microsoft – Just another Linux geek

22 March, 201122 March, 2011Tech

Microsoft “licenses its patents” to Android manufacturers, sues if they don’t agree

There’s never been any evidence that Microsoft goes after Linux based products, right? Hog wash. Well, now it’s just Tom Tom all over again. So, we know that Microsoft has […]

9 March, 2010Tech

I-O Data pays Microsoft to use Linux

Another day, another Microsoft cross-patent licensing agreement for companies who use Linux. Japan-based I-O Data Device Inc. has agreed to cough up an undisclosed sum to the software giant for […]

22 January, 201022 January, 2010FOSS

Jeremy Allison talks about the Microsoft Elephant in the room

Jeremy’s talk at LCA 2010 provides a

22 January, 201022 January, 2010FOSS

A call for the Government to use Free software

It has just been revealed that the Australian Government spends “over half a billion dollars each year” on proprietary software licenses. That’s somewhere over $500,000,000. The Greens are heading a […]

20 January, 201020 January, 2010FOSS

Microsoft’s policy of allowing piracy in China backfires

During a speech at the University of Washington in 1998, Bill Gates said: “About 3 million computers get sold every year in China, but people don’t pay for the software. […]

15 January, 2010Tech

Windows based Internet cafés “illegal”

I never realised before, but Windows based Internet cafés violate Microsoft’s license terms, because: Windows desktop operating system and Microsoft Office system licenses do not permit renting, leasing, or outsourcing […]

17 December, 2009FOSS, Tech

Microsoft’s new “Patent Pledge for Open Source Developers”..

..is complete rubbish. Essentially, Microsoft has made a pledge (note, not a promise!) NOT TO SUE “open source” developers who create software for “their flagship products” SO LONG AS THEY […]

16 October, 200916 October, 2009FOSS

Jeremy Allison on Mono (and how it differs from Samba)

Jeremy Allison has spoken up about Mono, Novell’s implementation of Microsoft’s heavily patented .NET platform. He recommends that it be put into “restricted” repositories until the licensing issues can be […]

15 October, 200915 October, 2009FOSS

Mono is a trap – evidence

Still aren’t convinced that Mono is a trap which ultimately only benefits Microsoft? Take a look at this “Highly Confidential” document from Microsoft (from Comes vs Microsoft case) entitled “Effective […]

15 October, 200915 October, 2009FOSS, Tech

Quote for the day..

Our mission is to establish Microsoft’s platforms as the de facto standards throughout the computer industry. Our enemies are the vendors of platforms that compete with ours… The field of […]