One regular reader, SubSonica, shares his thoughts about what Microsoft is trying to achieve and how.
Read more »Microsoft revising 'us vs. them' attitude toward open source
When Microsoft completed its acquisition of San Francisco-based startup Powerset in July, it acquired more than just search-engine technology. In the HBase component of Powerset's product, Microsoft also acquired open-source code that is actively being redistributed back into the Apache Software Foundation's Hadoop project.
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Microsoft releases open-source content management app
Microsoft has released an early version of an open-source content management platform that developers can use to build sophisticated blogs or large Web sites.
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Brutal Lessons And Hopefully Positive Outcomes
I was not going to talk about this in my blog initially. There was no real need to at first, when this storm started as it was Slashdotted and I myself created links to it as well so people would find it.
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Nothing New Under the Microsoft
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Economics, Trolls, and Software Patentability Revisited
Another discussion about the economic viability of patents, the patent trolls, and OIN's ineffective solution
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Microsoft ‘Advocates’ Free Software by Suing the World
Microsoft has financial problems, gets tougher and may drive away customers in the process
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Eye on Security: ‘Fun’ with Zombies, Press Ignorance, and Bizarre Solutions
Windows botnets grow, new flaws are found and the proposed solutions are ludicrous
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Novell’s Financial Results for Q4: Synopsis
A detailed look and some analysis of Novell's results for this quarter
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Microsoft Attacks, Then Tries to Hijack Free Software
Microsoft is befriending F/OSS people in the Philippines, 'extending' IronPython, even Perl... while at the same time attacking F/OSS
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Why is Linux.com Promoting Microsoft/Novell’s Fork of OpenOffice.org?
Novell's Go-OO (fork of OpenOffice.org) receives unfair coverage and leads to friction
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As Search Bribery Fails, Microsoft Turns to More Agitation and Proxy-Fighting
Microsoft's search business continues to have trouble, so Yahoo is harassed further (Google too)
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Microsoft Executive: Netbooks Risk Cannibalizing Windows
An executive who heads up Microsoft Corp.'s (MSFT) Windows business said Wednesday Netbooks, lower-priced laptop computers geared to less intensive work, posed a cannibalization risk to the Windows operating system.
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Microsoft Unleashes Proxies at Journalists to Defend Vulnerable Vista
Waggener Edstrom is trying to change articles about security, on behalf of Microsoft; all Windows PCs are vulnerable
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