Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> espoused:
> ____/ Mark Kent on Sunday 29 July 2007 11:41 : \____
>
>> Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> espoused:
>>> ____/ Mark Kent on Friday 27 July 2007 13:11 : \____
>>>
>>>> Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> espoused:
>>>>> Linspire agreement 'undermines GPL rights'
>>>>>
>>>>> ,----[ Quote ]
>>>>>| Pamela Jones, editor of the website Groklaw, in an analysis published on
>>>>>| Sunday, said the agreement has so many other loopholes that it is nearly
>>>>>| useless for Linspire customers.
>>>>>|
>>>>>| [...]
>>>>>|
>>>>>| Microsoft has said it expects to increase its revenues by selling patent
>>>>>| protection agreements to an ever larger number of open source users.
>>>>> `----
>>>>>
>>>>> http://www.linuxworld.com.au/index.php?id=1011202770&rid=-50
>>>>
>>>> Software patents do not apply outside the US, Canada, Australia and
>>>> Mexico.
>>>
>>> Some E-mails that I received from Spain today indicate that Microsoft will
>>> try tactics that are similar to OOXML (monopoly enablement) in order to pass
>>> software patent in the EU. FFII will be there to defend.
>>>
>>
>> Microsoft have a clear handful of tactics which they're using to try to
>> hang on to their existing business model. One is, clearly, conning
>> governments into forcing the likes of the BBC onto Microsoft-only
>> formats with vague promises of "compatibility" at some undefined point
>> in the future.
>>
>> The second is to get their proprietary formats somehow shoe-horned
>> through standardisation processes, and then to get patents on those
>> formats, and then to charge everyone, no matter what software they're
>> using, the same Microsoft taxes they've been charging on computers for a
>> couple of decades now.
>
> re: tactics
>
> A reader reminded me of then following yesterday:
>
> http://wiki.ffii.org/Navision050215En
>
> I also spoke to Mark T yesterday and it turns out that the British government
> is getting inself deeper in the mud at the moment (not just the OSC will
> react). In fact, I'll write about it shortly. It seems as though we might as
> well paint Gordon Brown with the Microsoft brush and treat as such. Some of
> the people who report to the government/BBC are also Microsoft employee, or
> something along those lines.
Interesting - I must give him a call, not spoken for some time. It
would explain why
>
> Remember that guy from National Archives who is also working for Microsoft? He
> got tagged, thanks to you <
> http://boycottnovell.com/2007/07/19/adam-farquhar-funny-business/ >. It's
> seems to be a coordinated attempt to hijack the Web. OOXML is just one among a
> large stack of standards+patents. See <
> http://boycottnovell.com/2007/07/24/buying-iso-approval/ >. I've grown closer
> the the TC, so I happen to have found out a lot more.
>
Excellent!
> To Microsoft, OOXML is a billion-dollar question. So is is ODF, I s**t you not.
> They don't mind the bad PR that comes with the bullying. They want to survive.
> They want to keep their job for years to come and not struggle to keep it from
> cheaper labour overseas.
>
Oh, I know how important the manipulation of governments and
standardisation bodies is to Microsoft and its shareholders.
Conversely, to those who are manipulated, it's a dangerous organisation,
and should be recognised as such.
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