Microsoft filed suit against TomTom today, alleging that the in-car navigation company's devices violate eight of its patents -- including three that relate to TomTom's implementation of the Linux kernel.
Read more »Microsoft sues TomTom over Linux and other patent claims
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Quick Mention: Microsoft, Amid/Near Debt, Declares Legal War on Linux
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How Microsoft ‘Bought’ Xen to Remove/Reduce Choice (Is Novell Next?)
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Analysis of virtualisation news from Citrix, Novell, and Red Hat
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Microsoft Sees Threat From Android Notebooks
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Ballmer and company dig in to stave off Google -- and weigh a Yahoo partnership to bolster their plan.
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Could the Linux Foundation get too big?
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The folks over at the Linux Foundation were happy to announce today that MIPS Technologies has joined the group. Fair enough. But this got me wondering whether it’s possible for the Linux Foundation to get too big. Oracle is already a platinum member, Cisco a gold, Dell a silver. What if Microsoft wanted in? Or Apple?
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Red Hat deal: when will we know more?
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The agreement that Red Hat and Microsoft signed last week is something like a royal wedding - we all like the idea but we'd like to know a bit more about the demands made by the bride.
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“Novell Is Bleeding to Death”
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One person's opinion about Novell's position; Sirius beat Novell UK in the past and does this again
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I Give Up. Windows Is Proof That People Are Too Stupid To Use Computers.
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And too stupid or dishonest to report Microsoft Windows as the defective disaster that it is. If it were any other type of product it would have banned from every country in the world long ago.
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Red Hat and Microsoft Expand Server Virtualization Interoperability
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I saw this story on a financial site, came over to FSDaily to read about it, and saw nothing. The news originator was characterizing this agreement as a VMware killer. Have I missed some important stories recently which makes this irrelevant?
Read more »Linux Versus the Microsoft Trained Brain Syndrome
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Recent articles I have read by people complaining about how things on Linux do not work like they do on Microsoft led me to coin the phrase Microsoft Trained Brain Syndrome (MTBS). The problem is that people who have lived, worked, and played in a homogeneous Microsoft computing paradigm are lost and confused when they encounter a different paradigm.
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Microsoft's secret deals on open source
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It's a familiar story. Microsoft does a secret deal with a company over patent licences. Almost no details are provided about which patents, how much money has changed hands, or why, except for one vaguely worded press release that talks about how such secret deals benefit the customer through openness and innovation.
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Why the Commission is doing the right thing on antitrust
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There has been criticism against the European Commission for pursuing abusive behaviour by Microsoft, and against Mozilla for wanting a fair chance to compete against Microsoft. The blog post explains why the Commission is doing the right thing to take antitrust violation seriously, and why the Free Software community should support this case.
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Behind the scenes in Microsoft's war against Linux
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Even as Microsoft has slipped into the mainstream of open source by embedding it in its products and adopting open-source strategies for services such as customer relationship management, it continues its subversive fight against Linux.
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Fortify, EMC and Microsoft’s Coalitions Against GNU/Linux
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Two of Microsoft's partners are assisting its fight against GNU/Linux, which Ballmer labels biggest competitor
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Microsoft Adopts Malware Techniques to Advance .NET
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