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 […]

Novell invites local users to information session on Microsoft deal

Wednesday, November 29th, 2006

Tonight I received this e-mail. It’s an invitation to a session explaining the Novell-Microsoft deal from Novell’s side. I’m thinking of going, I’ll try to take some pictures or even videos. Either way, I’ll report back on what they say…
——– Original Message ——–
Subject: FOSS Workshop - 7 December 2006
Date: Wed, 29 Nov 2006 16:29:45 +0200 […]

OpenSUSE vs Ubuntu

Sunday, November 26th, 2006

I’ve been pondering whether I should say something about Mark’s reachout to the OpenSUSE community or not, but decided that it couldn’t do much harm to add my 2c.
I think Mark had the best intentions with that mail, I also think it was done in a bit of a rush. I don’t think the […]