Business Software Alliance
From Techrights
The Business Software Alliance (BSA) represents the interests of founding and maintaining members, to whom the BSA is a collective front. The BSA encapsulates (or encapsulated) workers of William Gates Sr. and it is seen lobbying for software patents in Europe, among other Microsoft interests. It is generally hostile towards Free software, which competes directly against its clients/funding sources.
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2014
- Microsoft and the BSA Play Hardball, Accelerating a Much-Motivated Move to Free/Libre Software
- Business Software Alliance (BSA) Should Snitch on Itself for So-called ‘Piracy’
2013
- The Continued Occupation of US ‘Trade’ by Microsoft- and Monopolies-backed Entities Like BSA
- Microsoft and the BSA Align With Oracle in Patent Fight Against Android/Linux
- Microsoft Lobbyists Go Batting for Monsanto Monopolies on Life, Food
2012
- Patents Roundup: Microsoft Front the BSA Promotes Software Patents, Kappos Helps the Rotten System
- Microsoft Front Group Goes Lobbying on Patent Ruling, Software Patents Being Pushed Abroad
- Microsoft Front Group Lobbies on Patents in the United States
- BSA and IDC Systematically Lie to the Public, Distort Press Coverage
2011
- Cablegate: BSA Smears Sri Lanka’s Government for Moving to Free/Open Source Software
- Cablegate: Business Software Alliance (BSA) Pretends to Speak for Open Source, MPA Creates Imaginary Links to Crime
- Divergence From Microsoft Front Groups
- Microsoft/BSA Lobbying Based on a Big Lie
- Apple- and Microsoft-backed Front Group Lobbies for Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA)
- Microsoft’s Patent Troll (IV) Helps Increase Microsoft Tax, BSA Changes Intellectual Monopoly Laws
- Cablegate: In Vietnam, BSA+IDC+Microsoft Assure Microsoft Lock-in in Exchange for Indoctrination
- BSA is Lobbying (and Lying) to Exclude Software Freedom From the British Public Sector
- EMC, IBM, HP, and SAP Dump the BSA
2010
- Spanish Cablegate: Microsoft and BSA Overlap, Microsoft Exempted From ‘Piracy’ Tax in France
- Microsoft Front Groups BSA and ACT Try to Give Google More Legal Problems
- BSA Lobbying Against Standards in Europe is Old News
- BSA is a Hypocrite: Powered by GNU/Linux, Won’t Even Buy From Red Hat for Its Development of Software
- BSA Under Fire for Misleading the Public, Raids Show Harms of Proprietary Software
- New IDC/BSA Propaganda for Microsoft and Other Proprietary Software Companies
- BSA Attacks the Right to Software Freedom in the Czech Republic; Similar Offenses in the UK, Finland
- TechDirt Explains How Microsoft/BSA/IDC Game the Press,
- IDG/IDC Produces Propaganda for Microsoft as ‘Analyst’, Then Publishes That as ‘Journalist’
- Business Software Alliance (BSA) is Not Good for Free Software
2008
- Microsoft & Paid Lobbyists Attack Open Source in European Interoperability Framework
- Patents Roundup: India Fights Software Patents, BSA Intervention, Trolls League
- BSA and Novell ♥ Software Patents, Microsoft
- Patently Absurd: Microsoft, BSA, IDC, Alsup, and Trend Micro
- With Obedient Dolls Like Gartner and the BSA, Who Needs Enemies?
