The Grameen Foundation, which has Microsoft ties, apparently promotes predatory loaners and uses terms like "open source" to get attention
Read more »Grameen Foundation and Microsoft Misuse the Term ‘Open Source’
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Lawyers and Monopolies They Work for Are the Key Threat to Software Patent Policy
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Patent lawyers and software giants whom they are representing (also lawyers that become patent trolls) jeopardise emerging companies, almost all of which do not want software to be patentable
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Novell Puts Microsoft Tax and Microsoft Code in Android and in GNU/Linux
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Novell is acting as though it is Microsoft's committer in circles where Microsoft is rightly distrusted and OpenSUSE still ought to escape
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Novell for Sale: Portfolio of Proprietary Software and Fog Computing
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A look at the items that Novell is marketing nowadays, including a critical look into its characterisation as a "Linux company"
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FUD About Android and Other Free Software Projects
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New case of disinformation about Google's Linux-based mobile platform; other noteworthy cases of FUD
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BCS Linux-baiting sparks flame war
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An article on open source security has sparked off a furious backlash in the normally polite and businesslike world of a British Computer Society journal. Commentards have reacted furiously to a piece by Steve Smith, managing director of IT security consultancy Pentura, in the July Edition of ITNow.
Read more »Adam Williamson on Sub-notebooks With GNU/Linux
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"Red Hat's Adam Williamson discusses the troubling epidemic of Vista 7 Crippleware Edition taking hold of netbooks,- as our reader Ryan put it last night"
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Digg, dug, buried: Linux
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A liberal blogger has uncovered that a "group of influential conservative members of the behemoth social media site Digg.com has just been caught red-handed in a widespread campaign of censorship, having multiple accounts, up-vote padding, and deliberately trying to ban progressives."
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How Microsoft/Proprietary Software Bullies Ruined Digg for GNU/Linux
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Digg is shown to be abused by "cabals" of users with agenda, which Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols (SJVN) claims are also responsible for burying GNU/Linux news in the Web site
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Microsoft Continues to Distort the Word ‘Open’ and Harm SVG Using Proprietary VML
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Microsoft's distortion of formats using VML, and the continued threat of proprietary Samba substitutes masquerading as "open"
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Apple Benefits From Oracle’s Patent Attack on Android
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Among those who benefit from an attack on Android there's Apple, whose CEO is a good friend of Oracle's CEO; more coverage about this development which dominates the news
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Oracle’s Java Aggression Spills to Other Sun Projects
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Oracle aims to destroy open source software industry
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If proprietary companies like Oracle can buy up open source projects and then take back their open source status, how can an enterprise depend on open source software?
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Meter maids stunt backfires at Microsoft geek gathering
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