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Free Software Proponents Expose the Microsoft-Funded (F)RAND Lobbyists and Their Lies, Microsoft to Lobby Directly in SOSOCON 2010

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http://techrights.org – Summary: Microsoft’s lobbying for the exclusion or at least marginalisation of software freedom in Europe is intensifying as Microsoft adds its own weight to proxies like ACT, BSA, and campaigners (liars) for hire THE MANY RAND-RELATED FSFE VS. BSA posts that we already have probably cover the key issues [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6] and it has been a success story for the FSFE, whose advocacy of software freedom (not any particular corporation) has reached the press and had other Microsoft pressure groups like ACT exposed for all to see. As The H put it: “The Association for Competitive T (General)

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