One of the interesting corollaries to the fact that Microsoft is making far less money from Windows than it used to – largely thanks to the popularity of netbooks – is that it must depend on other sectors of its portfolio that are still making money to keep the company ticking along.

Dutch meeting promotes the use of the only interoperable document standard

The already-long list of ODF-supportive countries just keeps growing

Last year, when I was socializing the idea of creating the OASIS ODF Interoperability and Conformance TC, I gave a presentation I called "ODF Interoperability: The Price of Success". The observation was that standards that fail never need to deal with interoperability.

By releasing MS Office SP2 with a formula syntax incompatible with most of the applications supporting ODF, Microsoft tries to sabotage ODF and fragment the corpus of ODF files.

Microsoft brings the most familiar shills to assist with spin and disinformation; it also wants Rob Weir out

A FEW DAYS ago, evidence was used to show that Microsoft strives to marginalise 'dissent' such as GNU/Linux. The GPL, unlike anything Apple would ever adapt to, is too disruptive for Microsoft's business to tolerate. There is a perceptual level at which GNU/Linux can be suppressed, by creating the illusion that GNU/Linux is scarcely adopted and then working hard to make it so.

Red Hat CEO Jim Whitehurst has issued a statement praising President Obama for bringing a culture of inclusion and transparency to the United States government. Whitehurst also takes the opportunity to encourage broader open source adoption.