Microsoft ad pulled by ASA, Mar 21, 2003

The Advertising Standards Authority of SA (ASA) (South Africa) has ordered that a Microsoft ad implying that its software will bring about the extinction of the hacker is to be pulled for being "unsubstantiated and misleading"

"XFree86 is hard to get involved with usefully, resistant to cool ideas," Cox said. The project suffers from "plodding progress", a reluctance by leaders to delegate decisions to lower-ranking programmers and preference for infrequent releases rather than the frequent updates used for the Linux kernel itself.

And in January, another Red Hat programmer, Mike Harris, said XFree86's actions damage relations with outside companies such as graphics card maker ATI, which has had to wait "months and months" for software updates to be accepted.

Hitachi Wednesday said it has inked a deal to equip its upcoming Linux-based wireless Tablet-PC with handwriting recognition software from Codehost.

According to Robertson, Intel is refusing to play ball when it comes to getting Linux up and running on the Centrino chipset machines. He says that Intel is not providing Linux drivers for the essential hardware inside the chipset, leaving the open source community to scrabble around trying to figure out how to make drivers for themselves. That's a process that could take years.

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