Now it’s Open Document Format’s turn for the FUDmeisters.
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| So to sum up - really, Mr Gilli, stop trying to make out there’s a major
| controversy and massive fighting amongst the Open Document Format advocates,
| because in reality there is none. The only thing which has happened is that a
| from what I can tell extremely minor participant in the Open Document Format
| committees has basically gone away in a hissy fit because they didn’t get
| their own way - that’s how I personally see it anyway.
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http://hackfud.net/2007/11/06/now-its-open-document-formats-turn-for-the-fudmeisters/
Last week it was the "Linux Losing to Windows" FUD piece, which hadhim (and
IDC) criticised for a long time. This time he just quotes Microsoft on ODF
issues. Where is the balance? What happened to journalism?
eWeek still contains anti-Linux ads.
Microsoft FUD here as well:
Redmond's Heavy Guns Go After OpenSocial
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| It is probably coincidental, but two responses to OpenSocial from
| well-respected members of the Microsoft blogging community have each in their
| own way come out against Google's OpenSocial initiative, Dare Osabanjo
| because in his view OpenSocial while billed as a standardized widget platform
| for the Web, actually isn't.
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http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/11/05/1356249&from=rss
Related:
MySpace is a part of OpenSocial community
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| Among other members of the group are Engage.com, Friendster, hi5, Hyves,
| imeem, LinkedIn, Ning, Oracle, Orkut, Plaxo, Salesforce.com, Six Apart,
| Tianji, Viadeo, and XING. Some are social networking site operators, some
| develop applications for such sites, and others produce software that could
| benefit from tapping into social networks.
|
| [...]
|
| According to a New York Times report, Google has invited Facebook - the other
| big player in the social networking space - to join the project, and a
| meeting between the two companies is scheduled for this week.
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http://www.itwire.com/content/view/15162/1054/
Bill Gates fund reports 12.8 pct PlanetOut stake
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| Bill Gates' investment fund Cascade Investment LLC reported in a regulatory
| filing on Friday that its holds a 12.8 percent stake in the common stock of
| online media company PlanetOut Inc.
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http://www.reuters.com/article/topNews/idUKN1331033020070713?rpc=44
Bill Gates lends cash to buy newspapers
$350 million to MediaNews
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| Gates involvement has been very behind the scenes. In fact many of
| those involved in the deal didn'teven know he was one of the investors.
| It was carried out through the Gates Foundation, the world's largest
| philanthropy outfit.
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http://www.theinquirer.net/default.aspx?article=33849
What happened to the guts?
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| Of one thing I am fairly certain. Microsoft all but eliminated
| mainstream software competition. As a result, Microsoft became
| the primary source of advertising revenue for mainstream publications.
| You don't bite the hand that feeds you. So instead of publishing
| issues calling for a worldwide boycott of Vista because it focuses
| more on what you can't do than what you can do, you see special
| editions praising Vista as the greatest advancement in computing
| since Windows 95. Granted we all know that Windows 95 was a dog
| from day one, but by the 90s, the mainstream press had already
| become rampant with Microsoft sycophants and they pushed Windows
| 95 like it was the second coming.
|
| [...]
|
| In short, I'd love to see a mainstream publication become an
| advocate for the consumer once again.
|
| As noted above, there are exceptions, including Linux Journal,
| most other FOSS-centered publications and even The Register.
| But we're the little guys.
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http://www.linuxjournal.com/node/1000173
Beeb slammed for 'fawning' to Bill Gates
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| BBC viewers have flooded the corporation with complaints over how it
| covered the launch of Microsoft Vista earlier this week.
|
| In one cringingly servile interview worthy of Uriah Heep, the
| Beeb's news presenter Hugh Edwards even thanked Gates at the
| end of it, presumably in appreciation at being allowed to give
| the Vole vast coverage for free.
|
| In other TV news items presenters excitedly explained how Vistac
| ould be obtained and installed - details courtesy of the BBC's
| website.
|
| But British viewers, currently forced to pay a £131.50 licence
| fee to maintain the BBC's "impartiality", were less than impressed.
|
| Scores got in touch to complain that so much was Auntie up Bill's
| bum that you could barely see her corset.
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http://www.theinquirer.net/default.aspx?article=37411
PC World Editor Resigns When Ordered Not to Criticize Advertisers
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| Apparently he also told the staff that product reviews had to be
| nicer to vendors who advertise in the magazine. The sad thing is
| that given the economics of publishing in this day and age, I
| doubt anything even comes of this even tho it essentially
| confirms that PC World reviews should be thought of as no
| more than press releases. I know that's how I will consider
| links from them in the future. But congratulations to anyone
| willing to stick to their guns on such matters.
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http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/05/03/1810239&from=rss
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