Just when it seemed like Microsoft's European anti-trust tangle on browser choice in Windows was over, trouble is stirring again. Opera Software has told The Reg that it has informed the European Union of a possible problem with a fix that was designed to make Internet Explorer in Windows comply with EU antitrust law. Opera has also informed Microsoft.
Read more »Opera alerts EU to hidden Windows browser-ballot
- Login to post comments
Novell Dominates Almost a Third of GNOME Foundation Board, Including the Director
Despite Microsoft's frantic push for C# (through Novell staff), the language is stagnating, but Novell increases its influence in GNOME
Read more »- Login to post comments
If Governments Require “Open Source”, Then MS Will Pay/Bribe to Pretend to be “Open Source”
The latest example of Microsoft applying OOXML-esque tactics to block national migrations to Open Source, just as it stifled a shift towards open standards
Read more »- Login to post comments
SchoolOS to Remove Mono, Apple ‘Blocks’ MonoTouch
Yet another distribution makes the decision to put Mono in the wastebasket; Apple keeps Microsoft's and Novell's MonoTouch out
Read more »- Login to post comments
Microsoft to develop own open source platform
Open source developer at Microsoft, Garrett Serack announced today plans to bring a native running open source platform to Windows.
Read more »- Login to post comments
Where the Real Challenges for Microsoft CodePlex Are
The CodePlex Foundation is a non-profit designed to encourage and educate commercial software developers to start or improve their own open source projects. And, even though Microsoft is the first sponsor of the Foundation, all of the projects are "platform and technology agnostic," Hunter emphasized in a recent interview.
Read more »hypePad and .NET Promoted by Novell at the Same Time
A look at how Novell promotes proprietary software, among users and developers alike
Read more »- Login to post comments
Microsoft’s Battle to Consume — Not Obliterate — Open Source
Latest examples - as illustrated by news items - of Microsoft's strategy with Open Source/Free software
Read more »- Login to post comments
Novell to Put Vista 7 Migration and Management “at Peace”
- Login to post comments
How the Gates Foundation Blocks GNU/Linux and FOSS in National Libraries, Then Inherits Education
This week's analysis of the Gates Foundation and in particular its contribution to education, which has strings attached
Read more »- Login to post comments
Microsoft Plays the Open Source Software Game
Microsoft has been busy these past few days reminding the world that it really is an organization of monstrous proportions and its tendrils reach from the humblest consumer desktop right up to the level of super-computing.
Read more »- Login to post comments
Open-source Sugar snared by Jobsian code block
Open-source CRM developer SugarCRM has been snared by the dark, so-called brilliance of Apple's whip-tongued chief executive Steve Jobs.
Read more »- Login to post comments
Linux users are hate filled criminal hackers
I seem to be pushing a few buttons recently. My last article incensed one anonimati so much that they were moved to actually send me a private email about it.
Read more »- Login to post comments
M$ refused Machinarium on XBLA because it has a Mac and Linux version ?
Joystiq contacted Amanita Design founder Jakub Dvorský for to clarify the situation. "They told us, 'It's not Microsoft-exclusive, we don't want it.' They didn't cite the Mac and Linux versions [as reasons for the refusal] but it's quite clear that's the reason," Dvorský told Joystiq via email.
Read more »Apple Treats Mono Like It Treats Flash; GNU/Linux Should Too
Apple is not interested in "foreign" APIs entering its environment, so why do GNOME-based distributions of GNU/Linux tolerate Mono, which squarely corresponds to Microsoft's APIs and makes Microsoft stronger?
Read more »- Login to post comments