Dell keeps improving Linux support, Jul 18, 2007

There's been no major improvements in Dell's Linux software support, but there have been small, but handy, improvements in Dell's support offerings.

If the two formats could in fact represent the exact same data, there would be no reason for MS-OOXML to exist. And there would be no excuse for Microsoft not to use ODF natively for its office application.

... free software projects like Linux, Apache, and Firefox are in fact excellent illustrations of the power of libertarian ideas.

Microsoft says software that's licensed under GPLv3 isn't covered by the patent protection deal it recently signed with desktop Linux distributor Linspire.

ssues around compatibility as well as the question of future technology direction have led the Automobile Association to dump Open Office in favour of Microsoft Office.

I'll play Nostradamus and predict that Oracle will not buy Red Hat. Oracle may buy BEA. Here's why...

A lot about the last few years of Microsoft seems to very much be playing games with customers: their licensing and what, seven different “versions” of Vista, and all the DRM crap they are trying to push on their customers are not actually what anybody wants.

Well-known Linux luminary Jon "maddog" Hall is CTO and "ambassador" of a startup selling Linux-based thin clients and network appliances. Koolu currently has two hardware offerings that run Ubuntu Linux, and work with Google Apps in energy- and pollution-sparing installations for business, government, and education.

Forget about paying a couple hundred dollars for an operating system that is riddled with problems, the next version of Windows should be open source!

Xandros CEO Andy Typaldos told DesktopLinux.com that his Ottawa-based Linux desktop and server company has acquired privately owned open-source e-mail and calendaring provider Scalix under terms that were undisclosed.

Oracle has announced the first big-name software vendor to support its Unbreakable Linux support program with the news that Symantec is certifying its Veritas software to Oracle Enterprise Linux.

Intellectual property may be off the table, for now, but it sure seems like Red Hat and Microsoft are still dancing around coming to some kind of partnership relationship.

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