LinuxAsia 2007 Kicks Off
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| The theme for this year's event is innovations in the field of open
| source to help develop pro-poor technologies and thus bridge the
| digital divide.
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http://www.efytimes.com/efytimes/fullnews.asp?edid=17072&magid=14
Microsoft will be there, as usual, seeking to cause damage from the inside
(building bridges... for the troops to cross). From a previous message:
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Check out the banners on the left. Microsoft is a sponsor boasting
interoperability. Microsoft was also a sponsor in the following conference
on interoperability:
http://www.techxworld.com/registration/index.cfm?fuseaction=dynamic&v=0&p=5069&code=digg
To name a few Linux/OSS conference where Microsoft got involved as well
(contributing funds at some capacity):
PHP, Windows: Not an Oxymoron?
http://www.internetnews.com/dev-news/article.php/3632136
LinuxChix Brazil Meeting - Webcast, teachers and sponsors
http://www.linuxchix.org.br/?q=node/72
Some argue that wherever and whenever Open Source and Linux gets mentioned
these days, Microsoft runs after it. It wants to be part of it, even if just
for malice. I read about conferences (Matt Asay) where it tried to lure in
Linux developers into joining Microsoft.
As for interoperability, I will cite a few examples which demonstrates
Microsoft's real stance:
FLOSS Weekly 14: Jeremy Allison of Samba
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| 'In the section of the interview from around 33m30s to 39m00 Jeremy
| Allison reports how he was told that the Microsoft team implementing
| SMB2 were ordered to "f**k with Samba".'
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http://www.twit.tv/floww14
Okay, but there's much more. Microsoft now faces the judge/s in an Iowa
trial. Days ago it was accused and convicted for hiding APIs. Antitrust is
probably on its way.
See for example:
Expert Testimony of Ronald Alepin in Comes v. Microsoft - Embrace, Extend,
Extinguish
http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20070108020408557
Also confer the following:
Here is proof that interoperability is not on the company's agenda.
OpenAjax Alliance tackles interoperability
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| While the alliance already has an impressive list of members, one
| name remains conspicuously absent: Microsoft.
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http://news.yahoo.com/s/macworld/20060920/tc_macworld/openajax20060920
Here is a brand-new example of "extend and extinguish".
Microsoft readies new VPN protocol
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| Microsoft currently has no plans to seek standardization for SSTP.
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http://arstechnica.com/journals/microsoft.ars/2007/1/21/6698
The following are new and they discuss 'interoperability crimes':
'Microsoft broke anti-trust agreement,' prosecutors claim
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/01/18/microsoft_breached_antitrust/
Microsoft used undocumented Windows APIs - Iowa testimony
http://www.pcpro.co.uk/news/101947/microsoft-used-undocume
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