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[News] Microsoft Once Again Uses Its Proxies to Discredit the GPL

ACT ['Microsoft pressure group?'] Warns of Legal Risk with Latest GPL Draft

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| But ACT, a Washington-based technology lobby group whose membership
| includes large companies like eBay, Oracle, Orbitz and VeriSign, and
| which was founded in 1998 in response to the Microsoft antitrust case,
| is largely dismissed by those in the open-source community as nothing
| more than a lobby group for the interests of Microsoft and those
| other large corporations.
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http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Association_for_Competitive_Tecnology

This is just one among many articles in the media where Microsoft and its ilk
tries to stir up trouble and divide the community. Alexander and Bill in
this newsgroup (as well as others) are attempting to do the same thing.


Also see:

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| "ACT has been accused of being an industry front for Microsoft,
| promoting a Microsoft-friendly agenda in relation to property rights
| and anti-trust legislation."
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http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Association_for_Competitive_Technology


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| Long before it employed bloggers to do the job for it, Microsoft hired
| sympathetic members of the public to make its case in online forums,
| posing as disinterested citizens. Things got much more professional as
| the antitrust trial unfurled. After hiring DCI in the late 1990s,
| Microsoft created two new trade groups, the Association for Competitive
|                                             ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
| Technology (ACT), and the Americans for Technology Leadership (ALT),
| ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
| and marshaled campaigns such as "Freedom to Innovate" - encouraging
| Windows users the chance to make spontaneous gestures of support for
| Chairman Bill.
| 
| These weren't always too successful. A campaign in 2001 to petition 17
| state's Attorney Generals - who had pooled resources to bring their
| own antitrust action against Microsoft - resulted in supportive letters
| being written by dead people.
| 
| And the astroturf taint continues today.
| 
| Most recently, a spoof video portraying Al Gore as a Penguin was reported
| to have originated from a computer registered to the DCI Group, although
| the lobby group said it did not fund or approve the video.
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http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/09/14/google_lobby/


Weather alert: new Microsoft FUD storm expected

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| In recent weeks, Microsoft seems to have gone out of its way to put
| Linux down, while boosting Linux. First, there was the bribetop
| scandal; then, the Wikipedia 'correction' affair. Now, the company
| is up to one of its oldest tricks: playing games with analyst reports.
| 
| This time around, Sunbelt Software is working with the Yankee
| Group, a research company with a poor reputation in Linux circles,
| to produce its "yearly major survey comparing Windows to Linux."
| Here we go again.
| 
| What's wrong with that? I'll tell you what's wrong with it.
| Sunbelt is a Microsoft Gold Certified Partner. In other words,
| they're buddies with Microsoft.
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http://www.linux-watch.com/news/NS2225368488.html

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