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Wikileaks brought Cablegate to the world in 2010. The full, unredacted cache of diplomatic documents (cable transmissions) got released at the end of August 2011 and we started covering cables of interest within days. Although we have a category for Cablegate, some posts are not tied to it, so this wiki page provides an improved overview.

category for Cablegate

●● Background Posts

Cablegate Plan
Next on the Agenda: Researching Cablegate
Wikileaks Cablegate: We’re Only Getting Started
Cablegate Makes Considerable Difference in IT
Why Techrights Republishes Diplomatic Cables
Rap News 6 – Wikileaks’ Cablegate (as Ogg)
Novell on Fog Computing, Wikileaks

●● GNU/Linux/UNIX

Cablegate: Investigation Launched Against Initiator of Kurdish GNU/Linux Distribution
Cablegate: How Microsoft Apparently Attacked GNU/Linux Adoption in Turkey
Cablegate: “42 Percent of Argentine Firms Use Linux on at Least Some of Their Computers”
Cablegate: US Diplomats and Microsoft Fight GNU/Linux in Venezuela, Insist Open Source is Not Commercial, Label Advocates ‘Conspiracy Theorists’
Cablegate: CERGE-EI “American-style” Education With UNIX Labs
Cablegate: Tunisia Chooses GNU/Linux, So Microsoft Says That GNU/Linux Encourages ‘Piracy’
Cablegate: Microsoft Asks US Government to Help Derail Vietnam’s Migration to GNU/Linux, Wants to Treat Vietnamese Like ‘Pirates’ Instead
Cablegate: Bill Gates Uses AIDS to Bring Microsoft Windows to Indonesia at Expense of Linux-based OLPC (Updated)

●● Free/Libre Software/Standards

Cablegate: US Embassy Recommends That Argentina is Put on Monopolists’ Watch List, Free Software Adoption Noted
Cablegate: “The Free Software Movement is Building Support Within the Government of Brazil and Throughout Brazil”
Cablegate: Evidence of Yet More Microsoft OOXML Lobbying Through Politicians
Microsoft OOXML After Wikileaks Revelations
WikiLeaks Catches ISO with Pants Down
Cablegate: Brazil Advocates, Praises “the Usefulness of Free, Open Source Software”
Cablegate: Brazil and Ghana Want Free/Open Source Added in World Summit on the Information Society, US and Australia Oppose
Cablegate: Venezuela’s Move to Free/Open Source Software “Expected to Reduce the Demand for U.S. Software Products”
Cablegate: President Chavez Smeared for Favouring Free/Open Source Software, Venezuela Added to Shame List
Cablegate: BSA Smears Sri Lanka’s Government for Moving to Free/Open Source Software
Cablegate: Peru’s Migration to Free/Open Source Software
Cablegate: Business Software Alliance (BSA) Pretends to Speak for Open Source, MPA Creates Imaginary Links to Crime
Cablegate: Lithuania ‘Watched’ for Not Accepting Monopoly/’IP’ Regime From West, Government Adoption of Free Software Noted
Cablegate: Iraq Rebuilt With Free/Open Source Software
Cablegate: State Governments in India Prefer Open Source Code
Cablegate: Examples of Indonesia Developing Free/Open Source Software

