Microsoft making the FLOSS News
What a day today has been for FLOSS news! The ‘net is buzzing with the article published in Fortune Magazine this morning which explains how Microsoft is claiming Linux and other Open Source software...
View ArticleDrowning in their own FUD?
What a few days it has been! The largest software company in world makes a couple of public statements regarding their business and claim unfair competition1 from the Open Source community (which is,...
View ArticlePut your money where your mouth is…
It really does look as though the big “M” has just upset too many people for this thing to be ignored or go away any time soon. All over the Internet there are blogs, news articles, wiki pages and even...
View ArticleUS Patent Law and Microsoft – Jeez!!!
I found this link in an article entitled “Microsoft’s Advertising Framework” on Glyn Moody’s blog. I have been following the Patent saber-rattling by Microsoft and their simultaneous attempt to own the...
View ArticleWhat a difference a single letter makes…
I have just read this article on the Register and it makes me proud to be British! A patent for the handling of gratuities in card payments has been revoked by the UK Intellectual Property Office (IPO)...
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How to remove Mono (M$) from Ubuntu Hardy Heron
I have had a long-time problem with Mono and the Mono-based applications that, for reasons I do not understand, come installed by default with Ubuntu. For those who don’t know about it, Mono: provides...
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A Little Bit of Fry and Richard
How good to see one of “us brits” over there… BOSTON, Massachusetts, USA — Tuesday, September 2, 2008 — The GNU operating system is turning 25 this year, and the Free Software Foundation (FSF) has...
View ArticleThe Ubuntu/Mono debate continues…
Mono seems to be causing a great deal of debate and discussion within the Ubuntu Community right now. I’m sure it probably always has, but it definitely seems that the intensity is building at the...
View ArticlePromises, promises
Microsoft made an interesting announcement, they are promising not to sue people for using Mono. Jolly good of them really, it is nice not being sued. Lets just assume for the moment that this promise...
View ArticleSoftware Patents: The new MAD
With the recent news of Microsoft being told to stop selling MS Word in the US due to it’s infringement of a patent owned by i4i I am really hopeful that perhaps, just perhaps, someone will start to...
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