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Hungary Officials Raid Microsoft Office

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Hungary's state Competition Authority raided the offices of Microsoft Corp.'s local subsidiary as part of a probe into the company's relationship with large software distributors. Microsoft used sales conditions and offered software distributors incentives - described as "loyalty discounts" - so they wouldn't offer clients anything but Microsoft Office products.

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If Microsoft Joins In, Can it Be a Revolution?

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In the old days, when Microsoft wanted to kill the Open Source Movement, O'Reilly's Open Source Convention was where you found true software revolutionaries. Great coders, they also were idealists who believed software was something you shared. Then a funny thing happened. Open source went mainstream.

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Bill Hilf and Microsoft’s ‘Terror Culture’

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A nice round up of the latest Microsoft getting into the open source side of things by of Roy Schestowitz.

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Rockin' on without Microsoft

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Ball told his IT department he wanted Microsoft products out of his business within six months. "I said, 'I don't care if we have to buy 10,000 abacuses,'" recalled Ball, who recently addressed the LinuxWorld trade show. "We won't do business with someone who treats us poorly."

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Windows Vista unreadiness revealed

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Microsoft has finally outlined the extent to which Windows Vista was unfit for the marketplace when it launched six months ago.

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Obsession with Microsoft

http://abhay-techzone.blogspot.com

The article represents and irony where the open source people discuss too much about Microsoft and possible help M$ in the process

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Ubuntu Must 'Play To Its Strengths" to Beat Microsoft

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"The fact that Microsoft has a majority market share in PC desktops is the biggest challenge facing the growth of Ubuntu and free software in general."

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Microsoft is not bound by GPLv3: Lawyer

http://www.zdnet.com.au

Microsoft should be able to extricate itself from the implications of the new GPLv3, according to a leading Australian Intellectual Property lawyer.

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Linux gains despite and because of Microsoft

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Novell swears Microsoft deal panning out; others resist getting chummy with Windows maker. Motorola knows that product development needs to move quickly for the company to stay competitive -- and it’s using Linux to hasten the effort.

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Sun exec accuses Microsoft of 'patent terrorism'

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"The efforts of Microsoft to pressure the Linux community over alleged and unspecified patents is akin to "patent terrorism", according to a local executive for Sun Microsystems."

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Linspire agreement 'undermines GPL rights'

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The no-lawsuit agreement reached in June between Linspire and Microsoft earlier this year is almost useless to Linspire customers because of tight restrictions on what the deal covers, according to a high-profile open source legal commentator.

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Linspire Linux deal 'worse than Novell'

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"The terms of Linux distributor Linspire's agreement with Microsoft betrays a deal "worse" than that between Microsoft and Novell, according to legal expert Pamela Jones."

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Update on the US Vote on OOXML (and What Happens Next)

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"As you will recall, V1, the INCITS Technical Committee that addresses document format standards, was unable to reach consensus on a recommended US vote to either approve or reject DIS 29500, the draft ISO/IEC standard that describes Microsoft's OOXML formats. As expected, Microsoft is seeking to gain a US vote in favor of OOXML..."

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Microsoft confident of OpenXML success

http://www.tectonic.co.za

"The recent article on the South African leg of the international procedure to have OpenXML ratified as an ISO standard was published before Microsoft was able to respond to queries. Their response has now been published below."

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The ‘Cost’ of GPLv3 is the Loss of All Threats to Free Software

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"We continue to explore the Linspire/Microsoft affairs and we identify some highly discomforting facts. As we stated in the past, personal benefits were possibly (even probably) part of all those recent deals. Moreover, vile attacks which ensued could truly make you wonder who is on whose side. There are no answers, but there is a lot of evidence to gather and then weigh."

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