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I've seen the future of the Internet, and it's recursive -- in more ways than one.

MIT this week announced an important digital achievement: the completion of its pioneering OpenCourseWare project. And everyone involved seems quite happy with being unsure about why exactly it's important.

Director of Microsoft platform technology strategy, Bill Hilf was going to face a crowd of open source enthusiasts at the Linux World conference in Sydney next week, but pulled out. His talk, about managing Linux in a mixed environment will instead be presented by Microsoft New Zealand's chief technology officer, Brett Roberts.

The continued commercialisation of Linux is helping Microsoft defend its Windows patch against the rising tide of open source, claims the head of Redmond's competitive strategy efforts.

Microsoft has launched a new advertising campaign designed to extend its "fact based" assault on the Linux operating system.

Talk on the campaign trail can get pretty rough, especially when the debate pits open source against Microsoft Corp. software. But now, Microsoft says, the gloves are back on, though the company has pledged to take the invective out of its talking points about Linux and open-source software.

Having called Linux and open-source software a cancer, un-American and bankrupt, Microsoft now plans to focus on facts instead of emotions, the company's competitive strategist said Thursday.

Sony Computer Entertainment (SCEI), IBM and Toshiba will begin development this month on a teraflop-class microprocessor that, the companies hope, will make possible within the next five years consumer electronics devices more powerful than IBM's Deep Blue supercomputer, the company said Monday.

The 25th annual USENIX Technical Conference held in San Diego last month, contained some heated battle between FreeBSD and Linux, nicknamed FREENIX. The conference also revealed some informed opinions about the Microsoft Vs DOJ case and how its outcome will effect FREENIX.