android Devalues Windows and Has Apple on the Ropes
  • 07.30.12 Microsoft Shows Up in Apple’s Jihad for Bans and Castrations of Android Devices
  • 08.02.12 Apple Resorts to ‘Emergency’ Action to Block Linux Devices With Software Patents
  • 08.05.12 How Microsoft Expands the Patent Racket Against Android/Linux
  • 08.07.12 Linux and Android FUD
  • 08.07.12 Android/Linux in the Age of Patent Trolls, Software Patents, and Frivolous Litigation
  • 08.13.12 Judge Koh Bamboozled by Apple to Block Computing Freedom, Should Penalise Apple for Contempt of the Court
  • 08.21.12 Android FUD Watch: Paul Goldstein From Stanford Paid by Oracle
  • 08.25.12 Jury Expected to Drop Apple’s Claims Against Android Into the Bin (Updated)
  • 08.27.12 Techrights to Embrace Android
  • 09.30.12 After the Apple-Samsung Ruling
  • 10.02.12 Apple and Microsoft Bias
  • 10.12.12 Intel Turns to Linux Through Android
  • 11.09.12 Android/Linux/FOSS is a Massive Problem for Apple
  • 11.09.12 Apple Sues Google and Android Over Patents
  • 11.13.12 Patent Fronts Against Google
  • 11.26.12 Internet Trolls and Patent Trolls: How Microsoft and Apple Try to Derail Android
  • 12.11.12 Apple’s Android Lawsuits, Extortion, and Inevitable Market Declines
  • 12.12.12 Former Microsoft Staff Xuxian Jiang Spreads Android FUD
  • 01.23.13 Apple’s Strategy Against Linux and Android is Failing
  • 01.27.13 When Our Patents Are ‘Good’ and Others’ Are ‘Bad’
  • 02.18.13 Microsoft Tries to ‘Steal’ Android Apps While Attacking Android With Software Patents, BT Countersued
  • 02.25.13 Microsoft and the BSA Align With Oracle in Patent Fight Against Android/Linux
  • 03.08.13 Google/Android Extorted Through MPEG-LA
  • 03.08.13 Microsoft-led Nokia Once Again Attacks Android/Linux With Patents, This Time Directly
  • 03.14.13 Android/Google Under Patent Attacks, Calls for Other Companies to Stop the Patent Litigation Frenzy
  • 04.06.13 Apple/Microsoft/Nokia Cabal is Still Running a Patent Racket Against Linux Adoption
  • 04.07.13 Red Hat et al. (Including Android’s Guardian) Complain About Companies That Attack FOSS With Patents, Apple Sites Quote ‘FOSS Patents’ Spin on Yet Another Loss Against Android
  • 05.16.13 More Android FUD From Former Microsoft Staff in CBS
  • 05.27.13 Apple Does Not Pay Tax But Wants Android/Linux Tax (Like Its Other Half, Microsoft)
  • 05.30.13 Linux/Android is Crushing Apple
  • 06.05.13 Apple, the Bully, Cannot Stop or Even Embargo Android/Linux
  • 07.15.13 Microsoft Still a Patent Terrorist, Sues the Government for Not Playing Along in Linux/Android Embargoes
  • 10.03.13 Don’t Buy GNU/Linux, Tizen, or Android From Samsung
  • 10.07.13 Microsoft AstroTurfing Against Android as Well as Lobbying for Patent Tax on Android Still On
  • 10.23.13 Android With Proprietary Apps Installed is Not Secure
  • 11.01.13 Mobile GNU and Linux: Not Just Android
  • 11.01.13 Apple Feels the Pinch of Linux
  • 11.18.13 Android’s GNU/Linux-based Rivals Are Doing Pretty Well
  • 12.10.13 Forget Camera Gimmicks; Google Should Add Legitimate Encryption and Improve Privacy in Android
  • 12.12.13 Microsoft’s Antitrust/Taxation Attempts Against Linux/Android in Europe Are Rapidly Falling Apart
  • 12.26.13 Android Devices Open the Door to GNU/Linux
  • 01.10.14 Where Chromebooks/Chrome OS Have Not Yet Achieved the Job, Android Will Get the Job Done
  • 01.15.14 Links: 2014 Already a Good Year for Android on the Desktop
  • 01.15.14 Links: Latest Android Milestones
  • 01.21.14 GNU/Linux Rising in Mobile (Not Just Android)
  • 01.22.14 Android News of Interest
  • 01.27.14 The Desperate Attempts to Discredit Android
  • 02.07.14 Android Watch: Android/Linux Endorsed Again by Apple’s Co-founder
  • 02.11.14 Microsoft Nokia is Now Extorting Android, Harming Android
  • 02.18.14 Non-Android Mobile Linux: Jolla, Tizen, WebOS and Firefox OS Gain Momentum
  • 02.18.14 Big Milestones in the World of Android/Linux
  • 02.24.14 Patent Troll Nokia Pretends to Have Real Products by Ripping Off Android
  • 02.25.14 Android/Linux is Smashing Wintel/Atom to Pieces
  • 02.26.14 Elop Confirms That He Was Working for Microsoft All Along (Mole Inside Nokia)
  • 03.05.14 An Android World: Limitless Expansion in Tablets, Smaller Devices, and New Hardware
  • 04.03.14 The ‘Powered by Android’ Smear Shows Just How Far Anti-Google Reporting (Perhaps ‘Scroogled’ PR) Goes
  • 04.13.14 Mobile Linux Not Just Android: Jolla, WebOS, and Firefox OS News
  • 08.02.14 Google Should Sue Desperate Microsoft Out of Existence for Misuse of Government Regulators and Patent Racket Against Android Backers (as Microsoft Sues Samsung Using Another Nokia Ploy)
  • 10.04.14 Corporate Media Repeats Microsoft Propaganda About Patents by Claiming Microsoft Makes Billions From Android
  • 01.30.15 Apple- and Microsoft-Friendly Media Continues Attacking Android/Linux
  • 02.17.15 Microsoft Already Killed Nokia, Don’t Let It Kill Android Players Too
  • 03.21.15 Microsoft Hates Linux – Part III – Abducting the Competition (Android)
  • 03.21.15 Microsoft Hates Linux – Part IV – Deleting, Attacking Android/Linux From Within
  • 03.23.15 Bribes and Extortion Help Turn Android (Linux-powered) Into ‘Microsoft Android’
  • 03.24.15 Attempts to Disrupt Android by Pushing Microsoft Software Into It (Using Patent Blackmail and Cyanogen)
  • 04.01.15 Microsoft is Growing Desperate Trying to Destroy Linux While Not Publicly Appearing Anti-Linux
  • 04.17.15 Microsoft’s Multi-Dimensional Assault on Android/Linux: Extortion, Lobbying of Regulators, and Bribes
  • 04.20.15 Embrace, Extend, Extinguish: How Microsoft Plans to Get Rid of Linux/Android
  • 04.21.15 The Latest Developments Around Microsoft’s Clever Attack on Android/Linux
  • 05.13.15 Updates on Microsoft’s War Against GNU/Linux, Android, and Free/Libre Software
  • 05.27.15 Microsoft’s Patent Allies LG and Sony Agree to Put Microsoft Inside Android
  • 05.28.15 Stealing Android’s Thunder, Making It All About Apple and Microsoft During Google I/O
  • 06.03.15 Microsoft’s Latest Anti-Linux Strategy: Deleting Android From Android Devices
  • 07.06.15 There is No ‘New Microsoft’: Under Nadella, Patent Extortion Against Linux/Android Carries on
  • 07.27.15 Patents in the Android World Further Complicate Freedom in This Linux-Powered Platform
  • 08.10.15 Finjan, Cisco, JDate and Other Companies Acting Like Patent Trolls; New Threats to Linux
  • 08.21.15 Company of Hype and ‘Fanbois’ Continues Its Patent Attacks on Android/Linux
  • 08.29.15 Apple’s Patent Cases Against Android Are Falling Apart, as Acknowledged Even by the Anti-Android Lobby
  • 10.04.15 Microsoft Continues to Extort Linux and Android OEMs Using Software Patents, This Time ASUS (Forced to Pre-Install Microsoft Spyware With OOXML)
  • 10.06.15 Media Reports Based on New Patents Suggest That Microsoft Continues to Attack Google and Android/Linux, Trying to Tax and Delete Android
  • 10.31.15 Android is Being Disrupted by Microsoft and Its Satellite Entities Like Cyanogen, Patent Trolls, and Xamarin
  • 12.19.15 Microsoft is Entrapping Android With Infamous (ex)FAT Patents and Turning Android Phones Into Microsoft Listening Devices (Bugs)
  • 02.12.16 Apple and Microsoft Cannot Keep Up With Android (Linux), More Layoffs Reported
  • 02.23.16 Apple May be Forced to Convince the Supreme Court That It is Entitled to Money That Android Companies Have Been Making
  • 02.25.16 Apple Puede Ser Obligada a Convencer a la Corte Suprema de que Tiene “Derecho” Al Dinero que las Compañías de Android han Estado Ganando
  • 04.26.16 Microsoft’s ‘Full Assault’ on Android, Java, and GNU/Linux, Using Classic E.E.E. Tactics Again
  • 04.27.16 ES: Microsoft ‘Asalto con Todo’ Contra Android, Java, y GNU/Linux, Usando la Clásica E.E.E. Táctica de Nuevo
  • 05.12.16 Large Firms Which Are Becoming Troll-Like Threaten Linux, Try to Embargo Imports
  • 05.15.16 ES: Compañías Grandes Que Se Están Convirtiéndo Trolles Amenazan a Linux, Tratan de Embargar Importaciónes
  • 07.17.16 Microsoft and Its Patent Minions at Nokia Still Have Patent Stacking Ambitions Against Android/Linux OEMs
  • 08.12.16 In Its War Against Android/Linux, Apple Supported by Non-Producing/Non-Practicing Parasites, Whereas Technology Companies Support the Android OEM
  • 03.31.17 Microsoft’s Patent Blackmail Against Samsung Part of a Strategy of Divide and Conquer Against Android
  • 10.15.17 Forget About Apple; Two of the Leading Phone Makers (Samsung and Huawei) Are Bickering Over Patents
  • 02.14.19 Reading Techrights on a Mobile Device Running Android


  • 02.11.08 What Does Samsung’s Linux Deal Mean to Android and Mono?
  • 07.31.09 The Slime About ARM and Android
  • 10.09.09 Samsung Brings Microsoft’s ‘Linux Tax’ to Android As Well
  • 01.06.10 Microsoft’s Puppy, Fortify, Attacks Android (Linux) Over E-reader ‘Security’
  • 02.24.10 Windows Mobile Down Sharply, Linux/Android Up Sharply
  • 03.01.10 Software Patents Kill Another Program for Linux (Android)
  • 03.20.10 Patents Roundup: Android/Linux Defended by HTC; Monsanto and Ghana
  • 03.29.10 Apple, Microsoft, and Intellectual Ventures Versus Android, Which Finds New Home at Telstra in Spite of Microsoft
  • 04.03.10 Novell News Summary – Part II: SUSE and IBM Cuddle, Android’s Patent Problem in Asia
  • 04.03.10 Apple Now in ‘Embargo Mode’ Against Android (Linux)
  • 04.30.10 Does Android’s Chief Compare Steve Jobs to North Korea’s Dead Leader (Kim Il-sung)?
  • 04.30.10 Microsoft Insiders Speak About the Case Against Android
  • 05.12.10 Microsoft Loses Market Share in Search, Exploits Yahoo! Some More, Exploits Linux/Android Phones, and Harvests Many People’s Data
  • 05.22.10 Gartner Hypnosis: Pretending Android and Linux Are Totally Separate
  • 05.22.10 By Pushing Mono Into Android, Novell Puts Microsoft Before Freedom
  • 05.26.10 Eric Raymond Explains Why Linux (Android) ‘Outguns’ Apple in ‘Technology and User-visible Features’
  • 06.04.10 Red Hat’s CEO Dismisses Software Patents and Microsoft Uses Tuxera to Spread Them to Linux/Android
  • 06.04.10 Novell is Knowingly Seeding GNU/Linux, MeeGo and Android With Microsoft Patents
  • 06.12.10 ITC Considers Whether to Ban Apple Products After Apple Sued Linux (Android)
  • 06.24.10 Patents Roundup: Apple Sues Android/Linux Again, ‘Anti-Microsoft’ Patent Upheld, In Re Bilski May be Due Today
  • 06.26.10 Bogus Software Patents Used Against Google Because Android(Linux)+Services Are Winning
  • 07.01.10 Android and GNU/Linux on HD2 (With Touchscreen)
  • 07.21.10 Links: MeeGo Harmed by Junk Intel/x86 Drivers, OLPC Makes Another Step (Despite Intel Fighting It), Android Grows in Tablets
  • 07.31.10 Novell Puts Microsoft Tax and Microsoft Code in Android and in GNU/Linux
  • 08.02.10 FUD About Android and Other Free Software Projects
  • 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
  • 08.17.10 Microsoft’s ‘Android Tax’ Shows Why Mono Should be Treated as Threat
  • 08.24.10 Apple Increases Censorship Bars and Microsoft AstroTurfer Pushes Android/Linux Towards Censorship
  • 08.30.10 Microsoft’s Boosters Continue to Attack Linux/Android and Say Microsoft Loves Open Source
  • 08.30.10 Oracle Promotes hypePod/hypeTunes Just Weeks After Suing Android, Java’s Founder Has Message for Ellison
  • 09.16.10 Linux-powered Android Attacked by Skyhook Patents and Evidence Increases That “Software Patents Should Be Abolished”
  • 09.17.10 Microsoft Attacks Android With Software Patents, This Time Verbally
  • 10.04.10 Entryism Watch: Yahoo! Keeps Being Abducted by Microsoft Executives, HP Cancels Android Projects After CEO Appointment From SAP
  • 10.12.10 Groklaw Compares Microsoft’s Lawsuits Against Linux/Android Vendors to SCO Lawsuit
  • 10.22.10 Apple Makes New Enemies Among Mozilla, Battelle, Linux/Android Developers
  • 10.26.10 Google and Linux/Android Under Attack by Microsoft Folks (More Lawsuits), Mobbyists and Boosters Jubilant
  • 10.28.10 Gemalto Works With Apple Immediately After Suing Android/Linux
  • 10.28.10 TechBytes Pilot: Microsoft’s Android Tax, Fedora Site Redesign, Unity and Vala, LimeWire Kaput
  • 11.08.10 What Alfresco and Android Can Teach About Ubuntu
  • 11.15.10 Steve Jobs and Larry Ellison Get Even Closer After Attacking the Linux-based Android Using Patents, Google Becomes Software Patents Foe
  • 11.16.10 Claim: Out of Misery, Microsoft Booster Paul Thurrott Throws the Software Patents FUD at Linux/Android
  • 11.29.10 TechBytes Episode 14: Software Patents in Phones, Android, and in General
  • 01.10.11 TechBytes Episode 24: Android, Microsoft’s President Departure, and Privacy
  • 01.14.11 TechBytes Episode 25: Mono, Ubuntu, Android, and More
  • 01.14.11 Trend Micro Does Not Understand Linux/Android, Gets Its Facts Wrong
  • 01.23.11 Microsoft’s Attacks on Google and Android: Ben Edelman, ‘Flagrant Misdirection’, and More
  • 01.24.11 ES: Microsoft Ataca a Google y Android: Ben Edelman, “La Redirección Flagrante”, y Más
  • 01.27.11 Why Microsoft is Preparing Another SCO-Type Attack on Android/Linux
  • 01.27.11 ES: ¿Por qué Microsoft Está Preparando Un Nuevo Ataque de SCO-Type Contra Android/Linux
  • 02.09.11 Microsoft’s President Elop is Allegedly Killing Linux Inside Nokia/Intel, Just When MeeGo Gets Android Compatibility (Updated)
  • 02.22.11 TechBytes Episode 32: Desktop Environments, Computer Games, Android and Ubuntu as the ‘New Linux’, Copyright Mentality
  • 03.01.11 Microsoft Kills the Company of Android’s Founder as Number of Dead Products Grows
  • 03.04.11 MSBBC Finally Calls Out… Android (to Scare People)
  • 03.22.11 Microsoft is Suing/Extorting Android From Other Directions Too (E.g. Traul Allen, Apparently Nathan Myhrvold)
  • 04.10.11 The Androidisation of GNU/Linux
  • 04.29.11 As Expected, Nokia is Attacking Android/Linux Following Microsoft Takeover
  • 04.29.11 TechBytes Episode 42: Bandwidth, Android and Patents, Games, and Computer Nostalgia
  • 05.02.11 Windows Phone 7 is Dying, So Microsoft is Just Attacking, Extorting Android
  • 05.02.11 What Google Should Do Now That Android is Being Poisoned by Novell (With Mono) and Sued by Microsoft
  • 05.10.11 Huffington Post Helps Belittle Android Using Falsehoods
  • 05.11.11 ES: El Huffington Post Ayuda a Menospreciar Android Usando Falsedades
  • 05.15.11 TechBytes Episode 46: GNU/Linux in Germany, Android’s Openness, and More
  • 05.27.11 Microsoft’s Android Extortion Gets Price Tags
  • 05.27.11 ES: Microsoft Extorsión de Android Obtiene Etiquetas de Precio
  • 06.02.11 Lodsys Patent Attacks on Android (Linux) Developers Come From Microsoft’s Former CTO
  • 06.07.11 Microsoft Uses the Broken US Patent System to Attack Linux/Android From Multiple Sources, Wants Nokia’s Patents Too
  • 06.10.11 ES: Microsoft Utiliza el Sistema de Patentes de los EE.UU. Para Atacar a Linux/Android Desde Múltiples Frentes, Quiere las Patentes de Nokia También
  • 07.06.11 Report: Microsoft Wants $15 for Each Android Phone Sold, Without Contributing a Single Line of Code
  • 07.20.11 Apple’s Not-So-Many Anti-Android (and Linux-Hostile) Patents Seen as Invalid, Google to Help Eliminate a Couple
  • 07.25.11 Google is Looking to Join the Patents Cartel to Defend Android
  • 08.16.11 Former Microsoft Lawyer and Pro-Microsoft Lobbyist Lie and Distort Android Legalities to Distract From Motorola Sale
  • 08.24.11 BBC’s Reversal of Android Stories Makes Them ‘Publishable’
  • 08.24.11 New Copyright FUD Against Java/Linux (Android)
  • 08.25.11 Despite Malicious Lobbying and Legal Attacks, Linux and Android Are Winning
  • 09.06.11 Mono for Android is Proprietary, Even Tomdroid Dodges It
  • 09.18.11 Antitrust Probe Over Microsoft’s Feeding of Patent Trolls to Attack Linux (Android) in Court
  • 09.21.11 Patent Reform and Android
  • 09.29.11 Microsoft Hijacks the News to Spread Propaganda Against Android and Linux
  • 10.01.11 Android is Free, Even if Android Phones Are Not
  • 10.11.11 Patents Roundup: Backlash, WIPO, Facebook, and Acacia Attacks Linux/Android
  • 10.16.11 Google’s CEO Publicly Complains About Microsoft’s Legal Attacks on Android/Linux
  • 10.19.11 Android 4 is Linux Checkmate
  • 10.23.11 Patents Roundup: Apple Control Freak, Patents as a Business Model, and Oracle vs. Android
  • 10.25.11 Microsoft Mole Killed Linux Projects and Fed Patent Trolls for Attacks on Android
  • 11.14.11 Ballmer: Android “Just a Press Release”
  • 11.17.11 Microsoft Spin Kicks in to Daemonise Google Because Android Grows
  • 11.19.11 Even Some Microsoft Apologists Appalled by Microsoft’s Patent Attack on Android/Linux
  • 11.23.11 Apple’s Patent Aggression Against Linux/Android Hits the Wall in Europe
  • 12.23.11 Apple Does Malicious Stuff With Patents as More Courts Sidle With Linux/Android
  • 12.26.11 Microsoft’s Legal War on Android (and the Role of Novell Patents)
  • 01.11.12 Linux/Android Still Faces Proxy Challenge
  • 01.13.12 Apple Cult Defends Android-Hostile Cult Leader, Engages in Extortion of Android and Shops, Gets Sued for It
  • 01.18.12 Microsoft’s Patent Extortion Against Android Has Microsoft Called a Patent Troll
  • 01.19.12 Oracle is Retreating From Android Patent Case After Steve Jobs’ Death
  • 01.19.12 Under Microsoft Leadership, Nokia Patents Passed to Patent Aggressor Sisvel, Likely Target is Android
  • 01.21.12 Regulators Paranoid About Android, Miss the Real Issue
  • 01.30.12 Android’s Defence of Self From Apple, Patent Extortion Proxies, and Microsoft Lobbyists
  • 02.03.12 Groklaw Update on Android Patent Cases and Response to FUD From Microsoft Lobbyists
  • 02.15.12 Why Microsoft’s Blackmail Campaign Against Linux/Android May be Headed Towards the Garbage Can
  • 02.22.12 Patents Roundup: Oracle Lessens Android Demands, Red Hat Suggests Cure to Trolls, Debian Adopts New Patent Policy
  • 02.25.12 While Attacking Android/Linux With FRAND and Lawsuits Apple and Microsoft Pretend to be the Victims
  • 02.26.12 Longtime Symantec CEO Joins Microsoft While Symantec Smears Android
  • 03.05.12 Patents Roundup: Hype, Critics, and Threat to Linux/Android
  • 03.08.12 Patents Roundup: Android, FRAND, and Patent Hype
  • 03.15.12 Patents Roundup: Android/Linux, Yahoo!, and More
  • 03.21.12 The Cult of Apple Loses Against Linux/Android in ITC, Court
  • 04.07.12 Patents Against Linux/Android and the Hypocrisy of Microsoft, Apple
  • 04.13.12 TechBytes Episode 67: Nokia Down, Android Up
  • 04.14.12 Apple and Google/Android Suffer the Wrath of intellectual Monopolies
  • 04.17.12 Collateral Damage in Oracle’s Case Against Android
  • 04.20.12 Larry Ellison as Ignorant as His Best Friend Steve Jobs About Java, Android
  • 04.24.12 Google Does Not Help Put an End to Software Patents, Just Android Cases
  • 05.11.12 Patents Versus Android: The Circus Continues
  • 05.12.12 Software Patents and Trolls Devour Jobs While Microsoft Proxies Sue Android Companies
  • 05.16.12 Android Under Patent Attacks From Nokia, Microsoft, and Oracle
  • 05.19.12 Apple Patent Wars Make Android Devices Less Attractive, Everyone Suffers
  • 05.21.12 In Motorola Case, Microsoft Boosters Use Slashdot for Anti-Linux/Android Patent Propaganda
  • 06.08.12 Oracle Starts Fighting a Good Fight, Should Drop Case Against Android
  • 06.13.12 Apple Seeks Android Bans Whilst Antitrust Attorney Speaks About Microsoft’s Latest Offences Against Android (Using Patent Proxies)
  • 06.16.12 Apple Presses Hard for Android Bans While Android Leapfrogs Apple in Tablets, Not Just Phones
  • 06.24.12 Android Beats Oracle and Apple Patent Challenges
  • 07.03.12 Nokia is Already Fighting Android With Patents, at Microsoft’s Behest
  • 07.05.12 Microsoft-Led Nokia is Confirmed to be Already Extorting Android/Linux
  • 07.07.12 Calls for Apple Boycott Follow Ineffective Android Ban Attempts; Judge Compares Apple to Animals
  • 07.07.12 World’s Leading Spammer, Microsoft, is Accusing Android of Spam
  • 07.07.12 Nokia Shies Away From Direct Patent Extortion of Android
  • 07.10.12 As Microsoft Reports Losses (Whilst Android Rises), Cringely Argues This Could be Microsoft’s End (in Their Minds)
  • 07.12.12 The End of the Road for Windows Amid Losses, Security Flaws, and Unstoppable Android Expansion
  • 07.15.12 Patent Lawsuits Against Linux, Android; Call for Pressuring of Politicians
  • 07.15.12 TechBytes Episode 68: Solo With Patents, Apple Bans, and Android World Domination
  • 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 Elop Kills Another Linux-based Platform While Using Patents Against a Third One (Android)
  • 07.31.12 New FUD Against Android Comes From BT
  • 08.02.12 The Art of Pro-Apple FUD Against Android
  • 08.08.12 Judge in Android Case Wants to Expose Lobbyists like Microsoft Florian
  • 08.13.12 Vista 8 is Trying to Compete With Android
  • 08.20.12 Android Litigation Update
  • 08.23.12 Speak Out: Did Microsoft Florian — Funded Also by Apple — ‘Spam’ You Too? More Funding Appears to Come From Anti-Android/Linux Camp.
  • 09.27.12 Nokia Might Dump Windows, Embrace Android Soon
  • 10.02.12 Amazon Attacks Linux, Android Exposed to FUD and Spying by Microsoft
  • 10.08.12 Misconduct in Apple Litigation Against Android Discredits Patents, Courts
  • 10.12.12 Imposing OOXML and Microsoft Lock-in on Android Users
  • 10.16.12 Microsoft Patent Trolls Get Staff From Microsoft While ‘Mother Ship’ Sues Google Over Android
  • 10.24.12 Apple Attacks on Android (and Linux) Continue to Summon Patent Nemesis
  • 10.27.12 Android is Wiping iPhone and iPad Out, Soon to Become Most Used Operating System
  • 11.02.12 Accumulation of Patents Against Android, Feds Target the Victim After Apple and Microsoft Lobbying on FRAND
  • 11.02.12 Apple Must Apologise to Judges, Not Just to Samsung and Android
  • 11.05.12 Microsoft Veterans Attack Android/Linux From Juniper
  • 11.07.12 Boycott Nokia! Vringo, an Anti-Android/Linux Proxy for Microsoft (Through Nokia), Attacks Google
  • 11.09.12 Apple in Patent Race Against Google, Not Just Android Backers
  • 11.10.12 One-man Operation of Rob Enderle Spreads Microsoft Patent FUD Against Android, McDougall Helps Him
  • 11.14.12 Speculations That HTC Pays Apple Not Verified, Said to be Bogus, and May Only be Anti-Android FUD
  • 11.18.12 Groklaw Says Apple Cannot Sue Over Android as a Whole, Reuters Disagrees
  • 11.18.12 Apple’s Patent Case Against Samsung (Android) May be Destroyed
  • 11.21.12 HTC’s CEO Confirms Our Assertion That Apple Android Tax Was Just FUD
  • 11.23.12 Microsoft Florian Deceives on Anti-Android Case Which is Being Derailed
  • 11.29.12 Sony, Part of a Microsoft and Apple Patent Cartel, Attacks Android With Patents
  • 12.02.12 Microsoft Enjoys Seattle Bias in Patent Case Against Android
  • 12.03.12 Android Brought Linux World Domination. What Next?
