Mapuche Indians have accused Microsoft of violating their cultural heritage by translating Windows into their language, Mapuzugun, without permission. The language is spoken by some 400,000 indigenous Chileans, some of whom have taken the software company to court for ‘intellectual piracy’. A judge in Santiago will decide in two weeks whether the Mapuche have a case.

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Analysts are running around like beheaded chickens trying to make sense of a world gone mad. Microsoft has agreed to collaborate with a company that has recently sued it for more than half a billion dollars and has outstanding antitrust lawsuits against it in process. Yet the collaboration strangely seems to make sense.

Novell is a software company from the Microsoft era which relatively recently took a gamble and sailed into the open source Linux space. The company still makes money from its Windows-based Netware and Groupwise businesses. However, it is very much a runner up to Red Hat in the Linux market.

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