I wish antitrust bodies didn't exist
My good friend Carlo Piana, the lawyer that helped Samba and FSFE in the antitrust trial Microsoft against the European Commission, says today: priority #1 is to keep a close eye on the only...
View ArticleHow to promote GNU and Software Freedom on 5th Avenue for free
Get this: Microsoft execs are desperately trying to reach kids and hipsters (pretending Windows is a cool brand) that they allow anybody to broadcast their tweets in the store window at legendary Saks...
View ArticleWhy I wish I could reject your email attachment
The Free Software Foundation (FSF) today launched a campaign calling on all computer users to start politely rejecting email attachments sent in secret and proprietary formats: for freedom and the good...
View ArticleGPLv3 and mobile app stores
The (supposed) incompatibility of GPL, especially GPLv3 and mobile app stores is still here and growing bigger: The rules for Microsoft’s Windows Phone Marketplace appear to mean that even Microsoft’s...
View ArticleMicrosoft cannot be trusted
My friend Gianugo Rabellino has a tough job trying to help Microsoft clean up its image of anti-open source company. The best comment I read about its latest attack on Android and Linux (the ebook...
View ArticleMicrosoft pulls the antitrust trigger
I love it: Microsoft calls the European antitrust authorities against Google. Ironic. And a waste of time: the consumer is not harmed by Google, consumers are getting software and services for free....
View ArticleHow is Google damaging consumers?
I kept this post as draft since I read Wired’s article about Google and their supposed dominant position. Today I read again about the new investigation of US Antitrust targeting bigG because it holds...
View ArticleFirst action from Microsoft after buying Skype
Every time Microsoft has the chance to demonstrate it can play nice with free software/open source companies, they fail. After buying Skype, Microsoft has canceled the agreement with Digium for the...
View ArticleGmail Man vs MS Office 365 vs You
Microsoft released a series of videos featuring Gmailman, a nosy mailman that reads your email in order to send you advertising. It would be funny, if it was a video done by EFF or FreedomBox...
View ArticleMicrosoft keeps its habit
Even after Microsoft explanations things haven’t changed: As things stand, Windows 8 certified systems will make it either more difficult or impossible to install alternative operating systems. via...
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Reposted How Microsoft crushed Slack by Casey Newton (Platformer) And why the era of worker-centered work tools may be over Microsoft may have crushed Slack but this didn’t kill the “DIY IT” in teams....
View ArticleInternet Explorer is dead and we’re all the worse for it
Along with a rag-tag group of true believers, I fought Microsoft. In the early 2000s, we took them on in a battle for the open web in retaliation for their predatory practices. Internet Explorer was...
View ArticleVS Code in the browser for everyone
Reposted VS Code in the browser for everyone (undefined) Run the latest VS Code on a remote machine accessed through a modern web browser - from any device, from anywhere. Very interesting project....
View ArticleGPLv3 and mobile app stores
The (supposed) incompatibility of GPL, especially GPLv3 and mobile app stores is still here and growing bigger: The rules for Microsoft’s Windows Phone Marketplace appear to mean that even Microsoft’s...
View ArticleMicrosoft cannot be trusted
My friend Gianugo Rabellino has a tough job trying to help Microsoft clean up its image of anti-open source company. The best comment I read about its latest attack on Android and Linux (the ebook...
View ArticleMicrosoft pulls the antitrust trigger
I love it: Microsoft calls the European antitrust authorities against Google. Ironic. And a waste of time: the consumer is not harmed by Google, consumers are getting software and services for free....
View ArticleHow is Google damaging consumers?
I kept this post as draft since I read Wired’s article about Google and their supposed dominant position. Today I read again about the new investigation of US Antitrust targeting bigG because it holds...
View ArticleFirst action from Microsoft after buying Skype
Every time Microsoft has the chance to demonstrate it can play nice with free software/open source companies, they fail. After buying Skype, Microsoft has canceled the agreement with Digium for the...
View ArticleGmail Man vs MS Office 365 vs You
Microsoft released a series of videos featuring Gmailman, a nosy mailman that reads your email in order to send you advertising. It would be funny, if it was a video done by EFF or FreedomBox...
View ArticleMicrosoft keeps its habit
Even after Microsoft explanations things haven’t changed: As things stand, Windows 8 certified systems will make it either more difficult or impossible to install alternative operating systems. via...
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