  • 12.03.12 Apple Trial Against Android Devices Resumes This Week
  • 12.11.12 ‘Unitary Patent’ Helps Microsoft Extend Linux/Android Patent Extortion to Europe
  • 01.04.13 US Media Bias in Android Patent Cases
  • 01.12.13 Android-backing Ericsson Feeds Patent Aggressor Openwave
  • 02.10.13 FRAND Still Used by Microsoft and Apple Against Google, FOSS, and Android
  • 02.19.13 Microsoft Taxing Android While Avoiding Government Tax
  • 02.26.13 Uniloc is a Nasty Patent Troll and It Attacks Android/Linux Developers (Updated)
  • 03.01.13 FRAND Challenged by CCIA Amid FRAND Pressure From Anti-Android Camp
  • 03.05.13 Microsoft Florian Goes Ad Hominem in AstroTurf Against Android, Oracle and Microsoft Help Apple Attack Google
  • 03.14.13 Nokia is Suing Android Directly, Using Patents; Microsoft’s Elop to Blame
  • 03.26.13 Opposition to Nokia is Building Up as Anti-Android/Linux Patent Agenda Gets More Pronounced
  • 03.28.13 Microsoft Continues to Hammer on Linux and Android With Copyright and Patent Proxies
  • 03.28.13 Sony’s Patent Attacks on Android/Linux Expand
  • 04.03.13 Apple’s Case Against Android May Collapse as USPTO Reaffirms Incompetence
  • 04.09.13 Apple Sues Linux/Android Over Text Selection
  • 04.11.13 Microsoft is Using Proxies to Fight Linux/Android Yet Again, This Time Alleging ‘Antitrust’ Offences by Free Software
  • 04.18.13 Pressuring for US Style European Patent System and Anti-Android Policies, Courtesy of Bill Gates and His Goons
  • 04.19.13 Apple and Microsoft Just Focus on Patent Fees in Fight Against Linux/Android
  • 04.21.13 Behind the Patent Deal With Foxconn, a Conspiracy to Harm Android is Possible
  • 05.07.13 Seattle Courts in the Business of Serving Microsoft, Attacking Android/Linux
  • 05.19.13 Microsoft-controlled Nokia is Lobbying to Enable Bans on Android Imports (Linux Phones as a Whole in Danger)
  • 05.22.13 The FRAND Apple-Microsoft Conspiracy Attempts to Destroy Android/Linux, Ban Imports
  • 05.29.13 Heise/The H Labels Microsoft Lobbyist ‘Commentator’, Parrots Android-hostile Talking Points Amid EU Probe Into Competition Violations
  • 06.04.13 Canonical’s New Bug #1: Android Has Majority Market Share
  • 06.13.13 Microsoft Supports Apple in Fight Against Linux/Android, Pushing FRAND
  • 06.28.13 Apple and Microsoft FRAND Battles Against Google’s Android Revisited, Apple’s Patent Chief is Out Amid Blowback
  • 06.29.13 Latest Android ‘Malware’ Claims Come From Former Microsoft Staff, Who Conveniently Ignore Microsoft’s Huge Security Problem With Back Doors
  • 07.01.13 CAFC Impedes Progress and Helps Extortion Against Linux/Android
  • 07.06.13 Microsoft Has Built a Patent Front Against Linux/Android
  • 07.22.13 Android, Free Software and GNU/Linux Necessitate Death to Software Patents, Not Patent Settlements
  • 07.26.13 Motorola Patent Thicket a Response to Patent Aggression by the Real Offenders That Want to Destroy Android/Linux
  • 07.30.13 EDGI Dumping Giant Accuses Linux/Android (Free/Libre Software) of Dumping
  • 08.05.13 Microsoft Boosters Still Try to Discourage Adoption of Android Using Baseless Patent Claims
  • 08.16.13 Using Blackberry Patents Against Android/Linux Not a Far-Fetched Strategy in the Nation of Software Patents
  • 08.23.13 Ubuntu Imitates the Android and iOS Paradigm
  • 09.12.13 Microsoft’s Patent Attack on Linux/Android Advances to Next Stage With New Nokia Acquisition, Patent Setup
  • 09.24.13 Android/Linux Not Far From 90% Market Share and Why It’s Good News
  • 11.08.13 Nobody Knows How Much — If Anything — Microsoft Is Making From Android/Linux
  • 11.23.13 Android Has Real Competition Coming and It’s Linux Powered (Sailfish OS Phone Out Next Week)
  • 12.01.13 Liberating Devices From Android Using Replicant, Not CyanogenMod
  • 12.10.13 Microsoft’s Anti-Linux/Android Patent (FAT) Collapses in Europe, But Microsoft-backed Xamarin Tries to Interject Other Microsoft Patents Into Google Gear
  • 01.07.14 Microsoft is Still Dreaming of Crushing Android by Doing What It Accuses Google of Doing
  • 01.15.14 Links: Linux and Android Dominant in CES 2014
  • 01.15.14 “Normandy” is Not an Android Phone, It’s an Enhanced Surveillance Device
  • 01.25.14 Palm’s Patents Heading Towards Android Backer
  • 02.06.14 Mozilla is Preparing More Privacy-respecting (Than Android) Linux-powered Devices
  • 02.07.14 The Mobile (GNU/) Linux World is Growing Beyond Android
  • 02.15.14 Microsoft-Bribed Ben Edelman Behind Latest Smear Against Android/Linux
  • 02.19.14 The Age of Microsoft-Funded Misinformation About Android/Google/Chrome OS/Linux
  • 02.27.14 Journalists Should Stop Spreading Baseless Speculations That Microsoft Makes Billions From Android
  • 03.06.14 Patent Stacking by Microsoft, Apple, Nokia et al. Makes Android/Linux More Expensive, Less Competitive
  • 03.14.14 The Latest Patent FUD From Microsoft Florian Makes Android/Linux Look Expensive
  • 03.18.14 GNU/Linux at Google: Android, ChromeOS, Chromebooks, and Chrome News
  • 03.27.14 Chih-Wei Huang is Trying to Start Misguided Antitrust Case Against Android/Linux (Through Google)
  • 03.29.14 Non-Android Mobile Linux: Tizen, Flyme, Jolla
  • 03.30.14 Android News: Wearables, Tegra, Obama Switch, New Devices, Desktops…
  • 04.07.14 Android News: CyanogenMod Rebranding, Source Code Releases, Games, Devices, and Tablets
  • 04.13.14 Google’s Linux Revolution: New Gains for Android, Chrome OS (GNU/Linux)
  • 04.29.14 Microsoft Killed Nokia, Turned It Into a Pile of Android-hostile Patents
  • 05.03.14 The European Union Legitimises Software Patents by Intervening in Android Patent Case
  • 05.04.14 Antitrust Class Action Lawsuit Against Android/Linux Comes From ‘Former’ Lead Counsel for Microsoft (Hiding Behind Proxy)
  • 05.04.14 Apple’s ‘Thermonuclear’ Strategy Backfires as Apple Found to be Infringing Patents That Relate to Android
  • 05.13.14 Microsoft Should be Sued for Lifting Android Apps Without Permission
  • 05.22.14 Apple is Abandoning Steve Jobs’ Thermonuclear War on Linux/Android
  • 06.04.14 Media Bias Against GNU/Linux, Android, and FOSS
  • 06.29.14 Good Nokia (Jolla) and Bad Nokia (Microsoft); or Good Derivatives and Bad Derivatives of Android Hardware
  • 07.14.14 Software Patents Demising in the US as Microsoft Patent Attacks on Android/Linux Suffer a Huge Setback
  • 07.18.14 Microsoft’s Massive Layoffs Go Far Beyond Nokia; Nokia’s Android Phones Axed by Microsoft’s Elop
  • 07.31.14 Microsoft-Linked Codenomicon and Bluebox in the Business of Smearing FOSS/Linux/Android
  • 08.06.14 Latest Attacks on Android From Apple/Microsoft and Their Network of Trolls/Partners
  • 08.08.14 Microsoft’s Android Lawsuit Against Samsung Shows That Windows is Dead Beef
  • 08.13.14 Fraud in the USPTO and CAFC Helped Apple Launch Frivolous Patent Lawsuits Against Linux/Android, Based on New Withdrawals
  • 08.17.14 The Microsoft Patent Trolls: Android Extortion, Vringo Versus Google, and Intellectual Ventures
  • 08.23.14 Microsoft-Funded Attacks on Android Security and Patent/Copyright
  • 10.13.14 SCOTUS May Soon Put an End to the ‘Copyrights on APIs’ Question While Proprietary Giants Continue to Harass Android/Linux in Every Way Conceivable
  • 01.01.15 Microsoft’s Attacks on Android and GNU/Linux Not Over Yet, But They Are Definitely Failing
  • 01.10.15 The Art of Lying About Android’s (Linux-based Platform) Growth
  • 02.14.15 Microsoft Reportedly Uses Patent Blackmail Against Android to Force Samsung to Spread Microsoft Spyware (Incorporated Into Android) (Updated)
  • 03.21.15 Microsoft Hates Linux – Part II – Patent Lawsuits Against Android/Linux Still Going On, New Ones Filed
  • 03.26.15 Microsoft Won’t Let People Wipe (Off) Windows But Happily Wipes Android, Wipes Android Apps Through Cyanogen and Blackmailed ‘Partners’
  • 03.28.15 Speculations That Microsoft is About to Buy Cyanogen (or at Least Officially Partner) to Attack Google’s Android/Linux, Replacing Everything With Microsoft
  • 04.06.15 Microsoft is Trying to Patent Software in India While Microsoft’s Proxy Troll Intellectual Ventures Extorts Motorola (Android)
  • 04.27.15 Microsoft is Attacking Android Like Never Before, Qisda the Latest to Sign Patent Extortion Deal
  • 04.29.15 Microsoft’s Patent Attacks on Android Not Covered in the Corporate Media, Only Microsoft as the ‘Victim’
  • 04.29.15 UCLA Foolishly Grooms Microsoft’s Patent Troll Nathan Myhrvold (Intellectual Ventures), Who is Busy Attacking Android and Linux These Days
  • 05.29.15 White House Intervention Harms Android and Every Software Developer on the Planet
  • 06.01.15 Sharp Drop in Microsoft Patents, But Not in Patent Assaults, Coordinated Attacks on Android/Linux, and Googlebombing
  • 06.19.15 It’s Official: Microsoft Turned Nokia Into Patent Aggressor Against Android/Linux for Royalty Stacking
  • 07.09.15 The Future of Computing is Mobility and Microsoft Cannot Do Anything But Patent Extortion Against Android/Linux, So More Massive Layoffs Are Announced by Microsoft
  • 07.21.15 The Technology Sector in the US Has Gotten Fed Up With Apple’s Patent Aggression Against Android/Linux
  • 08.27.15 Microsoft Lies About Vista 10 and Increases Microsoft Surveillance (Even Beyond Vista 10 and Into Android, Vista 7/8)
  • 09.03.15 Microsoft’s Vista 10 Still a Failure, So Focus Shifts to Attacks on GNU/Linux, Android
  • 09.04.15 Patents Roundup: Apple Versus Android/Linux, Leigh Rothschild Versus Everyone, Patent Lawyers Versus Patent Reform and Progressivism
  • 10.05.15 With Software Patents in Europe (and Pushes for the Same Thing in Australia and India) Patent Trolls Now Come to Europe, Attack Android/Linux
  • 10.09.15 Mobile Linux (e.g. Android) Still a Victim of Software Patents, No Peace in Sight
  • 10.22.15 At All Things Open (ATO) Microsoft is Embracing, Extending, Extinguishing GNU/Linux, Hopes to Do the Same to Android (Updated)
  • 10.23.15 With New Xamarin Buyout, Microsoft Now a Step Further in Embrace, Extend, Extinguish Strategy Against Android
  • 10.24.15 RoboVM Takeover of Interest to Microsoft and Its Embrace, Extend, Extinguish (E.E.E.) Strategy Against Android, Which It Says It Wants to Fork
  • 10.30.15 Microsoft-Connected Xamarin Demolishes the Freedom of Android
  • 11.19.15 AllThingsFRAND: The Latest Incarnation (Anti-Linux/Android, Pro-Patents) of Microsoft-Leaning AstroTurf Group Association for Competitive Technology
  • 02.26.16 In Apple/Samsung Patent Lawsuits Over Android/Linux, Only Patent Lawyers Are Winning (Again)
  • 03.08.16 Apple’s Software Patents Tax on Android (Linux) Devices Put in Perspective
  • 03.21.16 Embrace, Extend, Extinguish (EEE) Alive and Well at Microsoft: Docker, Android, Nokia, and Telstra
  • 03.22.16 Design/Software Patents Next on the Supreme Court’s Agenda as Android/Linux Case Escalated to Highest Possible Level
  • 03.30.16 Oracle’s Huge Claims Against Linux/Android Demonstrate the Uselessness of OIN
  • 04.01.16 Grandes Reclamos de Oracle Contra Linux/Android Demuestra la Futilidad de la OIN
  • 04.12.16 Microsoft is ‘Embracing’ Linux (or GNU and Android) to Death, Already Proceeding to ‘Extend’ in Some Cases
  • 04.14.16 Microsoft ya Esta ‘Abrazando’ a Linux (o GNU y Android) a Muerte, Ya esta Procediendo a la Fase (Extinguir) en Algunos Casos
  • 06.01.16 Microsoft Extortion Against Android OEMs (Even Chinese Companies) Continues in Spite of Departure of Horacio Gutierrez
  • 06.12.16 Samsung’s Patent Cases Matter to Design Patents (Scope), to Android, and by Extension to GNU/Linux
  • 07.24.16 In the US, Patent Trolls Engage in Patent Wars and Shakedowns, Whereas in China/Korea Large Android OEMs Sue One Another
  • 08.04.16 Apple’s Lawsuits Against Android Are Helping Patent Trolls, Canadian Android OEM BlackBerry Turns to Texas for Trolling
  • 08.22.16 Apple’s Patent Wars Against Android/Linux Make Patent Trolls Stronger
  • 01.16.17 US Supreme Court Did Not End Apple’s Patent Disputes Over Android (Linux), More Cases Imminent
  • 02.14.17 Microsoft Has Not Managed to Blackmail Huawei Over Android and GNU/Linux, But Its Trolls/Satellites Are Trying
  • 02.17.17 Technicolor, Having Turned Into a Patent Troll, Attacks Android/Tizen/Linux With Patents in Europe
  • 02.26.17 Google’s Stewardship of GNU/Linux (Android, Chromebooks and More) in Doubt After Company Resorts to Patent ‘First Strikes’
  • 02.27.17 A US Supreme Court (SCOTUS) Which is Hostile Towards Patent Maximalists May Closely Examine More Patents That Apple Uses Against Android
  • 04.06.17 At the Courts, Another Reminder of PTAB’s Importance and Ericsson’s War (via Patent Trolls) Against Linux and Android
  • 04.16.17 Apple’s Legal Actions Against Android and Against Qualcomm Could Eventually Weaken Patents at Two Levels
  • 05.27.17 Patent Dangers to Linux and Android: Qualcomm, Apple, and Nokia
  • 07.31.17 Publisher Funded by Nokia’s and Microsoft’s Patent Trolls Expects More Attacks on Android OEMs
  • 08.29.17 Many Patents Are Being Passed to Android-Hostile Patent Trolls (by the Thousands) and Microsoft is in the Shadows
  • 09.22.17 Intellectual Ventures, GNU/Linux/Android/FOSS Patents, and the Ascent of European Patent Trolls
  • 10.14.17 Patents Are Turning BlackBerry and Nokia, Which Used Android, Into Anti-Android Fronts That Tax Android OEMs
  • 01.30.18 A Korean Android OEM is Bullied by Patent Trolls Which Microsoft Gave Patents to and Paid
  • 03.23.18 Ericsson, Acting Directly Rather Than Via the Patent Trolls It Habitually Uses, in a Patent War Against Linux/Android
  • 04.19.18 Microsoft’s Lobbying for FRAND Pays Off as Microsoft-Connected Patent Troll Conversant (Formerly MOSAID) Goes After Android OEMs in Europe
  • 06.28.18 Apple Loses Its Patent War Against Android and by Extension Against Linux
  • 01.14.19 Dominion Harbor — Armed by Microsoft’s Biggest Patent Troll — Goes After the World’s Biggest Android OEMs, Huawei and Samsung
  • 03.12.19 Microsoft is Complaining About Android and Chrome OS (GNU/Linux) Vendor Not Paying for Microsoft Patents (Updated)


  • 11.16.07 It all Comes Together Again: OSI, Port25, Novell, Patents…
  • 11.28.07 Big Addition to GNU Affero GPLv3 (AGPLv3)
  • 12.04.07 Patents That Companies Have Got to Protect Linux Devices
  • 12.07.07 Quick Mention: Another Major Case for the GNU GPL
  • 01.09.08 Quick Mention: Windows ISV Tries to ‘Shove’ .NET into Mobile Linux Consortium
  • 01.27.08 Microsoft Shill Alert: Burton Group FUD Attack Against VMWare
  • 02.02.08 Meet Microsoft: World’s Chief Acquisitions Policeman
  • 02.03.08 Software Patents Harm Phones, Again
  • 02.07.08 Nokia and Microsoft Seem to Be Getting Even Closer
  • 03.14.08 Member of the GNOME Foundation on Tomboy, Mono, GNOME
  • 03.21.08 Links – Good Friday: Open Source ATI/AMD in 3-D; Vista SP1 Causing Trouble, As Expected
  • 03.24.08 Summary of Mono’s Danger to GNU/Linux and the Free Desktop
  • 04.02.08 Would Only a Perverted Web Consortium Accept Software Patents in the Specs?
  • 10.17.08 The Nomo GNU/Linux Distribution and Another Silver Lie
  • 11.01.08 Patent Problems: Google Unresolved, Bilski Resolved, EPO to be Resolved?
  • 11.07.08 Novell and Microsoft Inseparable in the Press
  • 11.15.08 Do-No-Evil Saturday – Part III: Novell Report, Schmidtism and More
  • 11.18.08 Calling Ubuntu, Fedora and OpenMoko to Resolve Mono Problem, Not Ignore It
  • 11.24.08 Eye on Microsoft: Vista/7 Trouble and More Security Chaos
  • 12.08.08 The Many Signs That GNU/Linux Grew Significantly in 2007 – Part 1
  • 12.09.08 Eye on Microsoft: Failures Du Jour (XBox, Live, Vista)
  • 12.15.08 Innovative versus Functional
  • 12.18.08 Quick Mention: OpenSUSE 11.1 is Released
  • 12.20.08 Do-No-Evil Saturday – Part III: Finance, People, and Partners
  • 12.20.08 Do-No-Evil Saturday – Part I: Big Week of OpenSUSE 11.1
  • 12.22.08 Eye on Microsoft: Opposition Links
  • 12.25.08 Links Xmas 2008: Linux 2.6.28 Released
  • 12.31.08 Allies of Microsoft Instruct Reporters What to Write About Virtualisation
  • 01.18.09 Why Microsoft Wants to Put .NET/Mono in Devices
  • 01.25.09 More Microsoft Cronies in United States Government, Other Companies
  • 02.03.09 Microsoft News of Interest to the GNU/Linux Community
  • 02.08.09 Windows is Dying, Long Live Vapourware
  • 02.12.09 Patents Roundup: Linux, Microsoft, Trolls, Deform, Apple and Google
  • 02.20.09 Patents Roundup: Linux, Acacia, Microsoft, Samsung and More
  • 02.20.09 New Examples of ‘Slackreporting’
  • 02.21.09 Novell News Summary – Part III: Xandros Hopes to Return from the Slump Using ARM
  • 02.22.09 Patents Roundup: Microsoft Loses Visual Studio Case, Makes Acacia-Like Moves
  • 02.26.09 SFLC: Step Back and Re-think How Friendly Microsoft is to Free/Open Source Software (Updated)
  • 03.01.09 Why Microsoft is Likely to Lose the TomTom Case (Plus Summary)
  • 03.10.09 Patents Roundup: Splashtop Encumbered by Patents, Google Linux Phone Sued by Patent Troll, TomTom Update and More
  • 03.12.09 Patent Trolls — Including Acacia — Attack Linux Users/Devices
  • 03.21.09 Amazon’s Linux-powered and DRM-laden Gadget Sued for Patent Infringement
  • 03.28.09 Windows Vista Leads to Another ‘Capable’ Lawsuit, Windows No Longer Gratis Either
  • 04.04.09 Xandros Slid Aside by ASUS, Linspire Still a Blast
  • 04.09.09 IRC: #boycottnovell @ FreeNode: April 8th, 2009 – Part 1
  • 04.14.09 Eye on Microsoft: More Layoffs, Also in Microsoft Ally Infosys; Vista 7 Rejected Before Arrival
  • 04.22.09 Latest FUD Attack on GNU/Linux-powered Sub-notebooks Comes from Microsoft-influenced Lenovo
  • 04.24.09 Microsoft’s Profits Down Sharply, Microsoft’s FUD Up Sharply
  • 05.04.09 Microsoft’s Twitter AstroTurf Continues
  • 05.09.09 Novell News Summary – Part II: SLED on ProBook, Moblin, Wyse; SLES and ScaleMP; Xandros and Presto
  • 05.28.09 GNU/Linux Gains Ground in Sub-notebooks Race as Vista 7 Gains Excessive Weight
  • 05.30.09 ASUS Enters the Slog Business
  • 06.02.09 More Suspicious Moves from ASUS
  • 06.03.09 Xandros: “We Are Kind of Getting Away from Being a Linux Company”
  • 06.03.09 What Microsoft’s Anti-Linux Taskforce in Wal-Mart Teaches Us About Sub-notebooks
  • 06.04.09 Microsoft Embracing, Extending, and Extinguishing Sub-notebooks
  • 06.06.09 Does Microsoft Corrupt the Term “Netbook” to Belittle GNU/Linux on ARM?
  • 06.06.09 Novell News Summary – Part II: SUSE Videos, Some Moblin, and Just a Little More
  • 06.10.09 Microsoft’s FUD Against GNU/Linux on Sub-notebooks Enters Next Level
  • 06.16.09 More Cost Cutting and Device Xenophobia at Microsoft
  • 06.24.09 The More Aggressive They Get, the Most Troubled They Are
  • 07.10.09 What is Microsoft Doing Inside the ‘Press’?
  • 07.11.09 Novell News Summary – Part II: SLE* News (with Many Videos) and Portions of Xandros/Scalix
  • 07.14.09 Microsoft’s Veiled Attack on Google Tries to Incite GNU/Linux People Against Chrome OS
  • 07.15.09 ASUS — Like Microsoft — Uses ‘Contests’ to Conceal AstroTurfing (Blog Posts in Exchange for Incentives)
  • 07.17.09 Microsoft CEO Admits That Vista 7 is Just Vapourware, Opera Complaints About It
  • 07.20.09 The Problems with Attempted Office Shift to the Web
  • 07.25.09 Novell News Summary – Part II: SUSE Studio, OES2, Xandros, and Linspire
  • 07.26.09 Microsoft XBox360 and Windows Mobile Are Still Losing It
  • 07.27.09 Links Bank Holiday Monday: Schools and GNU/Linux
  • 07.28.09 Microsoft Stresses Future Products While GNU/Linux and SaaS Eliminate Microsoft’s Profitability
  • 08.04.09 Microsoft .NET Tries to Piggyback OLPC, Novell Helps the Same Cause
  • 08.04.09 Microsoft Watch on Microsoft vs Google and Microsoft vs Sub-notebooks
  • 08.05.09 Why GNU/Linux is Microsoft’s #1 Desktop Threat, Shareholders Are Finally Being Informed
  • 08.06.09 How GNU/Linux Devoured Microsoft’s Business Model
  • 08.10.09 Intel-Microsoft Collusion in Sub-notebooks: A Smoking Gun
  • 08.15.09 Novell News Summary – Part II: SUSE Marketing, ASUS Xandros/Scalix, and Turbolinux IPO
  • 08.22.09 Is Windows Mobile Being Replaced by Linux or by Ballnux?
  • 08.25.09 Small Updates on ODF and OOXML
  • 08.26.09 Antitrust Barriers to Microsoft’s Anti-Google; Google Takes Matters into Own Hands
  • 08.28.09 Linux to Fill the Gap Left by Exploding iPhones and Overweight Sub-notebooks
  • 08.29.09 Novell News Summary – Part I: OpenSUSE 11.2 Milestone 6
  • 09.07.09 More Delays in Vista 7 and Other Windows Setbacks
  • 09.20.09 More Antitrust Pressure for Yahoo!-Microsoft, Google Blocked by MSDOJ
  • 09.25.09 Is Moblin a Microsoft-taxed Linux in the Making?
  • 09.27.09 LiMo Phones to Avoid: Vodafone 360 H1 (Samsung)
  • 09.30.09 Freedom and the Fallacy of Market Share
  • 10.02.09 Another Microsoft Product Gets Buried: Recite
  • 10.04.09 Microsoft Interjects Itself into Free Software Using Novell
  • 10.06.09 Linux Climbs Fast in Mobile, Microsoft ‘Screws’ Badly with Windows Mobile 6.5
  • 10.06.09 UK’s First-ever LiMo Phones Are Encumbered by Microsoft Patent Tax (on Linux)
  • 10.08.09 Microsoft CEO Admits Vista 7 Won’t Sell PCs
  • 10.09.09 Here Come the Anti-FSF Shills, Gartner
  • 10.10.09 Linux Has Won the E-readers ‘War’ as Microsoft CEO Calls it Quits
  • 10.13.09 Microsoft Continues to Snub ODF (and Why Microsoft is Losing This Battle)
  • 10.16.09 Simon Phipps on “Monomaniacs”, More Reactions to Jeremy Allison’s Mono Prognosis
  • 10.19.09 Lawsuits Against Microsoft Turn to Class Action Lawsuit While Microsoft Mobiles Become Dying Breed
  • 10.20.09 Patents Roundup: Microsoft Patent Tax, FireStar-Red Hat Revisited, US Patent Crisis
  • 10.24.09 Novell News Summary – Part II: Mostly Dry Week for Novell’s Non-Free(dom) Business
  • 10.25.09 FSF Hostility/Disagreement from a Libertarian, TechDirt, and Microsoft General Counsel
  • 10.26.09 Microsoft’s Gadgets and Consoles Still Ridiculed and Avoided
  • 11.07.09 Computer Shop: Acer Tells Windows Sales Flat Despite Vista 7
  • 11.07.09 Novell News Summary – Part III: Pulse, SCO, Los Angeles and More
  • 11.07.09 Xandros to Visit Microsoft Show, Samsung’s Ballnux Phones Fail
  • 11.08.09 Phone to Avoid: LG GW620
  • 11.08.09 Windows Mobile Down to Single-Digit Market Share as Linux Grows
  • 11.09.09 Reader’s Article: ARMageddon, Judgment Day for Non-Free Software.
  • 11.11.09 “Bada” Means Microsoft Patent Tax
  • 11.13.09 Apple Keeps Losing to GNU/Linux Because of Draconian Attitude
  • 11.14.09 Novell News Summary – Part II: SUSE Case Studies, Xandros and Bada
  • 11.15.09 Microsoft Imitates Google Revenue Model on the Desktop: Adverts Come to Vista 7 Desktops
  • 11.18.09 Revisionism and Moles in Land of the Fee
  • 11.21.09 Novell News Summary – Part II: SLES and Samsung’s Bada, Enlightenment
  • 11.22.09 Microsoft Can Only Wish it Was as Popular as Linux (on Phones)
  • 11.23.09 ODF on Linux-based Mobile Devices (KOffice and Androffice)
  • 11.23.09 Google’s (Staff) Index Poisoned by Microsoft
  • 11.25.09 Boycott Google, Says Microsoft to Publishers
  • 11.28.09 Novell News Summary – Part II: SUSE on Jaguar XT5, Xandros Dimming, LG Boots Ballnux Fast, Samsung Makes Bada/E17
  • 11.30.09 Google’s Quick Booting of Microsoft (and Why Google Should Not Hire from Microsoft)
  • 11.30.09 Microsoft Partner Starts Harassing GNU/Linux+ARM Product Vendors
  • 12.04.09 Scarcity vs Abundance: Microsoft and Copyright Cartel vs the World and the People
  • 12.05.09 Novell News Summary – Part II: SUSE and GroundWork, Samsung and LG
  • 12.11.09 Vista 7 and Microsoft Under New Sieges by Analysts
  • 12.14.09 Google is Still Crushing Microsoft, Sometimes with GNU and Linux
  • 12.20.09 Microsoft Allegedly Pays $500,000,000 for Verizon to Remove Google
  • 12.21.09 IDC Speculation That Vista 7 is Last PC Operating System from Microsoft, Windows Mobile 7 Already Slips
  • 12.23.09 The Lies About Moonlight Carry on, MSBBC to Block Free Software Users Again
  • 12.26.09 Novell News Summary – Part II: SLES+Itanium, Xandros, Samsung+Bada
  • 12.28.09 Apple Helps Microsoft Attack Google’s Linux While Google Spreads GNU/Linux, ODF
  • 12.31.09 Links: Happy GNU Year Special
  • 01.02.10 Microsoft and the MSBBC Say Sub-notebooks Are Dying So It Must be True
  • 01.04.10 Failures in Xbox, Zune, and Windows Mobile Mark “Microsoft’s Downward Spiral”
  • 01.06.10 Windows Mobile Suffers Another Defeat Amid Linux Triumphs
  • 01.09.10 Novell News Summary – Part II: Ballnux and MSI/HP Return, More Ballnux at CES 2010
  • 01.09.10 Transcript of The Guardian’s 10-Minute Microsoft ‘Advert’
  • 01.09.10 Novell News Summary – Part III: Plugs in the Press and SCO Case Galore
  • 01.11.10 Microsoft Attempts to Freeze Mobile Market to Harm Linux
  • 01.13.10 Vista Mobile 7 Likely Delayed One Year; Vista 7 Always Rented, Not Sold
  • 01.15.10 Microsoft Flaws — Not Adobe Flaws — Responsible for China’s Attack on Google; Microsoft Takes China’s Side, as Usual
  • 01.16.10 Novell News Summary – Part II: SUSE (SLES/SLED), Samsung-Moblin, and LG-Microsoft Partnership
  • 01.20.10 Microsoft Hypocrites Denounce Google Over Books While Taking Away Books from the British Public
  • 01.29.10 Fans of Apple Disappointed by iPad; Hype is Paid for by Apple
  • 01.30.10 GNU/Linux Yawns at Apple’s Large iPhone (Without the Phone Functionality)
  • 01.30.10 Novell News Summary – Part II: SUSE Appliance Toolkit, Samsung, and LG
  • 02.03.10 Vista 7: The Battery Guzzler
  • 02.06.10 Apple is Bad for Sharing, Forbids Mentioning Linux
  • 02.09.10 Patents Roundup: EFF Defends VoIP; Google, Apple, and Black Duck Stifle Progress; Microsoft Joins RPX
  • 02.13.10 Novell News Summary – Part II: Update on SUSE, OES, Linspire, Samsung, LG, and Kyocera Mita
  • 02.15.10 Has Microsoft Gently Bribed the British Press?
