== Microsoft's VS Free Software ==
Why does Microsoft deserve special casing among all companies producing proprietary software? Because
-**Microsoft is the only company that actively and repeatedly tried for years to kill FreeSoftware and Linux.**
+**Microsoft is the only company that actively and repeatedly tried for years to kill FreeSoftware and GNU/Linux.**
This is a collection of a variety of strategies attempted by Microsoft
against an extremely resilient competitor that couldn't be simply brought
* The [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_Live_ID#Problems | Passport]] authentication scheme (aka Microsoft Wallet, aka Windows Live ID (2007).
+ * [[http://www.fsfe.org/projects/os/bsa-letter-analysis.html.en | BSA Letter]], pressuring the European Commission to stop supporting open standards.
=== Targeting specific FLOSS projects ===