04.18.08
Posted in News Roundup at 6:28 am by Roy Schestowitz
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Poll: 62% Don't Trust Microsoft on Mono
A lot of news about Mono with special emphasis on key developments
Proprietary Software Falters
Microsoft demonstrates that non-Free software is simply incapable of handling mission-critical tasks like GNU/Linux does (in Wall Street for example)
Web Browser Links
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Confirmed: Windows Vista Still Rejected by Customers
Beyond the hype there is a rather colossal failure that the press actually reports on
Links 01/07/2009: New Sabayon, New IBM Compiler, Virtualbox 3.0
Links for the day
Government of Portugal Ignores Procurement Rules and Gives Taxpayers' Money to Microsoft
Another classic case of illegitimate use of money without public tender
MSCOSCONF 'Winner' is a Marketing Guy, Attacks FOSS
Microsoft is giving awards to marketing people who help its fight against GNU/Linux (and Free software in general)
Rob Weir Complains About Microsoft's Manipulation of Wikipedia
Microsoft carries on smearing ODF in public while pretending to support it
Who Promotes Mono? Microsoft and Novell
New signs lead back to Microsoft (not just Novell)
Microsoft Kills Channel 8 and Channel 10
Axing embellished as "folding", more on "perception management"
Microsoft-dominated DHS Concerned About Windows Zombies (Corrected)
Janet Napolitano from Microsoft speaks on behalf of the DHS about the effect of Windows zombies
IRC: #boycottnovell @ FreeNode: June 30th, 2009
IRC Log for June 30th, 2009
More People Say “No” to Mono, Including the Software Freedom Law Center (SFLC)
More opposition to Mono surfaces, detailed explanations offered
Another Microsoft Vice President Jumps Ship, Employee Benefits Take a Dive
At this pace of abandonment, who will be left to lead?
Another Microsoft Product Dies: MSN Web Messenger
Microsoft hangs the Messenger
Microsoft Exploits Death to Advertise Its Products
Microsoft uses Michael Jackson's tragic death to advertise itself
Links 30/06/2009: KDE 4.3 Video, SourceForge Hits 4 Billion Downloads
Links for the day
In Praise of Mozilla Firefox 3.5
Computer Shops Participate in Vista 7 “Scam”
Microsoft claims a "discount" which is not
Microsoft's Dublin DC Could be Indicative of the Notorious Tax Evasion Conspiracy
Ireland receives another favour for offering a tax haven to Microsoft?
Microsoft's Latest Benchmark Fraud
Microsoft's advertising is still a scam and should be dealt with appropriately
Microsoft to Cut Another 2,000+ Jobs
Microsoft carries on shrinking while it's borrowing money
IRC: #boycottnovell @ FreeNode: June 29th, 2009
IRC Log for June 29th, 2009
New Examples of Questionable Press Coverage
Assorted brow-raising items in the news
Mono Proponents Do Not Address the Real Questions
Supporters of Mono answer questions that are not even asked -- a pattern which requires simple clarification
Microsoft's ODF Lunch Paid Off
ODF news which is more or less organised and some other picks from the news
Links 29/06/2009: Core Linux 2.1 Released; FreeDOS is Now 15
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GNOME's Evolution Proceeds as Planned?
The prophecy of Novell's Miguel de Icaza is becoming true
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.
LinuxIsFun said,
April 18, 2008 at 7:10 am
I dont know why Redhat abandoned their desktop idea. This is affect their enterprise integration. Maybe they might do it with fedora on desktop and rhel on server. Who knows. The new ceo seems to be very focused on what their target market is…cool in a way.
Roy Schestowitz said,
April 18, 2008 at 7:19 am
Not so long ago he responded to a question from Chris Pirillo. He was asked about Ubuntu, IIRC, to which his reply was (via his PA) something along the lines of: “Ubuntu doesn’t check carefully the legality of obtaining codecs.” I continue to suspect that codecs were the main barrier, but Fedora, being a community distro, does not have the financial barriers (just more hoops to jump through although CodecBuddy recently got the boot).
It’s true that Ubuntu takes shortcuts.
LinuxIsFun said,
April 18, 2008 at 7:58 am
yeah they are a traded company. will be suicide for them to do something illegal and face patent suits. They don’t have the money or resources to fight them. Still a small company.
Ubuntu being a foundation doesnt have to worry much about such things. No one is going to sue them for money anyways.
CoolGuy said,
April 18, 2008 at 10:33 am
Please spread the message…
Microsoft will be signing up Malayalam movie star Mammootty as one of
the brand ambassadors for the Computer Literacy programme that is to be organized soon in Kerala, a Southern Indian State well known for
its pro-free software policies.
Read, Sign and Share the letter at
http://fci.wikia.com/wiki/Open_Letter_To_Mammooty
Also digg the story
http://digg.com/microsoft/Mammooty_don_t_join_hands_with_Microsoft
Vote the story
http://www.fsdaily.com/Community/Open_Letter_To_Mammooty
CoolGuy said,
April 18, 2008 at 10:52 am
M$ brand image going down like a rock thrown in a sea.
This is going to get worse each passing day.
Sweeet revenge
Roy Schestowitz said,
April 18, 2008 at 3:06 pm
Microsoft has tried all sort of freebies in Kerala in order to suppress FOSS adoption. How far will this company go? I can give examples from the press.
Then there’s the “Unlimited [Addiction] Potential” program whose role is to identify places where Linux is taking off and then to dump free (gratis) software and sometimes even hardware to suppress the competition. They pretend to be charitable, but it’s more of an anti-Linux squad if there was such a thing…
Thanks for the headsup. Dugg.