Is Oracle starting to show its true feelings for open source software? It's taken a few months but the effects of Oracle buying Sun Microsystems are starting to become obvious. And among them are a series of blows for open source software.

It looks like Apple, Inc., is exploring a new business opportunity: spyware and what we're calling "traitorware."

Asian companies sell many phones with Linux in them, but Microsoft is extorting all of them

Next target for Oracle could be Novell; Sun's outgoing CEO gets a part-time job alongside a former Noveller

It’s an in-depth analysis from Florian Mueller, whose FOSSPatents remains fiercely opposed to all software patents. It’s something of a follow-up to a May piece in which he considered the idea of a Fair Troll.

Another word of warning about Mono software which is excluded from the MCP and why Canonical should not mimic Windows and Mac OS X

The freedom of the software we all sometimes use is under attack, in part thanks to companies like ACCESS and Microsoft, which found a partner in Tim O’Reilly and others who take money to change the direction of Open Source (taking it further away from Free/libre software)

In the enterprise market GNU/Linux seems to be Microsoft's most dominant threat, not Apple