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[News] Microsoft's "Puppets Du Jour", Open Source Insiderz

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Microsoft’s Dana Perino problem with open source

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| Every few years Microsoft gets a new “good cop” regarding open source.
| 
| He makes great pronouncements, donates some old code, maybe tosses a few 
| bucks the way of open source. 
| 
| Then Steve Ballmer opens his yap and we’re back to square one.
| 
| Eventually people stop listening. That’s the problem for current Bush 
| Administration press spokesman Dana Perino (above). We’ve seen the act, this 
| is no different, she is not taken seriously.  
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http://blogs.zdnet.com/open-source/?p=2721

Right on target. Microsoft's latest puppet is Rajmi. He's a punch bag that
daemonises Microsoft critics.


Related:

What Will Change at Microsoft with Regard to F/OSS Patents

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| Hilf’s response was... priceless. “I get a lot of e-mail.” “People like to 
| subscribe me to crazy newsletters and spam.” 
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http://www.oreillynet.com/linux/blog/2007/07/what_will_change_at_microsoft.html


Microsoft director out to 'debunk mythology around open source'

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| "The Free Software movement is dead. Linux doesn't exist in 2007. Even
| Linus has got a job today." Controversial statements from the head
| of Microsoft's Linux Labs, Bill Hilf.
| 
| [...]
| 
| Hilf accused his former employers, IBM, of starting a standards war
| simply because they wanted a part of the Office market. People do
| not want ODF (Open Document Format), but they want a way to control
| the information they create, he claimed.
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http://www.bangkokpost.com/090507_Database/09May2007_data05.php


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| "We would like to strike similar patent deals with all the Linux
| vendors, but we had to start somewhere," said Bill Hilf.
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http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1759,2064986,00.asp?kc=EWRSS03119TX1K0000594


Sun exec accuses Microsoft of 'patent terrorism'

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| The efforts of Microsoft to pressure the Linux community over alleged and 
| unspecified patents is akin to "patent terrorism", according to a local 
| executive for Sun Microsystems.  
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http://www.zdnet.com.au/news/software/soa/Sun-exec-accuses-Microsoft-of-patent-terrorism-/0,130061733,339280437,00.htm


Microsoft, the art of Corporate Terrorism.

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| Microsoft, no longer the technological leader in the Computer Desktop
| market, is taking on a terrorist role in its attempt remain in power
| at all costs. (see the link to the CNN story below)
| 
| The tactic is intended to frighten current, and would be, free 
| software users away from products that Microsoft just can't compete
| with. It's not a new tactic, but for the first time desperation is
| beginning to show.
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http://sweetcomputing.com/index.php?wiki=Microsoft_Terrorism


Convicted Monopolist Terrorizes Software Industry

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| That headline is designed to grab your attention. Sensationalistic as
| it may be, it also happens to be true, if what you mean by 'terrorize'
| is to provoke fear.
| 
| If you've been following the presidential race in the United States,
| you know the present crop of candidates have been exploiting the fear
| of the American people as they never have before in the history of
| the country.
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http://www.linux.org/news/opinion/ms_threats.html
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