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The role of Mono and Novell in fulfilling Microsoft's desire to change GNU/Linux

Microsoft turns out not to be a fan of open source after all.

In this latest summary of reports, we concentrate mainly on the effect of the current patent terrain on FOSS.

Remember what Microsoft has in mind. As Steve Ballmer once shouted (and even damaged his vocal chords in the process), it's "Windows Windows Windows".

We rely very much on journalists to help us sift through the muddier waters of the river of truth, and Joe Barr was one of the best

Microsoft sponsored OSCON. Very, very handsomely. Lots of money exchanged hands so that Microsoft can be nearer to its #1 competitor (according to Steve Ballmer and Ray Ozzie).

Assortment of financial analyses about Microsoft and its disappointing quarterly report

Microsoft is buying the election and is set to decide on its non-existent proprietary formats next week.

VMWare mustnâ??t be taken on a similar type of ride under EMCâ??s reign. EMC, just like Citrix, is one of Microsoftâ??s top partners and it controls VMWare, in charge of which it put a Microsoft man.

More new signs of Microsoft poisoning Free software using sponsorships, acquisitions, and Mono

Microsoft is once again dumping its non-Free software on 11 million children in a country that moves to GNU/Linux

Diane Greene thrown out just a week or so after EMC became Microsoft's Partner of the Year

Watch the BBC getting grilled at the Parliament over its blind servitude to Microsoft, which it simply cannot defend

Microsoft Corporation is suddenly inviting all people behind ODF to 'pull a Patrick Durusau' and come to Microsoft's turf.

Some believe that he idea of the Novell/Microsoft agreement came from IBM and Oracle. They went to Novell with the following plan: Microsoft would be very much interested in two things with Novell: polluting/diluting the Linux brand and message (Microsoft could also have a dent in the Linux market). This is always overlooked,

The One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) project -- which aimed to give underprivileged children around the world a better chance at modern education -- may have been stifled though a combination of disinformation and other coordinated efforts by hardware and software monopolies that wanted to stop it.

Microsoft's strategy goes like this: invade open source, redefine open source, make open source work better on Windows, force open source to 'license' for software patents

The intra-governmental aspect of this may spur the network effect. Slovakia has already shown it was fond of ODF some time in the past.

As some people here probably already know, I am no fan of Mono - not for technical reasons (mostly [3]), but simply for political ones. Specifically, I’m talking about so-called Software Patents, and even more importantly, precisely who owns those patents

Do consider asking your national standards body to join the complaint of South Africa. [...] This opportunity to stop or slow down OOXML is rare and the days that are left to do so are few. We ought to take advantage of this while it lasts.