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Public policy and open source
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| When your government is wasting money, when it seems the bids are rigged, a
| lawsuit draws attention to the grievance. Perhaps it will draw the attention
| of the ADQ and there can be a political debate on it.
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http://blogs.zdnet.com/open-source/?p=2835
Recently there was also a story about Lenovo trying to keep Windows Vista OEM
licence reimbursements a secret, but the blackmailed customer hit back.
Recent:
AbcLinuxu.cz Reimbursed User for MS Windows License from Lenovo ČR
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| The biggest Czech Linux portal, AbcLinuxu.cz, along with its operator, the
| Stickfish company, reimbursed a user for a MS Windows Vista Business OEM
| license in Lenovo ČR's stead. The paid amount is the same the manufacturer
| offered for returning the license in accordance with the EULA of the Windows
| Vista Business OEM software that was supplied with the Lenovo laptop.
| However, Lenovo ČR required a non-disclosure agreement to be signed that
| would cover the entire negotiations with the company and its results for the
| compensation to be effected.
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http://www.abclinuxu.cz/clanky/pr/abclinuxu.cz-vyplatil-nahradu-za-licenci-ms-windows-misto-lenovo-cr?page=1
Quebec government sued for buying Microsoft software
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| Quebec's open-source software association is suing the provincial government,
| saying it is giving preferential treatment to Microsoft Corp. by buying the
| company's products rather than using free alternatives.
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| The lawsuit by Facil was lodged with the Quebec Superior Court on July 15 and
| made public on Wednesday. In it, the group says the provincial government has
| refused to entertain competing bids from all software providers, opting
| instead to supply public-sector departments with products bought from
| proprietary vendors such as Microsoft and Oracle Corp.
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http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2008/08/27/tech-quebec.html
Related:
Microfraud?
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| THE ALLEGATIONS WERE shocking: For years, Microsoft has systematically
| distorted its profit figures in an effort to consistently beat Wall Street
| expectations and keep its stock price steadily rising. The false reports
| would violate SEC regulations, and amount to outright fraud.
|
| More shocking was the source of the allegations: Microsoft's chief of
| internal audits, Charlie Pancerzewski, who reported directly to the company's
| chief financial officer.
|
| Most shocking of all was what happened to Pancerzewski when he reported the
| suspicious bookkeeping to his supervisors, Microsoft CFO Mike Brown and chief
| operating officer Bob Herbold, in the spring of 1995. Soon afterward,
| Pancerzewski—who for nearly five years had received stellar performance
| evaluations—received his first-ever unsatisfactory one, and was eventually
| forced to resign.
|
| Two months ago, Microsoft quietly settled a lawsuit containing these
| allegations, filed in 1997 by Pancerzewski under the Whistleblowers
| Protection Act. The auditor claimed he was wrongfully terminated after
| telling his supervisors that Microsoft might be breaking securities and tax
| laws. The lawsuit made its tortuous way through several rounds of pretrial
| motions until last fall, when US District Judge Carolyn Dimmick denied
| Microsoft's final plea for summary judgment, finding credible evidence that
| Microsoft may have violated SEC rules, as Pancerzewski alleged. Shortly
| thereafter, Microsoft and Pancerzewski settled out of court. Terms of the
| agreement were sealed, but one source who claims familiarity with the case
| says that Microsoft paid Pancerzewski $4 million.
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http://web.archive.org/web/20070308032343rn_2/www.seattleweekly.com/1999-01-06/news/microfraud.php
Feeling the heat at Microsoft
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| If I ask you who is Microsoft's biggest competitor now, who would it be?
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| Ballmer: Open...Linux. I don't want to say open source. Linux, certainly have
| to go with that.
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http://www.news.com/Feeling-the-heat-at-Microsoft/2008-1012_3-6232458.html?tag=ne.fd.mnbc
Did Microsoft want to 'whack' Dell over its Linux dealings?
http://news.com.com/Did+Microsoft+want+to+whack+Dell+over+its+Linux+dealings/2100-1014_3-6153904.html
Dell's secret Linux fling
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/01/09/dell_linux_china/
Microsoft 'killed Dell Linux' - States
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2002/03/19/microsoft_killed_dell_linux_states/
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| From: Joachim Kempin
| Sent: Tuesday, January 16, 1996 9:43 AM
| To: Bill Gates; Pete Higgings (Xenix); Nathan Myhrvold; Brad Silberberg
| (Xenix); John Ludwig; Russel Siegeirman (Xenix); Steve Ballmer;
| paulma@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
| Subject: RE: AOL
|
| are you suggesting we should put them in our box? May be all of them?
| Not a bad idea - but the OEMs might not be too hapy about it. They are
| loosing their $$?
| P they are not in compliance. Compaq
| truely pisses me off.
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http://edge-op.org/iowa/www.iowaconsumercase.org/122106/PLEX0_2455.pdf
Microsoft Shuts Down Linux 10 Years Ago Says Iowa Attorne
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| Going back now to as early as 1998, Microsoft starts to realize that
| Linux might pose a possible threat, and Vinod Valloppillil, who is
| a program manager at Microsoft, is asked by Mr. Allchin, Jim Allchin,
| to analyze potential strategies for combatting open-source software,
| and specifically Linux.
| His memos are leaked to the press in April -- I beg your pardon --
| in October of 1998 and become known as the Halloween documents.
| And the evidence will be that Microsoft uses its influence in the
| OEM channel, the computer manufacture channel, to make sure that
| end users have a difficult time buying PCs with Linux preinstalled.
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http://www.linuxelectrons.com/News/RoundUp/Microsoft_Shuts_Down_Linux_10_Years_Ago_Says_Iowa_Attorney
Microsoft's Dirty OEM-Secret
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| They are, in short the secret to Microsoft's success. And the word
| secret is to be taken quite literally: No OEM may talk about the
| contents of his contract, or he will lose his license, and (assumption)
| likely be sued for breach of contract as well.
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http://www.kuro5hin.org/story/2001/10/23/13219/110
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