  • 02.16.10 ‘Damage Control’ from Microsoft Shareholders Masquerading as Journalists
  • 02.17.10 Windows Phone 7 Falls on Its Face and Microsoft Still Wants Patent Royalties on Linux Phones
  • 02.18.10 The “Microsoft Everywhere” Vision of Novell
  • 02.18.10 Wakeup Call to Google, Regarding Software Patents
  • 02.21.10 Vista 7 is Still Trying to Catch up With GNU/Linux
  • 02.22.10 Microsoft’s Gadgets/Hardware Business is Collapsing (Zune, Xbox, Mobile)
  • 02.25.10 Microsoft Unleashes the Hounds on Google While Abusing the Law With Warrantless Spying
  • 02.27.10 Novell News Summary – Part II: Two Weeks of SUSE, Samsung, and LG
  • 03.01.10 Windows Mobile is Dying as More Major Developers Officially Abandon
  • 03.03.10 Apple Sues Linux Phones Using Software Patents
  • 03.04.10 On Microsoft’s Latest Linux Extortion in Japan and Apple’s Linux Extortion in China
  • 03.05.10 Patents Roundup: USPTO Grants Patents on Hotdogs and Harbours Pyramid Schemes, EPO in Transition, and Apple Turns Nasty
  • 03.06.10 Apple Uses USPTO/ITC Protectionism to Fight Desktop GNU/Linux
  • 03.07.10 Novell News Summary – Part I: OpenSUSE and SUSE Amid Probable Takeover
  • 03.08.10 Patents Roundup: TiVo Wins, VirnetX vs Microsoft Decision Imminent, Patent Rackets Thrive
  • 03.09.10 IDG Gives a Platform for Microsoft’s Familiar Attack Dogs (and Former Employees) to Smear GNU/Linux
  • 03.10.10 Apple’s Legal Attack on GNU/Linux and Mistreatment of Developers Already Costing it Business
  • 03.12.10 Microsoft Pays for Linux Phones to Redirect Users to Microsoft
  • 03.12.10 Patents Roundup: Both Apple and Microsoft Use Software Patents Against GNU/Linux, Get Sued for Violation Along With Google and Facebook; Amazon-USPTO Comedy Resumes
  • 03.13.10 Novell News Summary – Part II: SUSE in Hush Mode, Lindows Called “Worst Product Ever”, Samsung’s Bada Revisited
  • 03.14.10 Michael Gartenberg’s AstroTurfing for Microsoft Takes ‘Entelligence’ Tag
  • 03.15.10 Apple’s and Microsoft’s Patent Attacks and Why the Linux Foundation’s Response Disappoints
  • 03.16.10 New Theory That Microsoft Played Role in Apple’s Lawsuit Against Linux and Against Google
  • 03.16.10 Microsoft Happy About Apple’s Invocation of Software Patents Against GNU/Linux
  • 03.18.10 IMAX — Not Just Apple — Attacks Free Software With Software Patents
  • 03.20.10 Microsoft MVP de Icaza: Microsoft “Shot the .NET Ecosystem in the Foot” Because of Patent Threats
  • 03.24.10 Software Patents Complication Shows Why Linux Needs the FSF
  • 03.26.10 Microsoft, the “Me Too” Company
  • 03.29.10 Microsoft and Its Patent Trolls Remain #1 Threat to Free Software
  • 04.01.10 Patents Roundup: “Lawyer’s Trick” in Gene Patenting, Elan Microelectronics and HTC Connected, Neelie Kroes Confused About Role of Patents
  • 04.02.10 Cory Doctorow Explains Why Apple’s iPad is Bad and SJVN Shows That Mac OS X is Not Secure
  • 04.07.10 Apple Apologists
  • 04.08.10 Microsoft’s Ally Fortify Software Attacks Free Software Again
  • 04.12.10 Microsoft is Losing to Google in Search and in Mobile (Linux)
  • 04.14.10 Apple Treats Mono Like It Treats Flash; GNU/Linux Should Too
  • 04.17.10 Company That Pays Microsoft for Unknown Patents in Linux Joins the Linux Foundation
  • 04.22.10 Apple’s Latest Mischiefs, Ignores Mono’s Pleas
  • 04.24.10 Novell News Summary – Part II: Novell and IBM in Studio
  • 04.25.10 Microsoft’s Phone Business as Dead as Zune, But Apple Too Loses Its Mind
  • 04.26.10 Latest Microsoft Hardware Failures: Kin, Xbox, and Zune
  • 04.26.10 Modest Proposal to Palm: Set WebOS Free, Encourage Homebrew
  • 04.27.10 Microsoft Partners Hail Microsoft Without Disclosure, More AstroTurfing
  • 04.29.10 Microsoft is Contacting Publications, Asking Them to Add More Anti-Linux Slant
  • 04.30.10 Microsoft ‘Embraces’ Joomla! to Spread Proprietary Software (Windows and IIS)
  • 04.30.10 Steve Jobs: “A Patent Pool is Being Assembled to Go After Theora and Other “Open Source” Codecs Now.”
  • 04.30.10 Microsoft Patent Tax on Linux-powered Televisions
  • 05.01.10 Microsoft Has Just Shot the Courier (Yet Another Dead Product)
  • 05.02.10 Apple’s and Microsoft’s New Motto: Do More Evil, Together
  • 05.02.10 “Those Who Can, Do. Those Who Can’t, Sue.” (Updated)
  • 05.03.10 “Behind the Open Codec FUD Attack, W3C Captured by Microsoft, Apple, Nokia and So On?”
  • 05.03.10 Dear Google: Please Abolish Software Patents, Don’t ‘Donate’ Patent ‘Protection’
  • 05.03.10 Behind the Microsoft Puppetmaster: SCO-Type Libel, Acacia-Type Patent Trolls, and Novell-Type Patent Deals to Make GNU/Linux Not Free (Gratis)
  • 05.03.10 Another Microsoft Product Dies Because of GNU/Linux That Allegedly Replaces It
  • 05.05.10 HTC-Microsoft Was Not an Agreement, It Was Apparently an Extortion
  • 05.05.10 Apple and Microsoft a Threat to Culture (Data), Not Just Software (Tools)
  • 05.05.10 Linux-based Operating Systems Replace Windows
  • 05.05.10 Firm of Bill Gates’ Father Gets Involved in Gizmodo Raid Case, Gizmodo May Sue
  • 05.05.10 Microsoft/Novell Faking “Open Source” and Pushing .NET Into Web Browsers
  • 05.07.10 Microsoft Extorts GNU/Linux While Distorting the Meaning of “Open Source”
  • 05.07.10 When Brands Become Cults
  • 05.10.10 Software Patents Rumble: Apple, Microsoft, Nokia, and GNU/Linux
  • 05.12.10 20-Year Microsoft Veteran Becomes HP Vice President in Charge of Software and Solutions Business
  • 05.12.10 Why Microsoft is Still the Biggest Enemy of “Open Source”, Not Just GNU/Linux
  • 05.12.10 Microsoft Mouthpieces Put a Number on Microsoft ‘Linux Tax’
  • 05.13.10 Open Standards Out of EU Digital Agenda; EBoA Does Not Stop Software Patents in Europe
  • 05.13.10 Samsung Goes Beyond Corruption and Starts Bullying Critics With Lawsuits
  • 05.13.10 Have Microsoft EULAs Just Been Declared Invalid in the United Kingdom?
  • 05.14.10 Patents Roundup: EmDebian Considers OIN Membership, EBoA Makes the Legal ‘Industry’ Happy, Phones Industry Harmed by Patents
  • 05.14.10 Patents Roundup: HTC Daemonised for Defending Itself From Apple Bullies; US and EU Patent Systems Still Misguided
  • 05.17.10 Bad Apple, Part V: Don Steve Jobs
  • 05.17.10 Yes, “Microsoft is Turning Into a Toothless Tiger” (Sort of)
  • 05.17.10 In Face of Linux Threat, Microsoft KIN Abandoned by Developers, Neglected by Young People
  • 05.17.10 Weak Week for Microsoft, Patent Sellouts Are Left to Do Microsoft’s Work
  • 05.19.10 Novell’s Neighbour LANDesk is Up for Sale, More on Novell’s Defeat in Kuwait, Novell’s Payments to Microsoft and Reliance on Google
  • 05.19.10 Patents Roundup: Google and Apple Still Conspire With Software Patents, Firefox Forked Due to Software Patents, EPO Slammed and DPL Potentially Reformed
  • 05.19.10 EU: NoSoftwarePatents and FFII Respond to Google’s VP8 Announcement
  • 05.22.10 No, ASUS Did Not Abandon Netbook Linux
  • 05.25.10 GNU/Linux Versus Microsoft Entryism Challenges
  • 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 What Novell Still Does: Software Patents and .NET
  • 06.01.10 Proponents of Microsoft Come to Grips With Microsoft’s Sheer Aggression Using Software Patents
  • 06.01.10 ‘Quit Microsoft’ Day and ‘Quit Apple’ Day?
  • 06.02.10 Novell Makes Its Relationship With MeeGo More Formal (and Filled With the Mono Patent Trap), Tuxera Spreads exFAT Patent Trap
  • 06.02.10 Microsoft Has Just 1% in Top500 (HPC), Novell Would Like to Help Microsoft
  • 06.05.10 Trend Micro Still a Patent Bully, John Desmarais is Becoming a Massive Patent Troll
  • 06.05.10 Linux Oggcasts Speak About Novell’s Imminent Sale
  • 06.05.10 Microsoft Lies and Apple Lies
  • 06.07.10 As Promised, Google Delivers GPL Compatibility and GNU/Linux Starts Embedding VP8/WebM Support
  • 06.08.10 Apple Beats Microsoft’s Infamous ‘Blue Screen of Death’ Live Demo
  • 06.08.10 Transformation of Form Factors Leaves Microsoft Behind and GNU/Linux Well Ahead
  • 06.09.10 Prisoners of Apple Hype
  • 06.10.10 Tuxera and Ulteo Repeat Novell’s Mistake
  • 06.10.10 Mac OS X: The ‘Missing’ Development Platform
  • 06.11.10 Apple is Finally Sharing… People’s Personal Data; Apple’s Lies and Freedom Hatred Take Their Toll
  • 06.12.10 Apple Exploits Free Software, Then Bans Free Software and Also Bans Competition (and FTC Investigation Launched Against Apple)
  • 06.12.10 Software Patents Debate in LinuxTag 2010 and Elsewhere in Europe
  • 06.15.10 Fragmentation: The FUD That Never Dies
  • 06.16.10 Bribosoft
  • 06.19.10 Microsoft Markets Mobile Products That Don’t Exist
  • 06.19.10 Microsoft’s Attack on Software Freedom With Software Patents (and the Significance of the Bilski Case)
  • 06.21.10 Microsoft’s Mobile Business Broke
  • 06.25.10 Eye on Apple: hypePhone 4 is Defective by Design
  • 06.26.10 Eye on Novell: SCO, People, Business, SLED/Ballnux, SUSE HackWeek, and Other Events
  • 06.29.10 Microsoft’s Failure in Mobile Technology Shows That Microsoft Has No Promising Future
  • 06.29.10 Why and How Microsoft Exchange Should be Replaced by Free/Libre Software
  • 06.30.10 Eye on Apple: Instructing Employees to Lie to Customers
  • 07.02.10 Apple Sued (Class Action) for Producing a Defective hypePhone 4
  • 07.05.10 Patent Aggression Against Linux: Microsoft, Apple, and Nobody Else
  • 07.05.10 Danger Assets in Danger: Summary of KIN and Sidekick Demise
  • 07.05.10 Microsoft Has an Internet Problem, Relies on Lies
  • 07.07.10 Free Software: Technically and Ethically Better
  • 07.07.10 Under 10,000 KIN Phones Sold by Microsoft in Almost Two Months
  • 07.08.10 Eye on Apple: hypePhone Beaten by Linux
  • 07.08.10 Financial Report Says That Novell “Continues to Disappoint” and Novell Still Wants to ‘Own’ OpenOffice.org
  • 07.09.10 Landmark Digital Services is an Aggressive Patent Troll, Attacks Amateur Programmer in Europe
  • 07.09.10 Linux is Already Replacing Windows, Linux Skills Replace Microsoft Staff
  • 07.10.10 Keeping the Software Patents Monster Caged in Japan and in the United States
  • 07.20.10 Fading Future of Proprietary Handsets
  • 07.21.10 Links: GNU/Linux Desktop Merits Noted, Canonical Spreads Proprietary IBM Software
  • 07.21.10 Microsoft Booster Thinks Vista Phone 7 is Dead on Arrival
  • 07.21.10 Diversity is Good, Proprietary Software Giants Are Not
  • 07.22.10 Links: Distribution Reviews, Sabayon Linux 5.3 “Extra Spins”, Fedora Community Web Site Design
  • 07.22.10 ASUS Dumps Vista 7, Goes With Linux Instead (and Windows Has Other New Problems)
  • 07.22.10 Links: GNU/Linux Desktop News, Google Rejoins Linux Development
  • 07.22.10 Links: GNU/Linux Spreads in India, Netbooks
  • 07.23.10 Microsoft, ARM, and Linux Tax on Devices
  • 07.23.10 Links: Many New Releases of GNU/Linux, More Tablets
  • 07.24.10 Apple Definitely the Most Freedom-Hostile Phone Maker, MeeGo (Permissive) Makes Gains
  • 07.24.10 Links: GNU/Linux in China, India, Many Other Places
  • 07.24.10 HP Dumps Vista 7 for Linux, Hires Vice President From Microsoft as Software Head, Then Brings Back Vista 7
  • 07.24.10 Links: KDevelop 4.0.1, GNOME 3…
  • 07.25.10 Microsoft Kills Another ‘Killer Project’, Patents Killed Commodore Amiga
  • 07.25.10 Apple Still Smears Linux Phones Using Blatant Lies, FUD
  • 07.28.10 Talk in Spanish: Presente y futuras amenazas a la libertad del software
  • 07.28.10 SUSE Gallery an Increasingly Rare Case of Novell’s SUSE Promotion
  • 07.30.10 ACCESS Surrenders to Google
  • 07.31.10 Apple Spies on Users, Sued for Alleged Defect in hypePad, Even Tries to Break Existing Laws
  • 08.02.10 Apple’s and Microsoft’s Robbery of Knowledge Using Patents, i4i Case Might Reach SCOTUS
  • 08.02.10 Google Drains Microsoft’s Coffers, Gets Attacked by Microsoft Through Regulators (Again)
  • 08.02.10 Why Microsoft’s Mobile Business Collapsed and There is No Future Haven For It, Either
  • 08.02.10 Adoption of Vista 7 is Poor and SP1 Not Out Until Next Year
  • 08.04.10 Apple Takes Down — But Not Apologises for — FUD Against Linux-powered Phones
  • 08.04.10 Richard Stallman Explains Why Microsoft is ‘Infiltrating’ Free/Open Source Software Events
  • 08.06.10 Novell/Microsoft Mono Poison (Banshee) Put in Ubuntu 10.10 NBE by Default
  • 08.06.10 How Microsoft/Proprietary Software Bullies Ruined Digg for GNU/Linux
  • 08.06.10 Intellectual Ventures Revisited as Facebook is Hoarding Patents; Apple Patents Other People’s Ideas/Implementations
  • 08.09.10 Steve Ballmer Fails in Tablets; Among Microsoft Windows Proponents, Only 9% Want Ballmer to Stay
  • 08.11.10 Open Invention Network (OIN) and Linux Foundation Still Legitimise Software Patents
  • 08.11.10 OIN Adds Members From the EU Despite EU’s Exclusion of Software Patents; ACTA Used to Push for EU Community Patent
  • 08.11.10 Novell Connects Mono and Fog Computing (Microsoft ‘Patent Tax’ Included)
  • 08.12.10 Rob Tiller and A.J. Venter Explain Why Software Patents Are Bad, Apple Clarifies Patenting Other People’s Software Ideas
  • 08.13.10 FFII in More Disagreements With NoSoftwarePatents Founder, James Gosling Foresaw Java Lawsuit
  • 08.13.10 ‘Team Microsoft’ Uses Oracle Action Against Google to Promote C#
  • 08.14.10 Software Patents Crisis
  • 08.16.10 Apple News in July-August, Culminating in Fraud
  • 08.16.10 Robert X. Cringely Shreds Microsoft to Pieces While Fraud/Kickbacks Surface at HP, Dell, and Intel
  • 08.16.10 Oracle’s Java Aggression Spills to Other Sun Projects
  • 08.17.10 Oracle Action Could Cause Migration to GNU/Linux (at Expense of Solaris) and Help Vilify Software Patents
  • 08.17.10 ZDNet and IDG ‘Open Source’ Blogs Use Oracle for FUD
  • 08.19.10 Larry Ellison: “We Have to Exploit Open Source.”
  • 08.20.10 Oracle in the SCO Case
  • 08.23.10 Just Days After Hurd’s Ousting, HP Backtracks and Puts Windows Before Linux
  • 08.23.10 Apple Under Investigation for Competition Abuses in EU and US; Should Apple be Allowed to Take Over X Server?
  • 08.25.10 IDG Spin: Microsoft a Victim in Patent Racketeering, Loves Open Source
  • 08.25.10 New Evidence Suggests HP CEO Was Ousted Not for Sexual Harassment
  • 08.25.10 OMG!Mono!
  • 08.26.10 Chrome OS Tablet to be Ballnux (Microsoft Tax)
  • 08.29.10 Some Sanyo Products (Phones) Also Tainted by Microsoft ‘Linux Tax’
  • 09.01.10 Software Patents and Microsoft Hurt Korea as Country Tries to Escape Microsoft Monopoly and Market Abuses
  • 09.01.10 Microsoft Uses Linux to ‘Succeed’
  • 09.03.10 On Matters of Patents, Google Less of a Problem Than Microsoft, Apple
  • 09.03.10 “Only Idiots Want to Pay for Novell” (Corrected)
  • 09.06.10 Microsoft Downtimes Galore
  • 09.06.10 ZDNet’s ‘Open Source and Linux’ Blog Consults With Pro-Microsoft Campaigner
  • 09.06.10 Windows Phone 7 is Already Failing, Linux to Blame
  • 09.07.10 Why Microsoft Still Loves Software Patents
  • 09.07.10 Microsoft Tax in Televisions, Thanks to Ballnux
  • 09.09.10 Gizmodo Glorifies Patent Trolls, Oracle Nods to Software Patents
  • 09.09.10 As Windows XP Officially Dies, Linux Will Rise
  • 09.10.10 The Only Remaining Competition to Mobile Linux is Software Patents
  • 09.12.10 Microsoft Forces Linux Phone Users to Use Bong Just Like it Forces Linux Users to Buy Windows With a New PC
  • 09.13.10 Microsoft Passes More of Its Executives to the MSBBC. What About Nokia?
  • 09.13.10 Novell’s Decline, OpenSUSE, Ballnux Tax, Proprietary Software and Fog Computing Obsessions
  • 09.13.10 ‘Microsoft Tax’ Comes in More Than One Form
  • 09.14.10 “Obama Administration Funds the Tobacco Patent Lobby” and Goetz’s Pro-Software Patents Piece Vanishes, Reappears, Debunked
  • 09.14.10 Open Tech Exchange Explains How Microsoft Derailed GNU/Linux in Governments, Using “Corruption”
  • 09.16.10 Nokia, Zeitgeist, MeeGo/Maemo, and Moonlight/Mono Threat
  • 09.17.10 Strengthening Windows by Marginalising the Freedom Component
  • 09.20.10 Job Openings at Microsoft: More GNU/Linux and FOSS Attackers
  • 09.20.10 MSMobiles.com is Dead, Microsoft Mobile Business Abandoned by Staff (Entering Yahoo! Management), Future Grim
  • 09.21.10 FBR Capital Markets and Morgan Stanley Both Cut Microsoft Estimates While Microsoft is Hiding the Losses and Layoffs Are Rumoured for Next Month
  • 09.21.10 Linux Battle in Mobile Phones Becomes Primarily Legal, Not Technical, Due to Software Patents
  • 09.21.10 Bad September for Microsoft Security, Symantec Buyout Rumours
  • 09.24.10 Apple, Oracle, and Software Patents of Convenience
  • 09.24.10 Who Put Vista 7 Back in HP’s Slate Strategy?
  • 09.27.10 If You Can’t Beat Them, Hijack Them (Microsoft Joins Nokia and It Already Shows)
  • 09.29.10 Microsoft’s Patent Offensives, Patent Trolls, and Other Patent Agitators
  • 09.30.10 Not So Keen on KIN2K (Vista Phone 7) and Why Windows Will No Longer Matter in a Mobile Future
  • 09.30.10 LibreOffice Has the Potential to Altogether Replace Oracle OpenOffice.org (OOOo)
  • 10.01.10 Apple is a Tiny Niche on the Desktop
  • 10.01.10 Microsoft Offers More Filesystem Patent Traps (While Suing Over Them Again), Red Hat’s Rob Tiller Speaks
  • 10.02.10 The Redmond-Associated Press is Promoting Mono
  • 10.02.10 Signs of Defeat: Microsoft is Suing Linux Again, Using FAT Software Patents
  • 10.03.10 ACCESS (ALP) is Now Dead, Freedom Lives
  • 10.03.10 OOXML Patent Lock-up Teaches Microsoft and Others That Software Patents Hurt
  • 10.04.10 Best of ‘The Source’: Outercurve, LibreOffice, Mono, and Novell’s Sale
  • 10.05.10 Google Has Already Paid Microsoft for ActiveSync, So What’s the Problem?
  • 10.06.10 As Expected, Nokia and HP Betray Linux Under Microsoft-sympathetic New Leadership
  • 10.07.10 Return of Charney’s Lunacy and Latest BBC Propaganda: Microsoft Will Save the World From Insecure “Computers”
  • 10.07.10 Software Patent Lawsuits Around Linux (Roundup)
  • 10.07.10 Microsoft Entryism Continues at Yahoo! as More Microsoft Managers Occupy the Shaken Ship
  • 10.08.10 Smeegol Linux Has a Mono Problem
  • 10.08.10 Microsoft Pays Acacia Again and It Also Pays ACCESS Co.
  • 10.09.10 English and Spanish Versions of FSF Post on Vista Phone 7
  • 10.10.10 Microsoft Pays Mobbyists Who Are Promoting Software Patents Tax in GNU/Linux
  • 10.10.10 VMB_ware — Now Headed by Former Microsoft Executives — is Claimed to be Promoting Microsoft DirectX Inside Linux
  • 10.18.10 Microsoft’s and Apple’s #1 Weapon Against Software Freedom (Including Linux) is Software Patent Monopolies
  • 10.19.10 Attacks on Software Freedom Usually Mean That It is Winning
  • 10.20.10 Linux is Hurting Apple, So Steve Jobs Starts Spreading FUD, Gets Told Off
  • 10.20.10 Head of Microsoft Romania Quits, Entryism Revisited
  • 10.21.10 Apple Copies GNU/Linux (Poorly), Then Spreads FUD About It, Receives More Backlash
  • 10.21.10 How Mono Helps Microsoft DirectX, With Contribution From VMB_ware
  • 10.22.10 Stephen Elop Says No New Linux Phones From Nokia This Year, Talks About Cross-platform Qt
  • 10.25.10 Windows Profit Declines Sharply Because of Competition From GNU/Linux
  • 10.27.10 Mobbyist Florian Müller is Advertising Microsoft Windows, Throwing FUD at Linux
  • 10.30.10 Apple is Suing Linux Again, Increasingly Resembling Microsoft
  • 10.31.10 Microsoft’s Lock-in Tricks Decrease Rather Than Increase Microsoft’s Market Share
  • 11.01.10 Apple and Microsoft Both Attack Linux Similarly, But the Latter Suffers From Innovator’s Dilemma
  • 11.01.10 Motorola Lawsuit Against Apple Was “Preemptively Launched”
  • 11.01.10 TechBytes Episode 1: Apple, Microsoft, Bundling, and Fedora 14 (With Special Guest Brandon Lozza)
  • 11.03.10 Google Sues the Government for Serving Microsoft and Not the Industry, Should Sue Microsoft for Racketeering Too
  • 11.04.10 Microsoft’s Last Years: A Troll and the Software Patents Mafia
  • 11.05.10 Federal Government Less Patents-Friendly Than USPTO, Apple’s Embargo Attempt (With Patents) Fails ITC Judgment
  • 11.06.10 Microsoft CEO is Dumping MSFT
  • 11.08.10 Microsoft is Stockpiling and Also Buying More Patents While Microsoft’s ‘Buddy’ Finjan Extorts McAfee With Software Patents
  • 11.08.10 Microsoft Shareholder Disappointed by Vista Phony 7, Which Fails to Sell; Office 2010 Used Only by 4% of Office Users
  • 11.08.10 Newly-elected UK Government Hopes to Imitate the United States With Software Patents
  • 11.08.10 Apple EULA is Still Not Compatible With the GNU GPL
  • 11.10.10 Linux and ‘Open’ Core
  • 11.10.10 Quick Mention: Microsoft is Suing Over RAND
  • 11.11.10 Mono Advocacy is Deluded, Avoids the Facts and Personally Attacks Critics Instead
  • 11.11.10 Microsoft’s Future Goes Dark as Stock Dumped, Vista Phony 7 Fails, and Microsoft Sues Linux Rivals Instead
  • 11.12.10 Mono is for Microsoft and Microsoft F# Loves Miguel de Icaza
  • 11.12.10 Does Microsoft Really Have List of Patents GNU/Linux Supposedly Infringes?
  • 11.14.10 Cronología de Microsoft Extorsión de Patentes Contra GNU/Linux
  • 11.16.10 Cost of Proprietary and Patented ‘Microsoft-Only’ Memory Cards
  • 11.16.10 When Self-Proclaimed ‘Linux Companies’ Turn to Software Patents, Just Like Apple and Microsoft
  • 11.18.10 RAND Mobbyists, Lobbyists, and Microsoft AstroTurfers in IP 2010 (Brussels)
  • 11.19.10 RAND Mobbyists, Grupos de Presión, y los Astroturfers IP de Microsoft en 2010 (Bruselas)
  • 11.23.10 Microsoft Forced to Offer Windows Reimbursement in Brazil, Will Probably be Sued for Denying Vista 7 Refunds Elsewhere
  • 11.25.10 Microsoft Cannot Thank Vista Phony 7 for Returns
  • 11.27.10 Apple Uses Patents to Shut Down Competitors and Om Malik is Pimping Patents
  • 11.27.10 RTL Wants to Die With Microsoft Silver Lie and Windows
  • 11.27.10 Microsoft Sellouts Join Microsoft’s Racket Intellectual Ventures and Not OIN
  • 11.27.10 Groklaw: Florian Müller is “Still Pushing Microsoft and Patents.”
