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Another Area of Linux Growth
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| Is Linux the magic bullet for POS machines?
| There may be a little work to go, but not
| much. If these POS applications can be
| easily connected to accounting databases for
| small- to medium-sized business owners, then
| the sky's the limit. We may already be at
| that point.
|
| So when you're checking out that shiny new
| Linux device, take a look at the cash
| register screen: you may just see a familiar
| penguin looking back at you.
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http://www.linux.com/news/featured-blogs/brian-proffitt/276237:another-area-of-linux-growth
Miguel de Icaza: Microsoft MVP
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| Great to see more official recognition from
| Microsoft to Mr. de Icaza on his tireless
| efforts supporting Microsoft products and
| technologies!
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http://www.the-source.com/2010/01/de-icaza-microsoft-mvp/
Fatal Flaw: On Competition
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| When Microsoft talks about âkillingâ and
| âfucking buryingâ competition, driving
| competitors into a âdeath spiralâ and âout
| of businessâ, stacks and bribes standard
| bodies, and so on, ad nauesum to the extent
| that courts around the world must step in to
| correct their behavior time and time again,
| then I submit to you, Gentle Reader, that is
| not a culture of co-operative competition.
|
| Outside of a whole raft of general issues
| with competition (who benefits? for how
| long? at whose expense? what are the
| intended end results? what are the
| unintended side effects? etc), it is clear
| that not all competition is beneficial.
| Furthermore it seems clear to me (though Iâm
| sure not so clear to everyone) that
| Microsoft chooses destructive competition.
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http://www.the-source.com/2010/01/fatal-flaw-on-competition/
Recent:
Novell and Microsoft cut out the GPL cancer from open-source Silverlight
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| To say that Microsoft and Novell have a muddy
| history when it comes to open-source projects
| and the GPL would be an understatement.
| Things were looking up, with the release of
| the open-source implementation of
| Silverlight, Moonlight 2, last week, but
| today things took a turn for the worse:
| Novell has just cut all the open source code
| from MonoDevelop.
|
| The implications of this aren't immediately
| clear, nor can we be certain of what Novell
| and the Mono development team have in store
| for us. All we know is that Novell has
| decided to lock Moonlight development up in a
| stricter, more-commercial LGPLv2 and MIT X11
| license: generally it's a bad thing when free
| things become non-free.
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http://www.downloadsquad.com/2009/12/24/novell-and-microsoft-cut-out-the-gpl-cancer-from-open-source-sil/
Moonlight 2.0 open to all - with a catch
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| There is one simple reason - the version of
| Moonlight that other distributions can offer
| will be able to play only media which are in
| free or open source formats.
|
| To play any other format means one has to buy
| licences for proprietary media codecs from
| the owners.
|
| Users who obtain Moonlight from Novell will
| have access to these codecs.
|
| But you wouldn't know about this if you read
| the Novell press release. (Microsoft hasn't
| deemed this announcement, which apparently is
| another earth-shaking one for the Moonlight
| project head, Miguel de Icaza, important
| enough to issue a media release).
|
| Here's how Novell puts it: "The covenant is
| no longer limited to users that obtain
| Moonlight from Novell or its channel, but now
| covers users who obtain Moonlight from any
| third party, including other Linux
| distributors. Media Codecs for MP3 and VC1,
| and in the future H.264 and AAC, are
| supported through the Microsoft Media Pack, a
| Microsoft-delivered set of media codes that
| offer optimized and licensed decodecs to
| every Linux user who obtains Moonlight from
| Novell."
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http://www.itwire.com/content/view/30151/1090/
9 Reasons Enterprises Shouldnât Switch To Hyper-V
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| 1. Breadth of OS support
| Before we get into the nitty gritty, letâs
| start with the most basic of features and
| simplest of tasks. Say you are an IT shop
| that supports more than just Windows servers;
| you have a mixed environment with different
| flavors of Linux and Unix. Hyper-V, however,
| supports only Windows and SuSE Linux. Thatâs
| it. If I am to recommend an enterprise
| virtualization infrastructure, it would need
| to support a bit more than one flavor of
| Linux.
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http://www.informationweek.com/blog/main/archives/2009/12/9_reasons_enter.html;jsessionid=HMXA4331EYDWBQE1GHRSKHWATMY32JVN
Microsoft and Intel port Silverlight to Linux
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| Intel and Microsoft have announced a new port of
| Silverlight to Linux, specifically for the Intel-
| sponsored Moblin operating system running on Atom-
| powered devices such as netbooks. The port enables
| Intel to include Silverlight as a supported runtime in
| the Atom Developer Program, which will feed an iPhone-
| like App Store.
|
| Microsoft has already provided Intel with Silverlight
| source code and test suites. Intel will build an
| optimized Moblin version of Silverlight, which
| Microsoft will supply to OEMs.
|
| There are a couple of surprising aspects to the
| announcement. One is that a Linux implementation of
| Silverlight already exists, the open source Moonlight
| project. We asked Microsoftâs Brian Goldfarb, director
| of the Developer Platform Group, why Moonlight was not
| being used for Atom devices. Goldfarb replied by making
| a distinction between "broad Linux," which is targeted
| by Moonlight, and specific Linux-based devices where
| Microsoft might support other implementations.
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http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/09/24/silverlight_to_linux/
Banshee UI to be in Moonlight
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| Yes. Thatâs right. According to the GCDS 2009 presentation notes on the
| Banshee site, we learn lots of nice stuff about Banshee:
|
| âItâs not just an app, itâs a platformâ.
|
| * Long term goal is to write the UI in Moonlight
| o Declarative UI, canvas, scene graph, and toolkit
| o Moonlight is an Open Source implementation of Microsoftâs
| Silverlight technology â and it is awesome
|
| âBanshee is going to do photosâ
|
| âWe are re-basing the F-Spot core on top of Bansheeâ
|
| And it ends with GNOME, Mono and Banshee logos.
|
| Moonlight is of course, absolutely toxic unless you get it directly from
| Novell, as the so-called âcovenantâ specifically prohibits non-Novell
| distributions from distributing Moonlight
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http://mono-nono.com/2009/07/14/banshee-ui-to-be-in-moonlight/
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