More and more city governments are realizing that they do not need to depend on the Microsoft monopoly; that free software does provide a viable and valuable alternative.
On April 15 I reported that the Public Patent Foundation was challenging Microsoft's all-important FAT Filesystem Patent. Today the US PTO agreed that PubPat's challenge had enough merit to prompt a new hearing into whether the Patent in question should be abolished. Score one for the good guys at …
Composed to show how easy it is to compose a sonnet, this was penned in a few minutes.
While oft we open windows in our house
And suffer from a broken hinge or rail
How greater vex'd when with computer mouse
We try to open Windows, and we fail!
And yet our tribute still we send to Gates
Who …
The ironically-named fraud known as Trusted Computing (better known as "treacherous computing") continues to gain ground against the values of the civilized world. Please read up on TCPA. Read it and weep. Or rage. Choose whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer the future of all our …
You probably know that Microsoft is funding a series of anti-open-source web sites such as ISC (the Institute for Software "Choice") and anti-open-source initiatives such as the SCO lawsuit against Linux and IBM. Here is Sincere Choice, a site that gives the open source side of the …
Does Windows XP actually work for anybody except Microsoft? We finally admitted it onto one machine here and it has been less stable than the MhWindows 95 it replaced. XP and MhWord give "error report" dialogs daily; Netscape and Games run for hours, so we know it's not hardware-related. …
Microsoft makes a big deal out of claiming that there is no demand for Java applications. Yet the Redmond behemoth uses a Java-powered application to manage most of its MSN and other core sites! [Link was at "freeroller.net" which has been replace by an adspamhaus].
Microsoft has a plan for you - one you may not like. This article covers many IT technologies for 2003, but if you are primarily interested in Microsoft's plans as they are already in motion, skip down (there's a link near the top).