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The Curse of Money (of “Why Microsoft is Everywhere”)
FOSS developers and organisers continue to take Microsoft money for betrayal of principles
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Do-No-Evil Saturday - Part I: Quiet Week Ahead of LinuxWorld’s Novell Press Releases
A few bits and pieces about Novell but nothing of much significance
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Waggener Edstrom, Maureen O’Gara and Other Microsoft Shills
A look back at smoking guns and some more highly convincing evidence that shows Microsoft using "plants" in the media
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Quick Mention: Microsoft. Anti-monopoly Lawsuit. China.
For Microsoft, trouble likely to come from China; another big dip in value
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Microsofts New Advertising Approach
It doesn't always work... humorous comic strip... ... ...
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Microsoft Calls Firefox Competitor To Windows
The report shows that Microsoft is aware of its own important balancing act as the company strives to maintain its relevance and dominance in the services era.
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“I Have Spoken with Maureen O’Gara (Based on go Ahead from BrianV) and Planted the Story”
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Patents Trolls Gaining More Momentum
Familiar patent trolls, including Ray Niro and Acacia, make another appearance
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Why Microsoft cozied up to open source at OSCON
Last month at O'Reilly's Open Source Convention (OSCON), it seemed like Microsoft was everywhere you looked, avouching its interest in open source. Thanks to the company's history -- including some very recent history -- a great many in the open source community viewed the company's presence with mistrust, suspicious of Redmond's motives and apprehensive of what would follow.
Read more »Even Microsoft Uses Free Software, So Why Does Novell Harness Microsoft?
Microsoft's implicit admission that FOSS is better does not compute when Novell's embrace of Microsoft technologies is considered
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Reminder: OOXML Still Seems Free Software-Hostile
everal months ago, thanks to the SFLC it was shown that OOXML is not suitable for implementation by Microsoft’s #1 competitor. A solicitor specialising in Free/open source software, Brendan Scott, has taken a look at Microsoft’s reassurances and formal licence, but he is not convinced much has changed.
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Users made us more open - Microsoft
Microsoft’s annual geek gathering, TechEd, is not the place you’d expect to hear words like “Linux” or “open source” - at least not without a good punchline.
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Microsoft Could Soon Enter Debt
More new hints are suggesting that Microsoft could quietly accept debt in order to elevate its stagnant stock.
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More ODF for Macs, Trouble for the Already-Embattled ISO
StarOffice 9 coming to Mac users; Updegrove explains ISO's failures.
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