jonathan carter

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Microsoft signs another Linux distributor

Thursday, June 14th, 2007

For those who haven’t quite caught up, last year Microsoft signed a broad-collaboration deal with Novell that included a patent covenant. Since then, Xandros, Samsung Electronics, LG Electronics, and now also Linspire, another Linux development and support company.
I wouldn’t be surprised if they target the cellular handset manufacturers as well. Both Nokia and Motorola have […]

FSF starts new campaign: Play OGG!

Thursday, May 17th, 2007

In the past, the Free Software Foundation used its funding to fund free software development. More recently, the FSF changed their strategy to fund only critical development, and to use their available funds more for free software campaigns.
FSF has employed another full time project manager, and has launched a new campaign called “Play OGG“. I […]