European courts recently discovered that the Windows OS effectively doubled the purchase price of a laptop. Here's further proof!
Read more »Windows XP will double the price of Asustek's Eee PC
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Name'n and Shame'n Where the Credit is Due: Setting the Record Straight on (Non)Voting in SC 34
Those who collaborated with Microsoft's terror strike against the world's standards bodies don't deserve to be let off so lightly. How about a boycott against the gang of sycophants who participated in this international vandalism?
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NetApp losing 'spew dot oh' blog war to Sun
The "Participation Age" has revealed a brand new aspect to patent lawsuits - Executive Spew Dot Oh.
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Revenge of the activist-writers
Brian Proffitt over at LinuxToday posted a rebuke of an InfoWorld troll experiment in which a writer purposefully tried to incite an entity known as the "Linux community" to attack him.
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Real reveals six new bugs in RealPlayer
Unlike last week's problem, however, four of the six vulnerabilities disclosed also can be exploited on Mac and Linux machines that have RealPlayer installed. Updated editions are also available for those operating systems, with links available from the security bulletin RealNetworks posted on its site.
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My PCLinuxOS “WOW” moment
Is Ubutnu really the best there is out there?
I started testing different distributions last week. In this article I describe my first distribution: PCLinuxOS. The number one distribution of distrowatch.com.
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Microsoft makes more money, more money, ...
The money just keeps on rolling into Redmond and Microsoft's partners, almost faster than ever before!
Read more »A Letter to the Gnome Foundation » Fanatic Attack
It appears that the Gnome Foundation is participating in ECMA TC 451 regarding resolving comments and contradictions for MS OOXML DIS 29500. Gnome’s participation in this activity is to the detriment of interoperability among office suits and to FOSS and everyone who has worked on Open Standards.
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Microsoft Says Windows May Soon Be On XO Laptop
Microsoft has made progress in getting its Windows software to work on a low-cost laptop computer for poor children that currently runs on rival Linux software, an executive said Thursday.
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Why Ubuntu (Still) Sucks - Part 1: Search
How bout this, Randall Kennedy: YOU SUCK. Of course, the most interesting bit is the comment responses...
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Ubuntu has an identity crisis
IMAGINE YOU'RE HEAD OF IT at a large company. You're standing in front of the board explaining why you want to switch from Windows to Linux. You have all the technical benefits and cost savings up on the screen. Everything's going swimmingly until you let slip that you want this bunch of middle-aged fogeys in sober suits to bet the farm on something called Gutsy Gibbon.
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Seven Areas Where Linux Could Get Better
Informationweek continue their endless, "What's wrong with Linux" series. This week it's our security, among other things. As one of their long-suffering readers suggests, "How about articles on what Microsoft can do better?"
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Comcast Blocks Some Internet Traffic
"Comcast Corp. actively interferes with attempts by some of its high- speed Internet subscribers to share files online, a move that runs counter to the tradition of treating all types of Net traffic equally..."
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Ballmer: Microsoft Will Buy Open-Source Companies
Microsoft's detente with the open-source world is growing stronger by the minute. Steve Ballmer said today that he wouldn't consider an open-source-based business model a deterrent to buying a company Microsoft found interesting.
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