Many of us have been saying for a long time that Microsoft's Windows product would be better if the company open sourced it. But today marks the first day that the Wall Street Journal has chimed in to second the motion:

Slashdot's front page contains slightly aggressive and grossly inaccurate GPL and open source FUD. An observation and rebuttal to it you can find here. (thanks for the headsup, Tracy).

Microsoft's technical and legal challenges seem to have urged it to hire elite lobbyists.

Everyone knows that Microsoft is desperate. After borking their bid to buy up Yahoo, Big Evil is looking for any way it can possibly increase its competition with Google in search and more importantly, search advertising.

Fedora considers Moonlight to be too much of a risk to Fedora

Venezuela has appealed the decision and one source says that Denmark appealed as well.

A new project in the making will keep track of moochers and fakers on the face of it.

There are some hurdles to jump if you wish to make use of Novell's so-called Silverlight support (Microsoft's excuse, bogus cross platform)