Convicted BitTorrent Admin Fights for his Right to Use Linux
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| Scott told TorrentFreak earlier: “I think that this whole situation is just
| one more way that they can impose their will onto me. It isn’t the fact that
| I have to be monitored that bothers me, it is the fact that I have
| restructure my life (different OS, different software on that OS) and that
| they would require (force) me to purchase software while I a currently
| unemployed and relatively unemployable with the 2 felonies that they gave
| me.”
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http://torrentfreak.com/convicted-bittorrent-admin-fights-for-right-to-use-linux-070908/
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FBI ducks questions about its remotely installed spyware
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| There are plenty of unanswered questions about the FBI spyware that, as we
| reported earlier this week, can be delivered over the Internet and implanted
| in a suspect's computer remotely.
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http://news.com.com/8301-10784_3-9747666-7.html
Microsoft patents the mother of all adware systems
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| The adware framework would leave almost no data untouched in its quest to
| sell you stuff. It would inspect "user document files, user e-mail files,
| user music files, downloaded podcasts, computer settings, computer status
| messages (e.g., a low memory status or low printer ink)," and more. How could
| we have been so blind as to not see the marketing value in computer status
| messages?
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http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20070717-microsoft-patents-the-mother-of-all-adware-systems.html
Microsoft Allegedly Bullies and Bribes to Make Office an International Standard
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| Microsoft did not respond to several calls requesting comment.
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http://www.wired.com/software/coolapps/news/2007/08/ooxml_vote
Microsoft Looks for the Big Guns in OOXML In-Fighting
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| Bill Gates has reportedly been making phone calls to the Secretary of Defense
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| and the Secretary of Commerce to push the American National Standards
| Institute to ignore the votes of its advisory committees and vote "yes" on
| ISO standardizing Microsoft's Open Office XML (OOXML) format, the one in
| competition with the OpenDocument Format (ODF) pushed by IBM and Sun.
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| Gates reportedly picked up the phone when the last INCITS ballot failed by
| one vote to support Microsoft.
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http://xml.sys-con.com/read/419573_p.htm
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