I've owned a lot of iPods. My wife has owned a lot of iPods. Not anymore...All of a sudden, Apple is trying everything they can to prohibit interopability.
Read more »Goodbye Apple
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Are Speakers for FOSS Actually FOSS Supporters?
Is the Free software debate being captured by those who just exploit it?
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Microsoft and Novell Love Microsoft’s Self-serving Linux Patch
Affinity for Microsoft code still comes from the Microsoft faithful for the most part
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Microsoft and Linux: A Checkered Past
Microsoft has had a checkered past with both Linux and its open source GPL licensing structure, so the move was a jaw dropper. Here is a look at some of the milestones since Microsoft internal memos leaked in 1998 that attacked the open source Linux operating system as it began to pick up steam as an alternative to Windows.
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Open source Linux device drivers submitted by -- Microsoft?
A software company based in Redmond, Wash. has released 20,000 lines of code under GPLv2 for three Linux device drivers. Microsoft says its first open source Linux code contribution is designed to speed the performance of the operating system when it's run in a Hyper-V virtual machine.
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Verdict on Microsoft’s Linux Patch: Embrace, Extend, and Assimilate
Beyond the blatant PR efforts, assessments suggest the patch is a self-serving Trojan horse
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Linux slips into Microsoft's warm, deadly embrace
Make no mistake: This is a hostile action on Microsoft's part. Its stated mission is to squash Linux like a bug, and the easiest way to do that is to feign friendship -- to offer a bogus olive branch, then switch it out at the last minute for a nasty bundle of thorns.
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Microsoft embraces Linux cancer to sell Windows servers
Microsoft is embracing cancer to help ensure Windows survives server-room consolidation. The company has released 20,000 lines of Windows kernel code under version two of the GPL. Microsoft called the license it once hated "the community's preferred license". How things have changed.
Read more »Microsoft Uses Diplomats to Train Children for Windows
Innocence, greed or ignorance of politicians get exploited by Microsoft, which turns more citizens into Microsoft customers
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The Hidden Cost of Microsoft's 'Free' Online Office Suite
Despite what you’ve heard, the online version of Office 2010 announced by Microsoft earlier this week won’t be free to corporate users, and isn’t a threat to the likes of Google, Adobe, or even Zoho, which sells online productivity software to small and medium-sized businesses.
Read more »Novell and Xandros Promote Microsoft Patents, SFLC Warns About “Microsoft Patent Aggression”
Novell promotes patent encumbrances with Microsoft, Xandros helps Windows again, and the SFLC warns about Melco
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More on Mono, Microsoft, and Novell
A batch of small updates on the Mono/Moonlight situation - NOVELL'S (and Microsoft's) plan with Moonlight is something that we have warned about ever since Moonlight was first announced.
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David Schlesinger “Uses the Little Spat as an Example of Zealotry”
Example of hypocrisy and misrepresentation, using stereotypes [1, 2, 3]
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Treasonous Melco-Microsoft Linux Deal Already Costing Melco Business
Melco's submissive surrender to Microsoft extortion has immediate negative effect on business
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How History Gets Warped — Not Forgotten — to Conceal Microsoft Violations
More book-burning phenomena and how it affects perception of Microsoft
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