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On The Microsoft Brand
After all the internet-is-serious-bizness Mono posts of late, it’s time for a silly post… just on something I noticed and found funny. I usually listen to The Adam Carolla Show - which is great by the way, check it out – and it recently picked up Bing as a sponsor. This means the host usually does [...]
What Patents is Novell Selling?
Posted by Jason in Linux, Microsoft, Novell, Patent System on November 26, 2010
Happy Turkey Day! According to my (on-going and slip-shod) research, here’s some speculation on exactly what patents Novell is selling to Microsoft. What patents are for sell? Only a number (882) is given in the SEC filing, so we don’t know for sure. But, we can look at patents assigned to (and applied for by) [...]
Novell’s Final Betrayal: 800+ Patents to Microsoft
Today Novell announced its final betrayal of Linux and the Free and Open Source Community: Novell also announced it has entered into a definitive agreement for the concurrent sale of certain intellectual property assets to CPTN Holdings LLC, a consortium of technology companies organized by Microsoft Corporation, for $450 million in cash, which cash payment is reflected [...]
Microsoft becoming the next SCO
Posted by admin in Microsoft, Patent System on October 5, 2010
Steve Ballmer tells it best in his own words: Android has a patent fee. It’s not like Android’s free. You do have to license patents. HTC’s signed a license with us and you’re going to see license fees clearly for Android as well as for Windows. http://tech.fortune.cnn.com/2010/10/03/ballmer-android-aint-free-microsoft-gets-paid/ And some desillusioned people still believe Mono/Moonlight would [...]
Microsoft’s “anti-Linux” tactic
Posted by Jason in Free Software, Linux, Microsoft on October 3, 2010
Short, but interesting article over on Seattle Times, “Microsoft using anti-Linux tactic against Google’s Android“: The lawsuit Microsoft filed against Motorola and its use of Google’s Android phone software is awfully familiar. Microsoft used the same tactic against Linux when the open-source software reached critical mass in the data center and threatened to derail the [...]
On Foundations
Posted by Jason in Free Software, Microsoft, Novell, Open Source on September 29, 2010
Couple of things going on Foundation-wise. LibreOffice LibreOffice is the “rebranding” of OpenOffice.org under the umbrella of the newly formed The Document Foundation. The purpose of The Document Foundation is to be an “independent self-governing meritocratic Foundation”, and although it doesn’t come right out and say it, the main purpose seems to be to move OpenOffice.org out from under [...]
Open Source as viewed from MS
Posted by harrytuttle in Microsoft, Open Source on August 25, 2010
Just read this article to get an idea from MS’s own slideshow how they see OpenSource, and the only way they would love it exist: http://martin.iturbide.com/?page_id=114
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