“Analysts sell out - that’s their business model… But they are very concerned that they never look like they are selling out, so that makes them very prickly to work with.” - Microsoft, internal document [PDF]. A look at the proximity between GNU/Linux-hostile analysts and the company which feeds them

Can students be required to buy a particular product from a particular abusive company that virtually bribes teachers to achieve this?

Patrick Le Lay: « TF1's business is to help Coca-Cola sell its products. For an advert to be effective, the viewer's brain has to be available. Our programmes are made so that their brain becomes available, that is to say to entertain them, make them feel relaxed to get them ready between two commercials.

Citrix-controlled Xen keeps bending towards Microsoft, which misuses "open source"

Marriages of inconvenience, courtesy of Novell and Microsoft

A FEW DAYS ago, evidence was used to show that Microsoft strives to marginalise 'dissent' such as GNU/Linux. The GPL, unlike anything Apple would ever adapt to, is too disruptive for Microsoft's business to tolerate. There is a perceptual level at which GNU/Linux can be suppressed, by creating the illusion that GNU/Linux is scarcely adopted and then working hard to make it so.

"...Free Software represents too much of a risk in terms of application compatibility to be used widely in the London 2012 Olympics according to the chief information officer for the event..."