It seems as if most people are for OpenSource but against any other form of distribution/development. For example, Microsoft maintains ownership of the software that they sell on store shelves. No one owns a copy of Windows except for Microsoft.
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When Patents Are Not a Monopoly Strong Enough…
The Pharmaceutical Cartel wants increased government-granted monopoly in addition to patents
Read more »From Russia with Linux
I came across two seemingly unrelated reports, one from the Register, stating that Microsoft will offer a choice of browsers in the EU version of Windows 7 and one from FAS Russia, which began proceedings in a case against several major hardware manufacturers. If this is the shape of things to come, it could mean the OS landscape is about to change.
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USPTO Leaves People Dead. Is the Intellectual Monopoly Doctrine Practically Dead Too?
Stories of great failure to balance ethics and ownership of ideas
Read more »Red Hat Sues Switzerland Over Microsoft Monopoly
Linux vendor Red Hat, and 17 other vendors, have protested a Swiss government contract given to Microsoft without any public bidding.
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Intel, Antitrust, and the EU Commission: AMD Told the Truth
This isn't a good time for monopolies to bully the market. I wonder how Microsoft is feeling today, now that Intel has been told to stop its anticompetitive rebates programs? From the EU Commission's press release: Intel awarded major computer manufacturers rebates on condition that they purchased all or almost all of their supplies, at least in certain defined segments, from Intel...
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ACTA Leak Reveals Upcoming Intellectual Monopoly War?
As certain large nations approach bankruptcy, will so-called "IP"; become the next battleground?
Read more »Videos: Food for Thought on Freedom of Thought, Corruption, and Corporate Deregulation
Various videos which shed light on issues that we cover: Talks from Moglen, Lessig, and Chomsky
Read more »Microsoft under scrutiny of Poland’s regulator
Poland’s Office for Competition and Consumer Protection (UOKiK) claims that selling laptops with obligatorily preinstalled Microsoft's Windows operating system constitutes a monopolistic practice and is restrictive to competition.
Read more »US Government: Microsoft Deliberately Stifles Interoperability
Microsoft is claimed to have deleted documents that are crucial for competition to be restored
Read more »Microsoft and free software? I don't think so...
Microsoft turn to free software? That’ll be the day. Some have suggested that Microsoft might embrace free software and thus resolve the present conflict. That actually would be a terrific strategy for them, but I don’t think that Microsoft is smart enough to do it.
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The Tragedy of the Anti-Commons (or Why Government FLOSS Purchasing Policy is Misapplied)
Misapplication of “value for money” requirements when purchasing software results in poor value for money - Government purchasing policies for software tend to support the creation of monopolies.
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New lines of contention: Information Commons vs. New Enclosures
"...It is this intensive effort at the private appropriation of knowledge that has created different movements of resistance. The free software movement, the movements of farmers against biopiracy in seeds and animal and vegetal types, where Western corporations are privatizing the fruits of thousands of year of communal cooperation; the movement of patients and developmental organizations for access to reasonably priced medicines and medical knowledge; the movement for free access to scientific publications, are all related reactions to these New Enclosures.
Read more »EU's gain is U.S. loss in influence on antitrust
The European Union's antitrust agency is becoming more influential just as its U.S. counterparts have grown more cautious and inactive, experts say.
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A free market for free software
It is one thing to recognise a problem, quite another to fix it. Although the Globalisation Institute is quite correct in saying that Microsoft's effective monopoly of the desktop is unfair to competitors and holds back the market, its proposed solution is no solution at all.
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