The best antidote against FUD is facts. FUD only works when people don't know any better. So, given some recent anti-ODF FUD in the air, I thought it would be useful to provide some facts.
Read more »A Few Facts As Antidote Against Microsoft's anti-ODF FUD Campaign
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Embrace, Extend, and Microsoft Wants to Toss IBM Out of ODF
Microsoft brings the most familiar shills to assist with spin and disinformation; it also wants Rob Weir out
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Why Did CNET Remove Microsoft’s Attack on Open Source?
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New Version of Gnote Released, Already Earns New Users Who Boast Mono Relief
More steps are taken to leave Mono behind and move just GNOME/GTK forward
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Disputes over ODF spreadsheet interoperability
Microsoft's release of Open Document Format (ODF) support in Service Pack 2 for Office 2007 has triggered a war of words over the handling of spreadsheet formulas.
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Red Hat States Its Case Against Software Patents
MS and GE (Microsoft and General Electric) have jointly filed their case in favour of software patents in Europe (de facto banning of Free software) and FFII has made their mockery available as HTML, but what we also have is the submission from Red Hat, which only Glyn Moody appears to have analysed.
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Microsoft’s Latest Lie Attack Against GNU/Linux and ODF
A FEW DAYS ago, evidence was used to show that Microsoft strives to marginalise 'dissent' such as GNU/Linux. The GPL, unlike anything Apple would ever adapt to, is too disruptive for Microsoft's business to tolerate. There is a perceptual level at which GNU/Linux can be suppressed, by creating the illusion that GNU/Linux is scarcely adopted and then working hard to make it so.
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OIN Explains TomTom’s Settlement with Microsoft (and Other Patent News)
TomTom may reveal the details of its FAT settlement, Topolanek escapes the room, and an IBMer might become the next PTO Director
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Microsoft’s ODF ‘Support’ is a Scam
ODF support in Microsoft Office 2007 SP2 is a fail, fail, fail, and fail
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Microsoft Fights to Make GNU/Linux a Fringe Phenomenon
How Microsoft is trying to marginalise GNU/Linux and the extent to which demoralising lies are used as a tool
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The Path to Mono-free GNOME-based Distributions is Foreseeable
Replacements for widespread Mono applications just keep on coming
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General Electric Joins Microsoft’s Fight Against Free Software
Europe's software patents cartel is rearmed. Another look at the TomTom/FAT case, GE's new role in Europe, and growing opposition to software patents
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Windows 7 leaves netbook market open for Linux
Microsoft's newest operating system Windows 7 will leave much of the burgeoning netbook market open for Linux because of its relatively large footprint.
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Leaving Novell and Leaving SUSE
THE developer of GNote [1-6], who has worked for Novell until recently, is moving to Fedora.
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Microsoft: Red Hat Should be Happy to Take Microsoft Patents
The latest developments in Microsoft's subversive battle against better-priced (and simply better) competition
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