Microsoft unleashes lobbyists to fight ODF despite pretending to have changed
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TomTom Sues the “Patent Troll” Microsoft
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A quick glance at TomTom’s response to Microsoft’s lawsuit that jeopardises the GPL and Linux
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Now TomTom Sues Microsoft for Patent Infringement -- Guess Who Their Lawyers Are? MoFo!!!
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Can you believe it? This is so great!! Morrison & Foerster are representing TomTom in a new patent infringement lawsuit TomTom has just filed against Microsoft! I love covering their cases. Patent law is usually soooo boring to me, but these guys will keep me awake, and no doubt if I pay attention, I'll learn a lot.
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TomTom Countersues: Linux And Microsoft Going To War
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This is exactly what we were afraid of. Last month, when Microsoft sued Dutch GPS-maker TomTom on the principle that parts of Linux -- which form the guts of TomTom's device -- violate Microsoft's patents, we hoped for a quick settlement.
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Now TomTom sues Microsoft over patents
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Microsoft Corp. was sued by Dutch navigation-device maker TomTom NV, which claims the world’s largest software maker infringes four of its patents used for automobile navigation.
The suit comes less than a month after Microsoft filed a complaint with the U.S. International Trade Commission in Washington seeking to block some of TomTom’s U.S. imports.
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Open Science, Closed Source
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One of the things that disappoints me is the lack of understanding of what's at stake with open source among some of the other open communities. For example, some in the world of open science seem to think it's OK to work with Microsoft, provided it furthers their own specific agenda. Here's a case in point...
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Microsoft Skull-f**ks Iceland’s Economy, Contracts Syphilis
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Microsoft has made a business out of selling licenses to run software that can be copied at no marginal cost, this everybody knows. Essentially, they manufacture software, but their product isn’t computer code, it’s legal code. Contracts.
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India Moves to Free Software, So Microsoft Fights Back with Gentle Bribes and Partners
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Political parties in the country embrace FOSS, but Microsoft carries on with EDGI, gifts, and dumping of software
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Microsoft Literally Buys Its Way Into Free Software Events
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Microsoft Literally Buys Its Way Into OSBC; Open Source India Tech Days ‘09 and Open Source Symposium Likewise
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Microsoft’s Path of LAMP Destruction: From Novell to Apache (the L to the A)
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Novell is left vulnerable by Microsoft while Microsoft proceeds to similar strategies further up the (G)LAMP stack
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Novell is Feeding the Shills-for-Hire from IDC
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Novell pays IDC for GNU/Linux studies, but it mistakenly feeds one of the most FOSS-hostile and corruptible groups out there
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Finland’s Public Sector Moves to Open Standards and Free Software, Microsoft Interferes
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THE Finnish public sector is now requiring (in so much as it can require anything) that all public sector agencies, including schools, drop any and all closed source, closed protocols, and closed formats* and move entirely to open ones.
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Mike Sax and Other Microsoft Lobbyists Spin the TomTom Case in Linux Web Sites/Blogs
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Reasons to be very careful about what one reads about TomTom (Microsoft-sponsored voices are abound)
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Patent Trolls — Including Acacia — Attack Linux Users/Devices
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