Poland’s Office for Competition and Consumer Protection (UOKiK) claims that selling laptops with obligatorily preinstalled Microsoft's Windows operating system constitutes a monopolistic practice and is restrictive to competition.
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Microsoft to pay Novell $100 million more for Linux support
Microsoft Corp plans to pay software maker Novell Inc up to $100 million in additional subscription fees due to strong demand for Novell's open-source Linux software that partners with Microsoft's proprietary Windows software.
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Reminder: Protest Against Software Patents This Weekend
Call for help against software patents in India. A few days ago, those protests in Bangalore received a quick mention.
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Microsoft’s Darkest Crimes Remain Undiscovered, Unavailable
A look back at lost evidence and recollections in light of Novell's affair with Microsoft.
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British Government Laughs at Digital Standards Organisation with a Straight Face
The UK government is shockingly blind to its own attitude towards open standards and Free software
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A Black Duck Loses Its Head
A former Microsoft employee who took a poisition of authority over GPLv3 jumps his own ship
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Quotable: Why Microsoft is Just a Standard Open Source Scam
A quick walk through people's opinions on Microsoft and 'openness'
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SCO Also Used to Contibute to Linux, Just Like Novell
Are some of Novell's contributions merely poison or is it a prelude to other possibilities like a joint legal plan?
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GNU IceCat not supported on comcast.net
Please, don't hurt the web this way... --
*N.B: Comcast blocks P2P traffic also: http://www.boingboing.net/2007/10/19/comcast-actively-blo.html
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Why FOSS is still so unusable
Randall Kennedy examines why the FOSS community doesn't seem to care whether you find any value in its projects.
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A Black Duck Loses Its Head
The last time we wrote about Microsoft insiders, we also mentioned Black Duck as a possibility. Some insiders don’t perceive themselves as such, yet they naturally function in this way.Here you have a Microsoft employee founding and heading a company that sells services around Free software FUD. The company has developed proprietary software only.
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Eye on Microsoft: Less Money, Mo’ Problems
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Mono Spreads, Fails
Mono striving to reach more parts of GNU/Linux; Moonlight revisited
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Bill Gates is Still Fighting Against Free/Libre Software, Quietly
Gates is now working to ensure youngsters in China are glued to Microsoft software.
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Richard Stallman Saw Microsoft’s Plans Against GNU/Linux Back in 2004
An old video interview with Stallman reveals early expectations
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