MICROSOFT'S calculated attack on sub-notebooks running GNU/Linux is well documented [1, 2] and since Dana Blankenhorn finds excuses for what Groklaw concludes, it is clear that he has not been following what happened closely enough. What Groklaw offered as a "smoking gun" is just the tip of the iceberg and not even as compelling a proof as the words of ASUS and kickbacks, for example.

Documents about the the Intel/Microsoft collusion are finally unsealed

THE latest Microsoft Office crime happens to have earned Microsoft a conviction, unlike so many OOXML crimes that the European Commission has not yet addressed. Justice is slow, but sometimes it eventually arrives. There continues to be a lot of coverage of this all over the Web. The coverage which comes from ITWire calls it "price-fixing" and "collusion".

A look back at smoking guns and some more highly convincing evidence that shows Microsoft using "plants" in the media

Microsoft's CEO Steve Ballmer confirms a new, predatory pricing scheme

More details about the serious offences of Intel and Microsoft.

More collusion to exclude GNU/Linux and more pressure to impose Windows+DRM on innocent schoolchildren

Accepting the money from Microsoft would, in itself, do not harm. But Microsoft typically demands a price for its sponsorship, a price that implies a change in the nature of the event. The price might be, let someone from Microsoft give a speech. The price might be, don’t say that proprietary software is evil. The price might be, present Microsoft sponsorship in a way that inhibits
you from denouncing Microsoft’s software as unethical.

Now that the “first ever” suit for patent infringement has been lodged against two major Linux distributors, many Microsoft watchers are looking for the smoking gun that will somehow connect Microsoft to the case.