Legal payouts of $511 million in one year would be enough to sink many companies. But for Microsoft, it amounts to a small victory.

I’m still kind of “watching” the market. And though I would like to have a PC with Intel’s open-sourced integrated graphics (a GMA950 or the newer X3000/X3100 chipsets are more than good enough for what I have to do with a PC), Intel processors are still only a second choice. Why?

We know all about how powerful the GNU/Linux terminal is. However, it’s a pain to have to fire up a terminal emulator like Konsole or gnome-terminal, wait for a few seconds for it load, and then have to keep Alt-Tabbing to it.

Compiz Fusion is the result of a merge between the Compiz community plugin set “Compiz Extras” and the window manager core independent parts of the “Beryl” project. Both Compiz Extras and Beryl have left important marks on in how we look at Window management, and with the merge, you no longer have to choose which one to use.

The One Laptop per Child (OLPC) project is in the final steps to finally ship the first laptops to poor children living in poor countries.

The U.S. delegate organization to the powerful ISO standards body is now almost sure to vote against approving Microsoft Corp.'s Office Open XML document format as an open standard this year.

Can you believe it? Given Microsoft's history of antagonism, It's hard to believe anyone - let alone the Linux Foundation - would call on the FOSS community to respect Microsoft. No, if Microsoft wants respect, they should get it the 'old-fashioned' way - by earning it.

The business software distributor is considering its options in light of a judge's ruling denying its ownership claims on the Unix operating system.