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Former Novell Staff Still Pushing the Linux Foundation Into Restricted Boot...
Photo by Sebastian Oliva Summary: Back doors in code, embedded in blobs, and even shoehorned into encryption is the overlooked security threat, which gets pushed aside in favour of phantom threats...
View Article‘Microsoft Linux’ (aka SUSE) No Longer a Threat to Red Hat
“We believe every Linux customer basically has an undisclosed balance-sheet liability.” –Steve Ballmer “That’s extortion and we should call it what it is. To say, as Ballmer did, that there is...
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K. Y. Srinivasan: From Serving Microsoft’s Agenda Inside Novell to Helping...
Summary: Why K. Y. Srinivasan has become somewhat of a Microsoft mole inside the Linux world Microsoft loves to abduct companies, fire ‘disobedient’ staff, and bring in its own moles. VMware and Yahoo...
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Novell Receives One Last Punch From Microsoft After Microsoft Took Novell’s...
Legacy of Novell’s worst CEO, Ron Hovsepian Summary: The WordPerfect case gets trashed decades after Microsoft’s abuses and 8 years after Microsoft paid Novell to become its puppy SEVERAL years ago we...
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Novell Continues to Damage GNU/Linux
Summary: The boycott of SUSE and Novell needs to go on because the huge damage caused by the Microsoft-Novell deal is not over Novell is history, but its legacy continues to haunt GNU/Linux. Its...
View ArticleOpenSUSE ‘Community’ is Crumbling, AttachMSFT Killed SUSE’s Potential (Except...
Summary: Not much too see in the land of SUSE and Attachmate, or formerly the company known as Novell Last week we were asked about Attachmate, which we no longer keep track of because Novell is pretty...
View ArticleQuick Mention: Novell and SUSE Passed to Microsoft’s ‘Partner of the Year’,...
Summary: Novell is changing hands again, and falling into the hands of even more Microsoft-friendly actors Many GNU/Linux sites have not properly covered — if at all — the news about Microsoft’s very...
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OpenSUSE’s ‘Assurances’ Are Classic MBA School Hogwash
Summary: OpenSUSE is not part of any commitment, except for SUSE’s; the impact of the Novell/SUSE acquisition casts uncertainty on the project’s future YESTERDAY we quickly commented on the news that...
View ArticleBoycotting Micro Focus International
Summary: Microsoft’s “Partner of the Year” is taking over the patron of SUSE and all of Novell’s remains, except the patents (Microsoft has already grabbed those) EIGHT YEARS AGO this site was born....
View ArticleGagging Critics: Micro Focus-Run SUSE Bribes Journalists in Exchange for...
Summary: Amid the takeover by Micro Focus, SUSE pays journalists (especially critics) who in turn become some kind of advertisements feed of Novell RECENTLY we saw a longtime Novell critic, Sam...
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The Threat of Mono is Not Entirely Over Yet
The risk of Microsoft’s interjection into Free/Open Source software (FOSS) persists Summary: Attempts to put Mono in GNOME still exist (Xamarin behind it) and the openwashing of .NET continues months...
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Microsoft is Trying to Subsume GNU/Linux and Free/Libre Software
Summary: Promoting a future of subservience to Microsoft even when it comes to GNU/Linux, Android, and Chromebooks “Embrace, Extend, Extinguish” (EEE) is alive and well at Microsoft. The word subsume...
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Microsoft Gradually Embraces, Extends, Extinguishes Linux Foundation as a...
The Linux Foundation now helps Windows, too Summary: By liaising with (or hijacking) existing members of the Linux Foundation, as well as by paying the Linux Foundation, Microsoft turns the Linux...
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Finjan, Cisco, JDate and Other Companies Acting Like Patent Trolls; New...
Patents not on engineering (or physical products) anymore Summary: News about patents from all across the Web, placing special emphasis on software patents and how these affect Free software projects,...
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More Information Emerges About the Microsoft-Red Hat Patent Agreement
Good for Red Hat, not so much for anybody else… Summary: Informed (GNU/Linux-centric) journalists who looked beyond the misleading press releases and the distracting marketing campaign have managed to...
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Techrights Turns 9
Summary: It has been 9 years since the Novell-Microsoft deal and right now we are trying to find out just what exactly Red Hat did with Microsoft regarding patents TECHRIGHTS has recently been focused...
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Red Hat-Microsoft Deal Increasingly Resembles Novell-Microsoft Deal...
Systemd to be used for technical and support leverage in the same way Mono was? Credit: unknown (Twitter) Summary: Red Hat’s current management, which technically liaises (more deeply over time) with...
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Xamarin is Still All About Microsoft, Still Excluding GNU/Linux
via Wikipedia but with the GIMP treatment Summary: The de facto Microsoft satellite known as Xamarin reveals that it is still little more than a Microsoft mobile division LAST MONTH we wrote about...
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Microsoft’s Latest Patent Aggression Comes Under Fire From the EFF, Former...
The ‘new’ Microsoft… Satya Ballmer: different face, same strategy/policy Summary: Microsoft continues its vicious patent war on anything resembling competition (however small), even the competition...
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Microsoft-Taxed SUSE is No Longer Receiving Microsoft’s ‘Blessing’,...
The patent ploy of Microsoft and Novell isn’t quite bearing fruit Summary: The Microsoft-led CPTN now has Novell’s software patents, so the Microsoft-Novell-SUSE deal has officially come to an end, and...
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