Presumably to respond to Apple's Get A Mac ad campaign and Microsoft's various responses, the Linux Foundation launched a competition a while ago for "We're Linux" ads. After receiving over 100 entires, they say, the results have been announced.

The Danish Competition Authority has conducted a market analysis of office software so as to give governmental agencies recommendations for public purchases. The results are a definite "live and let live" between the competing standards ODF and OOXML.

"Ladies and Gents, I am pleased to announce the results of the Ubuntu 9.04 Ubuntu Free Culture Showcase. This is the competition in which creative types can submit their work for inclusion in the Examples/ folder of the next edition of Ubuntu. In this competition we expanded the Audio and Video categories to also include a Graphic/Photo category too.

There’s a growing body of evidence suggesting that Novell and Red Hat could soon face new competition in the Linux server market. Something new from Microsoft? Nope. Another attack from Oracle? Not quite. This time, the competition could come from tiny Canonical and the company’s latest Ubuntu Linux release.

Competition authorities in Germany and the United States today highlighted the fundamental role that Free Software plays for competition in the software market.

Europe's competition commissioner Neelie Kroes delivered a thinly veiled warning to Microsoft Tuesday that the software giant's behind-the-scenes maneuverings to secure industrywide standard status for its document format, Office Open XML earlier this year "risk falling foul of the competition rules."

Exclusion of competition, courtesy of the largest providers of non-Free operating systems for desktops

Red Hat Inc and Novell Inc will soon face more competition from a small rival, Ubuntu Linux, in the market for open-source software programs that run server computers.

Hardly a day goes by without yet another news story about creative uses of copyright, the DMCA, and generic attack lawyers to stifle free speech, criticism, and competition.