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Microsoft’s Ally Fortify Software Attacks Free Software Again

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Fortify's latest cheap shot at Firefox is very weak and difficult to justify (Fortify is very close to Microsoft)

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Microsoft is Still Cheating in Browser Ballot — Claim

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Microsoft has found "creative" ways of preventing people from actually choosing a Web browser other than Internet Explorer, according to Håkon Wium Lie from Opera Software (the infamous butterfly ballot is shown above)

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Microsoft Still Pretends to be “Open” for and to Government Contracts

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Supported by its own press and advanced by other regular allies, Microsoft comes equipped with required marketing themes to inject proprietary software into governments, under the guise of "open"

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The ‘Conspiracy’ of Mono

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Further analysis of the response to Mono criticism and the abuse directed against those who dissent against Mono

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Misleading PR Campaign From Microsoft About “Open Source”

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Debunking the increasingly-widespread myth that Microsoft has changed and that it has an interest in Free/Open Source software

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Microsoft's Bing has banned Openoffice??

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Microsoft Bing has many flaws, but this one seems to be the most outrageous one. If you try to search for OpenOffice on Bing, it will not show you the actual OpenOffice.org website but will show pages from random websites like OpenOffice.com or other non-OpenOffice.org websites.

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Microsoft Pulls an EDGI in Russia to Block GNU/Linux in Schools

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Microsoft is dumping Windows on all Russian schools in order to hinder the nationwide migration to GNU/Linux, which it has already attempted to derail several times before

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SD Times Removes Miguel de Icaza’s Admission That Mono Has Patent Problems

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An article that quotes rather damning material about Mono suddenly vanishes without a trace and Microsoft MVP Miguel de Icaza still attacks critics of patents around Mono (which he himself implicitly criticised in the now-vanished article)

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Anti-Citizen Tyranny Agreement (ACTA) Negotiations VIdeo

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Yesterday's session at Brussels, discussing the "Anti-Citizen Tyranny Agreement"

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Open Irony: Microsoft Creates/Sponsors OpenMainframe.org to Attack GNU/Linux

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War is peace and Microsoft is the new "open". Details on the latest attack of Microsoft against GNU/Linux, using proxies

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IMAX — Not Just Apple — Attacks Free Software With Software Patents

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Another legal attack against Free software comes in the form of a threat (issued against Sandy3D) and Apple's reason for suing Android seems like gradual iPhone defeat (Linux is winning)

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Novell Wants to Bring Microsoft, Moonlight, and Mono to Linux Phones (Android)

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Microsoft's patent-encumbered "gifts" to GNU/Linux are being pushed into devices with Novell's help

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Is Microsoft About to Declare Patent War on Linux?

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Microsoft's comments on happenings outside its immediate product portfolio are rare, and all the more valuable when they do appear.

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Apache Shows Why GNU/Linux is Safer Than Microsoft Windows; Microsoft Makes Batteries Dangerous

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Windows shows that it not only brings security problems to Apache but also to battery chargers

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Moonlight's Olympic-sized failure

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Microsoft only produces the Silverlight runtime for Windows and OS X, leaving Linux support to Novell's Mono project, which produces Moonlight. Mono developers argue that Mono is not chasing tail lights, but in the case of Moonlight it very clearly is.

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