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Microsoft is Now Our Friend
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| This has been an amusing story for this week. In a nutshell, Microsoft got
| busted for a GPL violation. The developer who discovered this, Stephen
| Hemminger of Vyatta, chose to handle it thusly:
|
| "Rather than creating noise, my goal was to resolve the problem, so I
| turned to Greg Kroah-Hartman. Since Novell has a (too) close
| association with Microsoft, my expectation was that Greg could prod
| the right people to get the issue resolved."
|
| It took over two years, but finally MS came into compliance and then released
| the source code with much fanfare and self-congratulations. It is a driver to
| enhance Linux guest performance on their Hyper-V virtualizer. There is a lot
| of good news in this story, but not of the kind that Microsoft wants us to
| believe.
|
| [...]
|
| They can't even limit this to Novell SUSE Linux because it is GPL, and so any
| Linux distributor can tweak it to suit.
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http://www.linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=2009-07-24-031-35-OP-MS-LL
Microsoft defends nuanced open-source approach
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| Software giant criticised for enforcing patent rights on open-source-related
| technology.
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http://www.totaltele.com/view.aspx?ID=447531
It's nice of Bill to make these available in a Microsoft-only video format
http://www.zdnet.co.uk/talkback/0,1000001161,39684314-39001057c-20102962o,00.htm
Recent:
The OESF: Quietly Working to Get Android On New Hardware Devices
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| Miura tells EETimes that the CEATEC show will include displays with prototype
| Android set tops, developed by Motorola for KDDI, a Japanese
| telecommunication service provider. He also confirms that the OESF is
| launching several working groups, including ones focused on: set-top boxes;
| VOIP; network and security; measurement and control; system core; application
| and services; and marketing and education.
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http://ostatic.com/blog/the-oesf-quietly-working-to-get-android-on-new-hardware-devices
Google Android Running On Eee PC 701 Tutorial
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| We all know that the Google Android operating system was specially developed
| to run on cell phones, but that doesn't mean that we cannot tweak it to run
| on netbooks as well.
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http://www.ubergizmo.com/15/archives/2009/01/google_android_running_on_eee_pc_701_tutorial.html
Android Spreading Out to Netbooks, and E-Ink Devices
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| Although it is still early enough in development that it may not become a
| shipping product, Asus has confirmed that it has been developing a netbook
| based on Google's Android platform. Asus' Eee PC division lead, Samson Hu,
| told Bloomberg that engineers are working on a possible end-of-year release
| window. We've written before about Cupcake, a version of Android that is
| friendly to non-phone devices, and there have already been successful efforts
| putting Cupcake on netbooks.
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http://ostatic.com/blog/android-spreading-out-to-netbooks-and-e-ink-devices
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