In Vino, Veritas
Microsoft’s True Targets Come To Light I was pondering just recently, why Xandros? (I also pondered "why, Xandros?", but that is another discussion), and realized that Xandros includes CrossOver Office...
View ArticleIs Scalix Now ‘Infected’ with Microsoft Tax by Association? (Updated)
A Linux company that joined Microsoft and its FUD crusade has just acquired another. Scalix is, as far as I can recall, a proprietary solution built on top of GNU/Linux. It has had some big business...
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The Kernel You Crave, But the Licence Won’t Let You Have
Speculations again. We have already written about half a dozen posts which explore the possibility that Microsoft uses Novell to create ‘Winux’ (Windows with a Linux kernel). Here is one such post and...
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Speculation: Is Microsoft Causing Epic’s Unreal Tournament 3 GNU/Linux Client...
A regular reader, SubSonica, has brought to our attention and grouped together a variety of new stories and speculations that are actively being censored. He shares his understanding of the following...
View ArticleQuick Mention: What on Earth is Microsoft Doing to Fine Wine?
A colleague of mine at the office has just told me that Microsoft is scanning the Registry files to ensure there’s no Wine in there. Wine has just reached RC of the highly-anticipated version 1.0 [*],...
View ArticleDo-No-Evil Saturday – Part II: SLED/SLES Service Pack, More Xandros at Asustek
There are various new bits and pieces in SUSE Linux, but the main news item is about the release of the second Service Pack. We start with SLES and SLED. SLED/SLES Service Pack Here is the...
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Wine Project Responds to Microsoft FUD Award
Toasting to FUD? Why? THE financial SourceForge-Microsoft link is a subject that we covered before [1, 2, 3, 4], so the following award, granted to Wine, was in a way sponsored by Microsoft. The Wine...
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VMB_ware — Now Headed by Former Microsoft Executives — is Claimed to be...
Paul MaritzPhoto by Robert Scoble Summary: Non-standard and Microsoft-controlled APIs are said to be pushed into Microsoft’s #1 competition (Linux) via the VM company people should beware as it also...
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Microsoft Tax on Everything
A matter of protectionism Summary: The company which hardly pays any tax is busy trying to tax GNU/Linux, Android, and all hardware in the OEM channel THE OTHER day somebody told us that Wine had been...
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Campaign of Intimidation Against GNU/Linux, Courtesy of US Patent Law
Long-sighted FUD strategy Summary: Commentary about Microsoft’s attempts to make GNU/Linux look like it’s its own property, thanks in part to broken patent law in the United States YEARS AGO, shortly...
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Microsoft ‘Moles’ Inside WINE Project? WINE Should Bring Windows Users to...
Published hours ago as a press release paid for by WSL (Windows) boosters Summary: The press release above (link omitted, it was pinned in several sites) is a cause for concern; after Microsoft...
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Bringing DRM to GNU/Linux to Attract the Stereotypical ‘Gamers’
DRM at the application level as opposed to operating system level Summary: With streaming disservices such as Google’s Stadia (GNU/Linux-powered, albeit proprietary and spying) and rental-like...
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