Appeasement is a Type of Strategy
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| "Why port Microsoft's new own-the-web Silverlight to Linux" Miguel de
| Icaza replied to the question....
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| [...]
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| I'm not sure that making the life of the marketing department of a
| convicted monopolist which just loves to embrace, extend, and
| extinguish competition is the best way to spread freedom through
| software. Imagine if Netscape had decided that the best way to stay
| relevant in 2000 was to create a clone of IE 4 instead of restarting
| and creating Mozilla.
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| Imagine building a Free word processor that read .doc files and not
| ODF.
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http://www.oreillynet.com/linux/blog/2007/05/appeasement_is_a_type_of_strat.html
As you may or may not know, Novell is pouring millions into making its Linux
very .NET-rich. This has been confirmed by several people at the high level.
Shake the Disease [Silverlight]
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| They apparently believe that the idea of developing for Silverfish
| is more appealing than the idea of developing on a Mac. As Elliotte
| writes, "Microsoft expects the creators and consumers to come to
| them." Yeah, good luck with that, guys.
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http://weblogs.java.net/blog/editors/archives/2007/05/shake_the_disea.html
Red Hat's Counsel Comes Out Swinging on Matter of 'Trust' in Linux
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| In other words, trust Red Hat -- don't trust Novell, Oracle,
| Sun or anyone else.
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http://www.localtechwire.com/business/local_tech_wire/opinion/blogpost/1383029/
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