Is Microsoft’s promise to protect their Linux partners worth what they say it is?

Microsoft is promising to protect their Linux partners from lawsuits, and many people think that makes those particular distributions more worthy of being used. But Matt Asay has written a wonderful article on his cnet blog about the real value of Microsoft’s promise not to sue, or rather the threat of a suit against Linux distributions that haven’t signed agreements with the boys from Redmond.

The blog looks a little different

Without realizing it, the theme I originally selected doesn’t show who wrote the posts here. While I have written all of the posts so far, I’m talking to my brother Peng about writing some posts, which is one more reason I need to identify each post’s author.

To show the post’s author I have had to change the theme. I selected the Andreas04 by Andreas Viklund, but I may change it one more time because I’m not completely happy with the color scheme that’s being used now, but I’ll make sure that the theme I select not only shows who wrote each post but also allows for what Peng calls a “fluid” design. This simply means that the site uses the entire width of the browser window rather than centering the site with a lot of space on either side of the content. Small Update: I did make one more change in the theme, going with Andreas Viklund’s Andreas09 theme so I could go back to the green color scheme I originally had.

You may be able to burn your own DVD movies leagally

A new technology hs been announced to allow you to legally burn your own movies DVDs on your computer without the fear of getting busted for breaking the law.