November 21st, 2006
Statements yesterday from Novell and Microsoft sought to clarify and repair relations between the new friends, damaged by Steve Ballmer’s comments last week.
The heads of Novell fired off an angry letter in response to Ballmer that contained:
We disagree with the recent statements made by Microsoft on the topic of Linux and patents. Importantly, our agreement [...]
November 20th, 2006
Eben Moglen, legal counsel to the Free Software Foundation, explains the attack on Linux technologies from monopolist Microsoft, and describes how the GPL v3 may save the open source world. Remember folks, whenever Microsoft tries to make a deal with a company, they never fail to achieve a basic objective: To embrace, extend, and extinguish…
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June 5th, 2006
To illustrate how badly Microsoft Windows is designed, Australian IT magazine has a humorous article regarding Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer's troubleshooting session for a friend. Apparently Ballmer was attending a wedding and the bride's father had asked him to troubleshoot his Windows PC at home. Of course, Ballmer volunteered to check it out because he [...]