●● Patents

Cablegate Reveals US Pressure for EU Patent (Unitary Patent) Alongside ACTA, More Pro-Patents Lobbyists Observed
Cablegate: In 2010, Patent Harmonisation “Not Welcomed by Developing Countries”
Cablegate: Chancellor Merkel Organises Initiative Striving for “Increased Support for Cooperation Between U.S. and EU Patent Agencies”
Cablegate: Sarkozy Promotes Monopolies in China, French Government Backs ‘Community Patent’ (aka EU Patent, Harmonisation)
Cablegate: “Google Adopted Shuttleworth’s Ubuntu Software as its In-house Operating System.”
Cablegate: Italy’s Decade of Antagonising Patent Colonialism
Cablegate: Turkey’s Patents Trajectory on Bad TRIPS
Cablegate: Japan Working to Cultivate More Patent Monopolies in China, Rooting for Global Patent System (With Software Patents)
Cablegate: “IBM Have Advocated That High Quality Software Patents Would Also Have Significant Value”
Cablegate: More Sensitive Diplomatic Cables About “Community Patent” or “EU Patent”
Cablegate: USPTO, JPO, and EPO Prepare a Global Patent System
Cablegate: EU Negotiations About EU Patent/Community Patent
Cablegate: Importing the USPTO Into Europe, Using the ‘EU Patent’
Wikileaks/Cablegate Sheds Bad Light on Bill Gates’ Rogue Patent Investments

●● Counterfeiting

Cablegate: In Vietnam, BSA+IDC+Microsoft Assure Microsoft Lock-in in Exchange for Indoctrination
Cablegate: Kyiv Embassy Cites Bogus Numbers From the BSA
Cablegate: Microsoft Uses US Diplomats to Pressure Oman to Intimidate Population Using Newspapers
Cablegate: US Mission to Brunei Changes Laws to Suit Microsoft, Confiscate Equipment
Cablegate: Microsoft Uses BSA Numbers to Call Algerians ‘Pirates’, Pressure for Law Changes
Cablegate: US Embassy Changes Saudi Laws and Practices for Microsoft, Helps Shut Down Saudi Stores
Cablegate: Microsoft Lobbies China to Attack Microsoft ‘Addicts’, Use “Minimum of Two-or-three Enforcement Showcases”
Spanish Cablegate: Microsoft and BSA Overlap, Microsoft Exempted From ‘Piracy’ Tax in France

●● Human Rights

* [http://techrights.org/2011/09/16/google-earth-analysis/Cablegate: Government Uses Google Earth, Blames Google Earth
Cablegate: Microsoft Attacks Free/Libre Software in Tunisia With a Ben Ali Deal, Conspiring to Also Spy on the Population
Cablegate: Lord Mandelson Meets the Qaddafi Family and Dates the Copyright Lobby
Cablegate Reveals Government Requesting Access to Microsoft Data, Kill Switches
Apple Attacks Free Speech by Removing Wikileaks, Just Like Amazon
Cablegate: US Government Talks About Providing Free Software that Helps Chinese Netizens Overcome Filters
Cablegate: US Government Implies Proprietary Software Leaves Digital Footprint

●● Microsoft

Cablegate: Microsoft Rushes Vietnam to Get Rid of Open Source, Including FOSS Policy
Cablegate: Microsoft’s Friends at Frost and Sullivan Bash South Africa’s Migration to Free Software
Cablegate: UNESCO Was Pro-Free Software Before Gates and Microsoft Intervention
Cablegate: Microsoft Lobbies to Illegalise Backups and Make Copyright Violation a “Crime”
Cablegate: With Microsoft Front Group Taking on Indonesia, a Call for Open Source Software Adoption
Cablegate: Microsoft Attacks Free/Open Source Software in Indonesian Government With Secret a 80% Discount, Breaks 1999 Monopolies Law
Cablegate: Indian Ambassador Criticises UNESCO for Signing a Software Agreement With Microsoft (Updated)
Cablegate: Microsoft Helps the United States Ban Encrypted Communication in Cuba
Cablegate: Microsoft’s Tax Dodge
Cablegate: Microsoft’s “Relationship With the Government” and Pressure for Countries to Adopt Intellectual Monopolies Using Shame Lists
Cablegate: US Sees Microsoft as Helping to Impose Intellectual Monopolies in Vietnam
Cablegate: Microsoft Receives Complaints for Censoring Search Results in Hong Kong Without Government Demands
Cablegate: When Steve Ballmer Met President Bouteflika in Algeria
Cablegate: Microsoft Helps the US Inject Western Intellectual Monopolies Into Kazakhstan
Cablegate: Government of Oman is Sponsoring Microsoft, Helping to Indoctrinate the Population
Cablegate: Gates and Microsoft ‘Love’ Children in America
Cablegate: Microsoft Uses Drug Addicts in Ski Lanka to Spread Microsoft, Liaises with American Chamber of Commerce to Change Laws (Updated)
Cablegate: Microsoft and Government of Oman Inseparable
Wikileaks/Cablegate Reveals That Microsoft Gave Windows Source Code to TOPSEC, Which Trains and Employs Chinese Cyberspies
Wikileaks/Cablegate Shows Microsoft Trying to Take Over Brazilian Schools
Wikileaks and Other Leakers Help Expose Microsoft Corruption, Cause Officials to Backtrack
What Everyone Needs to Know About Wikileaks and Microsoft Lobbyists Like Anke Domscheit-Berg, Zuck, and Maybe Florian Müller
Wikileaks Reveals Microsoft Involvement in US Security Policy

