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Groklaw interview with Mark Taylor re the BBC's iPlayer project

the iPlayer is turning out to be a horrific piece of MS-DRM malware: 'the BBC management team who are responsible for the iPlayer are a checklist of senior employees from MS who were involved with Windows Media'. truly horrific; BBC are getting shafted

open-source: del.icio.us tag/open-source

Free Software Free Society

Several nonprofit activist groups sign a statement supporting free software and criticizing Microsoft Vista. Anyone who agrees can add their own signature, and join the call.

open-source: del.icio.us tag/open-source

CEO of Mandriva: We will not go to Canossa - No deal with Microsoft

Mandriva believes in interoperability, which must be based on open standards, like ODF. They also believe that software patent threats are just FUD. So no deal with Microsoft from Mandriva.

open-source: del.icio.us tag/open-source

Microsoft Wants FOSS Users to Pay Royalties

A CNN report tells of Microsoft wanting royalties from distributors and users of free software like Linux. Microsoft claims that free software violated 235 of its patents.

open-source: del.icio.us tag/open-source

Microsoft to Support OpenID - Security Fix

Are my eyes deceiving me? Bill Gates has just said that Microsoft intends to support OpenID.

open-source: del.icio.us tag/open-source

CTV.ca | Microsoft catches up with Vista... but will it sell?

This article talks about open source, but the concerns apply to free software as well. We'll be in good company rejecting Vista -- sounds like 90% of users are doing the same thing.

open-source: del.icio.us tag/open-source

Vista at the tipping point | Tech News on ZDNet

"Why is Vista such a catastrophe and how does this affect the Open Source/Free Software community? Part of the problem, I think, is that Vista essentially does nothing new, and has no new features that are of interest to the general computer using public.

open-source: del.icio.us tag/open-source

FLOSS Weekly podcast with Jeremy Allison (Samba and Microsoft)

In the section of the interview from around 33m30s to 39m00 Jeremy Allison reports how he was told that the Microsoft team implementing SMB2 were ordered to "f**k with Samba".

Samba: del.icio.us tag/samba

BadVista Blog — BadVista

Windows Vista is the worst release of Windows ever. Too demanding on hardware, nothing new over Windows XP and a lot of bad technology built-in like DRM and TCPA that takes away freedom from the user.

opensource: del.icio.us tag/opensource

Samba Team Asks Novell to Reconsider

The Samba Team disapproves strongly of the actions taken by Novell on November 2nd.

Samba: del.icio.us tag/samba

Samba Team Asks Novell to Reconsider

The Samba Team disapproves strongly of the actions taken by Novell on November 2nd.

License:GPL: del.icio.us tag/gpl