Make Markets Not War
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| Open source is the biggest shift in the market this decade and market shifts
| are what the old guard hate. It destabilizes their ability to set high prices
| at will. Tim O'Reilly recently remarked:
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| Does Microsoft's claim that free and open source software infringes on 235
| Microsoft patents remind anyone of Joseph McCarthy's famous claim about
| communists at the State Department? Whether or not it's true, citing such a
| number without providing any detail is such a classic FUD move that, to me at
| least, it just makes Microsoft look ridiculous. More recently, it's
| reminiscent of the bluster of the SCO case against IBM.
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| As they say you can't be half pregnant and you can't be half open source and
| half proprietary either. Open source companies partnering with Microsoft are
| siding with a company trying to kill open source - the reason they're in
| business. The open source community recognizes this and these firms risk
| becoming outcasts. In a separate article and blog - "The Open Source
| Barometer" - I wrote about the impact of partnering with Microsoft and posed
| the question, "Is partnering with Microsoft good business for an open source
| company?"
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http://opensource.sys-con.com/read/460529_p.htm
Related:
German Linux Trade Group to MS: Be Specific About Patents - It's the Law
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| "Ballmer's assertion must be viewed as the typical Microsoft approach
| to alienate the market by spreading rumors or threats", said the
| official representative of the Linux related companies in Germany
| in a statement made in Berlin on November 27th 2006. "This is
| obviously part of a PR campaign related to the market launch of
| Windows Vista....If Microsoft cannot show evidence to support
| their claims, then they are outside the boundaries of German
| competition regulations. We call upon Microsoft to either prove
| their case, or to refrain from making such unfounded statements.
| Furthermore, we call upon European Politicians to protect open
| competition in Europe. In particular, small and mid sized companies,
| which form the majority of European Linux service providers, need to
| be protected from tedious legal disputes resulting from pretended
| assertions of Microsoft."
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http://www.linux-verband.de/Home-News-Single-Ansicht.305+M5b33a2bc073.0.html?&tx_ttnews[backPid]=19&tx_ttnews[tt_news]=363
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