  • 11.29.10 Novell’s Last Week – Part I: Novell Was Bought by Microsoft, Argue Pundits
  • 11.29.10 Not Even Oprah Winfrey’s Fake Endorsements Can Save Microsoft’s Vista Phony 7
  • 12.01.10 TechBytes Episode 15: Google Chrome OS, Windows Refund, and Side Topics Like Wikileaks
  • 12.02.10 Sales of Vista Phony 7 Pathetic Compared to Linux
  • 12.02.10 Bad Decision Made at Canonical Regarding Media Player
  • 12.02.10 Amidst Its Moves to Software Freedom Italy Falls Under Microsoft Siege
  • 12.03.10 Linux Gets the ‘Wikileaks Treatment’ From Apple
  • 12.03.10 TechBytes Episode 16: Bribes for Reviews, GNU/Linux News, and Wikileaks Opinions
  • 12.04.10 Large US Corporations Push for Software Patents Through South Korean FTA
  • 12.04.10 It’s Not About Linux on the ‘Desktop’
  • 12.04.10 En Medio de sus Movimientos a el Software Libre Italia Cae bajo Siega de Microsoft
  • 12.05.10 TechBytes Episode 17: Chrome OS Imminent, Wikileaks Spreads to Mirrors, ‘Open’ Microsoft
  • 12.06.10 CNET Shows Anti-Google AstroTurf (‘Consumer’ ‘Watchdog’) is Connected to Edelman, “Microsoft Goes on the Offensive” Against Google
  • 12.06.10 Microsoft Clarifies That Making Money in Mobile Market by Extorting Makers of Linux Phones is the Plan
  • 12.09.10 Canonical is Hiring Mono Developers, Losing COO
  • 12.11.10 Mono Under AttachMSFT Spreads Microsoft Languages, Opposition Bullied
  • 12.11.10 TechBytes Episode 18: Chrome OS, Sharing, Freedom, and Wikileaks
  • 12.11.10 Microsoft Windows Weakness on Desktops and Phones
  • 12.13.10 Apple Repeats Old Mistake by Neglecting Execution, Emphasising Patents
  • 12.13.10 Mono Lie of the Week: AttachMSFT’s Banshee is Safe
  • 12.13.10 Chronology of Techrights Focus and Plans for 2011
  • 12.15.10 Novell, OIN, and AttachMSFT: Why It Confirms Novell Was Trouble All Along
  • 12.16.10 Even Goldman Sachs Recognises Microsoft’s Imminent Demise
  • 12.16.10 TechBytes Episode 19: GNU/Linux Market Share on Desktop at 4%, Microsoft Declining, and ChromeOS is Coming
  • 12.17.10 New Details Surface About Novell/Microsoft/AttachMSFT [sic Deal]
  • 12.18.10 TechBytes Episode 20: GNU/Linux Gamers Pay More for Games, Other Discussions
  • 12.20.10 TechBytes Episode 21: Copyright Abuses, Agitators and Trolls, Starting a New Site
  • 12.21.10 2006 Déjà Vu: OpenSUSE FAQ as Damage Control
  • 12.21.10 Why It’s Unlikely That Nokia Will Turn to Windows, Despite Microsoft Appointment
  • 12.22.10 ARM Noise Amplified While Channel Stuffing Allows Microsoft to Give Fake Phone Numbers to the Press
  • 12.27.10 TechBytes Episode 22: Freedom Debate and Picks of the Year
  • 12.29.10 Spanish Cablegate: Microsoft and BSA Overlap, Microsoft Exempted From ‘Piracy’ Tax in France
  • 01.02.11 TechBytes Episode 23: Failuresfest and 2011 Predictions
  • 01.03.11 Microsoft’s Favourite ‘Reporters’ Are Attacking Nokia, Pushing it Into Microsoft’s Arms
  • 01.04.11 Vista 7: The Illusion Finally Breaks
  • 01.05.11 2010: When GNU/Linux Remained/Became Better Than Vista 7
  • 01.05.11 Change Happens (Consensus Regarding Mono)
  • 01.06.11 Joke of the Day: Microsoft Windows on ARM, Tablets
  • 01.07.11 Now It’s Official: Banshee Included in Ubuntu by Default
  • 01.07.11 Wayne Borean Explains Why Microsoft May be Heading Towards Bankruptcy
  • 01.08.11 Microsoft Has Become an Embarrassment to Consumer Electronics Show (CES)
  • 01.08.11 Mono Boosters in Ubuntu Have Conflicts of Interest, LibreOffice Under Similar Threat
  • 01.11.11 VLC Saga Shows Danger of Apple’s Binary Wall
  • 01.12.11 Microsoft’s ARM Strategy Part of Vapourware Pitching, Maybe Plot to Harm Linux
  • 01.12.11 Vista Phony 7 is Broken, Cracked
  • 01.12.11 When Even Paul Thurrott Complains About Windows, Something is Terribly Wrong
  • 01.13.11 Microsoft Patent Cartel (CPTN) Dodges German Federal Cartel Office
  • 01.13.11 ES: Microsoft Posee los Derechos de Impuestos – No sólo de Patentes Fiscales – Sobre los Competidores Basados en Linux
  • 01.14.11 Microsoft the Elephant in the Security Room: Windows Botnets Double SPAM in January
  • 01.15.11 Reviewers, LG and Dell Show No Love for Vista Phony 7 Just Yet
  • 01.16.11 Fake Coverage and Paid Apologists Not Enough for Microsoft and Apple
  • 01.16.11 Novell Gradually Loses What’s Left in Mail and Collaboration
  • 01.16.11 Novell Promotes Proprietary Software, Including Microsoft’s Fog Computing and Apple’s hypePhone Prison
  • 01.17.11 Microsoft Co-founder — Like Microsoft and Intellectual Ventures — Helps Add Patent Tax to Linux
  • 01.18.11 Groklaw on Apple Patents
  • 01.18.11 Microsoft’s Dangerous Obsession With Patents
  • 01.18.11 TechBytes Episode 26: £98 GNU/Linux Computer, Stuxnet’s Government Roots, and More
  • 01.19.11 Microsoft Boosters Turn Ars Technica Into Fox Technica
  • 01.20.11 Dubious News From Microsoft Boosters
  • 01.21.11 Microsoft’s Influence in the MSBBC, Intel, Nokia
  • 01.21.11 Larry Page Should Start by Abolishing Software Patents
  • 01.22.11 It’s SCO Tactics All Over Again: Microsoft Florian Caught Lying
  • 01.22.11 TechBytes Episode 27: Linux Phones, Pardus, Trusting One’s Government-funded Distribution, and Much More
  • 01.23.11 T-Mobile Apparently Dumps Microsoft for Linux Following Class Action
  • 01.23.11 The “Mono Lobby” Explained by Neil Richards
  • 01.23.11 Adrian Malacoda on Apathy Towards Mono
  • 01.24.11 ES: Grupos de Presión por Patentes en Europa
  • 01.24.11 ES: Las Tácticas de SCO de Nuevo: Descubren a Microsoft Florian Mintiendo
  • 01.25.11 Patent Lobbying in Europe
  • 01.26.11 Michael McLoughlin, Kevin McBride, and Florian Müller
  • 01.26.11 Good News for Linux: Apple Annoys Everyone and Microsoft Cannot Catch up With Apple
  • 01.27.11 ES: Michael McLoughlin, Kevin McBride, y Florian Müller
  • 01.27.11 ES: El Trolls de Patentes de Microsoft: Intelectual Ventures y la Intervalo Extorsióna y Demanda por Poder y Directamente
  • 01.28.11 Eric S. Raymond and John C. Dvorak Declare the Death of Vista Phony 7
  • 01.28.11 Microsoft Wants to Exploit Free/Open Source CMS for Userbase
  • 01.28.11 Microsoft Patent Trolls Intellectual Ventures and Interval Extortion Sue by Proxy, Directly
  • 01.29.11 Will Elop Choose the Future (Linux) or His Past (Microsoft) for Nokia?
  • 01.29.11 Microsoft Site Hacked and the Company is Apparently Faking Financial Reports, Again
  • 01.31.11 The Era of Windows is Ending
  • 01.31.11 Possible Connections Between Departure of Eric Schmidt (Former CEO of Novell) from Apple and Google to Complaints
  • 01.31.11 TechBytes Episode 28: The Weekend After Microsoft’s Results and LCA
  • 01.31.11 TechBytes Episode 29: KDE, Other Desktop Environments, and Programming
  • 02.01.11 ES: La Influencia de Microsoft Sobre el Gobierno Francés en Medio de los Impuestos contra Linux y Apple “Violaciónes” de Derecho de Autor
  • 02.01.11 Microsoft’s Influence Over the French Government Amid Linux/Apple Copyright Violation Tax
  • 02.01.11 France is Ambivalent on Microsoft’s Monopoly Abuse
  • 02.01.11 ES: Francia es Ambivalente sobre el Abuso Monopolico de Microsoft
  • 02.01.11 FSF to Challenge Software Patents While Microsoft Uses Them to Extort GNU/Linux
  • 02.02.11 KIN Dies Again and Vista Phony 7 — Not Yahoo! — is Blamed for ‘Phantom Data’ Mess
  • 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
  • 02.03.11 Analyst Wants Microsoft’s Elop (Now Nokia CEO) to Shoot Down Linux Programmes
  • 02.05.11 Microsoft Disruptors Versus Linux Smartphones Domination
  • 02.05.11 Free Software Foundation’s Statement on Microsoft/Novell/CPTN Patent Attack Against Software Freedom
  • 02.05.11 Banshee’s Developer Quits Novell
  • 02.05.11 Google is Starting to Fight Against Software Patents
  • 02.06.11 Report: Nokia’s New CEO From Microsoft About to Fire Existing Nokia Executives
  • 02.07.11 Poisoning Mobile Linux With Microsoft Staff and Mono
  • 02.07.11 TechBytes Episode 30: Microsoft at FOSDEM, Debian Release, and Anonymous
  • 02.08.11 With Novell’s Intervention, MeeGo Now Poisoned by Mono
  • 02.09.11 Copyright and Patent Battles Against Linux Carry on (the Usual Suspects)
  • 02.09.11 New Zealand and Europe Should Both Actively Fight Against Software Patents
  • 02.10.11 Eye on Apple: Antitrust Action and hypePad Class-action Lawsuit
  • 02.11.11 Microsoft’s Nokia ‘Deal’ is More Like a Takeover, Patents Pose a Problem
  • 02.11.11 ES: Nueva Zelanda y Europa Deben Luchar Juntos Activamente Contra las Patentes de Software
  • 02.11.11 Lobbyists From Microsoft, Apple, and Nokia Are Backing Potential Patent Lawsuit Against Google/WebM
  • 02.12.11 Eye on Apple: Bans and Anger
  • 02.13.11 Maneuverers of Microsoft in an Age of Software Patents
  • 02.13.11 TechBytes Episode 31: Nokiasoft and Computer Games
  • 02.15.11 ES: El ‘Trato’ Nokia con Microsoft Es Más Como Una Toma de Posesión, Las Patentes Representan un Problema
  • 02.15.11 ES: Maniobras de Microsoft En La Era de las Patentes De Software
  • 02.16.11 Motorola Dumps Windows, Opposite of Nokia
  • 02.16.11 Ostracise Miguel de Icaza Like Stephen Elop Should Have Been Ostracised From Nokia
  • 02.17.11 Nicolas Sarkozy ‘Pulls a Kissinger’ on Steve Ballmer
  • 02.18.11 Microsoft Bans Mono
  • 02.21.11 One Last Sellout From Novell (MPEG-LA, Microsoft Patent Traps)
  • 02.21.11 Novell Keeps Amassing More Software Patents, Feeding a Rogue System
  • 02.21.11 Shareholders’ Announcement of Class Action Lawsuit Against AttachMSFT Deal (While Novell Claims to Have Received an OK, Lawsuits and CPTN Probe Ignored)
  • 02.22.11 When Intellectual Monopolies Become Criminal
  • 02.22.11 Microsoft is Polluting the Codec and Mobile Space With Software Patents
  • 02.22.11 Vista Phony 7 is Just a Very Costly Experiment
  • 02.23.11 ES: Cuando los Monopolios Intelectuales se Conviérten en Criminales
  • 02.23.11 ES: Microsoft Està Contaminando El Espacio Codec y Móvil Con Las Patentes de Software
  • 02.24.11 Microsoft Windows: Get Bricked or Get Cracked
  • 02.24.11 Eye on Apple: Losing to Linux, Facing Unrest and Probes
  • 02.25.11 Stephen Elop is Bricking Nokia
  • 02.25.11 Microsoft Staff is on the Ejection Seat (or on Slow Boat to China)
  • 02.27.11 Linux is the Future of Mobile, Already a #1 Player
  • 02.27.11 Microsoft Forced to Reveal More Layoffs, Offshoring; Sues Escapees
  • 03.01.11 Anti-competitive Apple Removes Java
  • 03.01.11 UK Drama: MSBBC Blames Google — Not Microsoft — for London Stock Exchange Site Malware, Sabotage Still Suspected
  • 03.01.11 Why Do Microsoft Employees Serve Microsoft Even After Leaving? It’s Part of the Contract.
  • 03.06.11 TechBytes Episode 33: Patent ‘Thieves’ and News That Deceives
  • 03.13.11 Linux Mint 10 for a Whole Day
  • 03.13.11 Can’t Produce Better Phones? Sue the Rival and Misuse Security, Says the Microsoft Camp
  • 03.13.11 ES: No Puede Producir Mejores teléfonos? Demande al Rival y Abuso de Seguridad dice el Campo de Microsoft
  • 03.14.11 TechBytes Episode 34: Done on a Dongle
  • 03.19.11 Microsoft-hired Lawyer Deletes Reference to Microsoft Employment and Goes GNU Hunting Amid New FUD Campaigns
  • 03.19.11 TechBytes Episode 35: You Can’t Please Some People
  • 03.20.11 ES: La OSI Todavía se Distancia a Sí Misma de Microsoft
  • 03.20.11 New Cracks in the US Patent System
  • 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
  • 03.30.11 Restoration of Pace
  • 03.30.11 Patents Roundup: Ill-conceived System Under Siege, Microsoft’s Attacks on Linux and Google’s Response
  • 03.31.11 Software Freedom Perspective: 2006-2011
  • 04.01.11 Software Patents FUD a Sign That Microsoft is Losing, Linux is Winning
  • 04.02.11 Bill Gates and Nathan Myhrvold Find New Ways to Extort the Competitors, Using Patents
  • 04.02.11 ES: Perspectiva de la Libertad del Software: 2006-2011
  • 04.03.11 ES: Bill Gates y Nathan Myhrvold Encuentran Nuevas Maneras de Extorsionar a los Competidores, Usando Patentes
  • 04.03.11 TechBytes Episode 36: “Come to Take Me Away”
  • 04.04.11 Groklaw and Opera’s Haavard on Hypocrisy From Microsoft
  • 04.04.11 Advice to Google: Stop Organising Patent Offices
  • 04.04.11 TechBytes Episode 37: Escaping the Soaps
  • 04.05.11 When All Else Fails, They Use Patents Against Linux
  • 04.05.11 Microsoft’s GUI Suicide
  • 04.05.11 Links /4/2011: Mourning Mozilla Messaging, Celebrating Simple Java API for ODF
  • 04.05.11 Microsoft’s Refined Plan of Using Novell to Attack Competitors
  • 04.06.11 FFII President Denounces Google’s Bid for Patents
  • 04.06.11 ES: La Campaña de FUD (Miedo Incertidumbre y Duda) Muestra que Microsoft Está Perdiendo, Linux Está ganando
  • 04.07.11 .NET and More Microsoft APIs Pushed Into GNU/Linux by Microsoft MVPs and FUD Spreaders (Against Linux)
  • 04.07.11 Technology Giants Make the World a Worse Place for Developers, Using 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
  • 04.11.11 TechBytes Episode 38: Thanks for Reaching Out
  • 04.13.11 TechBytes Episode 39: Groklaw wins, Microsoft me too’s and trolls fail
  • 04.13.11 Elop-led Nokia and Bill Gates Lobby Europe Amid New Push Ushering in Software Patents
  • 04.13.11 Jay Walker is a Patent Troll, Imitates the Paul Allen Model
  • 04.16.11 Moving Closer Towards Operating Systems Unbundling in Europe
  • 04.16.11 Articles of ZDNet UK
  • 04.17.11 MeeGo Will Live Despite Microsoft Corruption
  • 04.17.11 TechBytes Episode 40: Video Begins at 40
  • 04.18.11 Losing the Battle Against Software Patents?
  • 04.18.11 Microsoft’s Choice: Patent-Trolling to Death or Real Patent Reform
  • 04.18.11 ES: La Elección de Microsoft: Trolling por Patentes Hasta La Muerte, o Reforma Real de Patentes
  • 04.20.11 Apple’s Anti-Linux Patent Lawsuits Give Another Reason for Concern Over CPTN
  • 04.20.11 Mono is Microsoft
  • 04.21.11 Software Corruption Leads to Protests in India, Again
  • 04.22.11 SCO’s Strategic Consultant Mike Anderer Foresaw Microsoft-Organised Patent Lawsuits Against Linux (Through Small Companies)
  • 04.22.11 ES: El Presidente de la OSI: Microsoft Florian Está Diciendo Insensateces (Acerca de las CPTLN/patentes entre Microsoft y Novell)
  • 04.22.11 Groklaw Opposes Novell’s Membership in the Linux Foundation, Due to Microsoft Ties
  • 04.24.11 TechBytes Episode 41: Going Rusty
  • 04.26.11 Microsoft: We Need More Monopoly Protection
  • 04.26.11 The Lobby Against Linux
  • 04.26.11 Windows Sales Keep Declining and “Windows Ecosystem is Broken”
  • 04.26.11 Why Google Will Invalidate Linux-Hostile Patents
  • 04.27.11 Federal Agents Should Prosecute Microsoft for Market Abuses With Patents Following Extortiongate
  • 04.27.11 Forget About DPI, Microsoft Tracks Everywhere You Go, What You Do
  • 04.28.11 Expecting and Preparing for Microsoft’s Last Stand
  • 04.28.11 Fake Patent Reforms and Abolition of Software Patents
  • 05.03.11 Patent Threat to GNU/Linux a Top Issue to Address
  • 05.04.11 TechBytes Episode 43: At Home With Jono Bacon, Ubuntu Community Manager
  • 05.05.11 Microsoft’s Three Musketeers (Gates, Allen, Myhrvold) Still Assault the Market With Patents
  • 05.06.11 Microsoft Still Uses Nokia to Attack Linux
  • 05.07.11 TechBytes Episode 44: The Four Horsemen Reunited; Fedora Ambassador Interview
  • 05.10.11 Daemonisation of Google in the Press Orchestrated by Microsoft Lobbyists (Burson-Marsteller and John Mercurio Exposed)
  • 05.11.11 Jack Schofield Accused of “Lack of Professionalism” for Daemonising Mono Sceptics
  • 05.12.11 People Who Left SUSE Because of Novell’s Atrocious Patent Deal
  • 05.12.11 Bedrock Loses as Linux Emerges Victorious
  • 05.12.11 ES: Jack Schofield Acusado de “Falta de Profesionalismo” por Demonizar a los Escépticos de Mono
  • 05.13.11 Exclusive: Microsoft Patent Schemes Nobody Knows About
  • 05.15.11 ES: Exclusiva: Las Maquinaciones de Microsoft de Patentes de las Que Nadie Sabe Nada
  • 05.15.11 TechBytes Episode 45: Skype, Facebook, and Weekly Musings
  • 05.15.11 Patents Roundup: Kodak Dinosaur Wins Against Apple, Patent Trolls Attack the Small Guy, and USPTO Does Nothing Right
  • 05.16.11 ES: Resumen de Patentes : El Dinosaurio Kodak gana contra Apple, Trolls de patentes Atacan al Tipo Pequeño, y la USPTO No Hace Nada Bien
  • 05.18.11 hypePhone Developers Should Blame Apple for Lodsys Patent Attack, for Funding Nathan Myhrvold’s Cartel
  • 05.19.11 Microsoft is Living and Dying in x86 Land
  • 05.21.11 TechBytes Episode 47: Unity With the Wife
  • 05.23.11 Lodsys Shows That Apple Does Not Care About Developers
  • 05.24.11 Doubts About the Future of Open Source Under Attachmate
  • 05.27.11 OpenSUSE in the Mist of Novell PR and Trademarks
  • 05.27.11 TechBytes Episode 48: Will The Real Steve Ballmer Please Step Down?
  • 05.31.11 Still No Commitment to OpenSUSE, Just Proprietary Software From Attachmate
  • 05.31.11 Microsoft is Distorting the Hardware Market to Harm Linux Again
  • 05.31.11 Why Europe Must Prepare to Abolish and Block All Software Patents
  • 06.01.11 ES: ¿Por qué Europa debe Prepararse Para Aboler y Bloquear Todas las Patentes de Software?
  • 06.02.11 ES: ¡Ya Basta!
  • 06.02.11 “Windows 8 Sounds Like It’s Basically Windows Phone 7 on a PC”
  • 06.03.11 Microsoft’s Fight Against Innovation
  • 06.03.11 TechBytes Episode 49: Linux – To Boldly Go…
  • 06.05.11 TechBytes Episode 50: With Rusty Again, Challenging FUD
  • 06.09.11 Microsoft Veterans Making a Profit From Bashing Linux, GPL
  • 06.10.11 Nokia Crushed by Microsoft While Windows Mobile Dies. Is Skype Next?
  • 06.10.11 Europe’s Software Patents Problem Summarised
  • 06.11.11 Apple Runs Out of Ideas, Harms Developers, and Faces Antitrust Problems
  • 06.11.11 What Can One Do When IDC Lies for Microsoft Money?
  • 06.13.11 IDG Blames Carriers Amid Strategic Shift at Microsoft: Don’t Sell Windows Phones, Tax Linux Instead
  • 06.13.11 Mozilla Staff Explains That Net Applications Gives Skewed Firefox Measures
  • 06.14.11 How to Advocate for GNU/Linux to Become Dominant Platform (Across Different Levels of Scale But Especially Desktops)
  • 06.14.11 Microsoft’s Plan of Taxing Linux Using Nokia
  • 06.15.11 TechBytes Episode 51: Nokia and Apple, GPL’s Importance, Silverlight’s Death, and Copyrights Unrest
  • 06.16.11 Microsoft Lobby Ups the Pro-Software Patents Propaganda
  • 06.16.11 ES: Resumen del Problema Patentes de Software de Europa
  • 06.16.11 Winning When Techrights Becomes Unnecessary
  • 06.17.11 Microsoft Partner Attachmate Keeps Monopoly Over Mono ‘IP’ After Microsoft Aided Sale
  • 06.18.11 Foggy and Binary Future (If Any) for Mono
  • 06.18.11 ES: El Plan de Microsoft de Hacer Linux Pagar Tributo Utilizando las Patentes de Nokia
  • 06.19.11 Gartner Group Partly Owned by Bill Gates and Other Business People That Gartner Covers
  • 06.19.11 Linux-Hostile Patent Lobbying Disguised as Analysis
  • 06.19.11 MyDoom Misdirection and Disinformation About GNU/Linux Desktops
  • 06.20.11 Lobbyists Against GNU/Linux Increasingly Use Patents as Weapons
  • 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
  • 06.22.11 Bill Gates-funded BBC Does Not Name That Web Browser
  • 06.22.11 CPTN Members Oracle, Apple, and Microsoft Still Attack Linux With Software Patents
  • 06.22.11 Apple May Receive Penalties for Market Abuses While Microsoft’s Abuses Carry on Unabated
  • 06.23.11 All Your Fruit Are Belong to Apple
  • 06.24.11 ES: Los Grupos de Presión Contra GNU/Linux Cada Vez Más Utilizan las Patentes Como Armas
  • 06.26.11 Software Patents Depress Progress, Shows James E. Bessen of Boston University
  • 06.26.11 Techrights Was Right About Mono Being Open Core, Now Miguel de Icaza Admits It
  • 06.26.11 TechBytes Episode 52: Desktop Environments and the Demise of Ubuntu
  • 06.27.11 Software Patents Face New Challenges as FTC Notified, Bilski Case Invoked, and Re-examinations Carried Out
  • 06.28.11 ES: Las Patentes de Software Detienen el Progreso, lo Muestra James E. Bessen de la Universidad de Boston
  • 06.28.11 The Difference Between Microsoft’s Racketeering Against Linux and Oracle’s Racketeering Against Linux
  • 06.28.11 ES: Las Patentes de Software Frente a Nuevos Retos la FTC notificada, el caso Bilski invocado, y Re-examinación Realizadas
  • 06.29.11 Microsoft’s Behaviour Provides More Reasons for All Countries to Reject Software Patents
  • 06.29.11 ES: La Diferencia Entre el Chantaje Sistematizado de Microsoft contra Linux y el Chantaje Sistematizado en Contra de Linux de Oracle
  • 06.29.11 MonoDroid and MonoTouch Are Assimilation to .NET
  • 06.30.11 Microsoft’s War on Linux is All About Software Patents Now
  • 06.30.11 ES: La Guerra de Microsoft Contra Linux Ahora Es Sobre las Patentes de Software
  • 06.30.11 As Microsoft Managers Keep Fleeing, Microsoft Attacks Small Players That Offer Linux (Updated)
  • 06.30.11 ES: Mientras los Directivos de Microsoft Siguen Huyendo, Microsoft Ataca Jugadores Pequeños Que Ofrecen Linux (Actualizado)
  • 06.30.11 Microsoft Florian Celebrates Patent Extortion, Still Dodges Question About Microsoft Funding
  • 07.01.11 ES: Microsoft Florian Celebra la Extorsión de Patentes, Quién Todavía Evita la Pregunta Acerca Si Microsoft lo Financia
  • 07.02.11 Microsoft and Apple Form Another Cartel to Allegedly Attack Linux (With Nortel Patents)
  • 07.02.11 The Decline of Ubuntu in the News
  • 07.05.11 Patents Providing Protectionism, Not Beneficial Protection
  • 07.06.11 TechBytes Episode 53: WebOS, Universal Laws, and Tablets
  • 07.06.11 TechBytes Episode 54: Patent Extortion, Economy Shifting, Tablets Lacking
  • 07.06.11 Microsoft Extorts Another Company That Sells Linux (Chrome OS)
  • 07.07.11 Federal Agents Unhappy About Microsoft’s and Apple’s Patent Strategy, Reversals Possible
  • 07.10.11 What We Can Do to Improve Things
  • 07.10.11 Journalists Fail to Report Microsoft Racketeering as Microsoft Manages to Shape the News
  • 07.10.11 United States May Join Canada in Challenging Nortel’s Patent Sale to Linux Foes
  • 07.12.11 Why We Need to Pressure Google Into Putting an End to Software Patents
  • 07.12.11 As Microsoft is Losing, Expect a Lot More Patent-Flavoured FUD Against Linux
  • 07.12.11 IDG Uses Fake ‘Panel’ to Create Linux-hostile Bias
  • 07.13.11 Regulators in the US/Canada Authorise Linux-hostile Patent Cartel, Google Must Help Abolish Software Patents Now
  • 07.15.11 Google Should Invest Wealth in Reformists, Not Patent Lawyers
  • 07.15.11 ES: Los Reguladores de EE.UU./Canadá Autorizan al Cartel de Patentes Hostiles a Linux, Google Debe Ayudar a Abolir las Patentes de Software Ahora
  • 07.15.11 TechBytes Episode 55: Google’s Growth, Sabayon Linux 6, and Sony-Microsoft
  • 07.16.11 USPTO Drives American Software Developers Away to Other Countries
  • 07.17.11 ES: Google Debe Invertir Riqueza en los Reformistas No en los Abogados de Patentes
  • 07.18.11 Microsoft Acknowledged Patent System is Broken, But Happily Uses it to Attack Rivals
  • 07.18.11 Google’s Business Model and the FUD About It
  • 07.18.11 Software Patents Might Inevitably Die as Economic Impact is Realised
  • 07.19.11 Bait Headlines Cause Harm to GNU/Linux, Help Microsoft
  • 07.19.11 ES: Inevitablemente, las Patentes de Software Podrían Morir Cuando Su Impacto Económico es Dado a Conocer
  • 07.19.11 Xamarin Gets Permission From Novell But Not From Microsoft
  • 07.21.11 Windows Still Designed for Insecurity
  • 07.21.11 Site Maturity
  • 07.21.11 Tell Google Not to Buy Software Patents
  • 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
  • 07.22.11 Software Industry Abducted by Patent Lawyers
  • 07.23.11 ES: Microsoft Reconoció El Sistema de Patentes Está Quebrado Pero Felizmente lo Utiliza Para Atacar Rivales
  • 07.24.11 TechBytes Episode 56: GNU/Linux Versus Mac OS X
  • 07.25.11 Connection Between Patent Troll Lodsys and Former Microsoft CTO/Microsoft Proxy Highlighted
  • 07.25.11 Rage Against the Masochist
  • 07.25.11 Windows is Losing Ground, Linux-Hostile/Intolerant Service Pack Kicks In
  • 07.30.11 Weekend Links 2011/07/30 – Amazing New OLPC and Patent Insanity
  • 08.06.11 TechBytes Episode 57: Desktop Choice is Grand
  • 08.07.11 Novell and Microsoft Security ‘Honours’
  • 08.08.11 Google Validates Techrights’ Assertion That Microsoft and Apple Are Part of a Cartel Against Linux
  • 08.08.11 White House is Microsoft’s House
  • 08.08.11 Myhrvold’s “Criminal Enterprise”, Detkin’s Criticism of Extortionists and Terrorists (Which He Himself Became)
  • 08.10.11 Apple is Killing Jobs, Killing Products
  • 08.10.11 Windows — Just Like Microsoft — Does Not Play Nice With GNU/Linux
  • 08.10.11 Latest Evidence That the USPTO is Morbidly Ill, Costing the Economy; Real Reform Likely
  • 08.11.11 Growing Opposition to Microsoft-Led Cartels and Patent Trolls
  • 08.12.11 Global Dimming for the Cult of Patents
  • 08.12.11 The Patents Cartel Against Linux Brings Together Linux Allies
  • 08.12.11 The Real Issues, Not Gossip
  • 08.13.11 After Icahn Entryism, Motorola Too Considers Strategy of Extorting Linux Phone Makers
  • 08.13.11 Links – WebODF, Murdoch’s Legacy and some Patent Anti-Trust
  • 08.16.11 Apple Fabricates ‘Evidence’ to Ban Linux Devices
  • 08.16.11 Despite Google’s Validation of Patents, the Fight Against Software Patents Carries On
  • 08.16.11 Microsoft, Like Elvis, is Everywhere.
  • 08.16.11 Microsoft’s Latest FUD Against GNU/Linux Hinged on SEC Filing, Boosted by Pretend ‘Journalists’
  • 08.17.11 A Demise of the Patent Plot Against Linux
  • 08.18.11 Microsoft Uses Novell Patents to Not Only Threaten But Also Daemonise Google
  • 08.19.11 GNU/Linux Desktop Market Share
  • 08.19.11 Links – Microsoft Partner HP Exits the PC Business, Bilski Takes a Bite
  • 08.19.11 Arguments That Google’s Motorola Move Was Defensive (Amid Bidding War)
  • 08.20.11 SUSE Wants Credit After Selling Out to Microsoft and Legitimising Patent Extortion
  • 08.20.11 Links – More on the Demise of webOS, SpyPhone and Facebook Busted
  • 08.20.11 The Era of Software Patents May be Ending Gradually. It Was Terrible Whilst It Lasted, Agree ‘Mainstream’ Sources.
