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Linus Loves It! »
Posted by: schestowitz 2 weeks, 2 days ago in Science & Technology
Eureka in Japan! [joke]
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Bill Gates Called “LUNIX” a Threat Back in 1997 »
Posted by: schestowitz 2 months, 2 weeks ago in Science & Technology
He meant “GNU/Linux”, not “LUNIX”, but it was new at the scene. Even then, back when Linux was a 6-year-old kernel, Microsoft feared it ...
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Comes: Microsoft’s Anti-GNU/Linux Presentation and Explanation of Bribery »
Posted by: schestowitz 2 months, 2 weeks ago in Science & Technology
Microsoft's Delta Force presents an attack plan on GNU/Linux adoption
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Comes Antitrust: Microsoft's Attack Plan on GNU/Linux »
Posted by: schestowitz 3 months, 1 week ago in Science & Technology
A new antitrust exhibit ties together documents that show how Microsoft planned to attack GNU/Linux
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Bill Gates: “Our Most Potent Operating System Competitor is Linux” »
Posted by: schestowitz 4 months, 2 weeks ago in Science & Technology
In today’s exhibit, Exhibit PX08256 (2001) [PDF], a revealing memo from Gates is shown publicly, probably for the first time at least on the ...
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How Steve Ballmer (and Colleagues) Deliberately Sabotaged OS/2 »
Posted by: schestowitz 4 months, 3 weeks ago in Business & Finance
While IBM and Microsoft were still officially “partners” on OS/2, Microsoft got someone to write a “bad app” to crash on OS/2. Steve ...
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Why Mono (and Moonlight) is Microsoft’s Embrace »
Posted by: schestowitz 5 months ago in Science & Technology
Microsoft is trying to embrace, extend, and extinguish GNU/Linux, largely with the help of Novell. Moonlight is already called "Microsoft Moonlight" in the Novell ...
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Palm's Linux smartphone debuts »
Posted by: schestowitz 5 months ago in Science & Technology
As promised, Palm's Linux-based smartphone went on sale Saturday, available exclusively for Sprint networks, says eWEEK. Early reviews have been favorable, although analysts worry ...
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10 KDE 4 desktop widgets to make you more productive »
Posted by: schestowitz 5 months ago in Science & Technology
Quite a few widgets are available for the KDE 4 desktop. Some serve little to no function. Others, however, can make your day-to-day computing life ...
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Testing Out ATI Kernel Mode-Setting On Ubuntu »
Posted by: schestowitz 5 months ago in Science & Technology
Kernel mode-setting for Intel graphics hardware can already be
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found in the mainline Linux kernel and will be included by default in the release
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Mono: An Infectious Disease — An Article by Chris Smart »
Posted by: schestowitz 5 months, 1 week ago in Science & Technology
What else can you do? Vote with your feet. Let your distributions know that you don’t want Mono tainting free software. You’ll also ...
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If Microsoft Removes 3-App Restriction, Linux Still Wins »
Posted by: schestowitz 5 months, 2 weeks ago in Science & Technology
The coming year will be hugely interesting and John Dvorak, a recent Ubuntu GNU/Linux migrant, has just predicted over at MarketWatch that GNU/Linux ...
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Dell sells Microsoft Ubuntu »
Posted by: schestowitz 6 months ago in Science & Technology
Here we go, again. Dell’s configurator displays something bizarre, as the screenshots below show.
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How Microsoft Changes the Prices at OEMs to Block GNU/Linux »
Posted by: schestowitz 7 months ago in Science & Technology
Antitrust exhibit shows how Microsoft changes its pricing to suppress interest in GNU/Linux
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Fight Over FAT Can Hurt Microsoft »
Posted by: schestowitz 7 months, 1 week ago in Science & Technology
A detailed overview of TomTom/FAT highlights and events which occurred in the past week
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