02.24.08
Links 24/02/2008: N810 to Get WiMax, Mozilla.org a Decade Young
- ‘Alien Arena 2008′ Announced - Screens & Trailer
- Linux Desktops: Real Relief for Windows Users
- Ten Years Ago Today: Netscape Launches mozilla.org
- Happy Birthday LFS
- Open Source Apps for Small Biz: Desktop to Backup
- Switching Office Suites from Microsoft Office to OpenOffice.org
- What is Mozilla? Mitchell Baker at the French Senate
- Ubuntu 7.10 is great!
- Ubuntu 8.04 Alpha 5 :Makes Installation Easy !
- The paradox of FOSS projects supporting Windows
- WiMax N810 Leaked, To Be Announced At CTIA?
- Best Affordable Computer Options
- Avant Window Navigator (Awn) 0.2.4 released
- GStreamer plugin release brings better cross-platform support
- Is everything open source?
- Free/Open-source Astronomy Software
- Explore the Universe from your Desktop with Celestia
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.