04.27.08
Links 27/04/2008: Developing Countries Grok Free Software; NVIDIA Pressured to Open Its Specifications
- Open source: ‘World’s largest software company’
- Accurate market share statistics and The $60 Billion dollar question
- Culture Matters
- Watching the watchers of the GPL
- The GNU Left
- OpenTheBlob.com Gets 9,000 Signatures
- Red Hat sees sales abroad: CEO finds emerging economies amenable to open source
- Girls Love Linux
- How To Be a Linux/Free Open Source Advocate
- Going Open Source Series & Working With Open Source Companies - 3 RedMonk White Papers
- Researchers ‘Poison’ Storm Botnet
- Microsoft and free software? I don’t think so…
- A quick look at Ubuntu Hardy Heron
- Linux Distros Updated
- WEB 2.0 - Mozilla: Fennec to revolutionize mobile browsing
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.