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I have the court documents for you in the i4i v. Microsoft case, the judgment, the permanent injunction, and the memorandum and order, which explains the legal reasoning in support of the order. I also got for you the original complaint by i4i, Microsoft's answer with counterclaim, and i4i's reply to the counterclaim, so you can understand what it was all about. The law firm that won has put out a press release. Microsoft, of course, will appeal. It has 60 days to do so. You probably think I am delighted. I am not. I hate software patents. And this is precisely why. It is karmic that this happened to Microsoft, who bullies Linux with patent threats and just got an XML patent of its own on August 4th that could, presumably, be used against the entire market. How stupid do we have to be to grant patents on software? On software *standards*? This is what happens. Now do you see it?

Der Bund hat einen 42-Millionen-Auftrag an Microsoft vergeben. Konkurrenten von Microsoft sehen sich vom Wettbewerb ausgeschlossen. In der Tat ist der Auftrag nicht öffentlich ausgeschrieben worden. Nun droht eine Beschwerde an das Bundesverwaltungsgericht.

We recently posted a article entitled, Switching from Microsoft Office to Openoffice.org. We hope by now you have downloaded this great free office suite and that the migration went smoothly. The following article will further help you migrate, but this time concentrating only on the similarities between Microsoft Word and Openoffice.org Writer. These similarities are divided into basics, mid-level and advanced tasks.

To pay so much attention to Bill Gates' retirement is missing the point. What really matters is not Gates, nor Microsoft, but the unethical system of restrictions that Microsoft, like many other software companies, imposes on its customers.

In today's Neue Zürcher Zeitung (NZZ) there is a elaborated report on the questionable procurement of a 42 million CHF contract with Microsoft (publication in the Schweizerischen Handelsblatt SHAB).

Few things must be more emotionally paradoxical for the anti-patentistas of the world than to see Microsoft get clobbered on a patent infringement action. Do you rejoice because one of the great advocates, and enforcers, of software patents has gotten a strong dose of their own medicine? Or do you fret at yet another example of a patent system gone mad?

The Swiss government agency for Building and Logistics (BBL) has signed a software licence agreement with Microsoft worth 42 million CHF (about 27,8 million euro) without a request for tender, the Swiss newspaper Neue Zürcher Zeitung reported on Tuesday.

"We do not want to be belligerent about it. It is just that we do not want to project the impression that we want everybody to stop using the technology, or that this technology is too expensive."

Of course, MovieMaker is NOT Open Source, but that's precisely the point...

on downloading MovieMaker (2003)

"Herramientas Sorry, this e-recruitment site is only certified for Microsoft Internet Explorer version 5.0 and superior."

A graphic map depicting the epic struggle of Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) against the Empire of Microsoft.

Interesting + informative + a little extreme humor

When it comes to digitizing books and offering readers and writers a business model, Google has planted the wheat, harvested it, threshed it, ground it, and baked it. Now Microsoft, Amazon, and Yahoo think they each deserve a big slice of bread. They are taking the hen to court in order to get it. The effort, led by attorney Gary Reback, to challenge Google's deals with writers and publishers for digitizing "orphaned works" that are copyrighted but no longer published is less lawsuit than business by another name.

"Fry talking about monopolies in the tech world and how he feels about being one of the most influential names in tech." I love his reflection at the end about the contribution of technology towards the human spirit, open source software etc.