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Mark Shuttleworth, the founder of Canonical (the firm behind Ubuntu), intimated in his blog that there are “no negotiations with Microsoft in progress.” That’’s good news, isn’t it?
After firms of other Linux distributions such as Novell, Xandros and Linspire started cooperating with Microsoft, generally understood as related to Microsoft’’s unfounded patent menaces, rumours [...]

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Microsoft announced support for a Chinese Open Source project. The Beihang University at Beijing together with several other Chinese institutions is currently working on a translation of the Chinese Unified Office Format (UOF) into Microsoft’s debatable OOXML format, and vice versa. Open XML to UOF Translator, as the new application will be called, is going [...]

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