  • 08.21.11 Misconception: The Problem With the US Patent System is Just Patent Trolls and/or Just Software Patents
  • 08.22.11 Links – Addiction Redefined, Microsoft Florian and Barbarous Trump.
  • 08.23.11 Amid Motorola Patents Sale, More Calls to Abolish Patents and More Microsoft Brainwash
  • 08.24.11 Backlash Against the US Patent System Grows Amid Google’s Defensive Moves
  • 08.24.11 TechBytes Episode 58: HP’s 180, Google’s New Patents, and the New GIMP
  • 08.25.11 Microsoft: From Glitch to Leech
  • 08.25.11 Steve’s Duopoly Against Linux
  • 08.28.11 Patents Wrath Escalated to President Obama
  • 08.29.11 Corporate Press Turns Against Patents But Forgets/Neglects to Stress Microsoft and Apple Are an Integral Part of the Problem
  • 08.30.11 Microsoft in Embargo War Against Linux
  • 08.31.11 July 2011 Interview With Muktware
  • 08.31.11 Links – US DOJ Opposes ATT/TMobile Merger
  • 08.31.11 GNU/Linux is Secure From Copyright Slander, But Not From Patent Extortion
  • 09.02.11 Apple Allegedly Impersonates Police, Attacks Linux, Finds Support From Its Allies Microsoft and Oracle
  • 09.02.11 Microsoft Confirms Role in Preparing to Litigate Using Patent Trolls as Proxies
  • 09.02.11 Missing the Point about Burnout
  • 09.02.11 Anti-Smartphones Patent Troll Equipped With 2,000 Microsoft-led Nokia Patents
  • 09.04.11 Microsoft’s Embrace of Linux is Deceitful, Malicious, a Likely Antitrust Violation
  • 09.05.11 TechBytes Episode 59: Privacy, Tablets, and Dream Studio
  • 09.06.11 Professor Michael Risch Studies Patent Trolls, Google to Suffer From Microsoft’s Trolls
  • 09.08.11 The Demise of Apple-labelled Foxconn Devices
  • 09.08.11 More Microsoft Extortion
  • 09.09.11 Apple Adopts ‘Lunatic Dictator’ Approach
  • 09.10.11 Carol Bartz: Her Job is Done
  • 09.10.11 2011 Patent ‘Reform’: Change We Can’t Believe in
  • 09.12.11 The Business Deception of Exclusive Monopolies and Shared Monopolies
  • 09.12.11 Current Patent ‘Reform’ Criticised in the Press, Software Patents Need to Go
  • 09.12.11 The Rise and Fall of Rise and Fall
  • 09.13.11 Google and Commentators Weaken the Popularity of Software Patents, Apple Already Gets Blowback
  • 09.14.11 Mobile Patent Wars Merely a Symptom of a Broken Patent System
  • 09.15.11 Google’s IBM Patents Feast: Good or Bad?
  • 09.16.11 Patent Systems: So Inherently Corrupt That They Must be Kept Secret From the Public
  • 09.19.11 The Re-imposition of Smart Networks.
  • 09.20.11 Techrights and Microsoft
  • 09.22.11 TechBytes Episode 60: Microsoft Versus Dual Booters, Google Competition Matters, and Google+
  • 09.24.11 MAD Wars: Apple Faces Patent Blowback
  • 09.24.11 TechBytes Episode 61: Sebastian on Mageia and the GNU/Linux Desktop
  • 09.26.11 Apple Reduces Patent Claims as Verizon et al. Strike Back, Calling for Embargo on iPad and iPhone
  • 09.26.11 Microsoft’s Mobile Plan: Patents, Not Products
  • 09.28.11 Links, Facebook and Boot Aggression Round Up. Spectrum Shortage Lies.
  • 09.29.11 Microsoft: Blocking GNU/Linux, Then Distracting/Lying to the Press
  • 09.29.11 Patent Trolls Demystified and Patent Reform Demanded
  • 09.30.11 The Telecom Industry Turns Against Patent Aggressor Apple
  • 09.30.11 Microsoft’s Patent Troll (IV) Helps Increase Microsoft Tax, BSA Changes Intellectual Monopoly Laws
  • 10.01.11 Microsoft-Funded Government Missing in Action While Microsoft Racketeering Goes on
  • 10.02.11 American Duopoly (Apple and Microsoft) Fights Korea With Patents
  • 10.03.11 TechBytes Episode 62: I Told You So
  • 10.04.11 Links Gates and Allen Corruption, $35 Indian Tablet
  • 10.04.11 When Phones Become Just a Big Pile of Patents
  • 10.06.11 Patents Roundup: Europe Under Pressure, Microsoft Moles in the Press, and More Patent Trolls
  • 10.06.11 Future Portable Devices Are Linux-based as Microsoft Zune Dies and Apple iPhone Dies Before Its Next Arrival
  • 10.06.11 Update on Tuxera and Novell
  • 10.07.11 Halliburton in a War With European Patent Law
  • 10.07.11 Steve’s Job
  • 10.09.11 Steve Jobs’ Aggressive Legacy and Microsoft Boosters Continue to Haunt Linux Phones
  • 10.10.11 TechBytes Episode 63: Enter KDE
  • 10.13.11 TechBytes Episode 64: From Russia to Bristol
  • 10.14.11 Microsoft Lobbies for More Patents in Europe While Apple Blocks and Castrates Linux Devices in the EU
  • 10.14.11 Microsoft Linux (SUSE) Still Wants to Absorb MeeGo
  • 10.14.11 Microsoft Extorts Linux Again, Its Troll Intellectual Ventures Suggested for Antitrust Intervention
  • 10.15.11 The Fall of Quanta and Microsoft Florian (Two-Faced Lobbyist)
  • 10.18.11 Novell’s Collapse Continues as More Customers Move to Microsoft
  • 10.20.11 Links – Deranged noises and damage from a Dying Microsoft. Corruption all around.
  • 10.20.11 Novell’s Case Against Microsoft Unrelated to ‘Microvell’ and ‘AttachMSFT’
  • 10.20.11 Patents Roundup: Apple Crybaby, SCOTUS Failure, and OpenSim Concerns
  • 10.20.11 The Microsoft Spin Machine Makes Racketeering Seem Acceptable
  • 10.22.11 Survey: In 2 Years, Vista 7 Enters Just a Quarter of Businesses
  • 10.23.11 Steve Jobs and His War on Linux, LSD Addiction, and ‘Theft’ of Credit for UNIX, Java, Xerox Inventions
  • 10.24.11 Microsoft’s RICO Act Violations Only Supported by Spinners
  • 10.24.11 Apple Badgeware
  • 10.26.11 Links
  • 10.26.11 Former Microsoft Employee Who Pressured for Action Against Microsoft Meets Passive Government
  • 10.27.11 Patents Roundup: Microsoft Patents PR, Red Hat/Groklaw’s Response, and Apple’s Slide to Unlock Thermonuclear War
  • 10.28.11 Apple Lost Respect
  • 10.28.11 When Novell Staff Becomes Technology Writer
  • 10.29.11 Apple’s Products Are Far From Perfect
  • 10.29.11 SCOracle: Possibly Many Years in the Making, Linux Innocence Upheld
  • 10.30.11 Nokia Can Oust — But Not Recover From — Microsoft Mole
  • 10.31.11 Patents Roundup: Twitter and Amazon, Microsoft and Apple, USPTO and SCOTUS
  • 11.01.11 Latest Analysis of Patent Assault on Linux
  • 11.01.11 Watch Out for Microsoft Spin and Daemonisations Over UEFI Misuses
  • 11.02.11 Mono Bug Persists in Ubuntu GNU/Linux
  • 11.02.11 Links – E-Tyranny Acts
  • 11.02.11 TechBytes Episode 65: End of the Season
  • 11.03.11 Patents Roundup: Software Patents, Patent Trolls, Reexaminations, and Apple
  • 11.03.11 Exposed Microsoft Lobbyists No Longer Pretend to be Objective on Patent Issues
  • 11.07.11 Patents Roundup: Microsoft’s New Patent Deal, Apple Lawsuits, Lodsys, US Backlash Against Software Patents, and More
  • 11.10.11 Apple’s Latest Attacks and Problems Clearly Show That Apple is Losing
  • 11.10.11 As Microsoft Extortion Continues, Submission Filed to the Department of Justice for Patent Abuse
  • 11.10.11 Removing Microsoft Mono From Debian
  • 11.11.11 Microsoft Lobbyists Help Microsoft Dodge Charges of Patent Extortion and Then Smear Google Instead
  • 11.12.11 US Citizens: Contact Your Representatives, Seeking Prosecution of Microsoft Executives for Perpetrating Extortion Racket
  • 11.14.11 Bogus Patents as the Last Resort
  • 11.16.11 Links – Coordinated attacks against Occupy protests, SOPA, No Porno-Scan for EU.
  • 11.17.11 Amazon Regrets Software Patenting
  • 11.17.11 Techrights in the Post-Microsoft/Novell World
  • 11.18.11 MOSAID, Microsoft, and Antitrust
  • 11.23.11 Potentially the Beginning of the End of Microsoft’s Patent Extortion
  • 11.23.11 Microsoft Shrank Nokia and Fed its Patents to Trolls
  • 11.23.11 Patents Roundup: Bad System, Clear Symptoms
  • 11.27.11 Patents Roundup: Broken System as the News Attests to the Failure
  • 12.01.11 The Rise of Linux and Google
  • 12.06.11 CarrierIQ Exposes the Flaws of “Best Tool for the Job” Pragmatism
  • 12.12.11 Links – Bill Gates the Chinese Nuclear Engineer, Medical Method Patents, Anti-Trust and PR
  • 12.12.11 Lodsys, Microsoft Patent Trolls, Apple, and Microsoft Nemesis
  • 12.12.11 Microsoft’s OEM Stranglehold at State of Legal Risk
  • 12.14.11 Software Patents in the EU Become a Central Concern Again
  • 12.15.11 Apple’s Patent War on Linux Turns Back Against Apple, Which Allegedly Resorts to Using Patent Trolls
  • 12.15.11 Xamarin and Novell: The Sagas Continue
  • 12.18.11 Updates on Novell and Other FOSS Taxers
  • 12.18.11 Groklaw on MOSAID (Patent Troll for Microsoft)
  • 12.23.11 Microsoft’s Attack on Linux in the Courtroom
  • 12.23.11 Microsoft Stacked Patent Panels, Front Groups for Patents, and Proxy Patent Trolls
  • 12.26.11 Should We Organise an Apple Boycott?
  • 12.26.11 Microsoft and Nokia Caught AstroTurfing, Abusing/Attacking Genuine Posters
  • 12.28.11 Links – Microsoft, Big Publishers in decline, and Fools keep pushing for SOPA.
  • 01.02.12 Reactive Lawsuits Brewing Against Microsoft and Apple
  • 01.04.12 Starting 2012 With Patent Extortion and Litigation
  • 01.07.12 Links – An Unhappy New Year at the Marriott, Microsoft set backs, GNU/Linux and Free Software Advances.
  • 01.07.12 TechBytes Episode 66: First of the Second Series
  • 01.09.12 Links – Kindle, Nook, OLPC and Anti-Trust. Please petition Obama to Veto SOPA.
  • 01.10.12 Openwashing Linux Tax: OpenSUSE and Tuxera
  • 01.12.12 Links – Microsoft Malware and Lockouts, Idiots Press SOPA Forward, US “Bailouts” add up to $16 Trillion
  • 01.13.12 With IBM Executive Running the USPTO, IBM Tops Patent Monopolists List
  • 01.13.12 Microsoft Extortion Up Another Notch With LG
  • 01.13.12 Microsoft to Start 2012 With More Layoffs
  • 01.13.12 Microsoft Uses Proxies to Control and Tax Linux
  • 01.14.12 Links – A quick SOPA Update – they don’t hear you.
  • 01.16.12 Microsoft is Finished on Devices, Tries Cheating and Perhaps Should be Sued
  • 01.17.12 Links – More Sopa, TV Whitespaces under attack.
  • 01.18.12 Xamarin and Mono Out of the Radar’s Range
  • 01.19.12 Linux Has Advantage in Mobile Devices
  • 01.23.12 EULA and Lawyers — Not Engineering — Define Today’s Technology Winners
  • 01.24.12 New Disinformation From Patent Lawyers and Microsoft Lobbyists
  • 01.24.12 Apple is Sued for Anti-competitive Practices; The Court Sees Patent Lawsuits/Actions by Proxy
  • 02.01.12 Microsoft Mole Failed to Sell Phones, Managed to Pass Patents to Microsoft’s Patent Trolls
  • 02.01.12 Bill Gates is Hijacking Open Source While Attacking It Using Lobbyists, Patents, and Patent Trolls
  • 02.05.12 Apple, Which Started Patent Wars, Gets What It Deserves
  • 02.05.12 OpenStack, Microsoft, Junk Patents, Microsoft Copyrights, and Oracle Copyrights
  • 02.10.12 Links – Anti-Trust Roundups – Yahoo, Nokia, Barns and Nobel
  • 02.14.12 Apple May Have High Market Cap, But Linux is Far Ahead
  • 02.15.12 Stockpiling Against Apple and Microsoft Aggression
  • 02.17.12 Harming the GPL With Doomsday Predictions and FRAND
  • 02.19.12 Apple Versus Google When the Patent System Approves ‘Slide to Unlock’ as a Monopoly
  • 02.20.12 Symantec a Patent Aggressor
  • 02.22.12 Patents Let Giants Attack the Rest, Apple Attack FOSS
  • 02.23.12 Links – TPP evil, Time Zones in the Clear, Corporate Spying and other Fun
  • 02.27.12 Apple’s Lawsuits Against Free Software Show Hypocrisy
  • 02.29.12 Shades of SCO in New Litigation and Microsoft Aggression
  • 02.29.12 Windows Phones Become Extinct
  • 03.04.12 Revolving Doors: How Microsoft Essentially Bribes Prominent Google Critics
  • 03.05.12 MSBBC Lies About Microsoft Market Share
  • 03.07.12 Apple Wants ‘Linux Tax’, OIN Still Unable to Do Much
  • 03.10.12 Java Patents Lose Their Teeth
  • 03.10.12 Apple is Becoming a Patents Cult
  • 03.13.12 Microsoft Sends Out Lawyers to Shut Down Competition
  • 03.13.12 Apple Likes to ‘Steal’ Stuff
  • 03.15.12 Mozilla and Others Still Lead Opposition to Software Patents
  • 03.19.12 Oracle vs. Google Becoming a Lost Cause
  • 03.21.12 hypePad 3 is Hot
  • 03.22.12 Nokia Inevitably Realises Linux is Better Than Windows
  • 03.22.12 Mozilla a Victim of the MPEG-LA Cartel
  • 03.22.12 Vista 8: The Disaster Starts Now
  • 03.24.12 Despite Moles, Patents, and Lawsuits, Linux-based Platforms Rule Mobility
  • 03.26.12 Apple: When Branding is More important Than Quality
  • 03.26.12 While Software Patents Are on the Line, Linux and the Public Continue to Suffer
  • 03.28.12 Apple Allegedly Tried to Kill Linux 12 Years Ago
  • 03.28.12 Press Covers Software Patents Amid Their Possible Elimination
  • 03.28.12 Microsoft File System Patents Are Collapsing
  • 03.29.12 Windows Phones: Still Dying While Linux is Thriving
  • 03.31.12 Microsoft’s 352 Patent is a Needle in the Haystack
  • 03.31.12 Oracle Does Not Want to Settle
  • 04.02.12 Update on Patent Failures and Microsoft Lawsuits Against Linux Companies
  • 04.07.12 Apple Quality
  • 04.07.12 Gaming the Numbers: Why Microsoft is Not a Top Linux Contributor
  • 04.10.12 Links – New and Old Censorship, Anti-trust, Privacy Violations and Pollution.
  • 04.11.12 Apple Problems Can Accelerate Linux Domination in Tablets
  • 04.11.12 Patent Threats to Linux
  • 04.13.12 Microsoft Bugs Kill Nokia
  • 04.17.12 Apple and Microsoft Are Losing Share to Google
  • 04.18.12 Microsoft’s War on Freedom (Article by Formic)
  • 04.20.12 Florian Müller: Liar/Spinner for Sale, But He is Not Alone
  • 04.20.12 Patent Pledges Are Pointless, Here’s What Red Hat Can Learn From Twitter
  • 04.20.12 Microsoft’s Man-in-the-Middle Attack on Free Software (Article by Formic)
  • 04.20.12 Linux Device for Retro Games, Raspberry Pi Pre-orders @ 350,000
  • 04.24.12 The Big Microsoft Lie is Spreading and It Works
  • 04.28.12 The Decline of Apple and Microsoft in Phones
  • 04.30.12 Links – Microsoft Extortion of B&N Successful.
  • 05.08.12 LInks – Oracle’s war on Google falters.
  • 05.10.12 Links – Microsoft Bans Mozilla from Vista 8
  • 05.11.12 Google/Motorola Left Alone in the Fight Against Microsoft Extortion
  • 05.12.12 Did Microsoft Buy FUD From Barnes and Noble? Did Microsoft Simply Pay a Bribe? If So, Is That Legal?
  • 05.14.12 Europe Rules Against Monopolies on APIs
  • 05.19.12 Defeat for Software Patents in the United Kingdom
  • 05.21.12 AOL Helps Microsoft Infiltrate, Harm Open Source Communities, Feeds Facebook With Google-Hostile Patents
  • 05.21.12 Microsoft Tax on Everything
  • 05.21.12 Sun: Interoperability More Important Than Patents
  • 05.26.12 When Windows Runs Only on Old Form Factors (Desktops)
  • 05.26.12 Google Beats Oracle’s Patents, But the Plague of Software Patents Remains
  • 05.29.12 Old Novell: Fighting Microsoft; New Novell: Advancing Microsoft
  • 05.30.12 Moonlight is Dead
  • 06.02.12 Collusion, Conspiracy and Patent Crimes From Microsoft Against Linux
  • 06.02.12 Net Applications: The Mathematics Failing
  • 06.05.12 With Microsoft Mole, Nokia Becomes Microsoft’s Partner in Crime (Through MOSAID)
  • 06.05.12 Taxing the Competition
  • 06.05.12 Microsoft’s Monopolistic Abuses Continue as Red Hat and Fedora Tax Are Put in Place
  • 06.07.12 Software Patents Want to Spread and Harm Civil Rights, Fair Competition
  • 06.08.12 Linux Foundation Members That Pay Microsoft for Linux
  • 06.09.12 Goodbye Oracle
  • 06.16.12 As Hardware Prices Fall, Windows Becomes Far Too Expensive to Compete With Linux
  • 06.19.12 Bizarre and Dangerous Patents
  • 06.19.12 Entryism at Nokia: Microsoft Takes Over From the Inside With More Moles, Linux-based Platforms Axed
  • 06.20.12 Links – NATO protest slapdown, Nokia collapsing.
  • 06.20.12 Microsoft Has a Material New Product, It Claims, But It’s Just Vapourware
  • 06.22.12 Abolishing Software Patents
  • 06.22.12 Nokia the Latest Example of Dead Microsoft ‘Partners’, More Lined Up
  • 06.24.12 Techrights and Patents, Antitrust
  • 07.03.12 Apple’s (and MPEG-LA’s) Fight Against Diversity
  • 07.05.12 Features of Vista 8 Focused on Errors, Antifeatures
  • 07.10.12 Apple Suffers Boycotts From Own Followers Due to Patent Aggression
  • 07.15.12 Amazon Absorbs More Microsoft Managers
  • 07.17.12 Windows on Phones is Hopeless
  • 07.17.12 TechBytes Episode 69: Richard Stallman on Restricted Boot (UEFI), Coreboot, GRUB, and Boot Freedom
  • 07.19.12 Microsoft Ban Success, Apple Ban Failure, Apple Must Apologise
  • 07.20.12 Red Hat Does Not Want to Defend Its Position on UEFI
  • 07.20.12 The Patent Wars Deepen
  • 07.23.12 Linux Foes Make Money From Linux
  • 07.24.12 TechBytes Episode 70: Richard Stallman on How Browsers and Social Networking Sites Facilitate Surveillance
  • 07.25.12 Patent Trolls Use the ‘Microsoft Defence’
  • 07.26.12 TechBytes Episode 71: Richard Stallman on Surveillance, the NSA, and Mobile Phones
  • 07.28.12 Amdocs Helps Microsoft Attack Linux Freedom and Engage in Racketeering
  • 07.28.12 The BSD World Antagonises UEFI While Red Hat Aids It, OpenBSD Leader Criticises Red Hat
  • 07.30.12 New Complaint Filed in the European Commission Over Microsoft’s Extortion of GNU/Linux
  • 07.30.12 Microsoft Already Uses Software Patents to Actually Remove Linux Devices from the European Market
  • 07.31.12 Apple Increasingly Relevant to the War on Software Patents and Linux Domination
  • 07.31.12 Microsoft Corporation — Not Just Microsoft Windows — a SPAM Leader; UEFI Not the Answer
  • 07.31.12 TechBytes Episode 72: Richard Stallman on News Sources Bias, GPL.next Misinformation, and Software Patents
  • 08.02.12 Microsoft and Windows in Trouble as Vista 7 Has Failed
  • 08.02.12 Microsoft Lobbying Spins Extortion as ‘Peace’
  • 08.03.12 TechBytes Episode 73: Richard Stallman on Corporate Secrecy and US Politics
  • 08.05.12 Microsoft is Losing Share in Servers and Desktops, GNU/Linux and FOSS Gain
  • 08.05.12 Patent Trolls and Their Favourite Weapon, Software Patents, Could Face Death
  • 08.06.12 TechBytes Episode 74: Charles-H. Schulz on ODF, OOXML, and LibreOffice
  • 08.07.12 Kodak Shows What Happens to Patents Amid Corporate Deaths
  • 08.08.12 Boycott Sharp
  • 08.12.12 Microsoft-Led Nokia Continues to Feed Patent Trolls
  • 08.12.12 When Patent Litigation Reaches Billions of Dollars in ‘Damages’ Per Case
  • 08.13.12 Bill Gates is Openly Promoting Patent Trolls Which Attack Linux
  • 08.13.12 TechBytes Episode 75: On TechBytes, Techrights, and Site News
  • 08.15.12 Apple and Microsoft in the Same Patents Team
  • 08.17.12 Patent Traps in Linux; Mono Increasingly Developed by Microsoft
  • 08.19.12 Vista 8 Expected to Fail Based on OEMs
  • 08.23.12 Vista 8 Will Fail for Businesses, Says Dell
  • 08.24.12 Longtime Lobbyist Reported to the FTC for AstroTurfing Practices
  • 08.27.12 Apple Has Woken Up Opposition to Software Patents, Itself
  • 09.25.12 Trolls in a State of Denial
  • 09.27.12 Europe and New Zealand Share a Software Patents Problem As Such
  • 09.27.12 Patent Troll Uses Software Patents to Attack Free Software Hosting
  • 09.27.12 Xamarin and Miguel de Icaza Help Microsoft
  • 09.29.12 Microsoft Expected to be Fined for Disobeying European Orders
  • 10.06.12 Patents Can Drive Apple and Microsoft Away From Litigation Tactics
  • 10.06.12 Patent Trolls and Parasites
  • 10.08.12 Patent Trolls Slammed by Inventors
  • 10.09.12 Nokia Abandoned While Its Patents Are Passed to Trolls
  • 10.11.12 Betrayals in Europe Over Software Patents
  • 10.12.12 Samsung May Be Trying to Reduce Microsoft Patent Tax With F2FS
  • 10.12.12 Now That Netflix Is Decoupled From Microsoft, Will GNU Linux Users Get Served?
  • 10.14.12 Apple and Microsoft Suing Google to Stop Linux Domination in Phones, Tablets, and Beyond
  • 10.14.12 Rewriting Nokia’s History of Microsoft Takeover
  • 10.14.12 Linux Wins the Devices OS War, Microsoft Tries to Lock it Out With UEFI
  • 10.14.12 Opposition to Software Patents and Trolls in the Press
  • 10.16.12 Apple Aggression Against Linux Continues to Motivate Patents Abolition
  • 10.18.12 Smartphones Hit Hard by Software Patents, Many Join the Call for Government Intervention
  • 10.18.12 Microsoft Tries Taxing Linux With Patents, Lock-in, or Altogether Lock Linux Out
  • 10.19.12 Apple Loses in the UK, Must Publicly Admit It Lied
  • 10.19.12 Windows Franchise Collapses, Microsoft Unable to Hide It
  • 10.21.12 Canonical Does Not Want Critics, Mono Boosters Return
  • 10.21.12 European Debate on Patents Should Borrow Lessons From Apple vs. Samsung
  • 10.21.12 Vista 8 Drives Away OEMs, Linux to Gain
  • 10.21.12 Patent Debates After the Apple Debacle
  • 10.23.12 Microsoft Partners Step in Linux Territories
  • 10.23.12 FairSearch a Microsoft Front Group, Designed to Incite Politicians Against Google
  • 10.25.12 Apple Cannot Win Outside the US
  • 10.25.12 Vista 8 is Heading for the Garbage Can, Suggest Early Reports
  • 10.26.12 Patent System Needs a Rethink, Apple Continues to Harm the Whole Industry
  • 10.29.12 Appalling Apple Apology
  • 10.29.12 Microsoft is AstroTurfing for Vista 8
  • 10.31.12 Linux Heavyweights Speak Out Against Patents
  • 11.02.12 Ubuntu Decided to Stay With GPLv3 After Public Backlash
  • 11.03.12 Apple Apologises in the Wrong Place (For Now)
  • 11.05.12 Apple Hides Apology
  • 11.05.12 FRAND Trials in the US Kept Secret
  • 11.05.12 Patent Reform Widely Promoted in the News
  • 11.06.12 Apple Loses Battle Over Smartphones Patent Tax (or FRAND)
  • 11.07.12 Intel and Microsoft Launch Anti-Linux Attacks, Similar to OLPC Attack
  • 11.08.12 Vista 8 AstroTurfing Not Enough, Other Tactics Used
  • 11.08.12 Spain Trashes FRAND (Software Patents Tax), Microsoft Lobby Keeps Promoting FRAND
  • 11.09.12 Linux is Not Enough
  • 11.09.12 Apple Trial Misconduct Seen as More Likely Than Before
  • 11.10.12 Apple in Trouble in US and UK Over Deception, Required to Compensate Samsung Financially
  • 11.14.12 Apple Censors Criticism of Its Abused Labour Force
  • 11.14.12 IBM Propaganda for Software Patents Rebutted by Masnick
  • 11.14.12 Microsoft Failed With Vista 8, Set to Attack Linux With Patents Instead
  • 11.15.12 Vista 8 Too Much of a Resource Hog for Tablets, Takes Up an Expensive 16 GB of Space
  • 11.15.12 Microsoft Boosters Entered as ‘Reporters’ to Cases About Linux Patent Tax
  • 11.15.12 Rotten Patent System Not Just a Bad Apple, CCIA Seeks Change
  • 11.19.12 Europe to Push for Unitary Patent (Software Patents Loophole) at 7 PM CET Tonight
  • 11.21.12 Kappos/IBM Part of the Patent Monopolies Disease, Enabling Cartels
  • 11.21.12 Vista 8 Drives Windows Users to Other Operating Systems
  • 11.22.12 Techrights IRC Software, Free (Libre) Software, and Software Perspective
  • 11.27.12 Patents Roundup: Microsoft Front the BSA Promotes Software Patents, Kappos Helps the Rotten System
  • 11.28.12 SUSE Fans Walk Away, Tuxera Linux Tax Still Abound
  • 11.29.12 David Kappos Leaves as He Loses the Debate and Software Patents Lose Legitimacy Among Public Figures
  • 11.29.12 UEFI Apologists Versus Germany’s Government Judgment on UEFI Insecurity
  • 12.05.12 Apple Stomps on Civil Liberties
  • 12.10.12 Microsoft is Back to FUD Wars Against Linux, Forgetting to Hide Behind Proxies
  • 12.11.12 Nokia Should Move to Linux Before Its Staff is All Gone (Except Microsoft Moles)
  • 12.11.12 USPTO Sued as the System Collapses Under the Weight of Trolls, Monopolists, and Lawyers/Politicians
  • 12.11.12 Vista 8 Continues to Fail, But Succeeds at Suppressing GNU and Linux Installs
  • 12.13.12 Stop Fighting Software Patents the Way Lawyers Say We Should
  • 12.15.12 MPEG Cartel Stabs Apple in the Back
  • 12.15.12 Windows (All Versions) Allows Remote Spying on the Mouse, Down to 20% Market Share
  • 12.16.12 Patent Trolls Face More Opposition as Their Share of Lawsuits Increases
  • 12.28.12 Mark Cuban Gives Big Boost to Software Patents Abolition Movement
  • 12.28.12 Google Dodges Microsoft Patents as the Anti-Google Lobby Grows
  • 01.04.13 Patent Extortion and Litigation Become a Proxies Maze
  • 01.06.13 Apple Has Always Been Shameless About Lying on Innovation
  • 01.06.13 FRAND is Fraud, Anticompetitive
  • 01.10.13 FRAND Quite Likely the First Casualty at USPTO, Not Patents (Directly)
  • 01.16.13 FFII Challenges Software Patents in Europe, DOJ Does the Same in the United States But With a Twist
  • 01.19.13 All Your Rectangles Are Not Apple’s
  • 01.19.13 Vista 8 is Dying With the Desktop Based on More Data Points, Security Issues Persist
  • 01.23.13 The Register on Vista 8
  • 01.24.13 Action by Proxy
  • 01.25.13 Apple Deposed for Abusing Rights
  • 01.25.13 $125 to Remove Vista 8, Which One Already Paid For
  • 01.29.13 Microsoft Patents and Secrets in APIs
  • 01.31.13 Apple Uses Patent Law to Drive Down Wages, Block Linux, Inflate Prices
  • 02.03.13 Microsoft Cash Cows Don’t Produce Milk Anymore
  • 02.04.13 Apple Keeps Losing Patent Cases, Now Pursues Trademarks on Designs!
