Microsoft FUD and Openwashing

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Keith Bergelt - Open Invention Network
Symbolically and functionally it’s extremely significant. The Open Invention Network (OIN) was formed in the wake of the SCO litigation against IBM, Red Hat and SUSE/Novell. SCO sued claiming to have Unix related functionality that was relevant to Linux.
This litigation was quietly funded by Microsoft, lasted several years and went nowhere. In the end, there was no liability and no culpability for the alleged infringements
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Next-generation audit reports: Enhanced visibility into open source risks in M&A transactions [Ed: Phil Odence continues to badmouth FOSS and accentuate the phobia, just as Microsoft intended]
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These Silent Fixes are Silent Killers in Open Source Security [Ed: Microsoft-connected FUD]
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Red Hat offers support for open source Java on Windows [Ed: Treating Oracle as worse than Microsoft -- to the point of helping Windows]
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Microsoft executive boasts that even Google employees are adopting one of its products [Ed: Last I checked, Microsoft Windows was still banned in Google for security reasons]
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Microsoft releases Mu open-source UEFI firmware [Ed: Microsoft is openwashing something profoundly malicious which you probably never want on your machine anyway]
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Microsoft open-sources UEFI/BIOS from Surface for any PC maker to use
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Microsoft announces Project Mu, an open-source UEFI core
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Microsoft was the real MVP of the tech world in 2018 [Ed: Mashable calls company that bribes and corrupts (and is currently under investigation for "bribery and corruption") "MVP of the tech world in 2018"]
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SD Times Open-Source Project of the Week: Trill [Ed: SDTimes continues its long tradition of Microsoft boosting. Microsoft is a big sponsor (advertiser).]
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Microsoft open sources Trill, a streaming engine that employs algorithms to process “a trillion events per day”
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Microsoft Continues to Make Surprising Open Source Announcements in 2018 [Ed: No, Microsoft deciding that it lost to FOSS renderers isn't a case of changing. It's becoming irrelevant.]
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