As one of his clients told us, "Mark Radcliffe is the law when it comes to open source software."

A competitor to the recently created OS Linux software developers’ alliance is to appear in the near future. St. Petersburg Company Linux Ink has developed a project within which the domestic open-source community participants are suggested to enter an alternative consortium. It is to forge active PR-operations and close cooperation with educational institutions, the organizers say.

Microsoft's James Plamondon's: "It is our job to ensure that those choosing [software] are presented with an overwhelming abundance of evidence and reasoned argument in favor of our standards."

Microsoft Corporation has welcomed the current debate on the proposed global standardization of the Ecma Office Open Extensible Markup Language (Open XML) as positive and good according to Microsoft Corporation.

More and more I’ve been using ssh tunneling, encrypted emails or privacy networks while I’m online. Between (US) government sponsored wiretaps, to identity theft there are plenty of people out there that want to know what you’re doing and get your information. This is one of the reasons I recently looked into donating some bandwidth to the Tor network.

You know what we have here, with all the fighting we see over what Linux should be and how it should work? We have two completely different kinds of user - yet we insist on sticking both of them on the same device and expecting both of them to be happy.

I’m going out on a limb saying it, but here’s my brief prediction — probably worthless, overdramatic and ill-informed, but my prediction anyway: Xubuntu’s push toward Gnome applications is going to marginalize the distro.