  • 02.05.13 USPTO Shows That It Wants to Go Global
  • 02.07.13 Boycott Dell
  • 02.09.13 Ignore the Spin: Microsoft’s UEFI Programme Still Bricking Laptops
  • 02.14.13 Software Patents Debate Manipulated by Spin
  • 02.15.13 Microsoft Partners IDC and Trustwave Spread GNU/Linux FUD
  • 02.18.13 Steve Jobs’ Litigation Legacy Leaves Apple Well Behind
  • 02.18.13 Dell Will be the Next Nokia Unless It Escapes Microsoft’s Grip
  • 02.19.13 USPTO a Driver of Patent Trolls, Drives Innovation and Sharing Out of the US
  • 02.23.13 Boycott Nikon
  • 02.23.13 Xamarin is a Microsoft Extension
  • 02.27.13 Vista 8 Still Massively Rejected
  • 03.02.13 Dubious Editorial Control in ZDNet
  • 03.06.13 Microsoft MVP Miguel de Icaza Finally Quits GNU/Linux; Even He Does Not Want Vista 8, Samsung Dumps Vista 8 Tablets
  • 03.06.13 USPTO Drives Linux Phones Out of the United States, US Citizens Speak Out Against Software Patents, Politicians Concerned
  • 03.08.13 Microsoft Acknowledges That Windows, the Common Carrier, is Falling Behind
  • 03.10.13 When OEMs Slam Vista 8, Say It’s Worse Than Vista
  • 03.11.13 Galaxy S Series Cannot be Stopped by Apple, iPads and iPhones Nearly Banned as a Result of Apple Provocation
  • 03.11.13 Patent Trolls Increasingly Recognised as an Issue, Taking Attention Away From Software Patents as Key Issue
  • 03.12.13 Microsoft Tax Goes Deeper Into Hardware While Microsoft Pays No Tax
  • 03.18.13 Microsoft Hardware and Media Partners Not Happy With Vista 8
  • 03.19.13 How Apple Attacked (and Marginalised) the Linux-powered WebOS
  • 03.21.13 US House Hearing on Patents a Sham, Stacked With Lawyers/Corporations
  • 03.24.13 Boycott Nokia for Attacking Free Software, FFII’s President Suggests
  • 03.24.13 OOXML in Norway and Sarkozy-Gates Corruption Over OOXML Return to Discussion Amid Bribery Stories
  • 03.25.13 Systemic Corruption, Secrecy, and Discrimination in Patent Systems
  • 03.29.13 Software Patents: Incompatible With and Antithetical to GNU/Linux
  • 03.30.13 Microsoft Skype Heavily Used for Surveillance by British Government/Police/Secret Services
  • 03.31.13 Apple Patents Not Worth the Paper They’re Written on
  • 03.31.13 Microsoft Sociopaths
  • 04.03.13 Having Been Attacked by Battery Life Patents in Europe, Google Pursues Battery Life Software Patents
  • 04.06.13 Windows (Software) is Dying, So Microsoft Runs to the Hardware Business, Where Its Failures Necessitate AstroTurfing
  • 04.06.13 Red Hat Should Learn From Companies That Got Abducted in a Friend-Brings-a-Friend Fashion by Microsoft
  • 04.08.13 War is Peace, Diversity is Fragmentation, Versatile is Difficult
  • 04.09.13 Those Who Push for Patent Reform and Those Who Protect Protectionism
  • 04.09.13 Microsoft is Unloading Divisions, Many Employees Leave
  • 04.09.13 OEMs Ditch Microsoft for Linux, Microsoft Plans Emergency Rerelease of Windows
  • 04.11.13 Time for Everyone to Drop Microsoft Windows
  • 04.13.13 Apple Now a Leading Opponent of Linux, Due to Patents in Particular
  • 04.14.13 Microsoft Game Chief Quits, Former Microsoft Staff for Activism Against Microsoft
  • 04.14.13 Vista 8 is a Failure Which the Free Software Foundation Capitalises on
  • 04.15.13 Microsoft Falls as Another Major Ally Gives up on Investment in It
  • 04.18.13 Microsoft Crimes: From Bribing Chinese Officials to Blackmailing Chinese Manufacturers Over Linux
  • 04.18.13 Windows is Dying, Say Pundits, Which is Why Microsoft Tries to Make GNU/Linux Hard to Install and Run
  • 04.19.13 Electronic Frontier Foundation, Google, Red Hat et al. Should Work to Eliminate Software Patents, Not Just Patent Trolls
  • 04.19.13 Microsoft’s ‘Cloud’ Strategy: Make GNU/Linux More Expensive Using Patent Blackmail, Then Offer ‘Linux Apps’ on Windows
  • 04.21.13 Accounting Tricks Hide Losses at Microsoft; Windows is Dying, Still, So Microsoft Relies on Dirty Tricks
  • 04.21.13 Patent Trolls and ‘Royalties’: Distracting From the Real Issue Which is Software Patents
  • 04.24.13 Google Should Condemn CISPA
  • 05.04.13 The European Patent Office is Breaking the Law Regarding Software Patents, German Parliament Finally Complains
  • 05.04.13 Software Patents Are Core Issue, But New Obsession Names Just Patent Trolls as the Issue
  • 05.06.13 Despite Vista 8 Failing in the Market, GNU/Linux Slow to Capitalise Due in Part to Microsoft’s UEFI Tricks
  • 05.06.13 Microsoft’s Patent Extortion of Linux Comes to China (ZTE)
  • 05.07.13 New FOSS FUD Linked to Microsoft Staff
  • 05.08.13 Losing Sight of the Real Problem With the Patent System
  • 05.09.13 Microsoft Moles Assimilate FOSS (Microsoft’s Philosophical Opposition) to Microsoft
  • 05.10.13 Bribing Companies That Expose Microsoft Extortion, Preventing Them From Showing What It Really is That Microsoft Does (RICO Act Violation)
  • 05.12.13 Matt Asay is Wrong, Microsoft Does Sue (SLAPP Action), Doesn’t Just Threaten
  • 05.20.13 Microsoft Entryism and Bribery Get the Microsoft Way Implemented
  • 05.20.13 Microsoft is Struggling to Maintain Industry ‘Standards’
  • 05.21.13 The New York Times Publishes Factually-Flawed Patent Propaganda Benefiting Microsoft and Apple
  • 05.23.13 Microsoft Violates Google Licences
  • 05.24.13 Microsoft Entryism and Its Effects on Corporate and Public Policy
  • 05.25.13 Red Hat Pays Microsoft-Linked Patent Troll Again, Refuses to Provide Details
  • 05.26.13 Copyrights and Patents for Competitive Manipulation by Proxy
  • 06.01.13 Canonical’s Grave Strategic Errors Can Make Ubuntu the Next Linspire (Circa 2007)
  • 06.01.13 Impact
  • 06.01.13 Patent Lawyers Fight to Keep and Facilitate Software Patents Worldwide, Using Misinterpretation, Distraction, and Loopholes
  • 06.01.13 Mike Masnick Mistakenly Calls ZDNet ‘Tech Press’, Not Realising It’s Agenda-filled Blogs Pretending to be Journalism/News
  • 06.05.13 Microsoft is Giving More Patents for Patent Trolls to Attack Google
  • 06.06.13 Microsoft’s Latest Attack on GNU/Linux in Education Targets the Poorest
  • 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 Digital Freedom in the Age of War on Dissent
  • 06.07.13 The Good News: White House Knows the Patent System is Broken. The Bad News: It Does Not Understand Why.
  • 06.09.13 Software Patenting Under Attack in Germany
  • 06.11.13 Obama Administration Misuses the ‘T Word’ (Troll) to Dodge Serious Issues
  • 06.11.13 CNN: Where Agenda and Lobbying Trump Facts and Justice
  • 06.18.13 Microsoft Dirty Tricks to Promote Xbox One Vapourware
  • 06.18.13 Microsoft is Not Done With SCO Yet
  • 06.18.13 Judge Jackson Dies While Microsoft Continues to Abuse the System, This Time Using Nokia as a Front
  • 06.21.13 Bill Gates Marginalises Teachers and Harvests Schools’ Data for Profit at Expense of Privacy
  • 06.24.13 Microsoft “Gets Them Addicted”, Then Raids Them, and Finally Gets Sued
  • 06.25.13 Microsoft Implodes While Damage is Done to Other Companies and Through Other Companies
  • 06.27.13 TechBytes Episode 79: Richard Stallman Speaks About Back Doors
  • 06.29.13 2013: When Apple Realised That Patents Just Don’t Work
  • 06.29.13 CBS is Censoring Its Writers’ Articles, Not Just Polite Comments It Disagrees With
  • 07.01.13 Apple Bites the Bullet
  • 07.01.13 Ingesting Microsoft Traps: FAT and Restricted Boot
  • 07.03.13 Microsoft’s Xbox Chief Quits
  • 07.10.13 Too Many Lies From Florian Müller
  • 07.11.13 Free Software a Primary Litigation Target
  • 07.13.13 Microsoft Deal Kills Barnes & Noble
  • 07.13.13 Obama Apparently a Patent Judge Now
  • 07.14.13 Blackboard Does to Moodle What Oracle Does to MySQL
  • 07.14.13 Patent Troll: I Am Not a Troll
  • 07.17.13 Bias From Patents Maximalists Paints Google and Microsoft as Being in Patents ‘Alliance’
  • 07.17.13 Panorama of Richard Stallman: The P Series (2013)
  • 07.18.13 Patent Scope Still the Topic to Focus on, and Not Just in the United States
  • 07.19.13 The Foot in Stallman’s Face: Bill Gates Still Redefines Free Software
  • 07.19.13 Ask QuinStreet to Bring Back DesktopLinux and LinuxDevices
  • 07.21.13 Nokia is Microsoft’s Antitrust Complaints Proxy, Microsoft Florian the AstroTurfing Proxy/Tool, and Bribes a Last Resort
  • 07.22.13 Busy Disparaging the GNU/Linux-Powered Competition of Microsoft
  • 07.25.13 Windows Death Watch: How Microsoft’s Common Carrier Loses Its Lustre
  • 07.26.13 Boycott UEFI
  • 07.28.13 Microsoft is Adding Surveillance and Tax to Free/Libre Software
  • 07.28.13 Microsoft Nick and Gaming of Slashdot: The Rise of the Anti-Linux Slashdot
  • 07.28.13 Apple is Still Trying to Ban Linux Devices Using a Patent on Rounded Corners
  • 07.29.13 The Crisis of Microsoft and the Coverup
  • 07.29.13 In Debating Patents, Avoiding the Excessive Focus on Patent Trolls
  • 07.30.13 Another Major Blow to Apple as ‘Pinch to Zoom’ Patent Dies, US Government Pays Attention to Patent Aggression by Giants
  • 08.01.13 Hardware Companies Continue to Dump Microsoft Windows
  • 08.01.13 As Apple Loses Notorious Software Patent the Debate About Software Patents Reappears in the Corporate Media
  • 08.05.13 More Patent Lawsuits Target GNU/Linux, Response Includes Calls to End Software Patents
  • 08.07.13 Growing Support in US Politics for Elimination of Patent Trolls
  • 08.09.13 More OEMs Turn to Linux-based Platforms Because Dependence on Windows is Killing Them
  • 08.09.13 Apple Sees Ever-Developing Exodus of Key Apple People as Its Litigation Strategy Fails and Becomes Political Strategy
  • 08.10.13 Windows XP Getting No More Security Patches Not the Big Issue Because It Already Has Back Doors
  • 08.10.13 Microsoft Enters the Bricks Business and Beams Users’ Passwords
  • 08.11.13 Leading OEMs Keep Dumping Microsoft Windows Like a Boiling Hot Plate, ASUS Joins the Pack
  • 08.12.13 Groklaw Slams the US Legal Framework for (Mis)Handling of Patents
  • 08.15.13 Microsoft Bans and Censors Free Software, Snubs Linux-based Platforms With Majority Market Share
  • 08.17.13 Microsoft’s Emerging Attacks on Google: Bogus DMCA Notices, Fabricated Quotes, Bogus and Baseless Antitrust Complaints
  • 08.17.13 Reminder of Patent Lawsuits From Proxy Entities
  • 08.22.13 Blackberry Patents Emerge as New Threat in Patent Stacking and FRAND Attacks on Free Software
  • 08.22.13 Techrights Scope Expansion
  • 08.23.13 Keeping Free Software Free (Libre)
  • 08.24.13 The NSA ‘Violates’ Society Worldwide, But We Need to Fight It, Not Surrender to It
  • 08.24.13 MeeGo Outlives Nokia, Which Dies With Microsoft
  • 08.24.13 The Press Has Been Exceptionally Cruel to Ubuntu Edge
  • 08.26.13 The Desktop Dream and GNU/Linux Domination Through Mobile Adoption of Linux
  • 08.26.13 Fedora’s Recent Choice of Codenames Hurts the Project
  • 08.26.13 Linux World Domination: The Covert Expansion of Linux to Broadcast, Games, and Even Watches
  • 08.28.13 Techrights in 2013-2014 (Eighth Year)
  • 09.12.13 Battling Microsoft’s Abusive Hardware-Software Bundling by Showing That GNU/Linux is Better Than Windows
  • 09.12.13 Microsoft Exodus Continues, But With It Comes Contamination of Other Parts of the System
  • 09.20.13 Big Money in FUD Against Free/Libre Software Licensing
  • 09.20.13 Gabe Newell (Formerly Microsoft, Now Valve’s Head) and Intel Declare GNU/Linux Desktop Victorious
  • 09.20.13 Linus Torvalds Dodges Question About Requests for NSA Backdoor in Linux
  • 09.23.13 Copying Apple’s Graphics, Not Apple’s Business and User Experience
  • 09.24.13 With Government Support, GNU/Linux is Growing in the City of Munich, the Argentinian, Chinese, British Markets
  • 09.25.13 GNU/Linux Rapidly Becoming a Gaming Platform of Choice, Offering Better Performance
  • 09.26.13 People Trust Mozilla, Show Confidence Regarding Security and Privacy
  • 09.27.13 Aren’t There Too Many Car Types and Brands? The Type of Question Apple/Microsoft Boosters Ask About GNU/Linux…
  • 10.03.13 Microsoft’s Monopoly is Not Sustainable, Monopolist and Monopoly Abuser Bill Gates is Being Pushed Out
  • 10.07.13 Convicted Monopolists Call Software You Develop and Give for Free ‘Anti-competitive’
  • 10.07.13 With Intellectual Ventures, the USPTO Becomes Basis for Pyramid Scheme, FTC Investigates
  • 10.08.13 Latest Disruptions in Databases Favour Free/Libre Software
  • 10.08.13 Mozilla and Firefox Are Becoming Linux-oriented, Need to Compete With Tizen, Jolla and Sailfish
  • 10.08.13 Linux Devices and Embedded Linux a Most Powerful Force
  • 10.23.13 Mozilla Gains More Credibility by Hiring Xiph.org Founder Monty Montgomery
  • 10.23.13 Applications/Games-Related Links for September-October 2013
  • 10.24.13 Free Software/Open Source-Related Links for September-October 2013
  • 10.24.13 Hackable (as in Freedom-Respecting) is Becoming Hip Again
  • 10.24.13 Canonical/Ubuntu-Related Links for September-October 2013
  • 10.26.13 Even If Coverage of GNU/Linux Declines, the Development of GNU/Linux Keeps Its High Pace
  • 10.26.13 Microsoft’s Common Carrier Dying While GNU/Linux on the Desktop Rising Because Steam Helps Eliminate Gaming Gap
  • 11.03.13 The Free Software World Helps People Acquire/Regain Privacy
  • 11.07.13 Embedded/Devices Linux News for October-November 2013
  • 11.07.13 The “Year of the Linux Desktop” Predicted in the Corporate Press
  • 11.07.13 More Lawsuits by Proxy From Microsoft Against Linux
  • 11.11.13 Penguin Pete Quits Advocacy of GNU/Linux and He Isn’t Alone
  • 11.11.13 No More Excuses for Avoiding GNU/Linux
  • 11.12.13 Games and Graphics in GNU/Linux: Things Are Quickly Improving
  • 11.13.13 Applications and Instructionals: November 2013
  • 11.13.13 Google as Flag Bearer of GNU/Linux
  • 11.13.13 It Is Not Hard to Switch to GNU/Linux
  • 11.13.13 Google, Nokia, Samsung and Others Lie About Mobile Back Doors, Other Companies Don’t Even Answer the Questions Because They Are Worse
  • 11.13.13 Microsoft Sets Up More Proxies/Front Groups to Attack Linux/FOSS With Software Patents
  • 11.15.13 Free/Libre Software Has Conquered the Area of Content Management Systems
  • 11.15.13 New Revelation: Microsoft Gives the NSA Easy Access to Its Datacentres
  • 11.15.13 Oracle Continues Its Destruction of Free/Libre Software, But Projects Like LibreOffice, MariaDB, and Ceylon Show That Popular Free/Libre Software Just Can’t Die
  • 11.17.13 Politicians in Europe and the United States Are Giving up on Net Neutrality
  • 11.18.13 GNU/Linux is Taking Over Everything and the Code is Freely Shared
  • 11.18.13 NSA-Created Malware Used Politically and Relied on Microsoft-Provided Back Doors/Weak Encryption
  • 11.19.13 GNU/Linux News Sites in 2014
  • 11.21.13 Acacia, Which Has Former Microsoft Managers and Agenda, Apparently No Longer Good for Microsoft
  • 11.22.13 Microsoft Takes AstroTurfing to New Levels, Co-opting Grassroots and Bribing People
  • 11.27.13 NSA Shows Why We Should Abandon All Proprietary Software and Verify Trust
  • 11.28.13 Governments Complicit in NSA Cracking Crimes and Blackmail
  • 11.28.13 Jolla/Sailfish is Not Selfish; It’s Quite Freedom-Respecting
  • 11.28.13 Glyn Moody on GNU GPL Against Software Patents and Microsoft Racketeering
  • 12.03.13 Apple and Microsoft Claim Patent Tax on GNU/Linux, Red Hat’s Response Too Weak
  • 12.05.13 While Nokia Becomes Microsoft’s Anti-Linux Litigation Front, Pre-Elop Nokia Revived, Jolla Sells All Available Phones
  • 12.10.13 GNU/Linux-Powered and Freedom-Respecting Phones (OpenMoko is Sort of Back)
  • 12.12.13 The Linux Foundation’s Unusual Branding Failure
  • 12.16.13 In Operating Systems Market, Microsoft is Going Nowhere Fast
  • 12.16.13 NSA Roundup: Latest News in a Nutshell
  • 12.16.13 Fee Shifting (or Patent Trolls Busting) Not the Solution to Patent Problem, Scope of Patenting the Real Issue
  • 12.18.13 New Examples of Censorship in West Europe, Facebook, Google, Saudi Arabia, China, Japan, and North America
  • 12.18.13 The Positive Power of Ubuntu GNU/Linux Seen in South Korea
  • 12.19.13 Yes, Chrome OS is a GNU/Linux Distribution and Google is Still Worth Supporting
  • 12.19.13 (GNU) Linux on the Tablet in 2013
  • 12.19.13 Google is Gradually Eating Away Microsoft’s Desktop Monopoly
  • 12.22.13 USPTO to be Partly Headed by Google Executive
  • 12.26.13 GNU/Linux Web Site of the Year: LinuxGizmos (Formerly LinuxDevices)
  • 12.26.13 On Google Chrome, ChromeOS, Chromecast, and the Lesser Benign
  • 12.26.13 CyanogenMod Integrates Proprietary Software, Replicant Does Not
  • 12.30.13 Closing a Year of Human Rights Violations and Attacks on Civility
  • 12.30.13 More Reasons to Boycott Apple, Which Abuses Courts, Engages in Competition Crime, and Aids Espionage
  • 12.31.13 When GNU/Linux on Desktops/Laptops Starts to Outsell Apple
  • 01.02.14 GNU/Linux Has Taken Over the Industry; Latest FUD is Denying That Something is ‘True’ GNU/Linux
  • 01.02.14 OpenStack Follows the Trajectory of GNU/Linux, Joined Into Linux Protection Programme
  • 01.02.14 As GNU and Linux Become Dominant Platforms They Need Not Follow Microsoft With UEFI
  • 01.06.14 In Mobile, GNU and Linux Victories Are Everywhere, So Microsoft Tries to Interject Itself Into Linux
  • 01.06.14 Patents Named as One of the Big Issues in FOSS in 2013
  • 01.07.14 Ubuntu, WebOS, Firefox OS Make a Splash in Mobile
  • 01.10.14 Chromebooks May Have Made 2013 the Year of GNU/Linux on the Desktop
  • 01.13.14 Patents Roundup: Bogus Solution to the Problem FOSS Faces and More Litigation via Proxies
  • 01.14.14 GNOME’s Leadership and Old Misconceptions About Diversity
  • 01.15.14 Mozilla Should Denounce Microsoft Windows, Not Just Proprietary Web Browsers
  • 01.15.14 Latest Examples of Linux Domination in Devices/Embedded Systems
  • 01.15.14 Links: Ubuntu/Canonical in January 2014
  • 01.17.14 Still in Pursuit of Linux (and GNU) Phones Without Microsoft Tax and Surveillance
  • 01.20.14 Fraudulent Microsoft Reportedly Pays OEMs Not to Entertain Linux
  • 01.21.14 Linux Devices Watch: Embedded and Device/Appliance News
  • 01.21.14 New Linux
  • 01.22.14 New GNU/Linux Tablets: Aakash, PiPad, Firefox OS
  • 01.22.14 Linux Foundation’s Events, LCA 2014, and Other FOSS Events
  • 01.22.14 Microsoft’s State-Imposed Indoctrination and Back Doors
  • 01.26.14 Systematic Looting of Society Disguised as ‘Crisis’ (for Austerity/Privatisation) and Bogus ‘Charity’ as Solution
  • 01.27.14 Apple is Rapidly Losing the Smartphones Market, But Don’t Cheer for Samsung
  • 01.29.14 The Latest FOSS FUD Revolves Around Fakes and Bogus Arguments
  • 01.29.14 East Asia is Taking Over More Parts of the Computer Industry, Bringing GNU/Linux to the Top
  • 01.30.14 Google and the Desktops (or Laptops)
  • 01.30.14 Free/Open Source Software Events: February and Beyond
  • 01.30.14 Almost Nothing Changes With Passage of Hardware Businesses to Lenovo
  • 02.03.14 Privacy/NSA Watch: Corporate Spying, Snowden Smears, German Anger, and More Lawsuits
  • 02.03.14 USPTO Still a Sham; Microsoft, Apple and IBM Still Part of the Problem and Google/Linux a Common Victim
  • 02.06.14 Sure, GNU/Linux is Used Extensively by North Korea, But Why the Hate?
  • 02.06.14 Don’t Let the Corporate Press Portray GNU/Linux as a Loser
  • 02.07.14 Canalys Accused of Being Liars and Pushers of Microsoft Propaganda
  • 02.07.14 Doing Business With Windows Now a Failed Strategy
  • 02.09.14 Apple Feels the Pinch of Linux and Starts Buying Its Own Stock
  • 02.12.14 GNU/Linux Desktop Environments Continue to Multiply
  • 02.13.14 Mozilla Sells Out
  • 02.13.14 ‘Windroid’ is NSA-Powered, Not Linux-powered, and Real Nokia Phones (Not Microsoft ‘Nokia’) Are Only Jolla
  • 02.14.14 Report: Microsoft’s Vista 8 at Less Than 3% Market Share in Rising China, Which Apparently Builds on Linux
  • 02.17.14 Chromebooks Run GNU/Linux But Don’t Offer Freedom
  • 02.18.14 Patents ‘Reform’ Debate Still Controlled by Corporations, Price of GNU/Linux Servers at Stake
  • 02.18.14 GNOME 3.12, GNOME 3.11.5, KDE Frameworks 5 Alpha, Kubuntu 14.04 Alpha 2, Kubuntu Derivatives, Desktop Poll
  • 02.18.14 Embedded Computing/Devices Leave Windows in the Dust
  • 02.19.14 NSA/PRISM on Steroids: Microsoft Lync
  • 02.20.14 Free Software News Roundup: Careers, Liberations, and Lots More
  • 02.20.14 Samsung Capitulates to Rights Violations Amid Undermined Federal Laws and Obligatory Kill Switches
  • 02.21.14 Ubuntu Makes Many Headlines Again, This Time Because of Real Phones
  • 02.24.14 Many Are Moving to GNU/Linux, So Microsoft is Trying to Make it Technically Hard
  • 02.25.14 After Nokia, the Rise of MeeGo Seen in Tizen and Sailfish (But Don’t Use Tizen)
  • 02.25.14 Microsoft’s Biggest Partners Move Away From Windows
  • 02.25.14 Firefox Targets the Low End With Linux
  • 02.25.14 Abuses of Rights: News About Surveillance, Torture, and Assassination
  • 02.27.14 Tizen and Samsung
  • 03.03.14 Embedded Linux News Roundup
  • 03.03.14 If Ford Wants Open Source Community, It Should Embrace Neither Microsoft Nor Blackberry
  • 03.03.14 News Roundup: Rights and Politics
  • 03.05.14 Ubuntu Rising: Desktops, Servers, Phones, and Beyond
  • 03.06.14 A Parade of (GNU/)Linux-powered Mobile Operating Systems
  • 03.07.14 Arch Linux is Becoming More Mainstream
  • 03.07.14 Debian’s Importance is Growing
  • 03.07.14 IBM Not the Only ‘Sugar Daddy’ of GNU/Linux
  • 03.09.14 Weekend News: Surveillance, Drones, Torture, and More
  • 03.11.14 LibreOffice Stories: Birthday, New Release (4.2), Web Site, TDF Board
  • 03.12.14 Ubuntu News: Wallpapers, Beta, Phones, Chromium…
  • 03.13.14 Samsung Galaxy Back Door, NSA Malware, Congressional Backlash, More Drone Strikes, and Ukraine Intervention
  • 03.16.14 Watching Abuses of Power: Police, Secret Agencies, Militarism, Surveillance, and Censorship
  • 03.17.14 Barnes and Noble Latest Example of Company That Took Microsoft to Court Over Crimes, Got Bribed by Microsoft, Then Died Quietly
  • 03.17.14 Wikipedia Got Ruined by the Likes of Microsoft Who Pay People to Edit Articles About Microsoft
  • 03.18.14 Microsoft Rumoured to be Taking 100% Control of Mono
  • 03.19.14 Free/Open Source Software News: Beehives, Neuroscience, Video Editing, Events, Services, Databases, CMSs, and Funding
  • 03.20.14 Sharing and Freedom: the Philosophy Spreads Beyond Software
  • 03.24.14 Thou Shalt Not ‘Disparage’: How Apple and Microsoft Really Work
  • 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
  • 03.25.14 Recent FUD About GNU/Linux Security May be Related to Windows XP EOL Propaganda and Adware
  • 03.26.14 The Politics of Openwashing: How Microsoft Pretends That Windows Has ‘Open Source’, Generates Self-Congratulatory Coverage
  • 03.27.14 Another Reason to Boycott Dell: Support for Microsoft’s Racketeering
  • 03.28.14 Ubuntu News From Later March
  • 03.29.14 Distro News: Makulu, Zorin OS, Pisi, Black Lab, OpenMandriva, Mageia
  • 03.29.14 KDE News: KDE Almost Has New Release (4.13), Qt 5.3 in Beta
  • 03.30.14 Links: Civil Rights Abuses, Secrecy, Surveillance and Assassination Without Oversight
  • 03.31.14 Health and Environment News: Nature Still Not a Priority
  • 04.02.14 Campaign of Intimidation Against GNU/Linux, Courtesy of US Patent Law
  • 04.02.14 Google and Apple: Doing Evil Together
  • 04.02.14 Red Hat Should Keep Its Distance From NSA Facilitator Microsoft
  • 04.03.14 GNU/Linux Advocacy Needs to Become Stronger in the Face of AstroTurfing
  • 04.03.14 Year of the GNU/Linux Desktop (or Laptop)
  • 04.04.14 Copyrights and Reform News
  • 04.06.14 Embedded Linux and Devices: Gains in Industry Support, Development Kits, Broadcasting, and Cars
  • 04.06.14 Resurgence of Open Hardware in the News
  • 04.07.14 Chromebooks News: Chromebooks Gain at Microsoft’s Expense, Chromebooks for $99 Today at Best Buy (When Trading in Windows XP System)
  • 04.07.14 Newegg Beats Patent Troll, Sony Becomes DMCA Troll, NSA/PRISM Dropbox Blocks Accounts Based on Suspicion
  • 04.07.14 Both Apple and Microsoft Compare Their Corporate Causes to Religion
  • 04.07.14 Microsoft’s Manipulation of the Media Demonstrated
  • 04.08.14 KDE and Qt News: KDE Frameworks 5, Plasma Next, Qt Creator 3.1, KDE Commits
  • 04.08.14 Press Advocates Migration From Windows XP to GNU/Linux, But Not Strongly Enough
  • 04.08.14 Ubuntu News: Community Management, Convergence, Criticism, and Imminent LTS Release
  • 04.09.14 A Call to Ban/Stop Big ‘Patent Trolls’ Like Nokia, Microsoft, and Apple
  • 04.11.14 Copyrights News: Sintel (Open-Source Firm) Blocked, New Lawsuit For Kim Dotcom, and More
  • 04.12.14 Ubuntu News: Themes, Unity 8, Meizu Phone, Ubuntu Touch, and Elementary OS
  • 04.14.14 GNOME News: Financial Issues, Mutter-Wayland, West Coast Summit, Community Participation
  • 04.14.14 Hardware News: Freedom, Modding, Hackability on the Rise
  • 04.15.14 GNU/Linux News: The Opportunities Amid XP EOL
  • 04.15.14 Microsoft Gets Its Money’s Worth From Xamarin: PlayStation 4 Now Polluted by Microsoft
  • 04.23.14 Patent Racketeering Continues With Nadella: Motorola the Latest to Join the FUD Campaign
  • 05.03.14 Microsoft’s Elop Confirmed as Trojan Horse Inside Nokia, Receives Another Massive Bonus From Microsoft While Microsoft (PRISM) Grabs EU Data
  • 05.07.14 Apple’s Patent Plot a Failure, But It Still Hurts Free/Libre Software
  • 05.10.14 The World’s Craziest Patent System (USPTO) Now a Serious Threat to Free Software, But So is Copyright
  • 05.28.14 CAFC Historically a Facilitator of Software Patents and Other Abusive Means of Monopolisation
  • 05.28.14 Bill Gates’ Plot to Enslave China With ‘Free’ Back Doors is Failing, But Microsoft Strikes Back With Openwashing
  • 05.30.14 Desperate Microsoft Too Busy Attacking the Competition (Primarily GNU/Linux), Not Creating Products
  • 05.31.14 Manufacturing Propaganda in Microsoft-funded Circles to Belittle FOSS and Magnify Microsoft
  • 06.03.14 GnuTLS Picked on by Firm of Microsoft’s ‘Former’ Security Chief, FUD Ensues Everywhere
  • 06.05.14 Windows is Dying Quickly, Even on the Desktop
  • 06.12.14 Apple Hopes to Enjoy Inherent Corruption in the Patent System and the Legal System
  • 06.14.14 Not Even Dumping Will Save Microsoft’s Business in China Amid Diversification With GNU/Linux
  • 06.18.14 Microsoft Scares Away Customers With Misguided, Short-term Strategy of Extortion
  • 06.18.14 Dan Goodin/Condé Nasty Cannot Recognise Real Security Threats, Preferring to Focus Only on Bugs in FOSS
  • 06.20.14 Why Do FOSS Sites Promote NSA-Friendly Malware Like Microsoft Skype?
