February 27, 2009
by sjvn01
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What’s what with Microsoft’s patent claims, and a modest suggestion on how to avoid all this patent nonsense now, and in the future: Get the FAT out! At first glance, Microsoft suing TomTom, the navigation device manufacturer, for patent violations, … Continue reading
February 26, 2009
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I’ve been talking to a lot of smart people about the Microsoft/TomTom lawsuit. One thing we all pretty much agree on is that this lawsuit doesn’t make a lot of sense. First, the Linux file system-related patents are, in a … Continue reading
February 25, 2009
by sjvn01
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Once a year, Microsoft president Steve Ballmer, would proclaim that Linux violated some of Microsoft patents. Then, he wouldn’t do anything about it. Now, perhaps, he has. In the U.S. District Court in Seattle, Microsoft sued Tom-Tom (PDF Link) on … Continue reading
February 24, 2009
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On February 24th, Novell made an important virtualization announcement, but it wasn’t the one some of us thought it would be. Instead of announcing that it would be partnering closer with Citrix and Microsoft, Novell announced that it would be … Continue reading
February 23, 2009
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Now that Red Hat has shown its KVM cards in the great virtualization Texas Hold’em poker game, you can safely bet that Novell will soon be joining up with Microsoft and Citrix to try to shove VMware out of the … Continue reading
February 20, 2009
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I know for a fact that either Novell or Red Hat, or perhaps both, will be announcing next week that they’ll be shifting their server virtualization offerings from Xen to XenServer. What I don’t know is what, if anything, either … Continue reading