"For years now, Microsoft has either failed to implement or has actively corrupted a range of truly open standards adopted and implemented by the rest of the industry. Unless and until that behaviour stops, today's words mean nothing."

Microsoft made waves this week with their GPLv2 contribution of virtualization code. On the other side of the coin, Microsoft continues to take issue with open source vendors over the issue of patents. One vendor that has called on Microsoft to be more open is Red Hat. In a blog post, Red Hat's legal team praised Microsoft's code contribution while asking Microsoft to change its stance on patents.

Two companies that pay Microsoft for Linux remain close to Microsoft and fail to attract positive attention

Linux is shaping up as Microsoft's target in a potential war of attrition to gain lost market share for Windows Mobile in handsets.

It’s June 2008, and it’s not a good time to be a Microsoft shareholder or employee. The computing industry is changing very, very quickly, creating new opportunities and killing once-prosperous markets. In this short article, I will outline these changes in relation to free software and Microsoft.

ODF support in Microsoft Office 2007 SP2 is a fail, fail, fail, and fail

"...At a time where REST is becoming mainstream in our industry, it is important to see Roy involved in the clarification of minds on what is actually REST, and preventing it from becoming an uncontrollable buzzword."

We take a look at Microsoft's tricks for "freezing the market" (to use its own words)

A few days ago a story was posted to FSDaily with the assuming title of "Can we please stop fighting FUD with FUD?"

The article concludes by throwing down the gauntlet.

I—for one—would like to see more blogs and comments on why free software is good rather than why Microsoft is bad. So let’s start here. Your task is complete the sentence “Free software is good because…” in less than 50 words.

I pick up your gauntlet Mr Cartwright and offer my answer. Ahem...