A look at some of the ways Novell promotes itself, including the more controversial means

Facebook is becoming a software patents nuisance and its potential ties with Microsoft's massive patent troll are worth elucidating

Microsoft's EU ballot claimed not to be rearranged at random and besides, it totally disregards the issue of Microsoft perverting the Web to make it MSIE-only

Lobby groups of the maximalists from the United States are trying to eradicate Free software in other countries, using lies of course; the BBC blocks Free software

Former Microsoft employees and existing employees of Novell are promoting proprietary software and Mono from entities masquerading as "FOSS"

The deal has already stirred up open-source advocates. "If the strategy isn't to create uncertainty around Linux, it's hard to say what it is," said Jim Zemlin, executive director of the Linux Foundation.

Somewhere along the way, Microsoft lost ground and became the underdog to Google and Apple, but with issues of their own, can Microsoft find its way back?

Vista 7 proves to be too heavy for devices and it adds features that Linux has had for a very long time