04.04.08
Posted in News Roundup at 12:17 am by Dr. Roy Schestowitz
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SourceForge Learns Not from Windows' Failures and Even Hires from Microsoft
Microsoft's former employees, who encourage Free software developers to forget about GNU/Linux, become key staff in SourceForge/Geeknet
IRC: #boycottnovell @ FreeNode: March 11th, 2010
IRC Log for March 11th, 2010
Vista 7 Unacceptable for Large Businesses and Windows XP Still Not Secure
Intel migrates only about 3% of its workforce to Vista 7; many of the rest use an operation system with a "built-in" vulnerability that compromises designs/trade secrets
Links 11/3/2010: Fedora 13 Frenzy, Free Software in City of Athens
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Microsoft and Toyota
Where Toyota's problems intersect with Microsoft's
Microsoft Tries to Destroy Online Competitors Rather Than Improve Its Own Products
A look at what Microsoft is doing to Google and what it has done to Yahoo!
Patents Roundup: Microsoft, Apple, Nokia, Monsanto, Pfizer, and ACTA
This is a list of news items of interest to Free software supporters
IRC: #boycottnovell @ FreeNode: March 10th, 2010
IRC Log for March 10th, 2010
Apple's Legal Attack on GNU/Linux and Mistreatment of Developers Already Costing it Business
Apple upsets some of the very same people who made the company what it is today, including some of the inspirers
Ashley Highfield, Microsoft UK, Bill Gates, Murdoch, and the BBC
The latest embarrassments from the BBC, including discrimination against users of GNU/Linux
Microsoft Wants to be the Standard
Microsoft plants another flag in W3C, MonoDevelop pushes .NET at Novell or elsewhere, and Vista 7 continues to repel businesses
Microsoft Still Spreads Lies About GNU/Linux, Faces Rational Opposition
The same old myths that Microsoft spreads in the media contradict reality and fact; the GNU/Linux userbase resists hostile intervention
Microsoft-Sponsored GNU/Linux-Hostile Site, HowSoftwareIsBuilt.com, is Powered by GNU/Linux
HowSoftwareIsBuilt.com is paid by Microsoft, promotes Microsoft, but it runs on the very same platform Microsoft is ridiculing and extorting
Links 10/3/2010: Fedora 13 Alpha, Freescale+Linux
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Videos: Peter Landrock on His Software Patent and DeGucht Defending ACTA
Motion pictures that demonstrate the positions of people who pose dangers to the freedom of software
Bill Gates and Steve Jobs Extortionists With Software Patents
Bill Gates' personal role in racketeering is revealed by the CEO of Sun Microsystems; Steve Jobs is not any better
Microsoft and Insecurity: Vulnerabilities, Botnets, and a Whole Lot of Nerve
Windows insecurity a matter of persistence, Windows botnets a lost cause, and Microsoft's staff interferes with security policy
Patents Roundup: Lawyer Takeover, Failed Reform, and Policy Laundering With ACTA
What the latest news tells us about the use of law -- not improved products -- to compete in the market
Response to Red Hat FUD from Canonical's COO Matt Asay
A dissection of unfounded suggestions that Red Hat will lose its independence because Novell is dying
Ubuntu One Adds Mono Bindings
Mono lock-in potentially increased due to Novell's Banshee in Ubuntu GNU/Linux
IRC: #boycottnovell @ FreeNode: March 9th, 2010
IRC Log for March 9th, 2010
IDG Gives a Platform for Microsoft's Familiar Attack Dogs (and Former Employees) to Smear GNU/Linux
Milton Public Library and Other Regional Libraries Deploy GNU/Linux
An exemplary success story of GNU/Linux on the desktops in Canada; another new example from Craigslist
Links 9/3/2010: Yellow Dog Linux for CUDA, OpenArena 0.8.5
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Microsoft Loses Impact in the Web Despite Unfair Ballot Placements
The "rigged" ballot with "mere IE shells" is not enough to defend the Web browser which broke the Web
GNU/Linux in the Eyes of Microsoft's 'Linux Curious'
How GNU/Linux gets 'embraced' (temporarily) by Microsoft boosters who try it just to mock it
What Happens to BrainShare and the SCO Trial Now That Novell's Future is Uncertain?
With Novell's big decision perhaps just days away, questions remain about the immediate ramifications (affecting this month)
Latest Failures in Windows Mobile, Zune, and Xbox 360
Windows Phone 7 dumps old applications, Zune has an error, and Xbox remains a struggle (all of these areas have lost money for Microsoft)
IRC: #boycottnovell @ FreeNode: March 8th, 2010
IRC Log for March 8th, 2010
Links 10/3/2010: OpenShot 1.1, MeeGo for Sub-notebooks
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