Novell makes more evident what was obvious from the very start - that it puts Microsoft's interests ahead of anything else
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Is Microsoft Experimenting With the Open Source Model?
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Microsoft is the largest software company in the world, a point to which I think just about everyone will agree. They have used a closed source model for their entire existence, but their recent actions make me wonder if they are experimenting with the idea of becoming at least somewhat open source.
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Some New Examples of FUD Against Linux, GNU, and the GPL
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Microsoft tries to abolish the GPL and the Free desktop; FUD against Stallman and distortions about Linux development are combated by Groklaw
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Mozilla and Opera Still Object to Microsoft’s Deal with the Commission
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Dissatisfaction made more vocal regarding Microsoft's ballot proposal
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Xandros to Visit Microsoft Show, Samsung’s Ballnux Phones Fail
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Two companies that pay Microsoft for Linux remain close to Microsoft and fail to attract positive attention
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More on Novell and Microsoft Layoffs; Software Patent Drones
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Additional information about potential causes of layoffs and an example of how Novell employees become drones for a paycheck, accepting nonsensical policies in the process
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Ubuntu 9.10 Works Well (and So Does the Microsoft Propaganda Machine)
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Response to over-inflated complaints and FUD about Ubuntu 9.10, which seem to have begun with known Microsoft boosters
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Microsoft Pretends It Invented Office Suites, Obtains Another Patent on OOXML
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Microsoft mocks rivals by pretending that office suites are a Microsoft "innovation"; another XML patent sneaks through
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Could Microsoft switch to Linux?
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You'd expect, as my friend Preston Gralla did, that when someone says "proprietary software is eventually going to be doomed," and that Microsoft's future might best be served in releasing its own version of Linux, that he'd be a Linux fan. Wrong: this prophet of Windows doom and gloom was Keith Curtis, a former Microsoft Research staffer. Could he be right?
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Open Source Subsumed by Microsoft and Blackboard
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A not-so-alarmist post pointing to news about attempts to embrace and extend "Open Source" (mostly by Microsoft)
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Microsoft and Eclipse form partnership for improved interoperability
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This week at the Eclipse Summit Europe held in Ludwigsburg, Germany, Microsoft has announced new initiatives and projects. In one initiative, Microsoft plans to assist Eclipse developers with utilising the new functionality offered by Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2.
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Outlook Set for More Open Future
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Microsoft has announced plans to open up the format of the data files used by its e-mail program Outlook. The software giant said it would provide full documentation on the format so non-Microsoft developers can interrogate and use it.
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Novell Has New Products: More Software Patents
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Novell carries on obtaining new software patents; the software lobby in Europe revisited and the role of the BSA stressed
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Mozilla Unofficially Joins ECIS and Opera in Opposition to MS’s Deal in Europe
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Apple-Mozilla power struggle has just returned as a Mozilla employee expresses disdain; Microsoft's force-fed Firefox plug-in leaves the Web browser vulnerable
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Microsoft, Google, and the Impact on Free Software Revisited
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Microsoft fails to slow Google down; Google harms Microsoft's profits; Windows-only Microsoft Web rationalises temporary support of Google
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