As we discover time and time again, Novell sells snake oil not only in countries where software patents are invalid and Microsoft’s claims remain totally unsubstantiated, but also in countries where none of this has any legitimacy. Novell helps Microsoft spread misconceptions and uses these to market itself. It makes it a direct opponent of Free software.
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Filipina named head of global open source project
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A soft-spoken Filipina in her early twenties was recently named project leader of one of many open source community projects run by the Apache Software Foundation.
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Red Hat Linux Desktop Moves: Calculated Strategy
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Recently, Red Hat announced that it would not pursue the enterprise desktop market for the time being. Immediate reactions were almost as misinformed as those which followed the announcement made by Wal-Mart last month — an announcement that only meant to say that GNU/Linux PCs would be sold online but not off the shelf.
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Sun ODF Plugin 1.2 for Microsoft Office Released
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The Sun ODF Plugin for Microsoft Office allows users of Microsoft Office to read, edit and save to the Open Document Format (ODF).
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Dual-licensing is unfair and community debilitating
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Some successful open-source companies are using a dual-licensing scheme. In short, software is released both through an open source version (e.g. licensed under the GNU GPL) and through a proprietary license usually reserved to paying customers.
Read more »Silverblight [sic] Boosters on Microsoft’s Payroll
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Over the past few months we have shown evidence and provided actual examples of Microsoft advertisers in disguise. They occupy blogs, forums and even news sites.
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Is SCO and Its Anti-Linux Agenda Relocated to Microsoft Headquarters?
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The latest news or — shall we assume — the latest development in this alleged proxy fight against GNU/Linux (one among many if true, some of which are not even secret), is the appointment of a senior SCO man who found himself in Microsoft. His role there is particularly interesting
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Microsoft’s Bank Balance — Exposed!
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There have been skeptics who doubted our previous claims that Microsoft’s financial future seems a little rocky, despite the fact that we provided an overwhelming amount of evidence from the press. In relative economic terms, Microsoft’s strength and mythical might have both clearly declined.
Read more »Why Novell Became a Threat to Java and the GNU GPL
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The claim that .Net is a multiplatform standard is rendered false: .NET developers are further locked into a single vendor. Java, in contrast, is fully open source and has the developer community.
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Microsoft’s Continued Crusade to Make Free Software Not Free
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The following snippets from a news article contain propaganda terms such as “piracy” and “IPR”. The article also comes from a publication that typically published pro-Microsoft agenda. The intention here is to show you just how Microsoft overrides local laws and pushes software patents onto those who must not accept them.
Read more »The paradigm of the open organization
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Forget now about labels and conventions: there is not such thing as free software, like there is not such thing as free speech. There are free developers and free speakers, and they are the ones setting the limits of freedom of their products and actions. If they are not free, how free can be the result of their actions?
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Do You Need Open-Source Indemnification?
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While gathering support contract pricing information for my Ubuntu 8.04 review, I noticed a somewhat surprising item listed among the benefits of paying Canonical for a Linux distribution the company gives away for free: Protect your business against IP infringement claims
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Choosing a License
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Licensing is something that F/OSS programmers talk about a lot. There’s two major categories of licenses: The GPL, aka Copyleft Permissive licenses,...
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Control your expenses with Eqonomize
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For some time I had been searching for a tool to help me organize my incomes and expenses. Until now I’ve been using an old-fashioned spreadsheet file. It does the job, but it’s a pain to use. It’s a lot nicer to have a simple form to enter your expenses where you can select an expense category from a dropdown box :)
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Sun's 'Project Copy Linux' goes commercial
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The first supported first version of Sun Microsystems' OpenSolaris, AKA Project Indiana, makes its debut today with additional backing from Amazon's Elastic Computing Cloud.
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