You may recall that I posted an article last year, voicing my concerns that Fedora (and indeed most distros) was being slowly poisoned by Microsoft's encumbered C# technology, in the  form of Mono. Well now it seems that Beagle (Novell/Gnome search tool) developer, Debajyoti Bera, wants to extend that infestation even further, by converting Beagle's support libraries to Mono too.

d-Tech-t: Open letter to OpenSUSE users

Oh dear, the MacHeads are not happy bunnies...

Looks like a recent update to QuickTime has introduced some kind of DRM enforcement, that effectively renders it useless (pun intended).

Worse still, complaints about this update are being censored on Apple's support forums.

Apple - Support - Discussions - After QT7.4, AE error-you do not have ...

It seems that Apple has deleted (again) one part of this discussion...

Read both of them: Very effective anti-trust action proposal:

http://www.globalisation.eu/briefings/competition-policy/unbundling-micr...

http://www.digitalmajority.org/forum/t-23463/why-the-unbundling-windows-...

I've just read on Digg that Channel4 are going to be offering a content download service. Great eh? Only problem is it's for Windows users only. Hmmm, maybe not so great.

Show your support for this issue at http://slated.org/ch4_microsoft_bias_vote.

So, in that great Slated tradition, I put metaphorical pen to paper, and sent yet another "letter" of complaint ... as follows: