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Opera alerts EU to hidden Windows browser-ballot

http://www.theregister.co.uk

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.

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Novell Dominates Almost a Third of GNOME Foundation Board, Including the Director

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Despite Microsoft's frantic push for C# (through Novell staff), the language is stagnating, but Novell increases its influence in GNOME

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If Governments Require “Open Source”, Then MS Will Pay/Bribe to Pretend to be “Open Source”

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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

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SchoolOS to Remove Mono, Apple ‘Blocks’ MonoTouch

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Yet another distribution makes the decision to put Mono in the wastebasket; Apple keeps Microsoft's and Novell's MonoTouch out

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Created by komrad 14 years 22 weeks ago
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Microsoft to develop own open source platform

http://www.linux-magazine.com

Open source developer at Microsoft, Garrett Serack announced today plans to bring a native running open source platform to Windows.

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Where the Real Challenges for Microsoft CodePlex Are

http://community.zenoss.org

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.

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Created by polbaan 14 years 22 weeks ago
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hypePad and .NET Promoted by Novell at the Same Time

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A look at how Novell promotes proprietary software, among users and developers alike

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Created by komrad 14 years 22 weeks ago
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Microsoft’s Battle to Consume — Not Obliterate — Open Source

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Latest examples - as illustrated by news items - of Microsoft's strategy with Open Source/Free software

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Created by komrad 14 years 22 weeks ago
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Novell to Put Vista 7 Migration and Management “at Peace”

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Novell's promotion of its own competitor (Windows) is noted

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Created by komrad 14 years 22 weeks ago
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How the Gates Foundation Blocks GNU/Linux and FOSS in National Libraries, Then Inherits Education

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This week's analysis of the Gates Foundation and in particular its contribution to education, which has strings attached

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Created by komrad 14 years 22 weeks ago
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Microsoft Plays the Open Source Software Game

http://www.serverwatch.com

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.

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Created by waterbag 14 years 22 weeks ago
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Open-source Sugar snared by Jobsian code block

http://www.theregister.co.uk

Open-source CRM developer SugarCRM has been snared by the dark, so-called brilliance of Apple's whip-tongued chief executive Steve Jobs.

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Created by helix 14 years 22 weeks ago
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Linux users are hate filled criminal hackers

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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.

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Created by the_borg10001101 14 years 22 weeks ago
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M$ refused Machinarium on XBLA because it has a Mac and Linux version ?

http://www.joystiq.com

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.

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Created by bythicalmeast 14 years 22 weeks ago
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Apple Treats Mono Like It Treats Flash; GNU/Linux Should Too

http://techrights.org

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?

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