Microsoft told Nigeria to dump Linux for Windows, Nov 02, 2007

Nigerian schools bought thousands of PCs with Mandriva Linux pre-installed but after words from Microsoft, they switched to Windows.

Open-source software company Red Hat has said that it is concerned that Microsoft patent arrangements may not be compatible with open-source licensing models.

Claims made by Microsoft that Linux violates its software patent have not affected sales of Linux-based hardware, according to Michael Dell.

Open source company Novell relaunched its Linux driver program on Thursday.

Eric S Raymond, a founding member of the Open Source Initiative (OSI), labelled Microsoft's behaviour in pushing Office Open XML (OOXML) for fast track ISO certification as "egregious", and said that he was almost ready to recommend that Microsoft not receive approval from the OSI for the Microsoft Permissive License.

Dell will offer its Linux PCs for $50 (£24) less than the equivalent Windows PCs, the company has revealed on one of its websites.

Microsoft has said it has no immediate plans to sue after alleging patent infringements by open-source vendors.

Alan Cox, one of the leading Linux kernel developers, has told a U.K. House of Lords hearing that neither open nor closed source developers should be liable for the security of the code they write.

A Welsh county council has brokered a deal to provide open source email to up to 40,000 pupils and teachers.

Open-source project Fedora has launched Fedora Women, a forum and mailing list, in an effort to encourage more female developers to participate in its community.

Antivirus vendor Trend Micro is claiming that open-source software is inherently more secure than proprietary software such as Microsoft Windows.

The German city is on target to complete the first stage of a major migration to Linux this year

Mozilla 'is in much better shape' than Microsoft when it comes to fixing security problems, claims the organisation

The Commonwealth of Massachusetts says legal worries helped drive it to open standards, but Microsoft has lambasted the move

An Italian province will use Linux rather than Windows XP in its schools for the next academic year

The freedom to run and modify software is more important than what you call it, according to the GNU founder

Open source company Red Hat is to extend its skills training programme into academic institutions in Europe, the Middle East and Africa, partly in response to criticism from proprietary software vendors.