02.04.08
Links 04/02/2008: Google vs. Y!MS, Military and RHEL, XO Finds Love
- A Giant Bid That Shows How Tired the Giant Is
- Google balks at Microsoft bid for Yahoo
- ‘Battle Command’ Summits [US Army Chooses GNU/Linux]
- Why Kubuntu is Good for KDE
- India Knowledge@Wharton | Operating in an open system
- Australian open source workers earn more money
- The Evolution of an Ubuntu EeePC
- Linux Exploration…
- Who Needs The Goundhog? You’ve Got Liquid Weather!
- I don’t believe anymore that freedom (of software) still exists…
- The XO Laptop: It’s the Software, Stupid
- XO Laptop Ebook Reader Demo (also below)
Highlight: Novell was the first to acknowledge that Microsoft FUD tactics had substance. Novell then used anti-Linux FUD to market itself. 
Highlight: Xandros let Microsoft make patent claims and brag about (paid-for) OOXML support. 
Highlight: Linspire's CEO not only fell into Microsoft arms, but he also assisted the company's attack on GNU/Linux. 
Highlight: Microsoft craves pseudo (proprietary) standards and gets its way using proxies and influence which it buys. 
Highlight: The invasion into the open source world is intended to leave Linux companies neglected, due to financial incentives from Microsoft. 
Analysis: Xen, an open source hypervisor, possibly fell victim to Microsoft's aggressive (and stealthy) acquisition-by-proxy strategy.
Jeff Miller said,
March 24, 2008 at 7:52 am
I love your site. But get rid of that John McCain ad at the top of the page. You’ve contaminated your page and yourself.
Victor Soliz said,
March 24, 2008 at 8:51 am
What John McCain?
Roy Bixler said,
March 24, 2008 at 9:03 pm
I’m pretty sure that Jeff Miller saw a Google Ad. Google tries to match up the ads with keywords found in the site according to some arbitrary algorithm. The site administrators basically have no control over which ads might appear. I wonder if it’s possible that a Microsoft or Novell ad might appear. At least, one can say that the site administrators do not necessarily endorse whatever the ads are promoting.
Jeff Miller said,
March 25, 2008 at 10:08 am
Yes, that could be right. It is the wide rectangular Flash player box just under your title box of Boycott Novell. May be coming from Google, but coming back in just now I see the exact same ad, for John McCain. A senile old man who I think should spend the rest of his days in some comfortable retirement community — that is NOT in Washington, D.C. It’s on the page with
02.04.08
Links 04/02/2008: Google vs. Y!MS, Military and RHEL, XO Finds Love
as the headline above the posted list. But get rid of that (b)ad.
Roy Schestowitz said,
March 25, 2008 at 10:16 am
Heh. I forgot the ads even exist (got AdBlack and NoScript installed). Shane added them back in 2006 and I don’t think they pay more than a dollar a day (just about enough for the hosting bill). I’m too shy to ask him to remove the ads because it’s him who pays the bills.
Sorry about the McCain disturbance. We don’t endorse the man.
Jeff Miller said,
March 25, 2008 at 1:50 pm
Makes sense. I guess there’s little you can do to control that content. Well it’s good to know that he’s not there intentionally! Thanks.