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darthcamaro writes “For nearly three years, Oracle has had its own version of Red Hat Enterprise Linux, claiming the two versions are essentially the same thing. But are they really? As it turns out, there are a few things on which Oracle and Red Hat do not see eye-to-eye, including file systems and virtualization. The article quotes Wim Coekaerts, Oracle’s director of Linux engineering, saying, ‘A lot of people think Oracle is doing Enterprise Linux as just basically a rip off of Red Hat but that’s not what this is about. …

Posted on March 20th, 2009 under Avoid, Comment, Microsoft, Response, What, Yahoo, advice, all about linux, articles, avi, bid, blog, business, comments, community, content, died, free, free software, google, help, honest, hosting, images, install, interest, internet, learn, links, linux, market, news, purchase, rank, rated, report, sale, saving, savings, server, service, software, system, tea, tell, tool, war, web. Tags: advice, articles, Avoid, content, died, honest, market, Microsoft, rank, report, sale, server, tea, tool, war. Comments: None

CWmike writes “GPS device maker TomTom has shot back at Microsoft with a claim of patent infringement, after the software giant raised concerns in the Linux community with a recent lawsuit against TomTom. In a suit filed earlier this week, TomTom alleges that Microsoft infringes on four patents in mapping software Microsoft Streets and Trips. TomTom is asking for triple damages for willful infringement, since it says it had notified Microsoft about its alleged infringement.

Posted on March 20th, 2009 under Avoid, Comment, Download, Microsoft, Response, Review, What, Yahoo, all about linux, articles, avi, blog, business, comments, community, content, died, free, google, help, images, information, interest, internet, ira, killed, letter, life, links, linux, market, network, news, online, rank, rated, report, service, software, system, tea, tell, tool, war, web. Tags: content, died, Download, ira, letter, life, market, Microsoft, news, patents, rated, Review, war, web. Comments: None

Kenneth Reitz writes “Wouldn’t it be lovely to have a nice, clean installation of Microsoft’s Office 2007 Suite to run on your Ubuntu Linux Distribution? For some people, this is the only thing that truly holds them back from an all-Linux environment … But not anymore! We have compiled a nice, concise set of instructions to help guide you along.” Read more of this story at Slashdot.

Posted on March 17th, 2009 under Comment, Download, Microsoft, Review, What, Yahoo, all about linux, articles, avi, bid, blog, business, comments, community, content, cure, died, ebay, free, free software, google, handle, help, honest, how to, images, install, interest, ira, learn, life, links, linux, news, purchase, rated, report, sale, saving, server, service, software, system, tea, tell, tool, war, web, writer, writing. Tags: avi, died, Download, handle, honest, images, learn, purchase, server, tea, war. Comments: None

dp619 writes “Capped per-unit royalties make FAT licensing agreements permissible under the GPL, and SD Times has found that Microsoft’s public license policy caps royalties at $250k. If the royalties are capped — as they seem to be — TomTom should be able to license FAT without violating the GPL. And if that is the case … TomTom needs some serious explaining to do as to why they aren’t licensing FAT. That said, Microsoft still needs to explain why it just cannot say that folks won’t violate the GPL if they license FAT under its terms.” Read more of this story at Slashdot.

Posted on March 12th, 2009 under 2.0, Avoid, Comment, Download, Microsoft, Review, What, Yahoo, all about linux, articles, avi, blog, business, comments, community, content, died, free, google, help, honest, how to, images, improvement, install, interest, internet, links, linux, market, news, online, rank, rated, report, server, service, shoot, software, system, tea, tell, tool, war, web, writer. Tags: 2.0, Avoid, Download, how to, improvement, internet, market, Microsoft, rated, report, war. Comments: None