A partly Microsoft-derived entity harms Samba by taking its work and making it more Microsoft obedient

You know what Microsoft doesn't get? -- For one thing, the Internet. Microsoft doesn't control it. What it used to be able to do in the dark now falls out of its noxious bag of tricks into the Internet's bright light, stage front and center. And there stands Microsoft in the spotlight, with its pants down, and let me tell you, it's not a pretty sight.

Linux vendor Red Hat sure doesn't seem to like Microsoft much. Red Hat is now alleging that Microsoft is not committed to the path of peace with open source software vendors.

Microsoft shakes off the ban on Word and is meanwhile occupied with illegalising Free software globally

How companies such as IBM and Microsoft take away algorithms and then "donate" or "sell them back" to us

New ODF Alliance member, more vendor support, and another, more positive way to view the i4i ruling

« Often, apologists for things like trade secrets, patent and copyright law, or the corporate media oligarchy itself, claim such structures are ‘understandable’, because ‘why help potential competitors?” It’s — supposedly — taken as axiomatic that those within a given field of endeavor inevitably regard all others in that field as adversaries … in other words, zero-sum thinking.

Developments and news on document formats and a ban on Microsoft Word