The Open Source Initiative says the IIPA's recommendations for the US to use "Special 301" rules to blacklist countries for using open source are unjust and unbalanced
Read more »OSI "categorically rejects" IIPA's attack on open source
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Another Day, Another Illogical Attack On Open Source
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In yet another attack on open source software usage around the world, a copyright-focused organization is claiming that use of open source software promotes piracy. With a new 498-page report (PDF) that repeatedly defies logic, the International Intellectual Property Alliance (IIPA) argues that the office of the U.S.
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Latest Attack on FOSS Traced Back to BSA
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Very negative portrayal of Free software is tied to a lobby that's directly tied to Microsoft and also strives to criminalise Free software in the EU
Read more »Attacking GNU/Linux Using “Donations”
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Microsoft - like Bill Gates - is giving presents with no physical value in order to suppress and reduce competition in different areas
Read more »FSF Smears
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Mac blogger Ronald Carlson and IDG write about the FSF and the former (at the least) associates the messenger rather than the message with controversial neighbourhood
Read more »Microsoft Whitewashes Criminal History in the Press and Attacks the GPL Using Allies
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New heights for Microsoft's spin and lies; the latest wave of GPL smears arrives from friends of Microsoft and former employees
Read more »What Microsoft’s Attack on GNU/Linux at HP Teaches Us
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Further analysis of the revelation that Microsoft does not permit any competition to even exist
Read more »BerliOS open source project portal falls victim to attack
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In a recent attack on the web server of the BerliOS (Berlin Open Source) open source platform intruders replaced the portal's home page.
Read more »MS Accused of Dumping and Using “Scare Campaign” to Block Existing Migrations to OpenOffice.org
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Microsoft is blocking "mass migration of students to OpenOffice" using EDGI and migration of Danish schools to OpenOffice.org using a "scare campaign", according to sources
Read more »OSS Watch Pretends That Microsoft’s Attacks on Free Software Do Not Exist
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Criticism of a new writeup from OSS Watch, which grossly whitewashes some of Microsoft's behaviour and instead focuses on PR gestures and corporate spin.
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Defaming Boycott Novell Using Lies, Forgeries
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Foes of Boycott Novell go down low and make up dirt in order to paint the Web site in a negative light
Read more »Companies That Facilitate Microsoft’s Linux Extortion Still Close Partners of Microsoft
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The attack on the freedom of Linux continues to appear to be coming from Microsoft allies, not Linux companies
Read more »‘Microsoft Press’ Acknowledges Microsoft’s Free Software-Hostile EU Deal
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Another look at a bad EU deal; software patents revisited; Microsoft's copyright violations remembered
Read more »Bruce Perens on the Recent Attacks on Richard Stallman and GNU
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Bruce Perens weighs in on what seems like a mountain that grew out of a molehill
Read more »Updates on Microsoft-funded SCO Attack on Novell, Novell’s EU Case and Settlement
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How Novell is being legally screwed by Microsoft, as suggested by this week's news
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