Another ball-sucking article about the man who must be adorable, just because
he has a lot of money and power (over the press):
Bill Gates' legacy: Outmaneuvering the competition
http://www.itnews.com.au/newsstory.aspx?CIaNID=54840&src=site-marq#5413930790444198162
Do they mean "outmuscling"? Do they mean sabotaging the products of rivals?
Someone is Slashdot submitted a story to point out a bad interpretation (maybe
deliberate) of the GPL in:
Linux distributors scorn Microsoft partnership
http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2007/06/22/tech-microsoft-linux.html?ref=rss#skip300x250
And the DiDiot Microsoft shill strikes agaim?
Linux Camp Divided on Microsoft Deals
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| “It can impact enterprise users if somebody decides to sue for patent
| infringement ... and they don’t have any protection in place,” DiDio
| said. “That is always a danger.”
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http://www.computerworld.com.sg/ShowPage.aspx?pagetype=2&articleid=5545&pubid=3&tab=Home&issueid=114#8303089420247992501
For crying out loud. Do journalist even check who they ask for opinion? Shills
abound.
As I said several times this weekend, the press has gone out of its way to
spread FUD recently. Someone might be pulling some strings.
Recent:
Laura [DiDio] and Me
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| Ah yes, the rules of corporate behavior. And how we all admire them.
| Obviously, the journalist doesn't realize that Shuttleworth was talking about
| free as in speech, not free as in beer. In fact, he used the word freedom,
| not free. But it whizzed right over her head. That is so basic, I will opine,
| with my feet up on the desk, that she hasn't a clue what FOSS is about and
| did not a minute's research on what freedom means in this quotation.
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http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20070619092336304
Background:
Laura Didio
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| An example of her opinion on how Open Source Software is handled shows
| in this remark (quoted from a phone interview from her home in
| Massachusetts): "The thing about Linux is, you can talk about a free,
| open operating system all you want, but you can't take that idea of free
| and open and put it into a capitalist system and maintain it as though
| it is some kind of hippie commune or ashram, because if you can do it
| like that, at that point I'm like, 'Pass the hookah please!'" [1]
|
| Even recently, after admitting that a SCO victory in their case against
| IBM seemed like an extreme longshot, Didio said, "There is a larger
| issue, though: Even if the SCO case gets dismissed entirely, it does
| not remove the copyright cloud hanging over Linux and open source." [2]
|
| [...]
|
| Unsurprisingly, Linux advocates have in response heavily criticised
| DiDio. Typical criticisms are a lack of formal Computer Science
| qualifications and promoting studies funded by Microsoft; frequently
| this has resulted in questioning of her integrity and her being
| characterised as "a Microsoft shill".
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laura_Didio
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