Category: FUD detector

Microsoft’s weapon against Open Source is IP

Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer gave a talk at a company event in the UK last week saying that Red Hat customers need to pay Microsoft for its beloved Intellectual Property.

GoodSpeed

In today’s computing technology, when you have more horse-power in the cheapest computers on the market than you would’ve dreamed say 5 years ago, one almost ridiculous aspect of the battle between open vs closed source software and open standards vs closed standards is the so called “fight of proving that my application is faster…

High migration costs holding back Linux

Vnunet (http://www.vnunet.com) has a great article in which they speak about one flavor of Linux maintained by a big company and draws the conclusion that Linux in general is not to be used yet. http://www.vnunet.com/vnunet/news/2153346/migration-costs-holding-back. Our remaining question: How can one company’s flavour of linux be defined simply as “Linux” in a title? ~from the…

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