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Roy Schestowitz is an advocate of fair competition and consumer rights, who expects to complete a Ph.D. in Medical Biophysics very shortly.
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Microsoft Uses Pseudo “Open Source” to Fight Against Linux »
Posted by: schestowitz 8 months, 3 weeks ago in News
Microsoft deceives on “open source” and uses it to exclude or to poison (with software patents) GNU/Linux
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Red Hat, Microsoft, EU Lobbyists, and Software Patents »
Posted by: schestowitz 8 months, 4 weeks ago in Science & Technology
A roundup summarising important developments pertaining to software patents
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Jonathan Zuck and ACT: What is It Anyway? »
Posted by: schestowitz 9 months ago in Science & Technology
As the lobby for software patents in Europe intensifies, we identify and dissect the culprits
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Why Microsoft Has Already Crashed OSBC 2009 »
Posted by: schestowitz 9 months ago in Science & Technology
It’s not enough to just woo Free software developers away from GNU/Linux; Microsoft is also trying to scare them using lawsuits against Linux ...
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India Moves to Free Software, So Microsoft Fights Back with Bribes »
Posted by: schestowitz 9 months, 1 week ago in Science & Technology
Political parties in the country embrace FOSS, but Microsoft carries on with EDGI, gifts, and dumping of software
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Video Editing Made Easy with Kino! »
Posted by: schestowitz 9 months, 2 weeks ago in Science & Technology
There are lots of good tools in the Free Open Source Software world for capturing and editing video, but common to making almost any movie ...
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Bruce Perens Calls Novell a “Highly Paid [Microsoft] Mouthpiece” »
Posted by: schestowitz 9 months, 2 weeks ago in Science & Technology
Backlash against Novell; Ubuntu is rumoured to be considering abolishment of Mono
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Microsoft Wants to Make Something Out of Nothing vs Linux »
Posted by: schestowitz 9 months, 2 weeks ago in Science & Technology
Microsoft is still in its earlier stage of demise where the customers are being bullied or sued. Unable to counter what it calls “Linux infestations ...
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World of Goo »
Posted by: schestowitz 9 months, 3 weeks ago in Science & Technology
They say the simplest ideas are the best. Strip most games down to their essence and you'll be left with either a dull husk ...
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Driver comparison Linux vs. Vista (Chrome 400/500 Series) »
Posted by: schestowitz 9 months, 3 weeks ago in Science & Technology
Sometimes S3 Graphics really scares me and this is one of those situations: It's already rather unusual that the performance of a Linux driver ...
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GNU/Linux Market Share: Why Gartner and IDC Must be Ignored »
Posted by: schestowitz 9 months, 3 weeks ago in Science & Technology
In one of the documents disclosed in Comes vs Microsoft, Microsoft was seen explicitly asking IDC to remove signs of its sponsorship of a study.
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Why Microsoft is Likely to Lose the TomTom Case »
Posted by: schestowitz 9 months, 3 weeks ago in Science & Technology
Based on Microsoft’s FAT specifications, there is actually a promise not to sue.
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SFLC: How Friendly Microsoft is to Open Source Software? »
Posted by: schestowitz 9 months, 4 weeks ago in Science & Technology
"Microsoft could have just opened a Pandora’s box. [The] SCO case went south when more interested parties came out the woodwork — [parties] that SCO ...
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BCDs, MBRs, and grub |Strategic Developer | Martin Heller | InfoWorld »
Posted by: schestowitz 10 months ago in Science & Technology
In the last couple of days I've probably learned more than I ever wanted to know about BCDs, MBRs, boot sectors, boot menus, lilo ...
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NASA's MMO Video Game To Have A Linux Port? »
Posted by: schestowitz 10 months ago in Science & Technology
This game is still a ways from being released, but at the heart of this game is the Unreal Engine 3 -- the same engine that ...
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