Comments on: What if Microsoft Owned Yahoo (and the US Government Establishments’ IT)?

By: Roy Schestowitz

Roy Schestowitz — Fri, 22 Feb 2008 12:44:37 +0000

DoJ *IS* Microsoft. Watch this:

http://boycottnovell.com/2007/10/23/fourth-patent-deal-europe/

FCC and FTC aren’t much better and we covered this here as well.

Speaking of controlling the government, mind this more recent one:

http://boycottnovell.com/2008/01/27/opendocument-poisoning/

Pay attention to the subsection on Congress.

I’ll try to cover Corel again, but there’s a pile of postings we’ve yet to make about present events rather than a historical perspective. I’ve made a mental and a physical note to write about Corel/Xandros, whom I believe to be Microsoft chums (they were almost the first vendor to loudly support OOXML back in the end of 2006 or the very beginning of 2007). Shane covered this. I’ll get the reference. Here:

http://boycottnovell.com/2006/12/05/is-the-open-document-format-odf-now-dead/

WordPerfect? OOXML? Since when is WordPerfect a friend of Microsoft (think about the horrid abuses)? Bizarre, isn’t it?

By: i believe

i believe — Fri, 22 Feb 2008 12:12:37 +0000

yes, please do a write up on this

the history of the bought corel shares, death of corel linux and rebranding of xandros and patent deal with m$, the refusal to “open” directx and the spinoff/burial of would be corel software to linux and the advancement of wine under corel is a must.

please bring this information to light, microsoft is not for interoperability, no matter how much this is said, events of their past in crushing those who oppose/compete with them cannot be forgiven, especially with how they are seemingly intwining themselves with linux and seek to rule them and crush them at the same time via patents.

where was the DoJ with their corel investment? look @ the bottom of one of the corel related news items where they bought some banking/database/something or other software or company for a huge sum, this continues to go on and now they are getting involved in US government? jesus! it will never end until the government IS microsoft in some form.

bless boycottnovell and its energy for truth

By: Roy Schestowitz

Roy Schestowitz — Fri, 22 Feb 2008 07:38:17 +0000

A lot could be achieved with Ajax and Ogg as a component in HTML(5), but I’ll write about that soon (Microsoft may be working against that, by proxy). There are also some lesser-known attempt to do AIR the open source way. Mashups and CSS 3 are quite powerful also and there are nice examples of the powers of AIRless programs such as Zimbra. Mix that with Prism and Gears and voila! You are platform- and almost vendor-independent.

By: CoolGuy

CoolGuy — Fri, 22 Feb 2008 07:31:07 +0000

What we need a open gpl standard for flash like functionality independent of any company.

This will work on every browser and ever OS.

Flash needs to go open source – open standards like mozilla did to survive or else they are going to be wiped out very soon.