04.29.08
Posted in News Roundup at 10:16 am by Roy Schestowitz
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IRC: #boycottnovell @ FreeNode: July 1st, 2009 IRC Log for July 1st, 2009 Report: Microsoft's Patent Racketeering Comes from Myhrvold Microsoft extorts $120 Million out of rival Intuit, using the patent troll it is grooming 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 Mostly links about IE8 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 Links for the day 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.
Google said,
April 29, 2008 at 11:39 am
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuOpenWeek
There are some sessions where we can directly ask Mark Shuttleworth about MONO and Novell. Should be worth it - I hope
Google said,
April 29, 2008 at 12:37 pm
A thing that I have noticed.
Intel and Microsoft are no longer going along together as before. The rosy relationship has come to an end.
Roy Schestowitz said,
April 29, 2008 at 6:41 pm
They sure collaborated on the OLPC Slog though.