First Apple tried suing to stop the rumors. They caught a lot of flack for that and the PR was bad. Now it’s a week before Apple’s World Wide Developer Conference (WWDC) and the rumors were ready to fly. Then Apple caused thousands of bloggers to cry out as they had to destroy a week’s [...]
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Microsoft made news again this week when Steve Ballmer and Microsoft’s top lawyer were quoted in Fortune. The tone of the article is that Microsoft will go after open source software users for royalties, From the Fortune article:
Microsoft counters that it is a matter of principle. “We live in a world where we honor, and [...]
My first reaction was this was a new low for our legal system. But after reading the article I realized it’s still on the fringes and that system seems ready to laugh them out of court, should they decide to go there.
Two companies (one is a subsidiary of the other, so just one bonehead decision [...]
I had more first experience with BlueHost customer service over the weekend and it was an excellent experience. They’d recently been advertising “unlimited domains”. My control panel still showed the old limit of domains and when I tried to add a sixth I received and error that I’d reached the limit. So I opened [...]
I came across this article on Slashdot recently. It’s about HP not honoring it’s warranty for a PC because the woman was running Linux on it. Now, as someone who has run Linux on two HP machines off and on you’d think it would be the warranty part that I’d be writing about. But that [...]
This story caught my attention because it’s a case of a little guy finding success by doing the things big business thinks is foolish.
Scott Sigler is a sci-fi/horror author that hasn’t had success selling his books. His book “Earthcore” [Link to Amazon.com] had been picked up for publishing before 9/11 but the publisher never contacted [...]
Microsoft Talks Patent Trash
Microsoft made news again this week when Steve Ballmer and Microsoft’s top lawyer were quoted in Fortune. The tone of the article is that Microsoft will go after open source software users for royalties, From the Fortune article:
Microsoft counters that it is a matter of principle. “We live in a world where we honor, and [...]