Archive for November 22nd, 2007

FSF Tries Another Shakedown, One Victim Company Already Offers Source Code

November 22, 2007

The Free Software Foundation’s Software Freedom Law Center has struck again, suing two more companies on behalf of Busybox. The SFLC reached a settlement with Monsoon Multimedia at the end of last month in which Monsoon paid an undisclosed sum to Busybox developers (and, presumably, their lawyers at the SFLC/FSF).
Free Software Group Files Copyright Lawsuits:
Richard [...]

Apple Inserts “Phone Home” Code in Products

November 22, 2007

It’s time for users to stop giving Apple a free pass when it comes to proprietary code, DRM, or inserting code that tracks private information of their customers. Apple is at least as bad as, if not worse than, Microsoft in these areas. So why don’t the Linux activists target Apple with the same vengeance?
Apple [...]