Embedded Linux Running in Devices != Combining Code with Devices
Addressing a common misconception… The Linux kernel is clearly a piece of software that is not built to integrally operate with a particular device. To be more precise, it is not implemented to achieve...
View ArticleHow to Handle Microsoft’s Unhealthy Obsession with GNU/Linux
Isn’t knowledge everybody’s friend? It ought to be clear by now that Microsoft has become over-obsessed with Linux, and rightly so. Looking at internal Microsoft documents, it is clear that Microsoft...
View ArticleNovell’s Annual Report 2007 – Quick Analysis
We have just made local copies that were taken from the public material at the SEC’s Web site. It’s Novell’s annual report for 2007. Here is a quick rundown. The full report is about 130-pages long,...
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Masuran’s on 2007, a Year of Microsoft FUD and Bribes
”What we have observed in recent months is a disturbing pattern of Microsoft briberies.“Sometimes, no matter how strong an accusation may seem, you have to call something what it truly is. What we...
View ArticleQuick Mention: New Microsoft-JVC Patent Deal Does Not Mention Linux (Updatedx3)
The part which is worth paying careful attention to is this: “the parties said that Microsoft is receiving compensation from JVC.” Here is the full (yet surprisingly short) press release: Microsoft,...
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Microsoft Bets on Software Patents to Maintain Its Monopoly
“Other than Bill Gates, I don’t know of any high tech CEO that sits down to review the company’s IP portfolio.” –Marshall Phelps “If seems unfortunate if we do this work and get our partners to do the...
View ArticleDon’t Let Journalists Make You Afraid of Mandriva, JVC
“We do NOT want to ship the ’standard’ with Windows because we want to make the native APIs more attractive. We want to evolve the standard APIs rapidly, and not have ISVs [independent software...
View ArticleOn Microsoft Patents and JVC’s Technical Agreement with Funai
There are many new articles at a moment (e.g. these earlier ones) which talk about Microsoft increasing its patent-filing pace. You are encouraged to keep in mind that Microsoft’s latest strategy...
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Is Mono Now Officially a Software Patent Trap?
“I saw that internally inside Microsoft many times when I was told to stay away from supporting Mono in public. They reserve the right to sue” –Robert Scoble, former Microsoft evangelist A few hours...
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SFLC: No Microsoft Tax for Us, Thank You Very Much….
Many affected companies and organisations have already responded to Microsoft’s ‘kind’ taxoperability offer and their angle was similar. The same goes for OOXML’s ‘kind’ promise, which ‘coincidentally’...
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Novell Takes Pride in Microsoft’s Taxoperability Precedence
Spin it, Ron, spin it It was pointed out just over a week ago that Novell had become somewhat of a Microsoft advertiser. It does a lot of Microsoft's PR, albeit by proxy, which makes it even more...
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OpenSUSE Sheds Off Its Novell Antiroots, Returns to Pre-Novell Codebase,...
Hot off the press: Microsoft and Novell Announce Departure of OpenSUSE Project, Renewed Patent Strategy Customers will continue to embrace SUSE Windows Enterprise; technical collaboration between...
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Why Again is the Novell/Microsoft Deal So Darn Ugly?
Image from Wikimedia Matt Asay has just weighed in on this debate that was mentioned here before. It’s centered around the mixing of Free software and software patents. His post is long, he has many...
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Novell Under the (Microsoft) Bridge
Novell rolling, rocking, and bridge-building A reader has sent us a pointer to this new article from Glyn Moody at Linux Journal. The article described just what Microsoft intends to achieve using its...
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Patents Roundup: From the Fight Against EU Sanity to Novell, Microsoft, and...
At this current pace, the USPTO will be falling down the wastebasket pretty soon (Grand Implosion™), so it remains important to ensure it does not take the EPO down along with it [1, 2]. Here are some...
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Novell Criticism Comes from Red Hat Too
Unsurprisingly, the anti-Red Hat deal [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12] which Microsoft and Novell had signed did not leave Red Hat too happy. Nevertheless, the new CEO has not said much about...
View ArticleMicrosoft and Samsung: Lots in Common
Fraudulent minds think alike; sign software patent deals W e have been through this more than once before [1, 2]. Samsung was caught in the midst of a huge scandal and even its chairman was personally...
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How Red Hat Dodged a Novell-Like Microsoft Deal Despite Lobbying for Software...
The Battle of Trafalgar Summary: Microsoft releases — via CNET — information about its secret patent “projects” WE HAVE BEEN AWARE for a couple of years now that Red Hat too was discussing patents...
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Novell Ignores Microsoft’s Community Promise Limitations
Summary: Novell’s development of Mono steps outside the sandbox defined by Microsoft’s Community Promise AS WE noted 5 days ago, the Mono developers (of which there are not many) are making Sqlite...
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Reactions to Microsoft’s Novell Software Inside GNU/Linux
Summary: This post brings together a variety of thoughts and insights into the impact of Novell’s actions, which promote Microsoft and demote GNU Microsoft-esque and Microsoft-funded/inspired software...
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