One of the biggest things that bothers me about Linux today is how it continues to fail at gaining any decent ground against Microsoft. Sure, it's gained ground against Windows at a steady rate over the past number of years and stands to grow for quite some time into the future, but the progress has been painfully slow. By now, Linux should be kicking in Microsoft's door, stormtrooper style.

Ulteo, a relative newcomer to the ever evolving Linux world, is currently sitting at a not too impressive 95 on Distrowatch. After recent announcements by Gaël Duval on the Ulteo blog, I suspect that position is about to change dramatically.

"...They just announced that all France Telecom subscribers (~40-million -- the country is about 65-million people) now have an OpenID..."

"This report has been prepared by Privacy International following a six-month investigation into the privacy practices of key Internet based companies. The ranking lists the best and the worst performers both in Web 1.0 and Web 2.0 across the full spectrum of search, email, e-commerce and social networking sites...."

A new GNUmed version is out. The version name is up to 0.2.7.0 which implies a whole new set of features.

"Head on over to the OpenWengo developer website to get a sneak peek at what's coming up in the 2.2 release, or get the sources from SVN at https://dev.openwengo.org/svn/openwengo/wengophone-ng/tags/release/2.2/2007-09-24-wengophone-2.2a2/"

It's great to see a Microsoft Project alternative built with the open source user in mind. In a bit of haste, I downloaded and installed the app to see what it had to offer. What I found was a mixed bag of tricks and treats, no Halloween reference meant to be implied.

New York Times sees European Court ruling in the Microsoft antitrust case as a healthy step in the growth of the information economy