Canonical, the EU-based company which produces the "Ubuntu" GNU/Linux distribution, joins the Open Invention Network just as the "EU patent" seemingly collapses

The Open Source Initiative (OSI) needs to rethink its methods; Groklaw asks the OSI, "have you pruned out the Microsoft toadies/partners yet?"

It's easy to forget that Microsoft is a software company. Given our near ubiquitous exposure to the Windows operating system (OS), many people don't think of an OS as software in quite the same way as an application - or "app" as it is increasingly becoming known. Of course Microsoft is a software company. What does Microsoft think of open source?

People don't just like Windows 7, it's the anti-Vista: loved for as many often spurious reasons as Vista was hated. But has Window 7 seen off any threat from open source operating systems? In other words, has Windows 7 killed Linux on the desktop?

A critical look at SUSE's affair with MeeGo and the relationship between OpenSUSE and SLE*

Advocacy of freedom seen as "negative" by so-called "pragmatists" who chose to serve Novell

Dell repeats the mistakes of history by harbouring censorship and fearing to pass judgment about Microsoft

One of Microsoft's closest allies in India is entering development of the main competitor of Microsoft's cash cow