Mono/.NET enthusiasts start pushing Novell's Banshee into the next Ubuntu
AS NOTED two posts ago, Microsoft is - in essence - paying the wages of a lot of Novell developers. What is the return on this Microsoft investment? Microsoft is neither a charity nor a promoter of GNU/Linux.

THURSDAY was a very important day. Glyn Moody called it "A Day to Remember" and not just because of the release of Ubuntu 9.04. As we explained before [1, 2, 3], Microsoft reported a huge drop in earnings which shows, as Moody puts it, that "the Microsoft money machine is faltering." This is not particularly shocking.

LAST YEAR we mentioned Microsoft's "Jihad" talk (the term it uses a lot internally, even Bill Gates). The Microsoft ecosystem is said to be working very closely together and some call it "the Microsoft movement" (a term which is usually used in private conversations). Others even call it a/the "Microsoft religion", so the following new post hit a certain nerve.

"Microsoft is actually paying for using Windows [...] Asus speaker confirmed this in Germany," says an informant

Yet another vector of compromise found in Vista 7; new damage control and PR dissected

Paying several times for the same competition-intolerant software

Tomboy does not fancy Gnote; Jo Shields keeps promoting Mono in Debian and Ubuntu

Anyone connecting form Iran is blocked from accessing certain Google sections (Google Summer of Code 2009 site in the example)