03.08.08
America Loves Boycott Novell?
This Web site continues to grow in terms of its readership with an average of 12,000 pageviews per day (search engines excluded). We thought it might be nice to present a pie chart showing where the readers actually come from*. Here is what it looks like.
Mostly visited by Americans, as you can probably see (click figure to view it un-resized). █
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* Where the address is resolvable without a sophisticated lookup, but just a superficial DNS lookup, then consideration of the suffix.
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.