04.19.08
Links 19/04/2008: Ubuntu GNU/Linux Leads OSS Census, Fedora 9 Preview Released
- Action urged to keep net neutral
- Why I Quit Windows and Switched to Linux
- Number 9, number 9. Fedora 9 Preview has been cleared for takeoff!
- Fedora 9 and Summit preview: Confining the user with SELinux
- Everex: The Dell of the Linux World
- Jealousy? Novell, Red Hat, and the Linux Desktop
- Linux looms large on portables
- Ubuntu takes early lead in open source census
- Finally, Secure Real-Time on the Desktop
- Google releases Picasa 2.7 for Linux
- Open source testing tools target varied tasks
- Gifts of Open Source
- Virtual Machine Powers Linux-based Java Applications
- Kickfire and Open Source Partners Team to Deliver BI Solutions on MySQL Database Appliance
- Apple gets (slightly) less sneaky with Windows Safari play
- Warning sounded on Microsoft and Google’s health records landgrab
- Price cut fails to push Xbox 360 past PS3 in UK
- PostPath Provides MS Exchange Pain Relief
- Open mobile OS efforts abound
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.