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2007 03 20

Novell Slammed by Perens, Corrected (Set Straight) by FSF

Microsoft Uses Poor People to Market Vista in India

Op-ed: Windows License Harms Environment, Makes PCs Ugly

Washington Posts Says Steve Ballmer Shows Our Animal Roots

Windows Update Disables Firefox

Software Prepared to Detect GPLv3 Violations

Continuing OSS/Linux Penetration in South Africa

Java Co-inventor Says Open Source is More Secure

Microsoft Glitch with Windows Defender

Windows' War Against Viruses Lost Forever, Say Experts

Everybody's Security is Already Built on Open Source

GlassFish 2 and Open Source/Linux Addons Released

Linux Has No Real Competition in High-Performance Computing

Ian Murdock Interview; Former Debian Leader's Research on Release Cycles

Linux and OSS Gain Distributors in the Mainstream

Linux Wins Customer's Confidence Owing to Big Vendor Support

Linux Media Center Edition 1.0 Launched

European Patent Office on Software Patent Ambiguity

Op-ed: Linux Distros Moving Toward Cooperation; The Microkernel O/S (MINIX) Still Evolving

X.Org Configration Gets Another Graphical Front End (No More Editing of Text Files)

Microsoft Shill (Enderle) Lies to the Press About Linux, Again

Almost a Thousand Computers in Venezuelan Institution Converted to Linux

IE7 Still Tortures Web Developers

Mockup of a Simplified Beryl Settings Manager

OneCare (Wanker) is a Model Example of Microsoft Software

Reasons for School to Teach Under Linux

Linux Bootloader for XBox360 Has Come Along

Bill Gates Goes After Linux-loving Country to Sign Microsoft Deals

Microsoft Gives 'Free Samples', Tightens WGA

Adobe Curtails Linux Support with Apollo

Firefox Just as Popular as IE7 Among Those Who Mind Security

The Emergence of Open Notebook/Open Source Science

Novell Waves Its Hands at BrainShare, Oracle to Break Silence Today

Can USB Hard Drives Solve the OEM-Microsoft Deadlock Problem?

FBI Report on Internet Security Reveals Scale of Financial Damage

Linux Smartphones Gain Attraction Owing to iPhone

GPL Becomes a Strong Selling Point for Businesses

Linux Laptop Already Shipping, Reaches Milestone (Stable Linux Build)

First Stable OpenVG Release Supports Linux Devices

Op-ed: The Effect of the GPLv3 on GNU/Linux Developers

Debian Etch Reaches Release Candidate 2, Supports More Hardware

Zimbra Having an Open Source Affair with Linux

Microsoft No Longer Quite So American

Google Empowers Microsoft

India Backs Development of Its Own Debian-based Linux

University Provides Service for Linux Installs Over the Network

Adobe Snubs Windows Vista; Symantec Finds Another Vista Weakness

Open Source (GPL) Games Mean Money; Wii Wiining (sic)

Linux is Becoming Dominant in Voice over IP Arena as Skype Joins in

FSF Stance on Novell; GNOME SFLC Membership

Stockport Chooses Linux for E-mail

Tyan Personal Supercomputer Runs Linux

At Acer, Linux is $100 More Expensive Than Windows Vista

It's Very Clear That Microsoft is Openly Anti-Linux, Accepts No Rivalry

France Hits Back at OSS-Discriminatory DRM Laws

Mozilla Kicks off Discussion About Mozilla Desktop Environment

Ten Reasons Windows Vista Fails to Sell

Novell Gets Told Off by NASDAQ (Again)