The parallel world of Apple: Where open is not always open
Just about everything Apple does suggests the company lives in a parallel universe. It’s only in this imaginary world, where normal standards don’t apply, that someone like Steve Jobs could get away with accusing Adobe of not being “open” enough. In a public letter yesterday, explaining the main reasons for Apple excluding Adobe’s Flash from [...]
Microsoft's new anti-Linux patent strategy
Patent threats from Microsoft against Linux are not new. But now that bastion of proprietary software appears to have a new, more insidious, strategy in its quest to undermine open source software. It is now getting its partners – companies that want to and need to be on its good side – to license Linux [...]