Novell is working with Microsoft to help Microsoft cooperate and contribute to open source projects under open source licenses, and sticking with the existing standards to do so. Keen observers of the tech industry might note that this is a bit of a rarity, but it’s something that I hope we’ll see more of from Microsoft.
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Anybody up to writing good directory software?
Tue, 2007-02-20 11:17 — David JonathanSince the very beginning, directories (of any kind) have had a very central role in the internet. (I have recently grown fond of Free Web Directory. Even Slashdot can be considered a directory: a collection of great news and invaluable user-generated comments. As far as software is concerned, doing a quick search on Google about software directories will return the free (as in freedom) software directories like Savannah, SourceForge, Freshmeat and so on, followed by shareware and freeware sites such as FileBuzz, PCWin Download Center and All Freeware (great if you're looking for shareware and freeware, but definitely less comprehensive than their free-as-in-freedom counterparts).
Is better education the key to finding better software?
Sat, 2007-03-03 03:25 — Edward RusselI read David Jonathon's article Anybody Up To Writing Good Directory Software? the other day, which got me thinking about software directories in general. As David mentioned, many of the software directories one finds when doing a quick google search are free as in beer, not as in freedom. But what interests me is the software directories that already exist, providing a combination of both free as in beer software, and open source software. Sites such as Freeware Downloads and Shareware Download don't advertise themselves as providing free as in liberty software, but each of them have a good selection of open source software available... if you know where to look.
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4 years 3 weeks 1 day 18 hours ago
I think they can
The problem is that I don't think they WILL. I get the impression that Microsoft will fight for several more years to keep their proprietary software relevant, making token movements towards open standards while in reality trying to turn everything to their advantage. The empire will eventually fall apart and Microsoft will probably make one last effort towards open source (still eschewing free software) but it'll be too little, too late. At that point, it'll really be a matter of who'll bail the old men out.
einfeldt
4 years 3 weeks 1 day 2 hours ago
Don't trust Microsoft
Microsoft is committed to preserving its business model of selling software as a package. Its duty to its shareholders is inconsistent with anything but hostility to Free Open Source Software. Please just google Microsoft 10k SEC Linux and follow some of the links to see Microsoft's official position on GNU/Linux and FOSS. I am going to try to paste a link to Larry Cafiero's blog, in which he posts parts of Microsoft's 10K SEC filing.
http://larrythefreesoftwareguy.wordpress.com/2008/03/25/its-official-mic...
See, the thing about a 10k SEC filing is that it is every US company's get out of jail free card. A 10k filing is where a company lists all of the threats that it faces, so that it can say that it was candid with investors about the challenges and risks faced by a stock. So these 10k filings tend to actually be rather honest, for a change. If you want to know what a company is _really_ thinking, read the 10k filings.
Microsoft _hates_ FOSS, always has, and always will. Don't trust them. Period.