Tuxera

Tuxera collaborates with Microsoft and sells access to patent-encumbered filesystems. Our posts about the company, in order of events:

2015

 * Boycott Tuxera File Systems

2014

 * Tuxera GPL Violations Alleged

2012

 * SUSE Fans Walk Away, Tuxera Linux Tax Still Abound
 * Openwashing Linux Tax: OpenSUSE and Tuxera

2011

 * When Microsoft Enters Linux We See Linux FUD
 * Microsoft’s Partner Tuxera Tries to Add Patent Tax to Android Through Linux, Intel Plays Along With MeeGo

2010

 * Microsoft Offers More Filesystem Patent Traps (While Suing Over Them Again), Red Hat’s Rob Tiller Speaks
 * Tuxera and Ulteo Repeat Novell’s Mistake
 * Red Hat’s CEO Dismisses Software Patents and Microsoft Uses Tuxera to Spread Them to Linux/Android
 * Novell Makes Its Relationship With MeeGo More Formal (and Filled With the Mono Patent Trap), Tuxera Spreads exFAT Patent Trap
 * Patents Roundup: Acacia, i4i, Tuxera, Monsanto, Apple, and Microsoft
 * Apathy Towards Microsoft is a Disease© (“Microsoft has a new license for exFAT, charging a flat $300,000 fee to manufacturers who want to use it in their products”)

2009

 * Patents Roundup: Software Patents Seen as Harmful to Innovation, Tuxera Discussion Continues
 * Microsoft Insider/Partner Warns All That Microsoft “Destroys” Partners
 * Patents Roundup: Tuxera Came to Microsoft, TiVo Misbehaves, Updates on Facebook and Amazon
 * Microsoft Manipulates Patent Laws; DOJ, HP and Dell Help Microsoft
 * Another Warning Sign for Mono Proponents: NTFS and FAT

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