For those who think that the "binary blob" situation is exactly the same with ODF as OOXML, please read the following:
Microsoft India caught red-handed on CCTV threatening an ISO official.
I read this article about Microsoft's Palladium Digital Rights Management last week, linked from the Drudge Report. The story was reported in many other places, so I didn't submit it here.
So yeah, like, it used to be a counterfeit XP Pro tower which I licensed back in late 2006 with the "Windows Genuine Advantage Kit for Windows XP Professional". Microsoft mailed me the the CD and I used i t do a Windows reinstall, and the disc's been sitting in its mailer next to my PC for the past eighteen months. Until the day before yesterday. Malware took out my operating system, sending it into endless reboot. (the OS is ruined but the drive is still readable and I'll be needing to recover iTunes and plenty of documents from it).
Microsoft up to their old tricks again?
iTWire - $50 more for Linux Eee PC 900 – what gives Asus?
And there we were believing that we could trust a vendor like Asus. The line they’ve spun to journalists in Australia about the Linux Asus Eee PC 900 being $50 more than the Windows version because it has more storage is a load of bull. Overseas, both models are the same price!