Discussion on recent ODF flap-up. The last three paragraphs aren't a summary: they are a related, useful meme.

The closing sentence is the keeper:
Quoted: Long term, applications as we know them are dead and the functionality we associate with applications today will simply be a part of the data we're interacting with tomorrow.

Appropriate, informed & humorous opinion piece on Microsoft's patent-rights saber rattling against Linux in Forbes magazine.

Quoted: And for sure we know now that the kinder gentler Microsoft was just a mask over its snout.

Dell's website: the Executive Biography describes "Michael's Computers." It's just a great read.

Quoted: Biography: Michael S. Dell - Chairman of the Board

My unsubstantiated opinion is that smart-guy Miguel de Icaza is acting naive to hide an ugly ulterior motive. From several (not all) angles, his Mono play was stupid to begin with but it became wholly nonsensical after the Novell-MS deal. This is the first article (opinion piece) I've seen that calls him out on it. Sure, this article is no more than rhetoric but there are no facts to work with and rhetoric drives de-motivation (of potential Mono adopters) in the absence of facts.

Quoted: What is Miguel de Icaza's real game?