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Judge to NetBSD developer: "You are too smart sir! 0

Submitted by Hymer on Thursday October 14 2010, @01:55AM

Hymer writes "Danish NetBSD and Varnish developer Poul-Henning Kamp (PHK) case against Lenovo on Widows refund has been dismissed because the judge evaluated PHK as being too smart to not understand the EULA.
PHK is however quite happy about it because "the judgenent clearly shows the de facto monopoly on operating systems" he said to Version2's reporter after the judgement. PHK later wrote on his blog that the judgement opens the possibility of a antitrust case against Microsoft in Konkurencestyrelsen (danish government organization for monopoly cases).

PHK's blog
Versions2's coverage of the case"

Danish government hides Open Source benefits 0

Submitted by Hymer on Thursday June 10 2010, @01:26AM

Hymer writes "Danish government hides Open Source benefits from the Parliament. A report has been presented for the Parliament which describes how Danish Police may save up to 13 millions DKK, the full report describes savings of 100 millions DKK by switching to OpenOffice.org or Star Office.
Current danish government has been known for protecting Microsoft in the document standards debate.

Leif Lodahls blog on the issue Leif is the maintainer of the danish OpenOffice.
The report is in danish and so is almost all other material...
The orginal report (in danish)
The official report (in danish)"

EU says governments may bar Microsoft from bidding 0

Submitted by Hymer on Thursday June 19 2008, @03:42PM

Hymer writes "PCWorld got a story about the EU commissions answer to a query from Heidi Rühle and Alain Lipitetz whether Microsoft's antitrust violations would also make the company ineligible to enter bidding under existing financial and procurement rules."

Wal-Mart picks Blu-ray 0

Submitted by Hymer on Saturday February 16 2008, @10:56AM

Hymer writes "Reuters has just reported that Wal-Mart has choosen Blu-Ray over HD DVD."

Microsoft sells SuSE Linux servers to Renault 0

Submitted by Hymer on Tuesday February 05 2008, @05:22PM

Hymer writes "According to Version2.dk (story in Danish) Microsoft will be selling 1000 certificates for SuSE Enterprise Server to Renault."

OLPC sued for patent infringement in Nigeria 0

Submitted by Hymer on Tuesday November 27 2007, @04:00PM

Hymer writes "LWN.net reports that the OLPC project has been sued for patent infringement by Lancor. Link to Lancors press release on Marketwire"

Microsoft involved in patent case against RedHat ? 0

Submitted by Hymer on Sunday October 21 2007, @04:06PM

Hymer writes "Groklaw has some interesting info about the patent case against RedHat and Novell. It seems that Microsoft may be involved... big surprise."

Steve Ballmer meeting with danish Open Source VIPs

Submitted by Hymer on Monday April 30 2007, @06:10PM

Hymer writes "This weekend mr. Ballmer was in Denmark, during his brief visit a meeting was held between him (and on his initiative) and the top of the danish Open Source community. The result of the meeting is however very closed, neither mr. Ballmer nor any of the OSS pings has any comments.
Denmark is in the process of choosing between OpenXML and ODF as standard document format and mr. Ballmer's visit has been linked to that fact (without any real proof of course).
The community is somehow stunned by the secrecy of the meeting... Where does Open fit in a closed meeting with the guy who want to "fuckin' kill" us ?"

Longhorn Server Beta 3 free download...

Submitted by Hymer on Thursday April 26 2007, @04:23PM

Hymer writes "Microsoft has just released Beta 3 of Longhorn Server for free download here."

How did we all end up with Windows?

Submitted by Hymer on Thursday April 26 2007, @04:08PM

Hymer writes "From the Register: It's amazing how many people who have Microsoft Windows everywhere look flummoxed when asked whether Windows is their "standard" for desktop computing.

The reason they are thrown by this question is typically because they haven't thought about it that way before. In all likelihood, they never actually made a proactive decision to select Windows, in the sense of looking at alternatives and making a conscious objective choice. So how did they end up with it?
...more here."