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The Internet Responds to ASCAP's Deceptive Claims

http://www.eff.org

In recent years, they've demanded fees from the Girl Scouts Of America for singing songs around a campfire, as well as from consumers for using unauthorized ring-tones in their cell-phones.

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Why GNOME Funding is Equivalent to Lobbying and Why Novell is Likely Against GPL Enforcement

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"[GNOME] Advisory Board a euphemism for Lobbying," argues one man and Novell's Joe "Zonker" Brockmeier is against GPL lawsuits

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Lobbying Leads to Protest — the FFII and the FSFE Rise in Opposition to Subverted EIF

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European rights/freedom groups rise up against proprietary multinationals

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Corporate lobbying against free software.

http://www.alexhudson.com

It’s rare to find, then, a brochure produced with the intent of talking down free software as a whole. However, Wikileaks has turned up just such a document: the SirsiDynix brochure against “open source” library software, distributed on a restricted basis to certain customers. In particular, they’re raging against the likes of Evergreen and Koha.

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Microsoft Lobbies Come Under Fire by the Open Source Initiative (OSI) and Linux Journal

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FOSS people fed up with OOXML corruption and Microsoft fronts like Association for Competitive Technology

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Microsoft Lobbyist Jonathan Zuck Gets Exposed and Quickly Retreats

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Microsoft lobbying backfires, so the attack on Free software is retracted with the excuse that "an old draft [was] released in error"

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Microsoft Lobbying in Europe Goes Up a Notch

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Microsoft's latest steps in Europe are dissected despite great secrecy. A WHILE ago we showed that one familiar Microsoft lobbying arm had just published an anti-Free software paper.

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The EU Parliament still sticks with Microsoft. Here's why.

http://www.stefanoforenza.com

The EU made public the study than bought them to stick with Windows and Office rather than Free software. It has been pretty hard to get the EU to release document (pdf).

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UK-IPO Approves Software Patent as Microsoft and its Lobbies Pressure for Software Patents in EU

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The UK-IPO is again betraying its principles and lobbying activity from Microsoft deserves at least part of the blame for what happens in Europe

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Microsoft Sends “Vista 7 PC Ecosystem Team” to Influence Free Software Projects

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Microsoft is lobbying FOSS projects to waste their collective efforts on a port to vapourware (Windows 7)

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Bruce Perens: Don’t Trust Microsoft on ODF; Europe to Crack Down on Microsoft Lobbying

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Yesterday we wrote about Microsoft’s attempt to ‘consume’ ODF. Joining the skepticism now is the man behind the open source definition and a vocal critic of Novell’s deal with Microsoft. Bruce Perens does not trust Microsoft, either. He explains why.

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Then, They Fight You… by Buying Some New Laws

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A roundup of RAND abuses, software patent lawsuits and lobbying for lock-in in Europe.

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Software Patents in Europe and Microsoft’s Huge Lobbying Budget as of Late

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Microsoft's lobbying levels seems to be rising as attempts to contaminate the EU with mathenmatical patents trigger some alarms

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Microsoft Strategies: Using NGOs to Push Agendas

http://wiki.linux-delhi.org

The extent to which Microsoft can go in its efforts to get OOXML is interesting. Microsoft has "persuaded" several non-profit organizations to bombard the Indian IT Secretary and the Additional Director General of the Bureau of Indian Standards with letters supporting its OOXML proposal.

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Created by vlovindia 14 years 12 weeks ago – Made popular 14 years 12 weeks ago
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Fight Microsoft's lobbying of the world's governments: call to free and open source millionaires

http://www.freesoftwaremagazine.com

The free and open source software community has witnessed, over and over again, how far a visit to the right government officials can go. Bill Gates seems to know the game, and what cards he should play in every occasion to “make things happen”.

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