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RMS on Microsoft sponsorship
Posted by Jason in Free Software, Microsoft, Open Source on August 4, 2010
A Little Background eLiberatica is an “Open Source and Free Software” conference in Romania, sponsored by Microsoft. A Gentle Reader of this blog, Dan Serban, questioned this relationship and contacted Richard Stallman for his comments on such situations. Lucy, you’ve got some ‘splaining to do! eLiberatica Conference Chair Lucian Savluc has offered up “Some clarity about eLiberatica [...]
Rob Weir: The value of restricting choice
Posted by Jason in Microsoft, Open Source on July 28, 2010
Excellent and insightful article by Rob Weir. Lie. Lie Big. And Stick to It. One of the things Mr. Weir points out is that through a simple Google search, it’s easy to see how a troop of zombie “tech journalists”, bloggers, and astroturfers simply parrot Microsoft talking points – right down to the exact phrasing. (The [...]
Novell Sells: But Who’s Buying?
With apologies to Dave Mustaine. Right, so, Novell is up for sale and there’s a couple dozen potential buyers. First, let me tell you what is not going to happen: Microsoft is not going to buy Novell. Novell has served their purpose to Microsoft, which is basically acting as a lap-dog and providing Microsoft with good [...]
Microsoft on Interoperability
From ChannelWeb Stephen Elop, president of the Microsoft Business Division and one of the company’s foremost cloud proponents, also dismissed Google’s claims of Office-Docs interoperability. “It clearly shows their lack of maturity and lack of understanding for the business market,” Elop told The New York Times Wednesday. “Companies don’t want to mix their technology.” I [...]
Calls for a return to Browser Balkanization
A Brief Preface Let me state up front one of the reasons I hate Twitter is because it is so ill-suited for any real communication. There are a very limited number of things Twitter works well for, but explaining an idea with any nuance is certainly not among them. I hate to read too much [...]
Microsoft Evangelist: GPL strips consumer of all their rights
Microsoft “Architect Evangelist” Josh Holmes: [Microsoft signing the Joomla Contributor Agreement is] a clear demonstration of how far Microsoft has come in it’s commitment to OSS projects. Now, I’ve got my own issues with the GPL as I think that it strips the consumer of all of their rights but that’s for a different discussion. [...]
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 [...]
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