http://boycottnovell.com Exploring the reality behind exclusionary deals with Microsoft and their subtle (yet severe) implications Wed, 01 Jul 2009 23:16:42 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Read the log Enter the IRC channel now To use your own IRC client, join channel #boycottnovell in FreeNode. Come and join us while the site takes a break around the 4th of July. The IRC channel stays active. http://boycottnovell.com/2009/07/01/irc-log-01072009/ Microsoft rarely assaults directly "...Microsoft wished to promote SCO and its pending lawsuit against IBM and the Linux operating system. But Microsoft did not want to be seen as attacking IBM or Linux." ... http://boycottnovell.com/2009/07/01/patent-racketeering-myhrvold/ Summary: A lot of news about Mono with special emphasis on key developments A GREAT DEAL has happened [1, 2, 3, 4, 5] since Richard Stallman spoke his mind about Mono. Coverage in the press was initially scarce because Stallman's statement had been made public just before the end of the ... http://boycottnovell.com/2009/07/01/mono-poll-on-rms/ Summary: Microsoft demonstrates that non-Free software is simply incapable of handling mission-critical tasks like GNU/Linux does (in Wall Street for example) BACKED by roughly 20 references, we have already written quite extensively about the recurring issues at the LSE (the stock market, not the school). It is considered to be ... http://boycottnovell.com/2009/07/01/lse-platform-dumped/ • IE 8 Get the facts campaign gets it wrong If Microsoft wants me and others like me, to take IE 8 seriously, I expect them to treat our intelligence with some respect. Anything less, and after a while, we’ll have been taught to discount their bold claims. • Excellent example ... http://boycottnovell.com/2009/07/01/web-browser-links/ Summary: Beyond the hype there is a rather colossal failure that the press actually reports on HERE IS just a quick pointer to this new article from IDG. It shows that Windows XP (and GNU/Linux) is still keeping Vista out of people's PCs. A year ago today, Microsoft pulled the plug on ... http://boycottnovell.com/2009/07/01/vista-rejected-by-customers/ Contents GNU/Linux Distributions Devices/Embedded Free Software/Open Source Leftovers Digital Tipping Point: Clip of the Day GNU/Linux Schools rebooting with Linux systemIn early 2008, School District No. 33 trustees voted to replace virtually all 1,200-or-so computers Chilliwack elementary school students were using for a cost about $600,000. The major challenge, beyond replacing the equipment, has been making sure the students ... http://boycottnovell.com/2009/07/01/new-ibm-compiler/ Summary: Another classic case of illegitimate use of money without public tender THE GOVERNMENT of Switzerland was recently sued for doing this type of thing, which is a violation of the law. See for example: Microsoft Sued Over Its Corruption in Switzerland, Microsoft Debt Revisited Can the United Kingdom and Hungary Still be ... http://boycottnovell.com/2009/07/01/inci-procurement-microsoft/ Summary: Microsoft is giving awards to marketing people who help its fight against GNU/Linux (and Free software in general) FOR the uninitiated, learn how Microsoft trains its evangelists to crash competitors' events by attending them and stealing the thunder. This is not a side-effect but an actual intention which Microsoft employees ... http://boycottnovell.com/2009/07/01/mscosconf-anti-linux-marketing/ Summary: Microsoft carries on smearing ODF in public while pretending to support it Microsoft is still changing ODF's history and daemonising ODF using Wikipedia. We wrote about that in: Microsoft Starts Attacking the ODF Alliance, Sends Paid Wikipedia Editors to ODF Article (Updated) OOXML BRM Convenor (Alex Brown) Joins the Pro-Microsoft Wikipedia Spinners Microsoft ... http://boycottnovell.com/2009/07/01/microsoft-manipulation-odf-wikipedia/ Summary: New signs lead back to Microsoft (not just Novell) IN recent posts [1, 2, 3, 4] about Richard Stallman's statement on Mono, we saw that resistance to it mostly comes from Mono developers, Novell, Microsoft and other such stake holders. We have already seen the FSF and the SFLC putting ... http://boycottnovell.com/2009/07/01/mono-backed-by-microsoft/ Summary: Axing embellished as "folding", more on "perception management" Mary Jo Foley links to this report about Microsoft's Channel 8 and Channel 10 getting folded into Channel 9, which Miguel de Icaza seemingly admires. As Foley puts it, they do not publicly acknowledge that budgetary constraints are the cause. “As Foley puts ... http://boycottnovell.com/2009/07/01/channel-8-channel-10-no-signal/ Summary: Janet Napolitano from Microsoft speaks on behalf of the DHS about the effect of Windows zombies A couple of weeks ago we warned about the possibility that the US security czar will be a Microsoft employee. This is alarming because the new DHS secretary is a Microsoft employee (correction: that ... http://boycottnovell.com/2009/07/01/janet-napolitano-on-ddos/ Read the log Enter the IRC channel now To use your own IRC client, join channel #boycottnovell in FreeNode. http://boycottnovell.com/2009/06/30/irc-log-30062009/ Summary: More opposition to Mono surfaces, detailed explanations offered AS we pointed out over the weekend [1, 2], the SFLC and FSF are in alignment with Richard Stallman's views on Mono and so are many others. But Bradley Kuhn has just made it more official with a long essay at the ... http://boycottnovell.com/2009/06/30/mono-opposition-grows/ Remark: At this pace of abandonment, who will be left to lead? LAST week we saw the departure of at least two Microsoft executives [1, 2] (among around half a dozen so far this month) and joining this exodus will be the vice president of Services. Maybe it's a morale problem. Maria ... http://boycottnovell.com/2009/06/30/another-microsoft-chief-quits/ Summary: Microsoft hangs the Messenger EARLY in the day we wrote about Microsoft discarding over 2,000 more employees and once in about a fortnight (on average) we see yet another Microsoft product being axed. The latest product which Microsoft axes has got a few hours left to live. That product is ... http://boycottnovell.com/2009/06/30/msn-web-messenger-canned/ Summary: Microsoft uses Michael Jackson's tragic death to advertise itself SEVERAL WEEKS ago, the media industry used a really traumatic experience of pirates in Somalia to make a comparison to people who share files. Several years ago, Microsoft fraudulently also used the identities of deceased people to rescue itself from criminal ... http://boycottnovell.com/2009/06/30/microsoft-exploits-mj-death/ Contents GNU/Linux Distributions Devices/Embedded Free Software/Open Source Leftovers Digital Tipping Point: Clip of the Day GNU/Linux LiMux, how Linux revolutionized GermanyGerman city Munich got itself into the American newspapers a few years ago when the city council decided to start the project LiMux, aimed at gradually banishing Microsoft programs from the town hall computers & introduce Open Source ... http://boycottnovell.com/2009/06/30/kde-4-3-video/ In order for records to be approached or even broken, if you are a Firefox user (about 60-70% of our visitors are), don't forget to grab a copy of the latest great release some time before the end of the day. Having just installed it, the software looks fantastic and ... http://boycottnovell.com/2009/06/30/praise-firefox-35/