Karsten Gerloff, president of lobby group Free Software Foundation Europe, said the ongoing Microsoft arrangement was a "disgrace" for the European Commission (EC).
"It's astounding that every single agreement between the Commission and Microsoft since 1993 has been concluded without a public call for tender," he said.
European Commission buys Microsoft for 20 years without competition
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Strip mining of OpenOffice.org
We now have two implementations of the same code and two communities working to different licensing regimes, and the outcome is potentially divisive and bad for everyone except IBM.
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New EU Software Rules Give FOSS the Inside Track
Members of the Business Software Alliance, which offer proprietary software, are apparently contesting this provision.
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EU to push patent-free eGovernment
The European Union is on the cusp of writing public procurement rules which favour patent- and royalty-free technologies, according to software giants who argue that the rules echo Chinese public procurement laws.
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Judge Campbell Rules: IBM Stays on Hold; SCO Loses Again
Judge Tena Campbell has today ruled against SCO, who had asked to go forward against IBM in SCO v. IBM, without letting IBM go forward on its most significant claims. "The court declines," her order says, to reopen anything now, because too much depends on what happens in SCO v. Novell, and it doesn't make sense to divide the two cases.
Read more »Firefox: The official web browser of IBM
IBM is telling its 400,000 employees to use the open-source browser as their default at work - and why not at home, too.
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Chip giants establish Linux group for phones, TVs
IBM, Samsung, TI, Arm, Freescale and ST-Ericsson are founding members of Linaro. A group of chip makers including IBM, Samsung Electronics and Texas Instruments on Thursday unveiled Linaro, a new software-engineering foundation dedicated to improving Linux distributions, including Android, MeeGo and Ubuntu, used in consumer devices.
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OpenDocument Format (ODF) Shows That It Would Have Been Better If IBM Bought Sun
Oracle's attitude toward (or dedication to) ODF compares badly to that of Sun, IBM, and probably even Red Hat
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Why IBM Does Deserve Scrutiny
Techrights responds to people who believe that IBM should be left alone after using software patents to negotiate a competitor's departure from the market
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Thumbs up to Ubuntu for Removing a Part of MS; TurboHercules Likely a Psystar-Type MS Shell
An analysis combining Ubuntu's relationship with Microsoft proxies such as Yahoo! search and Mono; more on how TurboHercules may be connected to Microsoft and why IBM's response was tactless
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Why I Believe IBM is Free to Sue The Pants Off TurboHercules
It seems Groklaw will have to open a new category, answering Florian Mueller FUD.
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IBM Denies Breaking Its Open Source Promise
The open-source software community is up in arms over claims that IBM has broken a promise by asserting its patents against an open-source project. IBM denies that it has done so.
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IBM breaks OSS patent promise, targets mainframe emulator
IBM is threatening to pursue legal action against TurboHercules, a company that sells services relating to the open source Hercules project, an emulator that allows conventional computers with mainstream operating systems to run software that is designed for IBM System Z mainframe hardware.
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IBM on Withdrawing Microsoft’s OOXML
The battle over office suites heats up after the OOXML BRM Convenor openly criticises Microsoft, which he once ushered and helped beyond his authority
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IBM uses pledged patents against open source mainframe emulator
In 2005, IBM pledged to not use five hundred patents against open source software. In 2010, two of those patents have shown up in a letter from IBM to the makers of TurboHercules, an open source mainframe emulator
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