  • 06.21.14 China Attacks Microsoft’s Patent Plot Against GNU/Linux and Russia Seems to be Following China’s Foray Into GNU/Linux
  • 06.24.14 Distortion of Facts in Microsoft-Friendly News Sites
  • 06.25.14 Facebook and Microsoft Openwashing Alert
  • 06.29.14 Microsoft and the BSA Play Hardball, Accelerating a Much-Motivated Move to Free/Libre Software
  • 07.07.14 Despite SCOTUS Ruling, Microsoft Still Extorts Companies and Product Buyers Using FAT Software Patents, Latest Victim is Canon
  • 07.07.14 Microsoft’s Propaganda Machine Tries to Shift Security Debate Amid Serious Catastrophes
  • 07.10.14 OpenDocument Format (ODF) Still Alive and Kicking
  • 07.14.14 White House Backs Away From Appointing Patents Zealot to Top USPTO Position
  • 07.23.14 Microsoft Layoffs of 2014
  • 07.26.14 Groklaw Back in the Wake of ODF in the UK?
  • 07.27.14 Apple and Microsoft Are Proprietary Software Companies and the Media Should Stop Openwashing Them
  • 07.30.14 Ruling Against ‘Abstract’ Software Patents is Already Derailing Patent Attacks on Linux and Free Software
  • 07.31.14 Is Microsoft Being Raided Not Just for Anti-Competitive Reasons but for Bribes and Back Doors?
  • 08.03.14 Windows Will Go Extinct in the Back End and the Desktop
  • 08.03.14 Microsoft Censors GitHub
  • 08.05.14 “Patent Progress” Now Acting as a Front of Large Corporations (CCIA), Tells Michelle Lee (USPTO Deputy Director) About Trolls But Not About Software Patents
  • 08.14.14 Shameless Microsoft Spin is Blaming China for Microsoft’s Misconduct and Back Doors While Justifying Massive Losses in Hardware (Made in China)
  • 08.19.14 BlackBerry — Like Microsoft Nokia — Could be the Next Patent Proxy Troll
  • 08.27.14 Microsoft Spin Watch: IDG Turns to More Microsoft Propaganda, Hires Microsoft Boosters
  • 08.27.14 FUD Against Google and FOSS Security Amid Microsoft Windows Security Blunders
  • 09.01.14 Moving Away From Windows to GNU/Linux and the Abandonment of Windows as the Modest Proposal These Days
  • 09.05.14 ‘Embrace and Extend’ at Microsoft: The New Generation
  • 09.06.14 New Article Explains How Bill Gates Prevents Schools From Moving to GNU/Linux and Free Software
  • 09.16.14 Microsoft Has Just Killed Minecraft for GNU/Linux and the Possibility of Free/Open Source Releases
  • 09.19.14 The Latest From Microsoft Patent Trolls and Patent Partners
  • 10.06.14 Symptoms of Post-x86 Era: Even Intel Apologists Turn Against Bribes-Dependent Intel While Microsoft Continues to Deceive Journalists on Patents in Order to Create a Scare
  • 10.13.14 Patent Lawsuits Almost Halved After SCOTUS Ruling on ‘Abstract’ Software Patents
  • 10.21.14 Microsoft ‘Loving’ GNU/Linux and Other Corporate Media Fiction
  • 10.25.14 After Infecting Unity — Successfully — Microsoft’s Partner Xamarin Wants to Infect Unreal Engine With .NET
  • 10.31.14 Claiming That Microsoft ‘Loves’ Linux While Windows Update Bricks Devices With Linux
  • 11.01.14 Microsoft Still Engages in Criminal Activities Against Linux, Openwashing Efforts Continue Nonetheless
  • 11.10.14 When Courts in the US Attack the Right to Reuse APIs
  • 11.13.14 Revealed: Microsoft is Trying to Corrupt the UK in Order to Eliminate Its OpenDocument Format-Oriented Standards Policy
  • 11.15.14 Debunking Several Days of Never-Ending Lies About Microsoft and .NET
  • 12.06.14 The Threat is Not Over: Microsoft Bribes Against Linux Adoption and in Favour of Extortion Against Linux
  • 12.06.14 Steve Jobs is Back With Vengeance Into the Courtroom
  • 12.07.14 CBS Brushing Aside and Away Microsoft’s History of Blackmail and Bribes Against Linux
  • 12.11.14 Ubuntu Core Announcement is Not About Microsoft and Hosting Ubuntu on Azure is Worse Than Stupid
  • 12.12.14 US Patent Reform (on Trolls Only) More or Less Buried or Ineffective
  • 12.19.14 Redmonk is Spreading Black Duck’s Anti-GPL Talking Points After Payments From Black Duck, Microsoft
  • 12.21.14 The New Age of Games for UNIX/Linux But Not for Windows, Microsoft is Openwashing Windows-Only Games
  • 01.02.15 Microsoft Windows is Dying Based on Data From Windows-Friendly Firm
  • 01.05.15 Windows Becoming Less Relevant and is Not Even a Target Platform for Microsoft Anymore
  • 01.06.15 Boycott Tuxera File Systems
  • 01.06.15 With Chromebooks Abound Windows is No Longer Competitive
  • 01.14.15 Google Has Eliminated Microsoft’s Dominance in Operating Systems, Microsoft Resorts to Propaganda, Child Exploitation, and EEE
  • 01.14.15 Working to End Oracle’s and CAFC’s Inane War on Interface Reuse
  • 01.17.15 Myths and Hype About Patents
  • 01.22.15 Microsoft Symptoms of a Dying Company: More Boosters Depart, Back Doors Revealed, Microsoft’s Outlook Cracked
  • 01.28.15 Qualys Starts Self-Promotional FUD Campaign, Naming a Bug That Was Already Fixed 2 Years Ago and Distros Have Covered With Patches
  • 02.01.15 Boycott Cyanogen/CyanogenMod If Its Anti-Google Rhetoric and Microsoft Funding Continue
  • 02.02.15 OLPC Lessons Not Learned: Imposing Microsoft Windows on Young Students Using Embrace, Extend and Extinguish of Raspberry Pi
  • 02.02.15 CyanogenMod Dumped by Major Partner Shortly After Funding From Microsoft Revealed
  • 02.02.15 Agenda at The Verge ‘Bought’ by Microsoft, Bill Gates Now Editor and It Already Shows
  • 02.07.15 The Latest Microsoft Strategy: Embrace, Extend, Deceive, Abuse and Diffuse
  • 02.11.15 Microsoft’s Mole Strategy Against Free Software Spreads OOXML, Surveillance, Other Malice to the Real, Potent Alternatives
  • 02.14.15 Microsoft’s Latest Lock-in Strategy in Detail, Now Exploiting the Public Sector and Free Software
  • 02.19.15 The Old Obsession With Patent Trolls Continues to Distract From Debate About Software Patenting
  • 02.21.15 Microsoft AstroTurfing War on GNU/Linux is Still Going On, But Hidden Better, Uses API as Instrument of Lock-in
  • 02.24.15 Microsoft Wants to Devour the Competition (Linux), Devour People’s Data
  • 02.24.15 The EFF Back to Tackling Software Patents, Not Just Patent Trolls
  • 03.21.15 Microsoft Hates Linux – Part V – Dumping and Surveillance to Counter GNU/Linux Insurgence
  • 03.22.15 Canonical Goes to Bed With Company That Sues Linux Using Software Patents and Copyrights (Through SCO)
  • 03.22.15 Michael Silver Back to Acting as Gartner’s Microsoft Agent, Promoting Vista 10 Based on False Promises
  • 03.22.15 Despite Media Propaganda About Security, Microsoft Windows Remains the Least Secure Operating System, by Design
  • 03.23.15 Microsoft-connected Black Duck Software Created by Microsoft Marketing Man as an Anti-GPL Operation, Admits the Management
  • 03.27.15 Microsoft Keeps Pretending to be ‘Open Source’, Despite Relentless Assaults on Open Source
  • 04.06.15 Microsoft is Still Openwashing Perfect Apparatuses for Back Doors: Common Carrier (Windows), ‘Cloud’, and Compiler
  • 04.12.15 Microsoft Continues to Attack (and Tax) Linux Using Software Patents
  • 04.12.15 The ITC’s and US Media’s Surprisingly Soft Treatment of Patent Bully Apple
  • 04.14.15 OnePlus (or OnePlus Customers) Should Wipe CyanogenMod From Existing Devices and Install Something Else
  • 04.18.15 Microsoft Tired of Pretending to be Nice to Free/Open Source Software (FOSS), Microsoft ‘Open’ Technologies Dumped
  • 04.20.15 Repeating Microsoft’s Lies Without Any Journalistic Assessment
  • 04.21.15 The Microsoft ‘Community’ is Maligning the Free Software Community
  • 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
  • 04.22.15 The Dying Debate Over Patent Scope (Including Software Patents) Replaced by ‘Trolls’ (But Not the Biggest Ones)
  • 04.24.15 Real Patent Reform Will Not Come From Biggest Backers of GNU/Linux, Not Even Google
  • 04.24.15 Microsoft’s Troll Intellectual Ventures Loses Software Patents
  • 04.27.15 The Unethical Business of Selling Fear of Free/Libre Software Bugs (Black Duck, Sonatype, and Symantec)
  • 04.27.15 Caution Needed When Microsoft Copywriters Flood the Media With Microsoft Propaganda
  • 04.27.15 Gartner Staff That Worked for Microsoft and the Latest Nonsense from Gartner or ‘Former’ Staff
  • 04.30.15 Microsoft Embracing, Extending, Extinguishing the Linux-centric Arduino and Raspberry Pi, Making Them Windows Devices
  • 04.30.15 Microsoft Uses Ubuntu to Demonstrate and Promote Microsoft Lock-in
  • 05.03.15 Openwashing of Binary Blobs That Microsoft Uses to Attack Free Software and GNU/Linux From the Inside
  • 05.03.15 PATENT Act a ‘Reform’ for Big Corporations, Hence Does Not Address the Core Issues, Including Patent Scope and Massive Patent Aggressors
  • 05.11.15 Biased Media (and Microsoft-Connected Media) Makes GNU/Linux Security Advantages Unknown
  • 05.11.15 Microsoft Windows and Desktops Are Not Dominant Anymore, GNU/Linux is Growing
  • 05.13.15 Does Anyone Still View Cyanogen as Anything But a Microsoft Proxy?
  • 05.14.15 Spinning Microsoft’s Inability to Sell Windows (or Office) as a Strength
  • 05.18.15 Grooming of the World’s Biggest Patent Troll, Nathan Myhrvold of Microsoft and Intellectual Ventures
  • 05.18.15 More of Microsoft’s False Claims About Cost of Vista 10 and More Layoffs
  • 05.18.15 Microsoft’s ‘Former’ Staff Continues With His Anti-Google Rhetoric at CBS
  • 05.19.15 Corporate Media and Friends of Microsoft Are Still Lying About the Cost of Vista 10
  • 05.20.15 Microsoft is Again Showing Its Hatred of Free/Open Source Software by Lobbying the Indian Government to Drop a Rational National Policy
  • 05.21.15 GNU/Linux Still Under Attack From Apple and Microsoft, Patents Remain the Weapon of Choice
  • 05.22.15 Microsoft Blackmails and Extorts British Politicians Over Open Standards and Free Software-Leaning Policies
  • 05.22.15 Patents as a Marketing Strategy: USPTO Now Part of the Advertising Industry
  • 05.31.15 Supreme Failure: With SCOTUS Approval of Patent Trolls and a Push by Justice Department to Reinforce Copyright on APIs (at SCOTUS Level) the Future Looks Gloomy
  • 06.08.15 Vista 10 (aka Windows 10) is Just Vapourware
  • 06.12.15 The World is Already Leaving Microsoft Windows Behind, in Favour of ODF, Free Software, and GNU/Linux (Usually in Turn)
  • 06.12.15 The Disturbing Rise of Openwashing: Today’s Case of Apple and Microsoft
  • 06.17.15 A Glance at Free/Libre Software Foes With Their Software Patents
  • 06.17.15 Microsoft is Trying to Subsume GNU/Linux and Free/Libre Software
  • 06.18.15 Amid Microsoft Collapse Stephen Elop is Finally ‘Fired’, But Not Before He Cost Many Thousands of People (at Nokia) Their Job, Destroyed Linux-based Platforms, and Spread Patents to Patent Trolls
  • 06.19.15 Microsoft Nick (Nick Kolakowski) Takes Over Dice and Slashdot for .NET Propaganda Campaigns
  • 06.20.15 Microsoft Has Chosen Patent Extortion and Patent Lawsuits Over Actual Products
  • 06.24.15 The Lie or the Fiction of Microsoft Tolerating GNU/Linux
  • 06.25.15 DockerCon 2015 Infiltrated by Microsoft
  • 06.25.15 Microsoft is ‘Buying’ the Media Ahead of Vista 10 Launch
  • 06.27.15 The Latest Lies From Microsoft’s PR Apparatus/Public Face, Mr. Nadella
  • 06.27.15 Microsoft Jack (Schofield) Promotes Microsoft’s Proprietary Lock-in and Calls People Who Recommend Free/Libre Software ‘Trolls’
  • 06.29.15 Patent Trolls in the Post-Alice World
  • 06.29.15 Google’s Fight to Keep APIs Free is Lost, Let’s Hope Google Continues Fighting
  • 07.01.15 Microsoft Keeps Shrinking
  • 07.02.15 Microsoft Gradually Embraces, Extends, Extinguishes Linux Foundation as a Foundation of GNU/Linux
  • 07.09.15 The Real Reason Microsoft Gives Money to OpenBSD is Not Security or Free Software But Proprietary Windows With Back Doors
  • 07.10.15 Microsoft ​Cyanogen Hires ‘Former’ Microsoft Chief Technology Officer (of Google Competitor)
  • 07.11.15 Microsoft is Dying Quickly, Desperately Trying to Turn Into Surveillance Behemoth
  • 07.14.15 Shamelessly Rewriting the History of Nokia to Embellish Massive Microsoft Layoffs
  • 07.14.15 Gross Openwashing of Microsoft and Windows, Propaganda About Associated Costs
  • 07.16.15 In the Media and in Politics, Everyone Talks About Patent Trolls, Not Patent Scope
  • 07.20.15 Software Patents Are Still Being Demolished by US Courts, Google Makes Prior Art Searches Simpler
  • 07.20.15 Windows Increasingly Discontinued (Mobile, RT), So Microsoft Wants to Take Over GNU/Linux
  • 07.21.15 Openwashing Microsoft Visual Studio to Promote Visual Studio 2015
  • 07.22.15 Amid Billions in Losses, Microsoft Tries to Conquer the Competition (Which Already Wins)
  • 07.22.15 Terminology of Patent Lawyers and Pro-Patents Media Serves to Mislead the Public
  • 07.23.15 Microsoft Has Run Out of Attempts and Vista 10 Will Definitely Fail
  • 07.30.15 Microsoft’s Mouthpiece Mary Branscombe Tries to Shoot Down Free Software, But Fails Miserably
  • 08.02.15 Microsoft Lies, Propaganda, Embedded ‘Journalism’ and Other Dirty Tricks to Promote Vista 10
  • 08.05.15 Microsoft’s Patent Attacks on Free Software Intensify as Microsoft’s Mobile Ambitions Officially Dead and Vista 10 Failing
  • 08.05.15 Vista 10 is Worse Than Spyware, It Adds People’s Computers to a Botnet
  • 08.06.15 Software Patents Gradually Getting Crushed, Even in the United States
  • 08.10.15 Microsoft is Turning All of Windows (Not Just Vista 10) Into Malware, Turning Networks Into Botnets, Harvesting Sensitive Data Everywhere
  • 08.11.15 Spyware-Centric Microsoft Hopes to Corner or Round up GNU/Linux Users for More Surveillance, Domination Over Use
  • 08.17.15 Patents Roundup: Patent Reform, Google’s ‘Startups’ Ploy, JDate, Fitbit, Cisco, and UPC in the UK
  • 08.20.15 After OOXML Propaganda, New Assocham Propaganda Calls for Back Doors, Spyware and Other Malicious, Self-defeating Traps Inside Government of India
  • 08.21.15 Alice v. CLS Bank (the Alice Case/§101) Continues to Crush Software Patents in the United States
  • 08.25.15 Message to LinuxCon Regarding Microsoft: “It is Necessary to Get Behind Someone in Order to Stab Them in the Back.” -Sir Humphrey Appleby
  • 08.25.15 Market Share Estimates Confirm That Vista 10 Failed in a Major Way
  • 08.31.15 Microsoft Crowd Rocks the Media With Misleading Claims and Deliberate Lies About GNU/Linux, Vista 10, and Free/Open Source Software
  • 09.07.15 Sabotage, Not Negligence: It’s 2015 and Microsoft Still Cannot Properly Handle Bootloaders
  • 09.07.15 India Shoots Itself in the Foot With Software Patents, Time to Act and Prevent This Worldwide
  • 09.08.15 Dark Days for Microsoft as Windows Phone Further Abandoned
  • 09.10.15 Microsoft’s Patches Go Dark (Secret) With Vista 10, Newspapers Say ‘Microsoft is Recording EVERYTHING You Type’
  • 09.14.15 ‘New’ Microsoft: One of Several Architects of Microsoft’s Patent War on GNU/Linux Gets Promoted Even Further, Gates is Lobbying China’s President After Linux Adoption
  • 09.14.15 Patents Roundup: Europe’s and India’s Software Patents Affair, US Continues to Demote Software Patents With Alice Case
  • 09.21.15 Windows is Dying, Based on my Conversations With Microsoft Windows Staff
  • 09.23.15 Changes at Techrights
  • 09.24.15 Europe’s Acceptance of and Resistance to Software Patents, Courtesy of Corporate Front Groups and Courtrooms Respectively
  • 10.01.15 The ‘Microsoft Loves Linux’ Baloney is Still Being Floated in the Media While Microsoft Attacks Linux With Patents, New Lawsuits Reported
  • 10.02.15 Microsoft-Connected Firm Net Applications Used to Mislead About Vista 10 Share and Mock GNU/Linux
  • 10.04.15 A Linux World: After Billions of Dollars in Losses Microsoft Changes How It Reports Financial Results
  • 10.07.15 EPO Staff to Disrupt Administrative Council Meeting With Public Demonstration That Raises Awareness of Abuses
  • 10.07.15 OIN Turns 10, IDG Floods the Web With Puff Pieces That ‘Normalise’ Software Patents
  • 10.08.15 The Coup D’état of Benoît Battistelli Follows an Imperialist Model, Threatens Opposition and Dissent
  • 10.11.15 European Pirate Party MEP Julia Reda Says TPP Will Bring Software Patents to Europe and Other Continents/Countries
  • 10.13.15 Patent Trolls Roundup: MPHJ, Kyle Bass, Acacia, Intellectual Ventures, Unwired Planet, Core Wireless, Vringo, and Unified Patents
  • 10.15.15 Exclusive: Leaked E-mail From Grant Philpott (EPO Principal Telecommunications Director) Shows Collusion Between EPO and Microsoft to Prioritise Most Notorious Patent Bully, Microsoft
  • 10.16.15 EPO’s Jeremy Philpott Confirms That Discriminatory (Software) Patent Processing Practices Started With Microsoft, Because of Microsoft
  • 10.19.15 IDG Appoints Yet More Microsoft MVPs and Microsoft Employees as Regular Writers
  • 10.20.15 Patents Roundup: Software Patents Continue to Die in the US, TPP Threatens Developers With Their Expansion, Europe Still in a Limbo
  • 10.23.15 Microsoft Massively Distributes Lies About Its Commitment to Privacy While Aiding NSA and Building Back Doors
  • 10.24.15 Microsoft is Gradually Dying, So Patent Blackmail and Mass Surveillance (for Snitches) the Remaining Two Business Strategies
  • 10.27.15 SourceClear: Yet Another Microsoft-Connected (Coming From Microsoft) FOSS FUD Firm
  • 10.28.15 Apple Makes Use of Alice v. CLS Bank (Alice/§101) to Invalidate Software Patents, But ITC Pretends Nothing Happened
  • 10.28.15 Apple’s Shameless Privacy Lies: The Fiction of Apple as the Very Opposite of What It Does
  • 10.30.15 IBM Bemoans the Collapse of Software Patents in the US and Wants US Congress to Intervene for ‘Certainty’
  • 10.31.15 Patents Roundup: Software Patents in India, the US, Microsoft’s Dubious Software Patents, and Mark Cuban
  • 11.03.15 Vista 10 Looking Worse and Behaving Worse Over Time; People Reject It, So Microsoft Will Force People to Get It
  • 11.04.15 GNU/Linux and Free/Libre Software Dominance: What It Comes Down to is Patents
  • 11.05.15 Is Anybody Still Using Microsoft Windows? Now Is a Fine Time to Stop.
