Category Archives: Microsoft

War is started: Red had has been sued for patent infringement

IP Innovation LLC sued Red Hat and Novell (yes, Novell) for patent infringement about multiple workspaces (you’re right, this is unbelievable). Is there Microsoft hand? We can’t say that but we know that IP Innovation LLC has just recruited some Microsoft executives… Please read the complete article on Groklaw.

Thank you Red Hat

Many bloggers talked about the Liberation fonts released by Red Hat but when I read the press release I thought “why none thought about that before?” i hear people say “Linux doesn’t work, I open a Word document and it’s all broken”. It’s the “90-10″ rule, 10% of a system causes 90% problems. Our Linux [...]

Italy: always one step ahead

In the last free days Italian government signed with Microsof to build 3 research centers in Italy, Microsoft investment will be off 1 milion dollar in 3 years (can I say nothing?) but none told about Italian investment. What will those centers do? Build innovations with Microsoft products thus enhance Microsoft business. I’m not against [...]

Why not an open standard for web animations?

Talking about web we have many open standards, actually we also have an open standard for documents (opendocument). Till now animations were only done by Macromedia Flash, now is going out Microsoft Silverlight, both with obviously different “protocols”. We (Linux users) had some difficulties with flash player in the past, some guys are working on [...]