I along with about every other Linux blogger got all bunched up over Microsoft "training" Best Buy, Office Depot and Staples in the art of besmirching Linux.
Read more »Microsoft FUD An Unfired Gun In Austin
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It's Their Nature
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For years Microsoft has been spreading lies and FUD (Fear, Uncertainty, Doubt) about Linux in the hopes that they can keep Linux from being widely adopted. Their latest round of lies is the anti-linux propaganda used in training some Best Buy and Staples employees. My opinion is that the reason Microsoft uses these tactics is because their software is so bad that it cannot stand on its own merits.
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is the FSF an extremist organisation?
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The FSF believes that everyone should use the term GNU/Linux rather than just Linux and use Free Software not open source. What im wondering is the FSF an extremist organisation that no one takes entirely seriously?
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Microsoft and Intel port Silverlight to Linux
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Intel and Microsoft have announced a new port of Silverlight to Linux, specifically for the Intel-sponsored Moblin operating system running on Atom-powered devices such as netbooks. The port enables Intel to include Silverlight as a supported runtime in the Atom Developer Program, which will feed an iPhone-like App Store.
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Microsoft: Google Chrome Frame makes IE less secure
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The release of Google Chrome Frame, a new open source plugin that injects Chrome's renderer and JavaScript engine into Microsoft's browser, earlier this week had many web developers happily dancing long through the night. Finally, someone had found a way to get Internet Explorer users up to speed on the Web.
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Moblin is a step forward for GNU/Linux, but software patents do not appear to be off the table
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Jaspersoft CEO: US Law and Policies Reinforce Proprietary, “Closed Source” Rights and Policies
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Insights into intellectual monopolies, courtesy of smaller (but growing) players in the software landscape
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Is Microsoft the Newest Free Software Advocate?
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What the heck is happening in Redmond? Is Microsoft really giving away antivirus software? Yes, friends, it appears that they are. Come on Microsoft, we really want to hate you. I've carried this Microsoft voodoo doll* around with me for years--stabbing it every time I have to pay money for one of your products on a new laptop or desktop computer.
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GNU/Linux Offers Free Security, Too
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Microsoft is selling defective software and then offering security separately, stomping on former partners in the process
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Microsoft Plans Port of Silverlight to Moblin
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Among the countless announcements in the Intel Developer Forum regarding Moblin was a joint press release from Intel and Microsoft. In it is announced that Microsoft wants to port Silverlight to Moblin.
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Anti-Mono, Anti-Woman?
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There's a weird consistency with which the most publicly vocal partisans of the position that Microsoft is an wholly owned subsidiary of Hell also seem to regularly express the opinion that there's really no problem, or at least no problem worth talking about, with women in the open source software community.
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Company That Attacks ODF Gains More Control of ODF (and Why Open Source Should be Careful, Too)
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Microsoft manages to grab seats in its competitor’s table; Explanation of why CodePlex it to “Open Source” what OOXML is to “open standards”
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Microsoft Fights Back as More Nations Adopt ODF
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Another migration to Free software and ODF in Denmark; ways in which Microsoft currently responds to the "ODF threat"
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The Register Sells Out to Microsoft and Novell
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The Register on "interoperability and mixed environments" (apparent commercial in disguise)
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Microsoft Interjects Itself into Free Software Using Novell
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A roundup of new cases where Microsoft imposes its presence and dependency using its people at Novell
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