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Some Sanyo Products (Phones) Also Tainted by Microsoft ‘Linux Tax’

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As Kyocera decided to buy Sanyo's mobile phones unit, the Microsoft extortion passes on to yet another brand which makes Android phones

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Microsoft is Still Attacking “Open Source” and Standards, But Has No Other Choice

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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

http://techrights.org

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

http://techrights.org

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

http://ostatic.com

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.

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Created by yantramosi 13 years 34 weeks ago
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Microsoft Argues That Android Isn't 'Free'

http://www.enterprisemobiletoday.com

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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Created by werewolf 13 years 33 weeks ago
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GNU/Linux Keeps Gaining Market, Microsoft-Funded Net Applications Keeps Lying

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GNU/Linux market share on the desktop approaching 5% in W3Schools.com

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Created by komrad 13 years 33 weeks ago
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Microsoft Crashes Rival’s Event (OpenOffice.org Conference) Using Moritz Berger

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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

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Microsoft's agenda gets spread to other areas using a European booster-for-hire who masquerades as a "FOSS" guy

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Created by komrad 13 years 33 weeks ago
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“Q: Why is it written in Mono/C#? A: Because I hate freedom.”

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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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Created by komrad 13 years 33 weeks ago
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Red Hat Should Eliminate All of Its Patents, or At Least Attach Self-Destructive Clauses to Them

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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

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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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Created by komrad 13 years 33 weeks ago
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Red Hat Site Remarking on Fake Blogging/Reviews (Like Microsoft’s and Apple’s)

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Microsoft and Apple "talking heads" deserve federal scrutiny for deceiving the public and Rebecca Fernandez writes about the subject

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Created by komrad 13 years 32 weeks ago
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Microsoft plans biggest ever Patch Tuesday

http://www.theregister.co.uk

Some days, you almost feel sorry for them. Isn't Free Software great!

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Created by lozz 13 years 29 weeks ago
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Evercookie: Invasion of the Browser Snatchers!

http://blogs.sitepoint.com

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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