The Linux Professional Institute (LPI), the largest independent Linux skills certification institute, has announced several new affiliates in east and central Africa.

More ODF FUD from Microsoft or its apparent affiliates

Tomorrow morning, I'm giving a talk/tutorial at the IT360 Conference in Toronto. The subject is getting a Linux notebook (or laptop, if you prefer) to do it all

This morning I went to find the name of a piece of software through Add/Remove programs, only to find that there was only one category ("All") and there were no applications listed at all. It took me less than 10 minutes to find and implement the solution, but I shouldn't have to deal with this stuff. Worse, I find that these sorts of little problems are almost common.

In Atlantic v. Boyer, in Tampa, Florida, the RIAA's motion to dismiss counterclaims has been denied. The counterclaims are for civil conspiracy, extortion, illegal investigations, computer fraud, trespass, deception, and abuse of process.

"...Back in February of this year I saw Richard Stallman talk at KTH here in Stockholm and was thoroughly impressed. I plucked up the courage to go up to him after the meeting and talk to him. The resulting conversation ended with him offering to talk in my hometown of Hamilton in New Zealand..."

If IDC says Windows Server is down 29%, then it is a lot worse in reality and in practice

Over the past few weeks, as stories about abuse of the system came up in different parts of the world, some people became vocal and stated that Microsoft had made itself some new foes. They were referring to themselves. Questions about antitrust aside, there are some noteworthy reactions from around the Web and below is a list containing more prominent ones.

FUD alert about the latest gymnastics in logic from Microsoft and its affiliates.