Cablegate

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.

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