Microsoft's agents edit Wikipedia articles - the record...

Whenever I write about Microsoft here I usually get a few comments asking me, with varying degrees of politeness, why I am wasting electrons on this subject on a site devoted to GNU/Linux. The reason I do this – and why I am about to do it again – is that whether we like it or not, Microsoft remains probably the single most important external factor in the free software world.

John Sullivan shows how/why Apple is being dishonest about its relationship with “Open Source”; a glimpse at how perception management at Apple and Microsoft actually works

More book-burning phenomena and how it affects perception of Microsoft

What a goldmine my inbox was this morning. I also received the news that Microsoft’s Windows Competitive Strategy team is searching, via Linkedin, for “a strong team member to lead Microsoft’s global desktop competitive strategy as it relates to open source competitors.”

Microsoft has appointed a new point man to put a face on its interaction with the open source community. That man, Robert Duffner, takes on a big task as senior director of Platform and Open Source Software strategy at Microsoft. His IBM and BEA roots will help him place his mark on the Microsoft strategy, but the core message remains the same.

When Sam Ramji, Director of Platform Technology Strategy and the Open Source Software Lab at Microsoft, describes his company's open source strategy, I believe him. Every word.

Microsoft's political sanctions provoke Cuba; President of Microsoft Russia temporarily becomes a journalist

A look at how Microsoft discriminates against anything other than its own stack and also uses aggressive coercion to get its way and change people's language/perception