Summary: Microsoft’s new direction continues to include “enforcement” (as in aggression) with software patents and Finjan, which Microsoft partly owns, is just attacking companies with software patents because it’s failing as a real business
MICROSOFT is having real problems which we wrote about this morning [1, 2, 3].
Greek military junta of 1967–1974
Summary: Microsoft may be organising a coup against Linux, especially inside some of its very top supporters, and evidence from the news concurs
“Nokia’s MeeGo device chief quits,” reports Engadget.
Summary: A roundup of news about software patents with increased focus on the weakness of the patent system and its ill effects on software freedom
HP’s use of GNU/Linux scared Microsoft enough to put the company under “risks” in its SEC filings, warning investors that HP had become a threat. Then HP bought Palm, which used Linux its flagship product.
Summary: Microsoft et al. head for the door just shortly after OSI files a complaint to the German Federal Cartel Office
TECHRIGHTS wishes to begin with the good news. Those patents which Novell was going to hand over to Microsoft? Well, that ain’t gonna happen on the face of it.
Still all about monopolies
Traul Allen, photo by msprague
Summary: Reputation laundering follows massive patent scams spanning different areas of science and technology; identical tricks are used by 3 top Microsoft persons (with overlap between their operations)
ABOUT a month ago we produced and presented a factual case to show that Microsoft is a leading producer of patent trolls.
Summary: The patent-trolling spinoff of Bill Gates and Microsoft carries on destroying the Internet and extorting competition
Microsoft generates top patent trolls, it does not only feed some patent trolls with extra cash which they in turn use to attack GNU/Linux with lawsuits.
Summary: Microsoft’s mobile “Slog” has begun, with fake coverage (marketing), entryism, and many similar examples in other areas too
IN THE previous post we shed light on Microsoft’s tough struggle to matter in mobile as it continues losing an already low market share and executives too (some end up in Yahoo!).
Summary: New evidence which shows increased opposition to some software patents and bizarre turns taken by the patent system when lawyers are put in charge
THE FFII’s president shares what he labelled “EFF letter to the US Supreme Court [PDF] about software patents and binaries as prior art” (the latter is humour).
For those who missed the context of it, the EFF supports an at
Nokia today jumped on the patent infringement bandwagon, this time alleging that the just announced jellybean tablet, the Nexus 7, violates some WiFi patents that Nokia holds near and dear to its heart.
It looks like this one won’t end up in the courts though, as Nokia seems ready and willing to license the patents (for a fee of course).
Since Google is selling this thing for $199, you̵
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