A whole load of cryptic stuff…
“Windows 7 has malicious features just like Windows Vista. These include features to restrict users (Digital Restrictions Management), a back door for imposing software changes, and perhaps also the spyware features discovered in previous versions. If you don’t want to be abused, defenestrate your computer.”
Richard Stallman (RMS), President of the Free Software Foundation (Join) in [...]
"We have shifted towards Linux because of Microsoft," … "Microsoft has a lot of power and it is going to be difficult, but we will be working hard to develop the Linux market."
Gianpiero Morbello, Vice president of marketing and brand, Acer.
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Most major web based developments of any scale these days work on the presumption that interoperablity, open standards, and platform neutrality are givens. It is not clear why the BBC design brief did not specify these requirements or if it did what technical problems – given the expertise available – hinder them being implemented.
So long [...]
“Opera has filed a formal complaint with the European Commission to force Microsoft to support open Web standards in its Web browser, Internet Explorer. We believe that Microsoft has harmed Web standards by refusing to support them; Microsoft often participates in creating Web standards, promoting them, and even promising to implement them. Despite their talent, [...]