Tag: Microsoft
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Moglen: How we’ll kill the Microsoft Novell deal
Eben Moglen, legal counsel to the Free Software Foundation, explains the attack on Linux technologies from monopolist Microsoft, and describes how the GPL v3 may save the open source world. Remember folks, whenever Microsoft tries to make a deal with a company, they never fail to achieve a basic objective: To embrace, extend, and extinguish……
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Microsoft CEO and engineers called in to exorcise Windows
To illustrate how badly Microsoft Windows is designed, Australian IT magazine has a humorous article regarding Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer's troubleshooting session for a friend. Apparently Ballmer was attending a wedding and the bride's father had asked him to troubleshoot his Windows PC at home. Of course, Ballmer volunteered to check it out because he…