06.05.08
UK Prime Minister’s Office Accepts Petition to Adopt the Hague Declaration
For background about the Hague Declaration, see [1, 2, 3, 5] (most relevant first).
This new petition is another first step in the right direction in Britain. UK Residents might wish to sign it. It only takes a minute. It’s the route to ODF (among other open standards), which is a prerequisites for Free software adoption.
A similar petition was started a while ago by Libervis — one which asked to British government to back and defend the GNU GPL. █
From the Campaign for Document Freedom
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.
anonymous said,
June 5, 2008 at 10:38 am
Have just tried to install Windows Live Messenger on Windows Server 2008 and it failed. Interesting. I guess I’ll go for Google Talk or even Pidgin.