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Microsoft general counsel claims open source software, including Linux, violates 235 of the company's patents
Maybe Microsoft's suggestion that open source developers and companies care less about respecting IP than it does (which is completely false) is not the reason for my ire. Maybe I'm just annoyed that I have to wait another three months to w
Microsoft is nothing if not consistent. The company - despite its feints and dodges with the Linux Lab and what-not - has been highly focused on feeding its anti-open source fetish. Today, that fetish reared its ugly head again. I've been waitin
I look at Microsoft's quarterly numbers, and the company seems to be doing well. Its two monopolies are firmly intact, and it's well on the way to building a third and fourth in Exchange and Sharepoint. Of course, there are a range of reaso
Just when you think Tim is an optimist, he reminds you that he's somewhat of a realist. His post came in response to a quote from Nat Torkington, talking through the implications of Adobe, Microsoft, and Sun beating down the doors to open source
I've written once on this topic before, but never with Red Hat's assistance. But yesterday I got to present the Red Hat subscription model with two members of Red Hat's legal team - the lovely Jennifer Venable and the ok-looking Rich B
Midnight is creeping up on me, and I'm just finishing edits to my 10-year old daughter's school paper. I had no idea what I was getting myself into. It is 10 pages long. Double-spaced, yes, but 10 pages?!? Scout (my daughter - yes, it'
I had dinner with Zack Urlocker (EVP of Products at MySQL) and Luis Sala (one of my very best hires, ever) last night in San Diego. We talked about a wide range of things, but spent a fair amount of time talking about the people at MySQL, and especia
Back in my Lineo days, a colleague and friend (Craig Shank, now at Microsoft, and a fantastic person) once told me, after overhearing me apologizing profusely to someone over the phone, "Sheesh, Asay. When you fall on your sword, you fall hard!&
Ah, disruption. It's so much fun to do to others, but uncomfortable when others are doing it to you. Or, in SAP's case, to oneself. As Steve Hamm writes, SAP's SaaS efforts seem destined to fail. Not because the company doesn't ha