Microsoft once made the mistake of broad-brushing Linux as an intellectual property quagmire. It made Microsoft headlines, but few friends: lawyers didn't believe it, customers didn't want to hear it, and competitors dared it to sue.
Read more »EU antitrust enforcers turn their eyes upon Google
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The European Commission has opened an antitrust investigation into Google's business activities after complaints from three European companies. The companies, which offer services similar to Google's, believe that Google actively demotes their rankings in its search results because they are competitors.
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Free Software Foundation: Google should free the web from Flash and H.264
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Although Google's take-over of On2 Technologies has only just been completed, already the Free Software Foundation (FSF) is calling on the company to release On2's video codec technology as a patent free standard.
Read more »Microsoft vs. Google: The empire strikes back
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It can't be easy being Ray Ozzie. Microsoft's chief software architect is just 18 months into the job as Bill Gates' handpicked successor, yet depending on whom you ask, his tenure will either signal a bold new era for the company or mark the beginning of its terminal decline.
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Open letter to Google: free VP8, and use it on YouTub
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With its purchase of the On2 video compression technology company having been completed on Wednesday February 16, 2010, Google now has the opportunity to make free video formats the standard, freeing the web from both Flash and the proprietary H.264 codec.
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Novell Keeps Being Dumped for Google
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Novell GroupWise is being abandoned and removed from over 70,000 seats
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Another Kind of Freedom
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It seems as if most people are for OpenSource but against any other form of distribution/development. For example, Microsoft maintains ownership of the software that they sell on store shelves. No one owns a copy of Windows except for Microsoft.
Read more »The Famous Symbian OS Goes Open Source
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Symbian is the famous operating system that power up most Nokia mobile handsets. This OS was originally developed by Symbian Ltd. but then Nokia claimed it, next to an independent non-profit organization called Symbian Foundation, and implemented it on its devices.
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Internet Explorer’s dominant market share eroding
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Remember when Internet Explorer ruled the Web, to the tune of about 98% of the browser market share? Those were happy days for Internet Explorer. Until Firefox rose from the ashes of Netscape. Internet Explorer’s market share has been sliding ever since ...
A new report shows that that slide has put Internet Explorer’s market share at just under 60%.
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Ubuntu Could Profit From Both Yahoo, Google
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Talk about a careful balancing act involving Ubuntu. Canonical appears to have financial relationships with both Google and Yahoo. Here's how the relationships - involving Ubuntu 10.04 (Lucid Lynx) and Google Chrome OS - are shaping up. Plus, the potential financial implications for Canonical.
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Google will be the next Microsoft
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Considering its market share in search and advertising, how and why Google is able to avoid more severe antitrust scrutiny, considering IBM's and Microsoft's run-ins with anti-monopoly commissions around the world, is unknown.
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Ubuntu Switch to Yahoo. Trouble in Paradise?
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This situation really doesn't sit right with me. I understand that Canonical needs to be creative in acquiring new revenue streams. The stumbling block for me is. Isn't Google using mostly Ubuntu guts/code under the hood of its upcoming Chrome OS? You would have thought that their must have been some sort of communication between Google from Canonical after Yahoo approached them with their offer.
Read more »China lashes out at Google
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The Chinese are no longer playing a game of whispers when it comes to mouthing off about Google’s smackdown two weeks ago, with the country’s media now openly dissing the Internet giant, and the US government too for good measure.
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The Web, the Desktop, and the Google between
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Chrome OS is Google's proof-of-concept for a future where everything - both data and the programs and services that manipulate them - will live on the wide web. I don’t personally find it a very appealing path either, and the things I’ll be talking about below will probably explain why.
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Chrome isn't out yet and its already a regular OS.
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Reading between the lines of this article I found it saying was that the traditional OS is not dead and probably never will be. Regardless how much the industry wants to kill independent computing its users behaviors refuse them to do so. Google announced its decision because it realized that people want to listen to music, read documents and watch movies even when they are not online. Really?
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