  • 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
  • 11.09.15 Wanted: USPTO Whistleblowers
  • 11.10.15 Only Days After Red Hat Legitimised Microsoft’s Patents Against Linux Another Linux-Using Company Falls Victim to Microsoft’s Patent Extortion
  • 11.12.15 After Patent Deal With Microsoft Canon Gets Sued (Using Software Patents) by a Microsoft-Connected Patent Troll
  • 11.14.15 Red Hat and BlackBerry: Companies That Use Linux But Also Hoard Software Patents and Use These Against Rivals in the Linux Space
  • 11.16.15 Red Hat-Microsoft Deal Increasingly Resembles Novell-Microsoft Deal (Including Patent Aspects)
  • 11.18.15 Xamarin is Still All About Microsoft, Still Excluding GNU/Linux
  • 11.19.15 Ignore the Noise in Corporate Media; Visual Studio is Still Proprietary (for Windows) and Will Remain Proprietary
  • 11.20.15 Patents Roundup: Alice Decision Still Upsets Patent Lawyers, Microsoft AstroTurf Group Lobbies on FRAND, Google and Red Hat Recalled
  • 11.25.15 The Broken Window Economics of Patent Trolls Are Already Coming to Europe
  • 11.30.15 Richard Stallman and Eben Moglen on the Microsoft-Red Hat Deal
  • 12.09.15 GNU/Linux Hosted by Microsoft Means Lock-in, Ransom, and Back Doors
  • 12.14.15 IRS Reveals That Microsoft Effectively Stole Tens of Billions of Dollars of Public Money Using a Network of Tax Havens
  • 12.14.15 The Open Invention Network and Software Patents
  • 12.15.15 Samsung Turns to SCOTUS (Killer of Many Software Patents) to Annul Mega-fine Induced by Apple’s Patent Aggression
  • 12.22.15 Translation of the Latest Communiqué About the Administrative Council, No Longer Published by ‘President’
  • 12.23.15 The Demise of Software Patents in Australia and the Unites States Worries Patent Lawyers
  • 12.31.15 Microsoft’s Latest Patent Aggression Comes Under Fire From the EFF, Former GNU/Linux Company the Patent’s Target
  • 01.04.16 Microsoft Tries to Conquer Asia’s Largest Populations (India, China) But Still Fails and Should be Stubbornly Rejected
  • 01.06.16 Now It’s Just Patent Lawyers (and Their Rich Clients) Against Everybody Else, Seeking to Maximise Protectionism
  • 01.08.16 Actualmente Sólo Abogados de Patentes (y sus Multibillionarios Clientes) Contra Todo el Mundo Buscán Máximizar Proteccionismo
  • 01.17.16 Unitary Patent (UPC) Highlights Reality Behind the EPO’s Management and Its Multinational/Overseas Bosses
  • 01.20.16 La Corte Unitaria de Patentes (UPC) Resalta la Realidad Detrás la Gerencia de la OEP y sus Jefes de las Multinacionales del Extranjero
  • 01.21.16 The Linux Foundation Has Become Like a Corporate Think Tank, Microsoft Influence Included
  • 01.23.16 La Fundación Linux se ha Convertido en Un Títere Favoreciendo Corporaciones, Gran Influencia ($$) de Microsoft
  • 01.24.16 Software Patents and Patent Taxes: How 100 Grams Worth of Components Can Cost as Much as $1000
  • 01.26.16 The United States’ Patent System Lets Software Patents Rot, as Patent Trolls Take Over the System and Unrest Grows
  • 02.01.16 Microsoft’s Policies Alienate Even Microsoft’s Biggest Fans, Including Pro-Microsoft Web Sites
  • 02.01.16 It’s Official: By Means of Entryism, Microsoft Has Turned a Pro-Linux Nokia Into an Anti-Linux Patent Parasite
  • 02.03.16 Es Oficial: Por Medio de Entrismo, Microsoft Ha Convertido a la Pro-Linux Nokia en un Parásito de Patentes Anti-Linux
  • 02.03.16 Angry Trolls: Rovi (of Angry Birds Fame) Helps Microsoft’s Largest Anti-Linux Patent Troll, Intellectual Ventures (Corrected)
  • 02.06.16 Las Políticas de Microsoft Alienan Incluso a los Hinchas Más Acérrimos de Microsoft, Incluyendo Pro-Microsoft Web Sites
  • 02.06.16 VirnetX Case Against Apple Shows Not the Problem With Patent Trolls But With Software Patents
  • 02.07.16 Trolls Molestos: Rovi (del famoso Angry Birds) Ayuda al Más Largo Troll de Patentes de Microsoft Intellectual Ventures (Corregido)
  • 02.09.16 Microsoft’s Copyrights- and Patents-Based Attacks on GNU/Linux Carry on
  • 02.10.16 Microsoft Continues to Use Software Patents to Extort/Blackmail Even More Companies That Use Linux, Forcing/Coercing Them Into Preinstalling Microsoft
  • 02.13.16 Microsoft Continua Usando Patentes de Software para Extorsionar/Chantajear Incluso Más Compañías que Usan Linux, Forzandolas/Coerciendoles a PreInstallar Basura de Microsoft
  • 02.15.16 Confirmed Again: Microsoft is Bribing Officials
  • 02.16.16 Microsoft Certified Partner Immersion Sues Apple Using Software Patents While Microsoft Hoards Similar Patents
  • 02.17.16 A Short Visit to Pro-Patents (or Patent Maximalism) Sites of Patent Lawyers and Patent Predators
  • 02.18.16 De Nuevo Es Confirmado: Microsoft Esta Sobornando a Oficiales
  • 02.19.16 Microsoft Socio Certificado: Immersion Enjuicia a Apple Usando Patentes de Software Mientras que Microsoft Acumula Patentes Símilares
  • 02.24.16 Xamarin Quits Pretending to be Separate From Microsoft, All Staff to Work Directly for Microsoft
  • 02.25.16 Patents Roundup: Proxy Lawsuits, SCOTUS on Software Patents, Reform Agenda, and Lawyers Bypassing Alice
  • 02.28.16 The Simple Truth About What Xamarin Was All Along to Microsoft, Just Like Ximian and Novell (Post-Patent Deal)
  • 03.07.16 Avoid IBM Until It Rescinds/Retracts/Reverses Its Weaponisation of Software Patents
  • 03.08.16 Microsoft Hates Linux: Patent Extortion Continues With New Software Patents Deal (Wistron)
  • 03.10.16 Microsoft Has Just Blackmailed Linux Twice in One Single Week and the Media Didn’t Notice or Just Ignored It Because of Microsoft’s Charm Offensives
  • 03.11.16 For Its Survival, Microsoft is Trying to Turn Into an Aggressive Patent Tax and Advertising Company, Forces Windows Users to Play Along
  • 03.12.16 Growing Awareness of Microsoft’s Campaign Against Linux, Based on Poor Quality Software Patents and Secret Settlements
  • 03.13.16 Microsoft Has Chantajeado a Linux Dos Veces en Una Semana y los Medios Ni Siquiera lo Notaron o Simplemente lo Ignoraron Por la Ofensiva Encantadora de Microsoft
  • 03.13.16 Microsoft Odia a Linux: Extorsión de Patentes Continua Con Nuevo ¨Arreglo¨ de Patentes de Software (Wistron)
  • 03.13.16 Microsoft Accused of “Patent Trolling” While the United States Moves Closer to Restricting Patent Trolls
  • 03.14.16 Por Su Sobrevivencia, Microsoft Se Está Convirtiéndo en Una Agresiva Compañíá de Impuestos Sobre Patentes Así Como de Advertising, Obliga a Usuarios de Windows a Moverse a Su Ritmo
  • 03.15.16 Microsoft Acusado de “Trolling con Patentes” Mientras Que Los Estados Unidos se Mueve Cerca a Restringir a los Trolles de Patentes
  • 03.15.16 Creciente Conciencia de La Campaña de Microsoft Contra Linux, Basada en Patentes de Software de Baja Calidad y Arreglos Secretos
  • 03.17.16 Patents Roundup: Software Patents After Alice, Apple and Samsung, Jawbone and Fitbit
  • 03.19.16 Patents Roundup: The Eastern District of Texas, Jurisdiction Changes, Dubious Patents, and Even Sanctions
  • 03.20.16 Horacio Gutierrez Has Left Microsoft, But the Patent Extortion Against Linux Continues, Also by Satellites
  • 03.20.16 More Voices in the Media Against Microsoft’s Patent Aggression Against Linux, Prospects of Joining the Open Invention Network (OIN)
  • 03.21.16 Redondeo de Patentes: El Distrito Este de Texas, Cambios de Juridicción, Patentes Dubias, e Incluso Sanciones
  • 03.22.16 Horacio Gutierrez Ha Dejado Microsoft, Pero la Extortion de Patentes Contra Linux Continua, Tambien por sus Satelites
  • 03.22.16 Más Voces en los Medios Contra la Agresión de Patentes de Microsoft Contra Linux, Prospectos de Unirse a la Open Invention Network (OIN)
  • 03.23.16 Focus on Patent Trolls Persists, With Increasing Use of Euphemisms Such as NPEs and PAEs
  • 03.24.16 Under Nadella, Another Ballmer With a Different Face, Patent Extortion Strategy Against Linux Still Very Much Alive
  • 03.30.16 UPC Would Bring Software Patents to Europe and Open the Floodgates to Litigation
  • 04.01.16 La UPC Traería Patentes de Software a Europa y Abriría las Compuertas a Litigación
  • 04.02.16 VENUE Act Not the Solution and Amid EFF News About Intellectual Ventures and Garfum It’s Time to Tackle Software Patents
  • 04.03.16 Microsoft’s Charm Offensive Against GNU/Linux Uses the Same Media Strategy Donald Trump Uses
  • 04.04.16 VENUE Act No es la Solución en Medio de EFF Noticias Acerca Intellectual Ventures y Garfum Es Tiempo de Enfrentárse a las Patentes de Software
  • 04.05.16 Massive Cases Launched by Patent Trolls in the US Almost Always About Software Patents
  • 04.07.16 Samsung to Potentially Challenge Design Patents in the US Supreme Court While Filing Patent Applications for Designs
  • 04.07.16 US Patent Trolls Epidemic and Microsoft/Intellectual Ventures’ Latest Contribution to That
  • 04.08.16 Epidemia de Trolles de Patentes en los EE.UU. La Última Contribución a ello de Microsoft/Intellectual Ventures
  • 04.09.16 Patents Roundup: US Patent System/Landscape Disqualified, Corrupted, Saturated With Patent Trolls, and Funded by Microsoft
  • 04.10.16 With Software Patents in Autonomous Cars Few Giants Want a Monopoly on Driving, Not Just Physical Car Components
  • 04.11.16 Resumen de Patentes: Systema/Paisaje de Patentes de los EE.UU. Descalificado, Corrupto, Saturado Con Trolles de Patentes, y Financiado Por y Para Microsoft
  • 04.12.16 FUD Against Free Software Adoption in the Government and in Businesses Comes From Firms Connected to Microsoft
  • 04.12.16 Software Patents Hoarders Going Down in the United States
  • 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 FUD Contra la Adopción de Free Software en el Gobierno y Negocios Proviende de Firmas Conectadas a Microsoft
  • 04.14.16 Codiciósos Acumuladores de Patentes de Software Caen en Picada en Los EE.UU
  • 04.15.16 Nuevas Patentes de Software de Google, Microsoft y Apple, Más Cabildeo de David Kappos (Financiado por Microsoft y Apple)
  • 04.16.16 Microsoft’s War on Java Shows That Microsoft’s E.E.E. (Embrace, Extend, Extinguish) Tactics Are Alive and Well
  • 04.20.16 Corporate Lobbying for Software Patents in the United States and Against Alice, Against Patent Reform
  • 04.21.16 Growing Threats of Software Patents in Europe and the FRAND Trap Which Microsoft Promotes/Lobbies For
  • 04.22.16 ES: Creciéntes Amenazas de las Patentes de Software en Europa y la Trampa FRAND Que Microsoft Promueve/Cabildea
  • 04.22.16 Microsoft’s Patent Blackmail Against Linux Not Enough to Keep Microsoft Afloat, Many More Layoffs Coming
  • 04.24.16 New Microsoft-Funded Push to Make Software Patents Stronger in the US, Backed by the Usual Suspects as Microsoft Increasingly Struggles as a Producing Company
  • 04.26.16 ES: El Nuevo Impulso Finánciado por Microsoft Para Reforzar las Patentes de Software en los EE.UU., Apoyado por los Sospechosos Usuales (La Sagrada Familia) Mientras que Microsoft Cada Vez Más Lucha Como Compañíá Productiva
  • 04.28.16 No, Visual Studio is NOT Open Source and Xamarin Openwashing is NOT News
  • 04.29.16 Microsoft Says It Will Continue to Extort Companies That Distribute Linux, Using Software Patents As Usual
  • 05.01.16 ES: Microsoft Dice que Continuará Extorsiónando a Compañías Que Distribuyan Linux, Usando Patentes de Software Usuallmente
  • 05.02.16 Interesting Supreme Court Cases About Patents in the United States
  • 05.07.16 ES: Interesántes Casos Acerca De Patentes en la Corte Suprema en los Estados Unidos
  • 05.08.16 US Bodies Are Locking Up the Commons and Industry Standards in Patent Enclosures, in Order to Benefit Few Monopolists
  • 05.14.16 Guest Article: Why 2016 is the year of the Linux Desktop (LD) and Microsoft is going to be the biggest in LD.
  • 05.22.16 IP3 Demonstrates That Today’s Patent Systems Devolve Into a Conglomerates’ Game, Won’t Protect the Mythical Small Inventor
  • 05.24.16 Windows and Microsoft’s Other ‘Burning Platforms’
  • 05.26.16 Microsoft Has Killed Nokia (and Its Own Mobile Ambitions), But Watch What it Does With Patents
  • 05.29.16 A Mix of Patent Aggression and Sanctions/Raids (Using Controversial Patents) Against East Asian Companies
  • 05.31.16 Patents Roundup: When the Patent Systems Turn Against People and Adjust According to Patent Lawyers and Their Largest Clients
  • 06.05.16 Microsoft is Still an Evil Company, Don’t Believe the Reputation Laundering ‘Campaigners’
  • 06.05.16 IBM, Google and Microsoft Patent Stockpiles Demonstrate That Today’s US Patent System Exists for Billionaires, Not for Inventors
  • 06.06.16 Media Sites Still Filled to the Rim With Pro-Software Patents Propaganda (Lies by Omission)
  • 06.14.16 Rights Groups, Media, Developers and Others Are Rising Up Against Patent Trolls, But the Problem is Always Software Patents
  • 06.21.16 EPO Self-Censorship by IP Kat or Just Censorship of Opinions That IP Kat Does Not Share/Accept (Updated)
  • 06.21.16 Patent Lawyers, Having Lost Much of the Battle for Software Patents in the US, Resort to Harmful Measures and Spin
  • 06.27.16 Techrights (Almost) at 10: From Software Patents to Novell and to Present Focus on EPO
  • 06.28.16 Today’s Media Coverage Says Microsoft Loves Linux, But Today Microsoft Extorted Linux Using Software Patents Again
  • 07.02.16 Patents Roundup: Patent Maximalism, Apple’s Patent Deception, and Failure of Patent-Centric Media to Name and Shame Patent Trolls
  • 07.09.16 When the Patent Litigation Business is Trying to Create Demand for Software Patents and for Disputes/Lawsuits
  • 07.11.16 Yet More Reality Distortion Fields From Microsoft’s Ex-Chief Patent Counsel in Collaboration With IAM
  • 07.18.16 Large Corporations’ Software Patenting Pursuits Carry on in Spite of Patent Trolls That Threaten Small Companies the Most
  • 07.22.16 Patents Roundup: BlackBerry, Huawei, PTAB, GAO, Aggressive Universities With Patents, and Software Patents in Europe
  • 07.27.16 OIN Makes Claims About “Open Source Innovation”, But It Produces Nothing and Protects Virtually Nobody
  • 07.30.16 The Illusion of Patents as Necessary for Maintaining Western Dominance Increasingly Debunked
  • 08.06.16 How Low-Quality USPTO Patents Made the US Fertile Ground for Patent Trolling
  • 08.09.16 The Problem With Overpatenting: The Google Example
  • 08.19.16 Patents Roundup: Trolls Dominate Litigation, PTAB Crushes Patents, Patent Box Regime Persists, and OIN Explains Itself
  • 08.23.16 The Linux Foundation Gives Microsoft (Paid-for) Keynote Position While Microsoft Extorts (With Patents) Lenovo and Motorola Over Linux Use
  • 08.25.16 Creative Technology, Now Operating in ‘Patent Troll’ Mode, Shot Down by the ITC; Jawbone Too Shot Down
  • 08.25.16 PTAB Emerges as Hero of USPTO Because Quality of Patents Improves, Software Patents Are Effectively Dead (or Dying Once Reassessed)
  • 08.26.16 Erosion of Patent Quality Enables Patent Extortion With Large Portfolios of Low Validity Rate
  • 09.01.16 British Telecom (BT) is Still a Patent Bully: Next Target is Yet Another GNU/Linux Supporter
  • 09.02.16 The Corrupting Influence of Money in the Linux Foundation (Bias for Sale)
  • 09.19.16 Patents Roundup: Disclosure Requirements, Mobile Patents, Patent Lawyers’ Plagiarism, USPTO Getting Sued, and Corporate Domination of the Patent System
  • 09.22.16 Microsoft-Connected Patent Trolls Going Places and Suing Microsoft Rivals, Microsoft Wants More ‘Linux Patent Tax’
  • 09.27.16 Patent Trolling a Growing Problem in East Asia (Software Patents Also), Whereas in the US the Problem Goes Away Along With Software Patents
  • 10.12.16 Patents Roundup: Blackjack Patent Application, Apple’s Software and Design Patents, Decline in Patent Litigation and Alternating Troll Trends
  • 10.30.16 An Update on the Apple v Samsung Patent Cases — Cases That Apple Must Lose in Order for Linux to ‘Win’
  • 11.22.16 Microsoft Loves Linux Patent Tax
  • 11.22.16 China’s Shot in Its Own Foot Repeats the United States’ Error on Software Patents
  • 12.04.16 Patent Trolls of Microsoft and Ericsson Are Trying to Tax Everything, Especially Linux Devices
  • 12.06.16 In Historic Blow to Design Patents, Apple Loses to Samsung at the Supreme Court
  • 12.11.16 Supreme Cases and Some Supreme Outcomes That Tighten Patent Scope in the United States
  • 12.20.16 BlackBerry Calls off Phone Business, Becomes Full-Time Patent Troll, Files Even More Patent Lawsuits in Texas
  • 12.21.16 “China” is to Watchtroll (and the Bucket of Patent Maximalists) What “Russia” is to Clinton and DNC
  • 12.21.16 Good Luck to Apple in Exposing the Network of Patent Trolls That is Connected to Microsoft, Nokia, Ericsson, BlackBerry and Other Failed Mobile Players
  • 12.22.16 Nokia is Now Officially a Patent Troll, Almost 6 Years After Microsoft Turned It Into One
  • 12.26.16 After Microsoft’s Notorious Intervention Nokia is Nothing But a Patent Troll Whose Patent Portfolio Needs to be Smashed
  • 12.29.16 2016 Was a Terrible Year for Patent Trolls and 2017 Will Probably be a Lot Worse for Them
  • 01.03.17 Financial Giants Will Attempt to Dominate or Control Bitcoin, Blockchain and Other Disruptive Free Software Using Software Patents
  • 01.10.17 Patent Maximalism on Display: Patent Aggressor IBM Celebrated in the Media
  • 01.11.17 Gradual Collapse of Microsoft’s Extensive (and External) Patent Trolling Operations
  • 01.17.17 Donald Trump Gives New Hope to Patent Aggressors and Patent Trolls
  • 01.20.17 Kudelski Group Not Only Acts Like a Patent Troll But Also Run by Intellectual Ventures Person; Mobile Market in Dire State of Patent Armageddon
  • 01.21.17 Shakeup Against Patent Parasites in the US and More Rumours/Speculations About USPTO Director Michelle Lee After Trump’s Inauguration
  • 01.24.17 China Drowns in Worthless Patents, the United States (FTC) Bemoans Patent Trolls, and Australia is Urged by Its Commission to Decommission Software Patents
  • 01.28.17 Good Luck to Apple in Its Fight Against Qualcomm’s Patents (Some of Them Software Patents), Not Just Against Nokia
  • 02.05.17 Rapid Collapse of Patent Aggressors’ Patent Strategy: Creative, Microsoft, RPX, LinkedIn, and Fitbit
  • 02.09.17 Microsoft Offers That Infamous “IP Peace of Mind” to Free/Open Source Software Users as Long as They Pay Rents to Microsoft
  • 02.12.17 IAM ‘Magazine’ as Megaphone for Chamber of Corporates (CoC), Which Tries Shaming India Into Software Patenting
  • 02.13.17 The Only Firm That Makes Tons of Money Out of ‘Smart’ Phones Without Lifting a Finger is Qualcomm With Its Patents
  • 02.21.17 Inverting Narratives: IAM ‘Magazine’ Paints Massive Patent Bully Microsoft (Preying on the Weak) as a Defender of the Powerless
  • 02.28.17 IAM ‘Magazine’ Rented Out to Microsoft Again, in Order to Attack Amazon (as Host of Free/Libre Software) Using Software Patents FUD
  • 03.04.17 Google is a Patent Hoarder and Also Patent Aggressor in the Area of Self-Driving Cars
  • 03.12.17 Patents That Have Life and Death at Stake
  • 03.15.17 Microsoft Continues to Hoard Patents — Even Buying Patents — While Using Them Against GNU/Linux
  • 03.20.17 Apple and Microsoft, Two Patent Aggressors That Habitually Attack GNU/Linux Distributors, Get Sued by a Patent Troll, Soverain IP
  • 03.23.17 China Seems to be Using Patents to Push Foreign Companies Out of China, in the Same Way It Infamously Uses Censorship
  • 03.25.17 It Certainly Looks Like Microsoft is Already Siccing Its Patent Trolls, Including Intellectual Ventures, on Companies That Use Linux (Until They Pay ‘Protection’ Money)
  • 03.29.17 LG Not Only Suing Rivals Using Patents But is Also Passing Patents for Trolls Like Sentegra to Sue
  • 04.04.17 Microsoft’s Patent Extortion Against Linux Now Targets Watches With Linux on Them
  • 04.04.17 Patent Trolls in the Headlines: TC Heartland, University of Florida, Hilco, and Uniloc
  • 04.05.17 Patent Attacks on GNU/Linux Devices, Courtesy of Philips, Ericsson, Microsoft and Its Patent Trolls
  • 04.06.17 OSDL, OIN, Linux Foundation, PAX and the Likes of Them Dodge the Real Problem, Which is Software Patents
  • 04.09.17 Asian Companies Already Suffer From Patent Maximalism/Radicalism and UPC Would Make Things Even Worse
  • 04.11.17 PAX Means Peace, But It’s Making Peace With Software Patents Rather Than Destroy Them
  • 04.19.17 The Patent Microcosm Keeps Attacking Every Patent Office/System That is Doing the Right Thing
  • 04.21.17 Affordable and Sophisticated Mobile Devices Are Kept Away by Patent Trolls and Aggressors That Tax Everything
  • 05.07.17 Revisionism About Microsoft Software Patent Deals Implicating GNU/Linux
  • 05.07.17 Qualcomm Has Collapsed Since the Antitrust Actions Began
  • 07.02.17 Microsoft’s Troll Intellectual Ventures, via Dominion Harbor, Goes Patent-Trolling in China
  • 07.05.17 The Microsoft Operandi: Linux-Centric Xiaomi Pays Post-Microsoft Entryism Nokia for Patents
  • 07.08.17 Patent Trolls Are Still a Problem, But Microsoft Remains One of the Biggest Patent Trolls (Non-Practicing in Mobile)
  • 07.08.17 Good News: Google (Alphabet) is Partly Withdrawing From Patent Bullying
  • 07.10.17 Patent Trolls Roundup: GPNE, Blackbird Technologies, Uniloc and More
  • 07.16.17 Immersion, FitBit, Jawbone, and Creative Chose to be a Pile of Patents Rather Than Real Companies
  • 07.20.17 Microsoft is Googlebombing “Linux” This Week in Order to Sell Proprietary Software That Does Not Run on GNU/Linux (and While Blackmailing OEMs Over Linux)
  • 07.20.17 The Bizarre World of US Patents and Ongoing Pursuit/Granting of Software Patents in Spite of Section 101
  • 07.24.17 Qualcomm-Apple Dispute Escalates Further (Lawsuits Come to Europe) With the Cost of Linux-Powered Devices Also at Stake
  • 07.26.17 Latest High-Profile Patent Cases Against Apple and What These Mean to Linux-Powered Competitors of Apple
  • 07.27.17 In Anthony Levandowski’s Case, Google Demonstrates It Would Leverage Patent Lawsuits as a Surrogate Weapon
  • 07.30.17 Microsoft’s (Patent) War on GNU/Linux Continues, But It’s Disguised Using Intermediaries
  • 07.31.17 The War on CAFC, on Alice and on Patent Reform is Getting Ugly
  • 08.02.17 Growing Threat to Free/Libre Software From Software Patents: Apple, Microsoft and Nokia Charge Ahead
  • 08.04.17 The United States Supreme Court Should Further Restrict Patent Scope and Not Question PTAB’s Work (Which Merely Enforces That Scope)
  • 08.13.17 The Farce Which is Nokia’s Patent Portfolio, a Ripoff of Other People’s Ideas (and Patents)
  • 08.27.17 Patent Aggression is Bad for Business
  • 09.03.17 When Apple Finds Patents Inconvenient
  • 09.16.17 BlackBerry Has Turned Into a Patents and Licensing Company
  • 09.21.17 East Asia’s Patent Peril and the Curse of Patent Trolls
  • 09.28.17 Microsoft is Doing to ‘Open Source’ (OSI) What it Did to W3C
  • 09.30.17 Apple is the Next BlackBerry
  • 10.04.17 BlackBerry’s Aggressive Patent Strategy Was a Miserable Failure
  • 10.04.17 Microsoft-Connected Patent Trolls Continue to File New Lawsuits and Collect Patents for Further Litigation Purposes
  • 10.07.17 Patent Trolls to Watch Out For: ZiiLabs, VLSI Technology LLC, and AlphaCap Ventures
  • 10.15.17 Qualcomm’s Nightmares Are Getting Worse as Antitrust Questions Are Raised and Assessed
  • 10.21.17 Microsoft and Nokia’s Patent Trolls by Proxy: First Conversant, Now Provenance Asset Group Holdings LLC
  • 10.28.17 Canon Has Proven That Microsoft’s Shell Game With Patent Trolls Makes ‘Peace’ Deals (Paying ‘Protection’ Money) Futile, Belatedly Joins OIN
  • 10.31.17 More Information Emerges About Provenance Asset Group LLC, Where Thousands of Nokia Patents Are Being Passed Through
  • 11.09.17 Apple v Samsung Dominates the News, But Samsung Has Just Taken on MPEG-LA Using PTAB Inter Partes Reviews
  • 11.15.17 Benoît Battistelli and Elodie Bergot Have Just Ensured That EPO Will Get Even More Corrupt
  • 11.18.17 BlackBerry Cannot Sell Phones and Apple Looks Like the Next BlackBerry (a Pile of Patents)
  • 12.07.17 Less Than 24 Hours Later the EPO Already Refuses to Obey Court Orders From ILO (Updated)
  • 12.09.17 Phones/Mobility (Trillion-Dollar Market) May Have Become Infested and Encumbered by Aggressive, Dying Companies
  • 12.23.17 Ericsson and Microsoft-Led Nokia Crush Companies That Make Phones With Linux, BlackBerry Becomes Litigation Firm
  • 12.30.17 Judge Pauline Newman Sides With Microsoft in PTAB Petition (Case Appeal) Against Patents of a Company It’s Alleged to Have Copied
  • 02.05.18 The ‘Microsoft Operandi’ of Vaguely Alluding to 200+ Patents to Blackmail the Competition is Now Being Copied by China
  • 02.07.18 China’s Patent Strategy Seems to be Driving Away Foreign Companies and Causing Legal Chaos From Within
  • 03.04.18 Software Patent Lawsuits Against Large Technology Firms/Corporations Should Ideally Fail and Result in Invalidation of the Patents
  • 03.08.18 BlackBerry is Now Suing Facebook Using Software Patents, Canadian Press is Talking Like a Patent Troll: “You Better Not Screw With Us”
  • 04.13.18 Samsung is the ‘New IBM’, Sans the Trolling With Patents
  • 05.13.18 Debunking the Usual Omission of GNU
  • 05.15.18 Apple and Microsoft Are Still Suing Companies — Using Patents of Course — Which ‘Dare’ Compete (by Leveraging GNU/Linux)
  • 05.27.18 The Way Things Are Going in the Eastern District of Texas and Other US District Courts, South Korean Companies Might as Well Exit the US Like They Exit China
  • 05.28.18 Microsoft and Its Patent Trolls Face an Uphill Battle in a Patent System Which is Increasingly Hostile Towards Software Patents
  • 06.05.18 Patent Trolls Roundup: Microsoft’s Intellectual Ventures, Blue Spike, and KAIST
  • 06.05.18 Microsoft’s Patent Trolls Continue to Attack Microsoft’s Rivals, Including These Companies’ Use of Free/Open Source Software
  • 06.10.18 Everyone Talks About Apple’s Notorious Design Patents But Not About ‘Abstract’ European Patents Used Against Apple and Linux
  • 06.12.18 Apple v Samsung Not Over, Hearing on a New Design Patent Trial Next Month
  • 06.14.18 Google Gets Told Off — Even by the Typically Supportive EFF and TechDirt — Over Patenting of Software
  • 06.24.18 Even After SAS Institute, Inc. v Iancu (Decision on PTAB) There’s No Stopping the Crackdown on Bogus US Patents
  • 06.24.18 Nearly Half of Patent Applications at the EPO Are (at Least Partly) Software Patents, According to the EPO, and Not Many Patents Are European (Foreign, Not Domestic)
  • 07.08.18 Apple Has Far More to Lose Than to Gain From Patent Maximalism; Apple Needs to Fight for Patent Sanity
  • 07.15.18 BT and Sonos Are Still Patent Bullies, Seeing Patents as a Backup Plan
  • 07.22.18 Patents Roundup: Patent Litigation is Down and Seems to Have Shifted Away From Software Patents
  • 07.26.18 Microsoft Patent Trolls and IBM Against 35 U.S.C. § 101 and for Software Patents, Blackmail
  • 08.05.18 Understanding of Microsoft’s Patent Strategy Requires Scrutiny of the Patent Trolls It’s Connected to
  • 09.01.18 The US Supreme Court’s (SCOTUS) Decision to Void Abstract Patents May Mean That BlackBerry Has No Future, None Even as a Patent Troll
  • 09.04.18 Marking One’s ‘Territory’ Using Software Patents
  • 09.06.18 The Eastern District of Texas and Patent Courts Elsewhere Are Eating Huawei, But Huawei Also Uses These US Patent Courts to Prey on Its Competitors Outside China
  • 09.09.18 On Virnetx, Intellectual Ventures, Interval Licensing and Other Microsoft-Connected Patent Trolls That Microsoft Leverages to Attack Its Competition
  • 09.09.18 Renaming Patents on Algorithms to Make Them Look and Sound Less Abstract Than They Really Are
  • 09.23.18 A Lot of US Patents Are Entirely Bogus, But Apple Was Willing to Pay for Them
  • 10.05.18 Microsoft Uses LOT Network to Spread Lies and Promote Its Protection Racket
  • 10.10.18 Open Invention Network is a Proponent of Software Patents — Just Like Microsoft — and Microsoft Keeps Patents It Uses to Blackmail Linux Vendors
  • 10.14.18 Let’s Hope Apple Defeats All the Abstract Patents That Are Leveraged Against It
  • 01.28.19 Choosing Between Apple and Microsoft in an Age of Mass Surveillance and State-Mandated Back Doors
  • 02.01.19 Stupid Acquisition of the Month (or Year): Red Hat Selling Itself to the World’s Biggest Lobbying Power for Software Patents
  • 03.14.19 CommunityBridge is a Cynical Microsoft-Funded Effort to Show Zemlin Works for ‘Community’, Not Microsoft
  • 03.14.19 The Linux Foundation Needs to Speak Out Against Microsoft’s Ongoing (Continued) Patent Shakedown of OEMs That Ship Linux
  • 03.18.19 Microsoft and Its Patent Trolls Continue Their Patent War, Including the War on Linux
  • 04.02.19 Microsoft Linux Entryism: A Roundup
  • 04.05.19 Zemlin PAC: Influence for Sale, Under the Banner of ‘Linux’, at the Cost of a House
  • 04.07.19 The Linux Foundation is Selling Tweets, Access, ‘Thank Yous’ and SPAM Services