Source: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1028388

There are a lot of pages like this that supposedly won't open in Firefox, giving an error like "Missing: Microsoft Office Web Components", Internet Explorer is required with the Office Web Plugin.
http://search.yahoo.com/search?p=%22...TF-8&fr=ubuntu

There is a way to extract and view most hidden data, though.
1) Get the addon http://webpagefixer.sf.net The addon should work on any operating system, just save it somewhere and open the .xpi with Firefox.

A recent attack piece against Richard Stallman was written by Linus Torvalds on the eve of Obama’s election.

Black and white by Linus Torvalds

Linus begins with this:

So I’m pretty well-known for not exactly being a huge fan of the FSF and Richard Stallman, despite the fact that I obviously love the GPLv2 and use it as the license for all my projects that I care about.

Source: http://www.linux-foundation.org/weblogs/jzemlin/2008/10/30/linux-continu...

It is hard for the executive director of the Linux Foundation to feel bad for Microsoft, but they are having a bad week while Linux continues to move forward in innovative ways into new markets for computing. Let’s take a look at the difference between Microsoft and Linux this week:

Monday: Microsoft starts its week with a front page story in the Wall St. Journal titled, “Microsoft Battles Low-Cost Rival for Africa.” In the article Microsoft is documented engaged in questionable practices against a Linux competitor that is springing up across Africa not because of any corporate conspiracy, but because it is free and open.

Launchpad News

Launchpad Code down-time Monday 6th October 2008

On October 6th Launchpad’s code hosting and browsing will be unavailable for around four hours from 22.00 UTC.

• Going offline: 22.00 UTC 6th October
• Expected back before: 02.00 UTC 7th October

Where would the money come from?

From roughly 1988 to 1995, the PC (regardless of its humble beginning) slowly took over everything. At first nobody believed that it would: PCs had both the most archaic architecture and the least friendly operating system (MSDOS, sold by Microsoft). PCs were created in 1981 as office computers, not multimedia systems. Their graphic abilities were very limited. However, IBM had done something that nobody else had dared to do: they allowed other hardware makers to manufacture “IBM compatible” machines.

Source: http://www.freesoftwaremagazine.com/columns/large_hadron_collider_switch...

You know a science story is big when an experiment gets first or second billing on the main evening news—and it’s not even a slow news day. The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) is up and running as I write and as far as I can tell I’m still here, so it looks like the doomsayers were a little premature. Unless I’m writing this piece from the far side of the singularity of a black hole in a parallel universe.

Source: http://boycottnovell.com/2008/09/11/asus-express-windows/

ASUSTeK did not exactly fulfill those expectations from “Express Gate” after getting “closely tied up with Microsoft,” to borrow the company’s very own words. We previously explained how Microsoft was fighting boot-level GNU/Linux. It has been a couple of months since we last wrote about it and a reader of this site Web reports based on the experiences of one shop.

Sep 11, 2008

Source: http://www.freesoftwaremagazine.com/columns/linux_has_horse_bolted

Richard Stallman wants to popularise the term GNU/Linux instead of using the currently popular term Linux. He correctly states that the term Linux, besides being thoroughly inaccurate, totally fails to introduce new users to the legal and philosophical concepts that underlie the basis of the GNU/Linux OS; but is it feasible to make such a change at this late stage?

Source: http://www.tectonic.co.za/?p=2988

Ubuntu founder and Canonical chief, Mark Shuttleworth, yesterday announced his ambitions for Ubuntu 9.04, now called “Jaunty Jackalope”.

In an email to developers last night, Shuttleworth said: “As we approach the launch of Ubuntu 8.10, it’s time to create space for future plans, and so I’m writing to introduce you to The Jaunty Jackalope.”