05.12.08
Links 12/05/2008: GNU/Linux Laptops Introduced and Reviewed; Fedora 9 Leaked, Receives DWW Rave
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GNU/Linux Laptops
Fedora & Red Hat
- First impressions of Fedora 9 with KDE 4
- Fedora 9 leaked
- Linux delivers dramatic virtualisation performance
Java
- Sun: Java ubiquity an advantage in RIA battle
- Sun Shows How JavaFX Creates Rich Internet Applications at JavaOne
- UP students get award from father of Java
Free Software
- Open-Source Software: How the Stock Market Views It
- Open Source [GNU LGPL] Clinical Trial Software Gets Attention at DIA Annual Meeting
- Irelands Youngest Tech Millionaire to Speak at Open Source Conference
Mr. Softee Does Them Ol’ Tricks…
- Douglas M. Goodyear and the DCI Microsoft connection
- Microsoft Cofee brews ‘back door’ fears
- Microsoft blocks YouTube links
- Microsoft doesn’t get mad; it gets even
- Let’s See Microsoft Innovate Its Way Out of This
- When DRM detonates your music collection
- EA drops draconian DRM
Microsoft Failures Du Jour
- Microsoft Prefers Flash to Silverlight
- Microsoft’s Hailstorm reappearing in the cloud?
- Why Microsoft’s approach to data centers won’t work
- Microsoft Windows CE Image Processing Vulnerabilities [Highly Critical]
- Microsoft To Release 3 Critical, 1 Moderate Update Next Week
- Clamoring for Microsoft to keep XP alive
- From Vista to Zune: Why Microsoft Can’t Sell to Consumers
Microsoft-Yahoo-Google
- Two losers as Yahoo & Microsoft end talks
- Does Microsoft Expect to Be Believed?
- Google plays the deal spoiler
- Google relieved Microsoft-Yahoo pact failed
- Google execs hope for long-term ad deal with Yahoo
- Yahoo and Google securing ad revenue, shutting Microsoft out
- Google-Yahoo! collects some strange enemies
Leftovers
- You Can Hack An OS But You Can’t Hack People - part 3: More Maps
- Nexuiz 2.4.2 Open-Source FPS Released
Note: if you dislike this new format of “Links”, please shout out.




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.
Oleg said,
May 12, 2008 at 12:50 pm
> Note: if you dislike this new format of “Links”, please shout out.
Thank you for your work of gathering and systematizing of all the links, Roy. It’s much better this way.
Max Stirner said,
May 12, 2008 at 1:32 pm
am officially a fan of your daily link collections- saves me a lot of time!
dont care too much for the categories..
ZiggyFish said,
May 12, 2008 at 5:05 pm
I like it this way
FSFan said,
May 12, 2008 at 6:14 pm
Stumbled upon some rather disturbing news today:
http://jeffreystedfast.blogspot.com/2008/05/wouldnt-it-be-nice-if.html
Looks like this guy is forcing MONO into a core part of Evolution, namely the IMAP code.
I think this is the same guy that added the C# plugin stuff a while back.
This guy needs to be banned from contributing to Free Software before he does any more damage.
Then he had this comment to say:
What an asshole.
Roy Schestowitz said,
May 12, 2008 at 8:21 pm
Heh. Like we didn’t see /that/ coming.
So it’s already happening. The ‘extensions’ bit was just the start of something broader, akin to Tomboy. In the same way, “child porn” and “terrorism” are often used as a prelude to political censorship and filtering for the MPAA/RIAA.
Good luck to them with .NET, OOXML, Windows DRM and the rest of that stuff which probably will come.
Jeffrey Stedfast has also been one of our most vocal critics. He just wanted to justify what he does. Thank goodness for choice.