Lawful games are being played against Free software and here we present some new reports.
Read more »Did Microsoft Fake XP on XO Press Media?!
Do you remember all the hoopla around the XP on the XO announcement in May? Where Microsoft gave us a press release, blog post, and a video, all announcing Windows XP for the XO laptop. Well, thanks to the sleuths on OLPC News Forum it looks like Microsoft may have faked two of the three.
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Bill Gates and the importance of source code
Bill Gates was interviewed by the BBC’s Money Programme...Reading between the lines, Gates is essentially confessing that he would not have progressed had he and Paul Allen not found the source code.
Read more »Novell, Microsoft… and IBM… Maybe Oracle Too (Part I)
Exploring the role of prolific Linux users in the Microsoft/Novell deal
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Monopoly Abuser Feels the Wrath of Intellectual Monopolies
Microsoft may have just lost half a billion dollars for 'stealing' the idea of filling out forms and using styli on tablets
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ASUS, Xandros, Microsoft and Other Business Partners
Several companies that have deals with Microsoft and may be harmful to GNU/Linux as a result
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Why Is Mono in Fedora? Nobody Knows… It’s Possibly a Secret
The story about Fedora's inclusion of Mono leaves more questions than answers
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How Microsoft’s OSS Insiders Can Plant the Seeds of Intellectual Monopolies
Microsoft wants software patents in its protocols to be acknowledged in Europe and enforced (possibly by remote intervention)
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OOXML Cover-up, ODF Adoption is Up
Microsoft downplays the severity of its abuses while ODF gains further traction
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Microsoft’s Hijack of Xen Implicitly Confirmed by Red Hat
Red Hat too seems to have realised that Citrix (with XenSource) is just a vassal of Microsoft
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Microsoft as Your Knowledge Base of GPLv3, Master of Document Licences?
Another look at former Microsoft employees and their negative influence inside FOSS
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Microsoft IS targeting open source users
Much of the reaction from FOSS folks to news that Microsoft is joining the Open Source Census centers on concern that Microsoft is out to find open source users and what open source software they’re using. I think that may be exactly right.
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Microsoft Says It Has Lost the Battle for Documents Lock-in
Microsoft is now saying that ODF has won; more ODF wins noted.
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OpenSUSE and the Novell/Microsoft Curse
OpenSUSE continues to suffer from the relationship with Novell (and Microsoft, by association).
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China to sue MSFT over high prices
How do you know when a country is ready to enter the legions of developed nations? When it’s ready to sue Microsoft. AFP reports that China is conducting an anti-monopoly investigation into giant Microsoft.
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