Behind the ACTA stands the “copyrights cartel,” as Dan Gillmor refers to it. It’s obvious what the problem is (or is not). What’s lesser known, however, is the impact which these abominable laws can have on patent trolls and their victims.
Read more »Not Free at Any Price - Why I switched to the OLPC—and why I dropped it, by Richard M. Stallman
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"The One Laptop Per Child project, launched by MIT professor Nicholas Negroponte in 2003, was supposed to lead millions of children around the world to information technology and freedom [...] I now expect that the main effect of the OLPC project—if it succeeds—will be to turn millions of children into Microsoft users.
Read more »Business Methods Patents Die, Are Software Patents Next?
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The Bilski decision is out and it's a big step for eliminators of software patents
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FSFE's antitrust victory with Samba
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FSFE's role in the antitrust case was to ensure that free software developers would be able to use any interoperability information that Microsoft would be forced to publish.
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John McCain: Software Patents Problem Just a Small Thing
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Here is a video where John McCain speaks about intellectual monopolies and software patents.
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What to Make of Nokia… Regarding Licences, Patents, and Formats
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Important Step for Software Patents in the European Union
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The European Patent Office (EPO) passes the issue of software patentability to the top appeals body
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Boycott Novell: Champion of freedom or den of paranoia?
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Few sites about free software attract more controversy than Boycott Novell. Founded in 2006 in response to the first Microsoft-Novell deal, as its name suggests, the site has evolved more recently into a site for commentary and investigation of any subject that might be a threat to free software.
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Eye on Microsoft: A Black Screen of Death Ahead of Microsoft’s Results
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A rather vast number of Microsoft coverages from this week's news
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FSFE's antitrust victory with Samba
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FSFE's role in the antitrust case was to ensure that free software developers would be able to use any interoperability information that Microsoft would be forced to publish. After 5 years of work, the last court case was won last year.
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Russia's Open Source Revolution
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WHAT does Microsoft do when someone says: No, sorry, we do not want to use your software any more. If that someone is a small business operating in an increasingly cut-throat world, a great deal of pressure can be brought to bear on them to fall into line.
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Novell’s Michael Meeks Gets Software Patent from the UK
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Novell is still accumulating software patents, no matter the location of its developers
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Microsoft Influence on Ireland and the United Kingdom
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Microsoft's global anti-user day
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« Yesterday, Microsoft announced something they called "Global Anti-Piracy Day".
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Microsoft Patents the Censoring of Speech
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"On Tuesday, the USPTO awarded Microsoft a patent for the Automatic Censorship of Audio Data for Broadcast, an invention that addresses 'producing censored speech that has been altered so that undesired words or phrases are either unintelligible or inaudible.' ..."
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