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The ‘cold-war’ between Ballmer and the Open Source movement that has raged on and on and on, continues to escalate as the “Ballmer rhetoric engine” version 2.0 picks up speed.

It’s come to many in the Linux community’s attention you have claimed again and again, that Linux violates Microsoft’s intellectual property. Not only that, but it’s been reported Microsoft has convinced businesses to pay for a Linux patent that you can’t provide. #

The Open Letter has already garnered some responses, indeed everyone from Redhat to Novell has weighed in on the topic. And it’s all very reminiscent of the utter shambles that SCO versus Linux has become, where SCO has yet to actually prove to anyone that it has any kind of IP or ownership of any Linux Kernel source code.

It’s hardly surprising Microsoft backed SCO when, obviously, Ballmer has a bone to pick with the Open Source Community. Given Microsoft is the epitome of proprietary, you can well expect their ‘claims’ to be shrouded behind the usual “we cannot declare the code used, because it’s protected, obviously” mantra that, despite some inexplicable moments of openness from Redmond, still pervades Microsoft’s modus operandi.

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I’ve come to a fork() in the operating System road.
Indeed.. I’m not entirely sure I wish to install another Microsoft Operating System product, again.. ever.
But, I’m getting ahead of myself. You see, late last night I decided to free up some previously assigned space on my workstations SATA drive. Not a big deal really and […]

First things first, Paul I have attempted to spell your name correctly.
Now that we have that small matter laid to rest I’d like to make a quick critique of

After two very frustrating days, I can honestly, hand on my heart, say that
Vista is just not ready.
I will spare you all the “beta review” ((there a
great many doing
the rounds at present)) and simply slice it all down to some pretty fundamental things that Microsoft have to get right and just plain […]

David Weiss has posted a
virtual tour of Microsoft’s Mac Lab. Perhaps the real secret is not the ever-green rumour that Apple is going to switch to Windows, but rather Bill Gates is going to spearhead the switch to OS X, particulary given that Vista sports many OS X features -
via.
You heard it here […]