Archive for category Microsoft
Site News: MS Quotes on FLOSS
I recently completed moving over my collection of Microsoft quotes on Free and Open Source Software to the site! This is a compilation I used to maintain on my old personal blog, but I’m trying to consolidate things here instead of across multiple different sites. Here’s my original announcement, but let me repeat the most [...]
Get the Facts II: Electric Boogaloo
Posted by Jason in Free Software, Microsoft, Propriatery Technology on March 1, 2010
The Past Back in the dark ages of the early 2000s, Microsoft ran a misleading FUD campaign against Linux under the “Get the Facts” banner. It looks like “Why Microsoft” is the not-much-anticipated sequel, where – in concert with a blog running cutting edge 3.5-year old software – Microsoft will again FUD, mislead and distort [...]
All Source is “Open Source” to Someone
Posted by Jason in Copyright, Free Software, Microsoft on February 26, 2010
Color me not-surprised Look. I wasn’t surprised when Microsoft launched yet another patent/IP FUD attack against Linux and Open Source, and I’m not surprised that some organization with the Business Software Alliance as a member is attacking Open Source. It is what they do. If you are surprised or shocked, you aren’t paying attention. Let [...]
Free Software, Private Property
Posted by Jason in Microsoft, Propriatery Technology, Uncategorized on February 25, 2010
Michel Bauwens over at the P2P Foundation has an interesting article up entitled “Is free software private property?: In a 2003 essay, BENJAMIN HAK-FUNG CHIAO makes the startling claim that FOSS is actually Private Property, not in the legal sense, which creates a fictional Common Property, but in a economic sense, as individuals and companies [...]
On Amazon and Microsoft
Posted by Jason in Microsoft, Patent System on February 24, 2010
Business as usual I don’t get all the outrage about the recent Amazon-Microsoft patent cross-licensing deal. It’s 100% business as usual for both of the companies involved. Amazon.com Amazon is a proud champion of such innovative patents as one-click buying , and consumer reviews, both sterling examples of something not in anyway whatsoever obvious to [...]
Shuttleworth on Microsoft
In recent comments to ITWire, Mark Shuttleworth said: But I’m not here to punish Microsoft, or hate them, I’m here to build a better way, if I can. It will be hard, but we can. And in the cases where we have common cause, I am happy to work with Microsoft. That may be a hard [...]
Arguing over Innovations
I wasn’t going to write about former Microsoft VP Dick Brass’ NYT Op-ed piece, “Microsoft’s Creative Destruction“. But there is a point that keeps coming up, and although it doesn’t have anything directly to do with Free Software, I feel loquacious today. ClearType Among the other claims in the piece, Mr. Brass makes much hay out of [...]
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