Archive for category Microsoft
Matt Zimmerman on Mono
Posted by Jason in Free Software, Microsoft on April 20, 2010
Interesting interview with Matt Zimmerman, Canonical CTO: UT: Richard M. Stallman had criticized Miguel de Icaza for his participation to Open Source Lab which has been founded by Microsoft. What do you think about that? And in the context of this subject how do you evaluate Mono Project. MZ: Miguel and I have met, but [...]
This is how busy I am
Loyal readers – of whom there are Legion – will surely recall the times I have requested artistic help in visualizing my brilliant ideas. For example, recall back when we discussed Microsoft’s Jason Matusow’s laughable spin around “balancing” Open Source and I hoped that someone would make a “Redmond Astroturfers” logo a la the 90s Astros? Well, behold! [...]
OOXML News So Shocking I Can’t Even Think Of A Headline
Posted by Jason in Microsoft, Standardization on April 2, 2010
The Basic story It turns out that Microsoft isn’t following up the OOXML standard too hard. By “following up” I mean actually following their own superb standard. Coverage on this is already everywhere: I prefer The Standards Blog myself. Context Team Apologista is very big on “context”, so allow me to accommodate: Dr. Alex Brown was the convenor [...]
The Disappearing Article Mystery Solved?
Posted by Jason in Free Software, Microsoft, Novell on March 26, 2010
Now that there is some explanation out there, we can examine two interesting aspects to the Disappearing Article Mystery. Be warned: this will be long and ranty. Aspect the First: The Disappearance The “disappearance” is explained by Mr. Worthington (the article author) on Twitter as so: on my recent .net evolution stories – nothing was pulled. they [...]
The Disappearing Article Mystery
Posted by Jason in Free Software, Microsoft, Novell, Patent System on March 24, 2010
This is strange. The Treasure I ran across some interesting quotes allegedly from Miguel de Icaza: Microsoft has shot the .NET ecosystem in the foot because of the constant threat of patent infringement that they have cast on the ecosystem [...] Unlike the Java world that is blossoming with dozens of vibrant Java Virtual Machine [...]
Matt Asay on Partisanship
Wow – lots of interesting stuff to blog about today! Mr. Asay, Canonical COO, blogs up “Life’s too short for partisanship“. Let’s break it on down If Microsoft warms up to open source, why not share some plaudits? And even when it gets things wrong, surely it’s better to politely critique rather than spew invectives? [...]
Andrew Tridgell on Patent Defense
Posted by Jason in Free Software, Microsoft, Novell, Patent System on March 23, 2010
End Software Patents has up a transcript and link to video of Andrew Tridgell’s talk on patent defense. Interestingly, Mr. Tridgell asserts that you should be reading patents – contrary to a lot of folk wisdom that doing so is dangerous because of “triple damages”: Andrew Tridgell: Triple damages. Right. Okay. In the free software community, [...]
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