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Submission + - Microsoft wants review of Google/Doubleclick deal

LMFAO writes: Microsoft, a veteran defendant of epic antitrust battles in the United States and Europe, is urging regulators to consider scuttling Google's plan to buy DoubleClick, an online advertising company. Bradford L. Smith, Microsoft's general counsel, said in an interview yesterday that Google's purchase of DoubleClick would combine the two largest online advertising distributors and thus "substantially reduce competition in the advertising market on the Web." — New York Times
Education

Submission + - LinuxFest Northwest

Hunter Gatherer Peng writes: "Karen M. Sandler, attorney with the Software Freedom Law Center and of the Software Freedom Conservancy, will be speaking at LinuxFest Northwest, http://www.linuxfestnorthwest.org/ April 28th and 29th in Bellingham Wa. On software patents in the United States and how they may impact free and open source software projects. Google, Silicon Mechanics, and Linden labs and others will be recruiting. It's the biggest OpenSource/Linux grassroots convention West of the Mississippi. It's free as in "free beer". You snooze you loose. http://blug.org/fest2007/schedule.dxp"

Feed How to Get Off a Government Watch List (wired.com)

If you aren't a Senator who can call up the head of Homeland Security, or a high-powered nun whose boss who can ring up Karl Rove, working free from government watch lists will be a tedious and not-very transparent process.


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