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[News] Microsoft et al Deceive Govenments to Pass anti-FOSS Laws

  • Subject: [News] Microsoft et al Deceive Govenments to Pass anti-FOSS Laws
  • From: Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Mon, 03 Mar 2008 16:01:50 +0000
  • Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.advocacy
  • Organization: Netscape / schestowitz.com
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ZeroPaid Interviews Russell McOrmond - Part 2 of 3

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| Those who were successful using legacy methods are not being phased out 
| without a fight. Rather than trying to claim publicly that FLOSS is "a 
| Cancer", they have now set their sights largely at policy makers. The push 
| has been to confuse governments around things such as DRM and software 
| patents. These are policies which have nothing to do with protecting 
| innovation and creativity, and everything to do with protecting incumbent 
| software manufacturing vendors from FLOSS competitors.      
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http://www.zeropaid.com/news/9300/ZeroPaid+Interviews+Russell+McOrmond+-+Part+2+of+3/

Appended at the bottom are examples where those SOBs from Microsoft try to
change the laws to illegalise rivals. In Denmark, Gates tries blackmail too.

Patent abuse case:

Limelight Networks Announces Verdict in Patent Trial

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| Limelight Networks, Inc. today announced that the jury in the case Akamai 
| Technologies, Inc. et al. v. Limelight Networks (United States District Court 
| for the District of Massachusetts) announced a verdict in favor of Akamai 
| Technologies.   
| 
| "We are disappointed with the jury's verdict in this matter. We strongly 
| believe that, like other companies that follow long-established Internet 
| standards, we do not infringe the patent in this case. We will continue to 
| remain a competitive choice in the marketplace as we pursue all appropriate 
| legal avenues," stated Phil Maynard, chief legal counsel, Limelight Networks, 
| Inc.     
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http://money.cnn.com/news/newsfeeds/articles/prnewswire/AQF09329022008-1.htm


Related:

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| A source that deals with the company said unofficially that Gates
| proposed Microsoft's Digital Rights Management technology as a national
| standard to fight piracy at the governmental level.
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http://www.kommersant.com/p719683/r_528/


Years of deadlock on EU patent bring some new thinking

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| When Bill Gates visits Brussels on Thursday to speak with
| government officials, software developers and customers, he
| plans to wade into one of Europe's longest-running, most
| fruitless debates: the pursuit of a unified patent system. 
| Gates, chairman of Microsoft, wants a simple system that will
| allow the world's largest software maker and other companies
| to protect their intellectual property in the European Union -
| and profit from licensing their patents.
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http://www.iht.com/articles/2006/11/08/business/patents.php


Leaked letter warns of open source 'threat to eco-system'

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| leaked letter to the European Commission has revealed the extent of
| lobbying by proprietary software groups to prevent the widespread
| adoption of open-source software.
| 
| Sent in response to a recent report on the role of open-source
| software in the European economy, Microsoft-funded pressure
| group, the Initiative for Software Choice (ISC) warned of
| potentially dire effects if too much encouragement was given
| to open source software development.
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http://www.techworld.com/news/index.cfm?RSS&NewsID=7109


Microsoft Tells Apple To Stop Complaining About DRM

http://www.podcastingnews.com/2007/04/13/microsoft-apple-drm/


DRM – a big win for Microsoft

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| Recently I came to conclusion that Microsoft is the company, which profits 
| most from the Digital Rights Management. 
| I don't know the numbers, but I guess that DRM is little or no success for 
| the recording industry. To say it stopped pirating films and music would be a  
| joke. 
| Microsoft people must have known that the protection would be broken very 
| soon. So why they are implementing it after all? 
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http://technocrat.net/d/2008/1/2/32809

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