02.22.08
Links 22/02/2008: SourceForge’s Choice Awards, IBM and Ubuntu Grow Closer
- The Vista SP1 saga: the best ad for Mac and Linux yet?
- The battle against the botnet hordes
- SourceForge.net2008 Community Choice Awards
- Benchmark deepens its open-source portfolio with $12 million Pentaho investment
- Canonical partners with IBM for closed source database
- AMD’s Framewave toolkit now GPLv3-compatible
- Whitehall gives ISPs piracy deadline
- HP Offers Sun Solaris Customers a Simple, Speedy Transition to HP Servers
- Intel overwhelmed by EU complaints
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.