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Comment Money quote from linked KDKA article: (Score 5, Insightful) 377

by georgewad on Tuesday December 23, 2008 @06:55PM (#26217267) Attached to: Karl Rove's IT Guru Dies In Small Plane Crash

>It was later learned that
>Ohio Secretary of State
>Kenneth Blackwell's office
>had routed Internet traffic
>from county election offices
>through out-of-state servers
>based at SMARTech in
>Chattanooga, Tenn.
>SMARTech hosts dozens of GOP Web domains.

I can't see any positive way to spin this.

Submission + - Microsoft readies patent battle with OSS

Submitted by

Fred Oliveira

on Sunday May 13, 2007 @07:22PM

Fred Oliveira writes: "Forbes has an in-depth article about Microsoft's plan to go to war with open source software over what they argue are over 235 patent infringements. Clearly just another step in the big ladder of "we don't know what we're doing, so we sue out of cluelessness", but it looks like the gents in Redmond are serious this time."

Submission + - Microsoft Declares Patent War on Open Source

Submitted by The SpinMD on Sunday May 13, 2007 @07:21PM

The SpinMD writes: Fortune's Roger Parloff reports Microsoft is claiming 200+ patents violated by open source: http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_arc hive/2007/05/28/100033867/index.htm?source=yahoo_q uote

Submission + - Microsoft Wants Royalties From All Linux Users

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Sunday May 13, 2007 @07:09PM

An anonymous reader writes: According to CNN Money and other sources, Microsoft claims that Linux infringes on over 200 of their patents and they fully intend to protect their intellectual property.

Submission + - Microsoft takes on the free world

Submitted by k-hell on Sunday May 13, 2007 @06:44PM

k-hell writes: "Free software is great, and corporate America loves it. It's often high-quality stuff that can be downloaded free off the Internet and then copied at will. It's versatile — it can be customized to perform almost any large-scale computing task — and it's blessedly crash-resistant. A broad community of developers, from individuals to large companies like IBM, is constantly working to improve it and introduce new features. No wonder the business world has embraced it so enthusiastically: More than half the companies in the Fortune 500 are thought to be using the free operating system Linux in their data centers. But now there's a shadow hanging over Linux and other free software, and it's being cast by Microsoft (Charts, Fortune 500). The Redmond behemoth asserts that one reason free software is of such high quality is that it violates more than 200 of Microsoft's patents."

Submission + - Microsoft Takes on the Free World

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Sunday May 13, 2007 @06:33PM

An anonymous reader writes: http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_arc hive/2007/05/28/100033867/

Microsoft takes on the free world
Microsoft claims that free software like Linux, which runs a big chunk of corporate America, violates 235 of its patents. It wants royalties from distributors and users. Users like you, maybe. Fortune's Roger Parloff reports.

Submission + - Microsoft claims 256 patents in Linux

Submitted by

geeflow

on Sunday May 13, 2007 @06:29PM

geeflow writes: "Did you see it coming? HP, Dell? CNNMoney.com says: Microsoft claims that free software like Linux, which runs a big chunk of corporate America, violates 235 of its patents. It wants royalties from distributors and users. Users like you, maybe. Read the rest of the story: http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_arc hive/2007/05/28/100033867/"

Submission + - Microsoft claims Linux violates over 200 patents

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Sunday May 13, 2007 @06:28PM

An anonymous reader writes: Fortune Magazine has an article which states that FOSS developers and distributors could soon face a patent litigation blitzkrieg from Microsoft, which holds over 200 patents that the company claims Linux violates. The article further states that the recent Novell-Microsoft patent deal is a de facto admission of infringement — is anybody surprised?

Submission + - Microsoft to begin sueing Linux and FOSS users

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Sunday May 13, 2007 @05:37PM

An anonymous reader writes: http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_arc hive/2007/05/28/100033867/ I suggest all 50 million FOSS users buy a hammer and march on the M$ campus and literally disassemble their buildings.

Submission + - Accounting Vendors Block Linux Server Use

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday January 09, 2007 @01:19PM

An anonymous reader writes: From Infoworld...

http://www.gripe2ed.com/scoop/story/2007/1/9/24930 /08424

Is this an opportunity for other accounting software companies that support multiple platforms? Can you name any?

Submission + - SCO bankruptcy is "inevitable" and "im

Submitted by mattaw on Tuesday January 09, 2007 @01:14PM

mattaw writes: From analysis by Groklaw it seems that SCO may owe Novell nearly all the SCOSource licensing fees, and has been hiding the fact for 3 years

Imminent. Inevitable. Bankruptcy.

Those are the words from Novell's lawyers. Perhaps the IBM/SCO case could close earlier than planned? Perhaps we can finally be rid of this specter once and for all?

Submission + - A not-so-wii Wii Experience

Submitted by unc0nn3ct3d on Tuesday January 09, 2007 @01:11PM

unc0nn3ct3d writes: This Video has to be the finest example of The new Nintendo being used to it's fullest. Nothing like bowling on a 52' screen :)

Submission + - Chevy Volt Electric Concept Car

Submitted by

Editorgirl35

on Tuesday January 09, 2007 @12:17PM

Editorgirl35 writes: "John Dodge at Design News takes issue with one of his editors on the whole notion of the electric gas-powered car. He seems pretty enthused about Chevy's Volt Electric Concept Car. Pretty interesting opinion. Check it out at: http://www.designnews.com/index.asp?layout=blogPre view&blog_id=130000213&blog_post_id=820006282"

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