Microsoft tried to muck with anti-Linux ‘facts’

Microsoft's practice of paying analysts to conduct studies showing Windows' superiority over Linux have never sat right with me. It looks like my hunch was right that Microsoft's "Get the Facts"…

Microsoft browser rival Mozilla eyes China

Mozilla.org, which makes Firefox, the most popular Web browser alternative to Microsoft Corp.'s Internet Explorer, is setting up a China office to do battle in the world's second-largest Web…

Open XML translator lets Microsoft Word speak in open source

In an acknowledgment of the international push for open standards, Microsoft funded work on the Open XML translator but did not contribute any code. It allows Microsoft Word 2007 to open and save…

Microsoft Exec Wanted To Mask Linux Report Sponsorship

Microsoft executives pondered whether to remove the company's name from a 2002 report done by research firm IDC that touted Windows total cost of ownership over Linux, according to e-mail messages…

Beryl 0.2.0-RC1 Released

Yeah it is out. This is a preview release of the upcomming Beryl 0.2.0 which has been branched off into its more or less final form minus a couple bug fixes. It does have a couple known bugs, so…

Second Life's Open Source Fairy Tale

Developers have no guarantees when they open source an application. In many cases, they don't know who will use it, nor do they know how things will progress.

The fairy tale version is that…

Ubuntu Feisty Fawn Herd 3 Released

Feisty Fawn Herd 3, which will in time become Ubuntu 7.04.

Pre-releases of Feisty are *not* encouraged for anyone needing a stable system, or anyone who is not comfortable running into…

Linux Genuine Advantage

According to an independent study conducted by some scientists, many users of Linux are running non-Genuine versions of their operating system. This puts them at the disadvantage of having their…

Declaring Open Source

The U.S. Code is the operating system of our system of government, the line-by-line instructions that govern our federal government. The code contains provisions for pretty much everything you can…

Zend seeks a sustainable open-source model

Open-source software company Zend Technologies, hoping to double its revenue this year, says it will narrow its focus to big business and Web 2.0-style start-ups, according to incoming CEO Harold…