That's the view of the International Intellectual Property Alliance (IIPA), a group of trade bodies that includes such notables as the Business Software Alliance, the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) and the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA)
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Microsoft ‘Embraces’ Joomla! to Spread Proprietary Software (Windows and IIS)
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Microsoft's assault on GNU/Linux takes new routes as additional deals get signed to undercut it or to make it more expensive
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Adobe Trash Player and Novell/Microsoft Mono
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Rant about Adobe Trash [sic] and what it teaches us about Mono/Moonlight
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Microsoft Patent Tax on Linux-powered Televisions
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What Samsung's rumoured entry into the market of "Google TVs" (running Android) actually means to Microsoft
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“Those Who Can, Do. Those Who Can’t, Sue.”
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Microsoft may have actually threatened to sue HTC in order to sign a patent deal covering Android for unnamed patents
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Microsoft Only Singles Out *Linux* As "Infringing On Its Patents"
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Funny how it's always Linux which Microsoft is alleging is infringing on Microsoft's patent portfolio, isn't it? Not FreeBSD, not OpenBSD, not NetBSD, not Solaris (open or closed), not Plan Nine From Bell Labs, not ReactOS, not Minix, not GNU-HURD, not any of the flavors of proprietary Unix.
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Giving Legitimacy to Microsoft at the Expense of “Open Source”
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Gartner, Black Duck, SAP and other friends of Microsoft encircle Free/open source software for interjection and distortion of the basic terms
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Another Microsoft Product Dies Because of GNU/Linux That Allegedly Replaces It
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HP's Windows-based Slate is declared dead just days after it turns out that Courier too is history; Vista 7 is said to be replaceable by WebOS, which HP has just acquired
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How Mono Broke Firefox While Microsoft Keeps Breaking Antitrust Law)
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Another adventure with Moonlight shows that it can leave Mozilla Firefox broken after a Ubuntu upgrade
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Behind the Microsoft Puppetmaster: libel, patent trolls, and patent deals
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Microsoft has been trying anything from copyright libel to patent trolls to actually suing companies like TomTom (after using extortion), so what are the implications?
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Microsoft, Apple Will Never Allow An Open Web
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There were high hopes with HTML5. It was expected to set the Web free of locked, closed, proprietary formats. That may not be the case anymore. Apple and Microsoft seem determined to put locks on this possibility.
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HTC-Microsoft Was Not an Agreement, It Was Apparently an Extortion
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More evidence that HTC merely settled (probably after threats) rather than be wooed for a patent deal as Microsoft would like to paint it
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Novell is Still Aping Microsoft
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Novell is still promoting Microsoft software while apparently dropping Linux projects like the RadeonHD driver
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When Brands Become Cults
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ABC News is slamming Apple for its behaviour; Apple is sued again for patent infringement
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Microsoft-funded open-source foundation aiming to diversify
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Open-source software veteran Paula Hunter has one of the more interesting jobs in the industry, as the executive director of the CodePlex Foundation, a non-profit, open-source organization that was established with Microsoft as its founding sponsor.
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