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“Q: Why is it written in Mono/C#? A: Because I hate freedom.”

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SparkleShare is Mono (and proud of it), Ubuntu still under threat of having Banshee spread throughout the project, putting in it code which Microsoft explicitly stated is a patent problem

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ZDNet’s ‘Open Source and Linux’ Blog Consults With Pro-Microsoft Campaigner

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Microsoft's agenda gets spread to other areas using a European booster-for-hire who masquerades as a "FOSS" guy

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Microsoft Crashes Rival’s Event (OpenOffice.org Conference) Using Moritz Berger

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IBM's Rob Weir is rightly angry at Microsoft's intrusion into OpenOffice.org Conference, which he claims Microsoft is denigrating after giving some anti-OpenOffice.org talks in the same city

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GNU/Linux Keeps Gaining Market, Microsoft-Funded Net Applications Keeps Lying

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GNU/Linux market share on the desktop approaching 5% in W3Schools.com

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Created by komrad 11 years 37 weeks ago
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Microsoft Argues That Android Isn't 'Free'

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As the launch of Microsoft's Windows Phone 7 devices nears, the company has been telling those who will listen that one of its prime competitors' mobile operating system -- Google's Android -- is more costly than its own offering, even though the open source OS is free.

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Created by werewolf 11 years 37 weeks ago
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Apple's Relationship to Open Source

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Despite being one of the most tightly controlled technology companies on the market, Apple has a surprisingly complicated relationship with open source. Both of Apple’s flagship operating systems, OS X and iOS are based on Darwin, which is in turn based on FreeBSD.

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Created by yantramosi 11 years 37 weeks ago
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MS Lobbyists Continue to Push for Software Patents in Europe (Transforming Government) to Tax Linux

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Microsoft wants European GNU/Linux users to pay through the nose, but first it needs to use lobbyists like Zuck (above) to change the law in Europe, by pretending to speak for small businesses

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Created by komrad 11 years 37 weeks ago
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Correcting Common Case of Misreporting: Novell is Not an Open Source Company

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Novell is a semi-shut (or "mixed source") company, not "Open Source" as some Web sites falsely report

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Created by komrad 11 years 37 weeks ago
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Microsoft is Still Attacking “Open Source” and Standards, But Has No Other Choice

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Microsoft is being crushed by software freedom, so in order to survive it can only invent bogus standards and a bogus definition of the very same paradigm it's competing against and trying to coopt

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Some Sanyo Products (Phones) Also Tainted by Microsoft ‘Linux Tax’

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As Kyocera decided to buy Sanyo's mobile phones unit, the Microsoft extortion passes on to yet another brand which makes Android phones

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Created by komrad 11 years 38 weeks ago
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Windows Partition Still a Danger to GNU/Linux Partition/s

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Bill's partition still refuses to live in peace with existing alternative options such as GNU/Linux

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Created by komrad 11 years 38 weeks ago
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Apple Monogamy: How Apple Retaliated Against Partner That ‘Dared’ to Explore Linux

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SurfaceInk committed the "sin" of testing GNU/Linux, so Apple dumps it as a company to do business with

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Created by komrad 11 years 38 weeks ago
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Microsoft Can’t Compete in Phones, Wants to Control Linux Phones Instead

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Microsoft and de Icaza are still trying to make Android rely on .NET and it's not surprising given that Microsoft is unable to produce decent phones (or phone platform) of its own

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Created by komrad 11 years 38 weeks ago
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Fresh Rumours/Speculations About VMware Buying Novell

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The mystery company which still bids to buy Novell might actually be the Microsoft executives-dominated VMware

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Created by komrad 11 years 38 weeks ago
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Moves to ODF (Along With GNU/Linux) Obstructed by Apple and Bureaucracy

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Apple continues to ignore the international document standard, at least in i[don't]Work; migration to GNU/Linux through OpenOffice.org is hampered a little

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