Posts Tagged Microsoft
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 [...]
Ranking Google
Posted by Jason in Free Software, Linux, Open Source on August 6, 2010
Adam Williamson has a good series of “controversial crap” over on his blog, mainly discussing things related to the recent Red Hat/Canonical kerfuffle (but there are some other interesting bits as well). In his clarification post, this bit caught my attention: The reason I don’t complain much about Microsoft or Apple or Google is that I pretty [...]
RMS on Microsoft sponsorship
Posted by Jason in Free Software, Microsoft, Open Source on August 4, 2010
A Little Background eLiberatica is an “Open Source and Free Software” conference in Romania, sponsored by Microsoft. A Gentle Reader of this blog, Dan Serban, questioned this relationship and contacted Richard Stallman for his comments on such situations. Lucy, you’ve got some ‘splaining to do! eLiberatica Conference Chair Lucian Savluc has offered up “Some clarity about eLiberatica [...]
What “Open” means to Microsoft
Posted by admin in Standardization on August 4, 2009
Recent statements on “Open” give an interesting insight into Microsoft constancy.
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