Steve Ballmer is at least willing to talk with the open-source crowd now, as his comments at Microsoft Worldwide Partner Conference 2008 demonstrate. He's just not willing to actually engage in open source as an appreciable part of his company's business. Fair enough.

A history lesson and a reminder of Novell's position that it's a "mixed-source" company.

Microsoft is once again dumping its non-Free software on 11 million children in a country that moves to GNU/Linux.

More rules are ignored, leaked memos surface, and potentially-malicious intervention noted.

Microsoft and its well-paid players battle competitive threats using lawyers. disinformation, politics (plus music industry parallels).

Citrix and Microsoft do something similar to what Microsoft and Novell did

Diane Greene thrown out just a week or so after EMC became Microsoft's Partner of the Year

BECTA is explored yet again by a reporter. who is turned away without answers to key questions