Microsoft is befriending F/OSS people in the Philippines, 'extending' IronPython, even Perl... while at the same time attacking F/OSS

Windows botnets grow, new flaws are found and the proposed solutions are ludicrous

Another discussion about the economic viability of patents, the patent trolls, and OIN's ineffective solution

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.

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.

Microsoft has launched Oxite, an open source blogging platform. However, the software maker was quick to underline that the product is aimed at developers and not intended to directly compete with popular blogging software such as WordPress or Movable Type.

Lots of Novell marketing videos in YouTube - and just recently, a lot more going on!

Dell is putting (paid-for) Vista ads in GNU/Linux ads; Microsoft wants to capture Australian schoolchildren