PC makers, distributors pass on Windows XP N, Jun 25, 2005

PC makers and distributors are holding back from buying the new alternative version of Windows XP that Europe's competition commissioner ordered Microsoft Corp. to offer as part of the punishment in the software maker's long antitrust battle with the European Union.

Aussie Open Source advocate analyst, author, and hack Nigel McFarlane has died, according to The Age.

Microsoft has completed its acquisition of anti-virus company Sybari Software and announced the end of the company's Unix and Linux versions.

Linspire-oriented gamers will be pleased to learn that Linspire's CNR ("click and run") warehouse now stocks TransGaming's Cedega, which will make "hundreds of Triple-A rated Windows games" available for Linspire users, "with minimal installation," according to Linspire.

Microsoft Office faces stiffer competition from the open-source world following major releases of Office competitors for the Mac OS X, Unix and Linux platforms this week.

Embedded Planet is shipping a compact, "low cost" RFID reader development kit that includes Linux support and a sample RFID application.

Keep in mind that the GtF campaign did not represent a turn away from honest advertising, but rather continued a policy of deception.

Most of the time, open source supporters think of lawyers as a crowd of hungry vultures, throwing patents and cease-and-desist letters at innocent hackers. However, in the province of Foggia, Southern Italy, two small groups of lawyers have turned themselves into open source evangelists.

Sonia Gandhi has launched the latest stage of the Indian government's large-scale open source initiative.

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