●● Bill Gates Foundation/Lobbying

Cablegate: After Visit to Bill Gates, Chinese Government Signs Microsoft Cooperation Deal
Cablegate: Bill Gates Lobbies to Integrate Programmes in Dubai With Microsoft
Cablegate: Gates Foundation Sends Team to Install ‘Free’ Software in the Health Ministry
Cablegate: Bill Gates Belittles the World
Cablegate: Caterpillar Official Cites Bill Gates to Justify Colluding With Oppressors
Cablegate: Even Amid Departure From Microsoft, Bill Gates Lobbies Pakistani Government to Pay Microsoft
Cablegate: Government Site in Egypt Launched by Bill Gates
Cablegate: Bill Gates an Asian Leader, Promotes Microsoft
Cablegate: As Gates Goes Lobbying for Microsoft Lock-in Among Turkish Youth, the Protesters Are “Fringe Parties” According to Istanbul Consulate
Cablegate: Head of Microsoft Lobbies With Jimmy Carter (Updated)
Cablegate: Luis Tascón Accused of Being “Instrument of the (U.S.) Empire” Having Spent a Month “in the Offices of Bill Gates” (Updated)

●● Antitrust

Cablegate: Director of Microsoft Netherlands Thought an Honorary Doctorate to Bill Gates Would Appease the Competition Commissioner
Cablegate: Deputy Managing Director of the Austrian Federal Competition Authority (FCA) Said Microsoft’s Inadequate Technical Documentation Had Hindered Progress in the EU Case
Cablegate: Government of Ireland Pushes Charlie McCreevy to Help Microsoft Against Antitrust Regulators
Cablegate: European Commission Worried About Microsoft’s Browser Ballot Screen Being Inappropriate
Cablegate: Former Microsoft Lawyer Thomas Barnett and Majoras Butt Heads With EU Commission Over Microsoft Case
Cablegate: Competition Commissioner Neelie Kroes Accused of “Undermin{ing} Support for Intellectual Property” in Microsoft Case
Cablegate: US Diplomats Offer to Help Microsoft Dodge European Regulators

●● Colonisation

Cablegate: US Government Assesses Value of New EU Commission to Itself
Cablegate: Brazil’s “Anti-American Ideology”
Cablegate: Microsoft deal in Bosnia “marks a huge success for the U.S. Embassy”
Cablegate: Apple Takes a Bite of Fake Viagra Experts
Cablegate: US Taxpayers Sponsor Microsoft Monopolisation/Colonisation Abroad
Cablegate: Microsoft’s Craig Mundie Lobbies for Intellectual Monopolies in China
Cablegate: Microsoft Uses US Government and Gates Lobbying to Pressure Saudi Arabia to Embrace US-Style Law (Updated)
Cablegate: Apple Attacks French Copyright Law to Induce Various Restrictions (Including DRM), Marginalisation of Rights

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