The story is not over yet and with various ongoing investigations, antitrust concerns and enormous scrutiny, this battle won’t be an easy one for Microsoft. Over at Groklaw, it’s even stated that OOXML “sits on hold”.

Some months ago we spotted and documented a long series of strategic ‘donations’ which Microsoft made in countries on the verge of adopting GNU/Linux. One of the first countries in this series was Finland. Some more details now emerge from the Finnish press [thanks to a reader for the pointer]. The highlight below is ours.

A startup called Myka is accepting orders for a Linux-based device that downloads, stores, and plays BitTorrent media files on an attached TV. Myka's TorrentTV offloads BitTorrent peer-to-peer duties from a PC platform, easing the process of displaying "Torrents" on a TV.

"I've been writing a bit of common lisp these days, and a "feature" I really like is SLIME. Rather than giving up Perl forever and telling everyone how awesome lisp is, I decided it would be easier to just steal the nice features for Perl instead. After all, there aren't very many "lisp mongers" groups :P

Extensions have long been written for OpenOffice.org Writer. However, the fact that attention is finally being paid to other applications seems a sign that OpenOffice.org is finally starting to develop an active extension-writing community.

In an announcement email this morning, the developers of the Epiphany web browser have announced that the next release will be based off of WebKit, and only WebKit.

Open source in Australia has gone well and truly past the "one geek and a server" stage, an independent report has shown.