Is Apple the New Microsoft?
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| Don't look now, but the role of the industry's biggest bully is increasingly
| played by Apple, not Microsoft.
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http://www.pcworld.com/article/id,136949/article.html
Ten reasons to boycott Microsoft and Celebrate Software Freedom Day
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| 1. The rape of the ISO standardization procedures
| 2. Microsoft’s products are inferior when it comes to safety
| 3. Microsoft makes people pay and pay again
| 4. Microsoft is not into compatibility
| 5. Microsoft is not competing in quality but in threats
| 6. Microsoft is lazy
| 7. Microsoft’s products phone home
| 8. The limits of the user agreement (Eula)
| 9. Microsoft is into aggressive marketing campaigns in developing countries
| 10. There are great free alternatives to Windows
|
| [...]
|
| Migrating to Linux is much easier than most people think and if you have any
| problems there is a great community waiting for you to help out.
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http://www.kletskous.com/2007/09/07/ten-reasons-to-boycott-microsoft-and-celibrate-software-freedom-day/
Related:
Apple licenses UI tech as part of settlement
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| Settling a patent dispute that was brewing in the District Court for
| the Eastern District of Texas with respect to certain, unnamed
| Apple products, Acacia Research has announced that Apple will
| now license specific GUI technology from its IP Innovation
| subsidiary.
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http://www.macnn.com/articles/07/06/15/apple.licenses.ui/
Apple failing to understand open source
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| There is a cost for not being a good Open Source citizen and that
| cost is loss of goodwill in the community. That loss is more
| expensive in the long run than Apple realizes.
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http://www.oreillynet.com/mac/blog/2007/03/apple_failing_to_understand_op.html
Browser wars: Mozilla exec calls Steve Jobs 'out-of-date'
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| Mozilla won't go away just because Jobs wills it, said Lilly, and he was
| irked at the Apple CEO's attitude. "Today's connected world is no longer
| constrained by the monopolies and duopolies and cartels of yesterday's
| [software] distribution," said Lilly. "The Web belongs to people, not
| companies.
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http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&taxonomyName=operating_systems&articleId=9024941&taxonomyId=89&intsrc=kc_top
http://tinyurl.com/22ylqu
Class action over carrier-locked iPhone
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| Apple is being sued by another iPhone customer, this time over the inability
| to use the phone with carriers other than AT&T, and high international
| roaming charges.
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http://www.itwire.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=14206&Itemid=1054
Why Apple Can't Stop iPhone Hackers
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| So will Apple and AT&T's legal action deter hackers? Hardly. Individual users
| are already allowed to unlock their own phones under an exemption to the
| Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) that the U.S. Copyright Office issued
| last November.
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http://businessweek.com/technology/content/aug2007/tc20070827_230698.htm?chan=top+news_top+news+index_businessweek+exclusives
http://tinyurl.com/23upc6
Apple Bullies Bloggers, Again
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| Apple has a history of using lawyers against bloggers. There was
| the now infamous Think Secret lawsuit, which may have had merit.
| But they also engage in clearly superfluous, bullying tactics as well.
|
| [...]
|
| The offending download page is here (the software has now been
| removed). Blogger Paul O?Brien simply linked to this download
| page and included a screenshot of the user interface and also
| received a cease & desist letter from Apple's lawyers.
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http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/01/13/apple-bullies-bloggers-again/
How Apple orchestrated web attack on researchers
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| Apple is a mega corporation that nearly smashed the reputation of
| two individuals with bogus claims of fraud. It didn't matter
| that they weren't the ones pulling the trigger because they
| were pulling all the strings.
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http://blogs.zdnet.com/Ou/?p=451
EU takes aim at Apple over iTunes
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| Norway, a European country that is not in the EU, is battling Apple
| for the same reason. In January, it said the computer and software
| giant must liberalize its music download system by October 1 or
| face legal action.
|
| Pressure on Apple has been building, with consumer rights
| organizations from Germany, France, Finland and Norway recently
| agreeing a joint position in their battles against iTunes.
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http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070311/wr_nm/eu_apple_dc
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