Microsoft Keeps Shutting Dubai, MoU Roadshow Reaches Taiwan
Summary: Microsoft signs more deals that help exclude rivals, starting with Dubai and moving further east to Taiwan LAST week we saw Microsoft making moves to control Dubai’s ICT — moves that we now...
View ArticleNovell Ignored Staff’s Own Advice Before Selling Out to Microsoft
Summary: An excellent new audiocast covers lesser known facts about Novell’s deal with Microsoft JEREMY Allison, whom we interviewed shortly after he had left Novell in protest, has just done a...
View ArticleMicrosoft’s Software Patents Plot Adds Panasonic; IV Critics Still React
Summary: Panasonic signs an exFAT patent deal with Microsoft, Amazon continues to abuse, and Nathan Myhrvold’s abuse of the system is still being discussed ACCORDING to this promotional and...
View ArticleAnalyst Expects Microsoft Bid to Buy Novell
Original image from Wikimedia Summary: Richard Williams from Cross Research believes that Microsoft or even its ally SAP might attempt to buy Novell for approximately $2 billion LAST NIGHT we wrote...
View ArticleMicrosoft Acquires Novell
“Microsoft and its employees now think it is indeed the Master of the Universe.” –Stewart Alsop, Fortune WALTHAM, Mass., April 1 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ — Novell, Inc. (Nasdaq: NOVL) today announced...
View ArticleCompany That Pays Microsoft for Unknown Patents in Linux Joins the Linux...
Summary: The IBM-led Linux Foundation allows Microsoft to make money from Linux by accepting another member which engages in this questionable practice BASED on the news [1, 2, 3], LG Electronics has...
View ArticleXandros Shows Death by Microsoft
Summary: “It should be widely known by now. No matter why, when and where, join MS and you will be dead.” –Abe Richard Hillesley has just published “The lost world of the Xandros desktop,” which is an...
View ArticleCompany of Novell Co-Founder Drew Major is Now Dead
Summary: Move Networks is reportedly shutting down, self-destructing and selling whatever is left The last time we mentioned Drew Major was one month ago. Major founded a company called Move Networks,...
View ArticleWhen Microsoft-Only/Lock-in is Defined as “Technology”
Summary: Microsoft manages to get away with abuse of taxpayers’ money in Switzerland, thanks to an apparent lingual loophole LAST YEAR WE wrote a lot of posts about Microsoft’s illegal deals in...
View ArticleNovell’s Sellout Options: “Private Equity-backed Company, a UK-based PE Firm...
Summary: The 451 Group provides insight into Novell’s situation NOVELL INC. is still up for sale. According to the 451 Group (regarding a sale): While the process initially attracted a number of...
View ArticleCentrify and Microsoft Grow Closer With a Software Patents Agreement
Summary: New evidence of the patent trouble which is Centrify EARLIER this month we wrote about Centrify [1, 2, 3] getting sued for patent violation. Some days ago Centrify strengthened its...
View ArticleMicrosoft Pays Acacia Again and It Also Pays ACCESS Co.
Handouts from Microsoft Summary: Software patents proponents share their wealth while companies that bring free/libre software to the market get sued PATENT TROLL Acacia has been agitating Linux for...
View ArticleMicrosoft Sellouts Join Microsoft’s Racket Intellectual Ventures and Not OIN
“I’d put the Linux phenomenon really as threat No. 1.” –Steve Ballmer, 2001 Summary: Samsung signs a patent deal with the world’s biggest patent troll, Intellectual Ventures (which serves Microsoft’s...
View ArticleNew Details Surface About Novell/Microsoft/AttachMSFT [sic] Deal
Summary: The real face of CPTN, the entity which got Novell’s software patents; more revelations about how Novell’s deal came about WE HAVE written over 20 posts about the subject since Novell was...
View ArticleAttachMSFT Needs to Borrow More Money to Buy Novell
Summary: AttachMSFT [sic] does not have enough money to complete an acquisition of Novell, so it is reaching out for a loan IN THE coming days we shall cover the AttachMSFT acquisition of Novell and...
View ArticleOnly US Department of Justice and German Federal Cartel Office Can Really...
Summary: Novell’s passing of patents to Microsoft et al. is likely to be the only barrier to Novell’s sale A COUPLE of new posts, composed by Fabian Scherschel and Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols (SJVN),...
View ArticleBackroom Deals Gave Microsoft Europe
Summary: How dirty dealings in Europe have been benefiting the convicted monopolist from Redmond, United States THE always-excellent journalism from Mark Ballard helps expose injustices in Europe. His...
View ArticleWhile Laptops Bricked Due to Microsoft’s Anti-Linux Tactics, Media Spin About...
Dell the next Citrix/Apple/Novell Summary: The UEFI damage is done and spinners try to sell the idea that Microsoft loves GNU/Linux Dr. Garrett, a leading UEFI apologist, responds to some of the latest...
View ArticleIBM Has Just Wiped Clean Red Hat’s Position on Software Patents
Summary: Proprietary software/hardware giant buying Red Hat is not good news; but now it is confirmed and damage limitation may be in order IT IS no longer surprising that Red Hat becomes IBM (or part...
View ArticleMicrosoft ‘Moles’ Inside WINE Project? WINE Should Bring Windows Users to...
Published hours ago as a press release paid for by WSL (Windows) boosters Summary: The press release above (link omitted, it was pinned in several sites) is a cause for concern; after Microsoft...
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