Linux, Open Source, & anti Microsoft news

A new-ish meme is floating around the tech sector these days that has caused more than a little bit of consternation for advocates of free and open source software: the…

The Document Foundation (TDF) has announced the release of LibreOffice 3.5, which it modestly describes as “the best free office suite ever.”

Microsoft will this week issue nine security bulletins to fix 21 vulnerabilities, with four labelled “critical” and the rest “important”.  The company on Thursday said the critical fixes would address…

Microsoft today said it would deliver nine security updates next week, four of them critical, to patch 21 vulnerabilities in Windows, Internet Explorer (IE), Office, .Net and Silverlight.

Though Windows 8 and Linux distributions differ greatly from each other in design, ideology and — last but not least — their primary audience, they’re all built on the same…

February seems to be shaping up to be the month of Linux tablets. Just last week we saw the announcement of the forthcoming Spark tablet running Mer Linux and KDE,…

Raspberry Pi Foundation’s US$25 PC will become available by the end of this month, and buyers hope it could fill in as a low-power desktop, while being an alternative to…

CANADIAN PHONE MAKER Research in Motion (RIM) has said the Native software development kit (SDK) for Blackberry 10 will be committed to open source.

Open source and open standards are the direction for UK government IT, the civil servant leading the government’s technology change agenda has said.  Liam Maxwell, Cabinet Office director of ICT…

Microsoft Corp.’s vow to negotiate with competitors over industry-standard patents, instead of trying to block their products, marks a change from the company’s position less than a year ago. Microsoft’s…

Florian Mueller, an intellectual property analyst who tracks worldwide patent disputes in his Foss Patents blog, says a court in Germany seems inclined to side with Motorola in the company’s…

In September 2010 Microsoft stealthily reduced the number of licence keys as part of the Technet Standard and Technet Professional packages, down from 10 product keys to five for the…

A French laptop buyer has won a refund from Lenovo after a four-year legal battle over the cost of a Windows license he didn’t want. The judgment could open the…

The Spark, an open source tablet that will be available for purchase by May this year, is part of the Linux-based MeeGo project, which is hosted by the Linux Foundation,…

Germany’s cyber security agency today recommended that Windows 7 users run Google’s Chrome browser, citing the application’s sandbox and auto-update features.