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Is Microsoft really any more trustworthy?
Lately, Microsoft has been trying really, really hard to appear as open source’s best friend. All I can say is: “With friends like these, who needs enemies?”
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Quick Mention: Microsoft Astro…Bloggers Unite!
Another case of a blogger get-together for Microsoft's benefit
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Open Source in the Share of Wallet Wars
On their blogs, Matt Asay and Savio Rodrigues are discussing whether IBM is using open source to diminish competitor margins. I think it is obvious that IBM does this, most notably with its Linux engagement, which is squarely directed against Microsoft (Windows). It is what I call a war over the share of customer’s wallet, and open source plays a major role. The graph below shows how it works.
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The Open Source ‘Census’ Lost Its Credibility
Reactions from prominent open source figures suggest that Microsoft's new participation is unwelcome
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Microsoft is Stealing… Open Source
Further progress for Microsoft's attempted assimilation with the #1 rival
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Interoperability: First Benefit Microsoft
The Microsoft Management Summit is making clearer the reasons behind the company's new emphasis on interoperability.
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Microsoft Trojan Horse Part Duex
After reading a recent press release about System Center Operations Manager 2007 being able to “manage Unix/Linux”, the first thought that goes through my head is WTF? Who in their right mind would touch that product?
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Microsoft Has a Reasonably Discriminatory Plan to Illegalise FOSS
A few days ago we wrote about Microsoft’s defense of RAND (and a bit of its latest slime against Groklaw). Do not be mistaken or deliberately misled to the point of believing that this RAND gotcha only applies to OOXML. It also applies to Mono and — by association — to Moonlight, which Microsoft hopes to infect the World Wide Web with.
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Connecting open source and mobile users - the Nokia plan
Check out Nokia’s point of view on What Mobile Users Need and How Open Source Can Help, in the words of Ari Jaaksi. Building upstream following community rules is in the heart of this plan. This is what Nokia has been doing, learning and contributing back a lot. Now it’s time to dive deeper.
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Open-source software: It's the free coffee cup of today
Companies used to give away pens, squishy balls and coffee cups to worm their ways into the hearts of customers. Now, they pass out database software.
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How Linux is being subverted
Linux is in great danger at the moment. That danger started when Microsoft cut their deal with Novell. Many open source advocates recognized this and there was a hue and cry over it. This furor has died down to a large extent and apathy has set in. To combat this the FSF brought out their GPLv3 but this seems to be too little too late.
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Is .NET on GNU/Linux a Trojan Horse?
"Don't talk about Microsoft" is a meme some people would gladly adopt for it is true that many in the Free Software community often appear obsessed with what Microsoft does and how could that be a part of a plan to hurt Free Software and GNU/Linux specifically.
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