05.03.08
Posted in News Roundup at 1:31 pm by Roy Schestowitz
- Biggest ever Spanish open source agreement signed
- Ecuador: A Weekend of Free Software Throughout the Country
- Software piracy is a tough nut to crack
- Filipinos father open source electronic health record system
- May 2, 2008: Code freeze in effect, on towards wine 1.0!
- [Wine 0.9.61 Released]
- Open Source is the ’software establishment’, report says
- Govt ‘computer bungle cost $51m’
- CII-Shiksha Integrates Open Source In Curriculum
- The push for open textbooks
- The cloud era and open source
- Too Many Vendors Or Not Enough Innovation?
- Beyond Open Systems
- Everyblock for everyone
- ONC: Open source is key to agencies’ NHIN connections
- Slackware [12.1] Release Announcement
- Ophcrack 3.0 is out!
- Rocks 5.0 (V) is Released
- OpenArena 0.7.6
- Highly Addictive Puzzle/Arcade Games for Linux
- Games : Vega Strike 0.5.0 released
- Inhouse Linux support not viable in the long run?
- Switching to Linux which distro to use, Mandriva?
- PCLinuxOS Magazine May 2008 Released
- Penguicon 6.0 — Penguins in Space!
- Open source diva Danese Cooper (video)
- Mrs Red Devil Installs Ubuntu 8.04
- Ubuntu on the OLPC XO-1
- My first months at Acquia
- Joomla! and the latest trends in the open source revolution
- BitNami.org Makes Wordpress, Drupal, and Joomla! Easy to Install on Solaris
- Vista Business - boring
- Windows Decline - Success for the Linux PC
- Why the Linux world should embrace the BSD’s
- Four freedoms good, fewer freedoms bad?
- It’s good to be free
- Richard Stallman
- There’s Linux Inside
- Chumby: Cutest Linux Computer Ever
- OpenMoko Unveils Neo FreeRunner
- Off Topic: Desktop evaluation - Linux, Mac OS and Windows
- PDF3D Toolkit Adds Unified 3D File Conversion Architecture, Linux, Image Loading
- AMD reveals open source client management tool
- Don’t have a laptop? Try the virtual computer !
- Irish Open Source Technology Conference 2008
- Partnership to market embedded SQL database
- Infogain and Compiere Form Open Source Alliance
- OSS Developers and the Road Less Traveled
- The Seven/Big/Days/Bang Mashup
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Google said,
May 4, 2008 at 12:58 am
Microsoft having 25% in apple ??
LOL !!!
Roy Schestowitz said,
May 4, 2008 at 1:20 am
Yes, and it’s not necessarily a good thing. As a shareholder it can have impact on the company’s strategic decisions. It can encourage the use of OOXML in Apple products for example, And do don’t think it doesn’t happen.
http://boycottnovell.com/2008/04/09/microsoft-dirty-fight-vs-odf/
http://boycottnovell.com/2007/12/17/font-patent-deals-and-ooxml/
http://boycottnovell.com/2007/11/30/novell-apple-deal-similarity
Novell and Apple actually have a lot in common as far as their relationship with Microsoft is concerned. Remember that Microsoft does not mind using Apple to knock off its #1 rival, which is Free software (mainly the GPL), by it very own and recent admission. It calls it “Linux” and tries to separate “open source” from the rest (Ah! The power of words).
Be aware that Apple/Mac users are a source of revenue to Microsoft (patent deals/cross-licensing, Microsoft Office for Mac, etc.), unlike GNU/Linux.
Microsoft is also afraid of Google, to which GNU is an important enabler. The same goes for IBM which strategises like this (also, increasingly, Sun, Oracle and others).
LinuxIsFun said,
May 4, 2008 at 6:20 am
How much of Google / Redhat is owned by Microsoft ?
Roy Schestowitz said,
May 4, 2008 at 8:08 am
None as far as I know, but some former Microsoft employees land in Google, which might lead to problems in the future (it already proves to be troubling, based on what Schmidt said last year).