As Kyocera decided to buy Sanyo's mobile phones unit, the Microsoft extortion passes on to yet another brand which makes Android phones
Read more »Some Sanyo Products (Phones) Also Tainted by Microsoft ‘Linux Tax’
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Microsoft is Still Attacking “Open Source” and Standards, But Has No Other Choice
Microsoft is being crushed by software freedom, so in order to survive it can only invent bogus standards and a bogus definition of the very same paradigm it's competing against and trying to coopt
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Correcting Common Case of Misreporting: Novell is Not an Open Source Company
Novell is a semi-shut (or "mixed source") company, not "Open Source" as some Web sites falsely report
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MS Lobbyists Continue to Push for Software Patents in Europe (Transforming Government) to Tax Linux
Microsoft wants European GNU/Linux users to pay through the nose, but first it needs to use lobbyists like Zuck (above) to change the law in Europe, by pretending to speak for small businesses
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Apple's Relationship to Open Source
Despite being one of the most tightly controlled technology companies on the market, Apple has a surprisingly complicated relationship with open source. Both of Apple’s flagship operating systems, OS X and iOS are based on Darwin, which is in turn based on FreeBSD.
Read more »Microsoft Argues That Android Isn't 'Free'
As the launch of Microsoft's Windows Phone 7 devices nears, the company has been telling those who will listen that one of its prime competitors' mobile operating system -- Google's Android -- is more costly than its own offering, even though the open source OS is free.
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GNU/Linux Keeps Gaining Market, Microsoft-Funded Net Applications Keeps Lying
GNU/Linux market share on the desktop approaching 5% in W3Schools.com
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Microsoft Crashes Rival’s Event (OpenOffice.org Conference) Using Moritz Berger
IBM's Rob Weir is rightly angry at Microsoft's intrusion into OpenOffice.org Conference, which he claims Microsoft is denigrating after giving some anti-OpenOffice.org talks in the same city
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ZDNet’s ‘Open Source and Linux’ Blog Consults With Pro-Microsoft Campaigner
Microsoft's agenda gets spread to other areas using a European booster-for-hire who masquerades as a "FOSS" guy
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“Q: Why is it written in Mono/C#? A: Because I hate freedom.”
SparkleShare is Mono (and proud of it), Ubuntu still under threat of having Banshee spread throughout the project, putting in it code which Microsoft explicitly stated is a patent problem
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Red Hat Should Eliminate All of Its Patents, or At Least Attach Self-Destructive Clauses to Them
In order to prevent software patents which are owned by Red Hat from falling into the wrong hands (e.g. in an acquisition like Oracle's), something should be done to diffuse them
Red Hat's patents are a subject we previously wrote about in posts such as
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Likewise Software is Faking Open Source, But So Do Many Others
Companies that are selling proprietary software present their products and themselves publicly as "open source"; some are actually linked closely to Microsoft
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Red Hat Site Remarking on Fake Blogging/Reviews (Like Microsoft’s and Apple’s)
Microsoft and Apple "talking heads" deserve federal scrutiny for deceiving the public and Rebecca Fernandez writes about the subject
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Microsoft plans biggest ever Patch Tuesday
Some days, you almost feel sorry for them. Isn't Free Software great!
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Evercookie: Invasion of the Browser Snatchers!
What’s more, any time Evercookie discovers any of it’s cookies missing, it quietly and efficiently recreates and replaces them.
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