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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?

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