On one hand, Nvidia chips are some of the best supported on Linux, so I strictly buy Nvidia cards and have had excellent results especially for gaming. However, on the other hand, Nvidia has kept the drivers behind closed doors for years. While I'm thankful that they release full drivers that work, I would rather see the drivers licensed under the GPL so that they can be integrated better into the Linux kernel and released with standard Linux distributions. The Nouveau project has good intentions but it's essentially duplicating the work.

I'm not holding my breath, as Oracle's moves with open source are scattered. Hopefully Oracle can ensure future kernel modules are clean. However, VirtualBox remains to be free, and as such is a very good product from a user's perspective. I compare it to VMWare Workstation, and I see dramatic speed improvement using VirtualBox running on Linux, over VMWare Workstation running on Windows.

The comment by Microsoft basically says nothing.. it doesn't clear up anything. As usual, Microsoft doesn't play well with others, and essentially users will be left scrambling to find a way to do something because Microsoft doesn't bother. Thanks Microsoft. Thankfully, I stopped using Microsoft software years ago and use Fedora Linux now, so I've got nothing to worry about.

I don't even want to imagine what things would be like now, if Linus hadn't developed the kernel to complete the GNU operating system. Back then, I was a total Windows user and was sour at Apple for dropping their Apple II line and leaving customers in the dark. But when I started using GNU/Linux in 1997 I realized that it is great stuff, and soon after started using it over Windows because of GNU/Linux's amazing stability and cost of ZERO. And look at how it has grown and matured. Today, GNU/Linux is more than capable of running on the desktop and competing with other operating systems like Windows. The problem is use awareness, Microsoft lobbying, and other obstacles that keep it from flourishing in the desktop. But, for those that have the patience to make a change, migrating away from proprietary software and using GNU/Linux is worth it.

We are only at the beginning of Microsoft's vast and long road to do whatever it can to pin the competition and keep real competitors from stealing away market share. I would like to see what supposed violations Android has, and if they are for items that Microsoft actively develops. Shame on Microsoft and its products.

That's great news. Just a clear demonstration of how open source and Firefox make IE look even worse these days.

It's too bad that software patents can't be abolished. They cause so much harm and discourage innovation and freedom. Thankfully open source and Linux is very adaptive, so hopefully it can be changed to avoid these silly patent suits.

I dumped Microsoft software 3 years ago because I became fed up with having to go home fixing Windows, when that's all I did at work. And boy am I glad I did. Microsoft software is garbage, and the way that they keep customers dependent on them is just appalling. Unfortunately, vendors are so locked in to Windows, that a majority of your top quality software is in Windows. But, software in Linux is also very very good, and is slowly but surely replacing proprietary software. Everybody just needs to bit the bullet and make the switch to Linux and open source. It is good stuff, and very very reliable as well as free as in freedom, not to mention the price is always right at $0.

Microsoft has been at this game for years, to try and spread FUD about all open source software, including Linux. Unfortunately, they have gotten away with collecting lots of royalties from big companies because of it. I hope others won't let them continue to get away with this. Microsoft: You need to simply come out with a better product to compete, you don't need to resort to using the legal system to try and win back market share.

Hopefully users have the ability to enable the buttons again. I know we want to innovate and come up with new features, but PLEASE please please don't take away something permanently. Give users the choice! Let's not make the same mistakes of Microsoft!!!!!!!

The binaries can be written for Linux. Or at least, to run in Wine. Google does it, so Netflix can too. Yeah so Linux is 1% of the desktop market, but this 1% is comprised of millions of users. Esentially Netflix is turning away customers by not having a true cross platform streaming player.

Silverlight is closed source for the most part. Novell attempted to extend it with Moonlight, however Moonlight is not 100% compatible. Some things just don't work. Microsoft will surely keep Silverlight closed source, so in my opinion it would be wise for Netflix to choose another technology that is truly cross platform. They don't seem to care much, as this has been brought to their attention time after time over the past few years, yet they continue to ignore the fact that they are shutting out customers. The problem is, there is no alternative really to Netflix with streaming for Linux and cross platform.

Microsoft can't come up with a better product, so they have to resort to using legal tactics to try and undermine the competition indirectly. Pretty sad. This tells me that they know that their own product stinks, so they have to resort to these tactics to try and force customers to use their products.

Great to see others finally dump Microsoft's over-bloated OS and software, and use something more scalable and efficient, not to mention more AFFORDABLE. Now it's time for Dell to dump ASP.NET on their own website, it's horribly SLOOOOOOW.

I would love for Linux to start making a dent in Microsoft's server market. Who knows, maybe that will even help with Linux in the desktop market too. Personally, Linux has a ton of advantages over Windows. I say this while running both operating systems, and seeing Linux excel over Windows daily.