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An open letter to Steve Ballmer from Mandriva’s blog. UPDATE: maybe things are getting repaired.
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.
Yesterday a friend of mine asked me:
hey, my Windows is not working, can you fix it with your Ubuntu? That sentence still makes me smile :)
Microsoft’s website redesign
Look at it, HTML code is completely unreadable but you’ll notice that’s much more standard compliant and lighter. So standards are not so bad hu?
Italian Free Software Association about Italy-Microsoft agreement
We already knew that but now it’s pretty official: http://softwarelibero.it/riflessione-politiche-innovazione-ict
Microsoft won’t sue Linux users? Oh thank you so much!!
Is Microsoft telling us that they want every Linux companies to sign something like the Novell agreement? Should every Linux company pay Microsoft? :D Microsoft, we’re not here for kidding, if you want to continue on this road SHOW US THE CODE! It’s been told many times, IF Linux violates your patent we’ll change that [...]
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 [...]