Open Source with a Bullet: John Robb's Brave New War
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| Robb makes it clear that the tactics the United States (and, to a
| lesser extent, Europe and other post-industrial nations) now
| employs are bad, bad ideas. "Knee-jerk police states" and
| "preemptive war" fall into a category Robb borrows from security
| specialist Bruce Schneier: "brittle security." The big problem
| with brittle security is that, when it fails, it fails
| catastrophically; moreover, by employing these tactics, the
| U.S. (etc.) undermines the very moral suasion and memetic
| influence that are among the most important tools to fight
| empowered extremism.
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http://ieet.org/index.php/IEET/more/cascio20070513/
Competitive ads in a turf you do not own:
Google's Browser Address Error Redirector
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| Google has partnerships with computer hardware makers like Dell or
| Gateway to set the default search and the homepage to Google on
| new computers. By default, if you type a non-existent address in
| Internet Explorer's address bar, you're sent to a special
| Microsoft homepage that suggests some related links. Google
| decided this is a lucrative feature, so they install a Browser
| Address Error Redirector that replaces Microsoft's redirects.
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http://googlesystem.blogspot.com/2007/05/googles-browser-address-error.html
Search for "Linux", get Microsoft's anti-Linux propaganda (see screenshots
from Dell).
Some good quotes about Microsoft's FUD assault:
"I'll grant any non-IT professional the right to misunderstand this -- but
any programmer, developer or software architect claiming software patents
are a good idea just flips the bozo bit for me.
If your name is on a software patent, you should feel ashamed."
http://www.innoq.com/blog/st/2007/05/14/msft_goes_sco.html
"The only thing we have to fear is FUD itself."
http://blog.russnelson.com/opensource/microsoft-patent-fud.html
"So for now, the company's strategy appears to hedge on FUD, and a smattering
of well-publicized reminders of the big patent stick it can use to club
those who resist its carrots."
http://www.crn.com/software/199501735
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