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• Countdown for IBM Project Zero 4 months ago
  
  "Giver turns taker: Over the years, Microsoft's taken a lot of flack for attempting to undermine open source. ... This year, though, will see IBM release the fruits of a project using a pseudo open source development method that has garnered criticism and could generate further ill will in 2008."
• Is commercial open source really open? 4 months, 4 weeks ago
  
• Microsoft's quest for shared-source approval 7 months, 3 weeks ago
  
  If Microsoft, or any other company, wants to become a member of the free and open source software community it should be asked to adopt an existing licence, or to help in the long term process of rationalising the existing licences, and play with the community rather than against it. Tiemann has already hinted that Microsoft's primary offering, the Microsoft Permissive Licence (MPL), will fail the procedure because it is not "permissive" as the term is understood by the open source community, and because "the specific innovation of maximum incompatibility of the MPL is not what we were looking for, so I think what we have is a submission that has two fairly major strikes against it."
• Why Microsoft vs Mankind still matters 7 months, 3 weeks ago
  
  The Penguin is missing, while Apple's gone to Hollywood.

  "Comment: For all but three of the past 17 years, Microsoft has been involved in antitrust litigation with government agencies. That's enough to wear anyone down. But as Europe's highest appeals court delivered its judgement on Monday, I did notice some ennui -- not from dogged old hacks, but from a new generation of pundits .... "

• Vista a dud, says Acer's Lanci 9 months, 3 weeks ago
  
  THE head of PC maker Acer, Gianfranco Lanci, has hit out at Microsoft's Windows Vista operating system, saying that the "entire industry" was disappointed by it.
• Microsoft Office Open XML gets US knockback 10 months ago
  
  An open office document format developed by Microsoft has received a major setback in achieving a certification which would make it more widely accepted as a true technology standard.
• How Microsoft helps open source 10 months, 2 weeks ago
  
  One of our newest C|Net bloggers, Matt Asay, is a player. That is, he makes his living as vice president for business development at Alfresco Software, an open source content management company.
• After ten years: what is open source? 10 months, 3 weeks ago
  
  "In our earlier article, 'Facts and Friction on Open Source and Free Software' we have explained where 'Open Source' is coming from and what is its relation to Free Software and the Free Software Foundation that represents it..."