The promiscuous UK education sector is selling out to Microsoft (again) under bizarre circumstances
Read more »Is UK Govmnt/Education Accepting Soft Bribes from MS Rather Than Adopt Free(dom) Software?
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iTunes music files
RMS: « iTunes music files may contain no DRM, but they are poisonous. »
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"Horrors" of Ubuntu
A local news station covers a story about a woman who somehow accidentally bought a dell with Ubuntu on it, then was too dumb to get on the internet or figure out that OpenOffice does the same thing as Word.
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Has Microsoft Just ‘Pulled an EDGI’ on 72,000 Schools?
Microsoft is dumping software on many schools in over 100 countries to battle competition
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Novell Cozies Up to Microsoft SharePoint
Microsoft Office SharePoint gets a little lift from Novell's Access Manager 3.1
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A Sound of Thunder
Windows hasn't been my desktop environment for about seven years now. I have found I have no need for it, a Linux desktop does everything I need to do very well... Yet Microsoft's recent announcements about "Windows 7", the new version of Windows, find me sitting here feeling I have no choice but to discuss it, or be drowned out as a hopelessly irrelevant columnist.
Read more »Why Microsoft Wants to Put .NET/Mono in Devices
Antitrust Exhibits: Why Microsoft Wants .NET (or Mono) Everywhere
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Microsoft Enters Another Linux Conference, Changes to “Open Source” Agenda
Microsoft comes to LCA2009 and has Novell give it good coverage in Holland
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Jim Allchin: “We Feel a Huge Threat from Linux” (Analysts Cartel Part IV)
Long transcripts show Microsoft's fear of GNU/Linux, among other issues and an IDC study
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Microsoft and open source
Microsoft has long had a hate-hate relationship with open source—not only with specific open-source projects like Linux, but also with the concept of non-proprietary software.
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Vasectomy Reversal For Male Infertility Treatment
Vasectomy reversal is a microsurgery procedure for male infertility treatment. The new technologies have added an entirely new dimension to male infertility treatment.
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Con Artists in the Press
Journalists who never use GNU/Linux write about it critically
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Microsoft Antitrust: “The Linux Threat on the Desktop” (2006) and Predatory Response
Microsoft assigns "taksforces" to fight GNU/Linux adoption (Wal-Mart in this case)
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yet another reason for Using GNU/Linux: NSA spied on everyone, targeted journalists
"The National Security Agency had access to all Americans' communications -- faxes, phone calls, and their computer communications," Tice claimed. "It didn't matter whether you were in Kansas, in the middle of the country, and you never made foreign communications at all. They monitored all communications."
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Facts behind Microsoft's anti-Linux campaign
Back in 2002, Jim Allchin was co-president of Microsoft's Platforms and Services Division and was, in his own words, "scared" of the momentum behind Linux, as noted in an email [PDF] sent to several of his direct reports. So what did Allchin do? As court documents in the Comes vs.
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