TurboLinux Agrees to Support OpenXML

Thursday, July 12, 2007

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CNN Money has a story about Turbolinux agreeing to support Micro$oft's
OpenXML document format
(http://money.cnn.com/news/newsfeeds/articles/prnewswire/AQM04009072007-1.htm)
for the Asian market. M$ needs a backdoor into the Asian market and
TurboLinux may be key to them establishing an acceptance by porting
OpenXML translations to Asian languages.

M$ is also gaining headway into having it recognized as an "open"
standard for documents. I enclosed the word "open" since Open XML is
to a great degree as open only to the point M$ wants it to be. Meaning
its still proprietary software in essence and not as open as Open
Source. M$ only opens mechanisms for other software to translate to
and from it Open XML MS-Office formats. Nothing more.

Lenovo's Selling Them Again!!!

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Goes to tell you... Linux is making sense to many businessmen who want
to do business in Asia. Nice article written up about Lenovo's
decision to offer Linux on one of it's high-end laptop lines:
http://www.desktoplinux.com/news/NS8001895768.html

M$ Threatened with GPLv3?

Monday, July 9, 2007

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I would love to see how this will eventually shake out... Microsoft: 'Your Puny GPLv3 Can't Hold Us!'

It would be sweet revenge if indeed Microsoft led itself into a legal quagmire by entering into those deals with Novell, Xandros and Linspire.
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