Our community participants speak out on the World of Warcraft French connection, Microsoft's litigation threats against Linux users, Apple's possible tablet PC, and employees Web surfing on company time.

French Minister: Stop Outsourcing World Of Warcraft

Realitycheck: What are the French talking about? There seem to be some missing facts in the article. World of Warcraft (WoW) is a Blizzard Game - that is Blizzard from Irvine, California, USA. Viviendi's purchase of Blizzard does not make WoW a product (or work of art) from France. They must also consider the Mona Lisa a French work of art since it hangs in the Louvre.

Put Up Or Shut Up, Microsoft

FH:: "Any company that resorts to FUD tactics to compete must not be very confident in its products and marketing campaign."

ebrke: "What he's done is put Novell/SuSE under a lot of pressure from the open source community. This is bound to have a bad effect on an already weak company, and I can't believe that this is an accident. Ballmer may be a blowhard, but unfortunately, I don't think he's a fool. He singled out the most vulnerable commercial Linux distro and went straight for the jugular."

MS-user:: "My company uses both MS and Linux. I'm certainly not happy about being threatened with legal action."

Is Apple Really Building A Mac Tablet PC?

Sean Malone:: "My guess is iPhone before iTablet."

Employers, Break Out Web-Use Monitoring Tools; Employees, Watch Your Backs

Lyn: "If my co-worker can take a 10 minute smoking break once an hour, why can't I surf a bit?"