Geek And Poke

Ballmers Dream

Great post from RedMonk about patents.
Frankly my contribution to this discourse is not so distinguished at all.

Update: Great post/poll from Ed Burnette about the MS-FOSS-deals

Dr. Faust

Novell / Suse worries about the post GPLv3 era (see Slashdot).
I guess they don't gave to.

Nothing Happened Today

Today's headlines:

Cell Phones Disable Keys for High-End Cars (Slashdot) and China preps for cyberwarfare (ZDNet)

The Future Of The Web

Donna Bogatin is a bit scared about Facebook (see her post).

Good Old Producers Generated Content

It turned out, that it's better to let the producers generate the content (see Nicholas Carr).
At least in the case of ads.

The Ballmer Theorem

They just don't need to name all the allegedly infringed patents (see Slashdot).

The Last Judgement - Part 4

Google is about to become the last answer (see Nicholas Carr).

(Part 3 of "The Last Judgement" is here)

The Worse Is The Enemy Of The Bad

Is it a coincidence that Microsoft starts its sue campaign (see Mary Jo Foley for the latest) at the very day Bill Gates has his 20-Year-Of-False-Predictions-Anniversary (see Slashdot)?

Chiefgeek Wolfgang Schaeuble

The same German Minister of Interior - Wolfgang Schaeuble - who wants to install trojans on the machines of suspects (see an older Slashdot post or an older cartoon) is about to become patron of the German 'LinuxTag' (see Slashdot).
Not all geeks are amused.

Suse And Its Friends

See Slashdot.