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Is Microsoft really any more trustworthy?
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| You see some people still believe that Microsoft offering patented protocols
| under “reasonable and non-discriminatory terms,” or “for free for
| noncommercial use without fear of lawsuits” is somehow some kind of olive
| branch to the open-source community.
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| As Tiemann put it: “A free-of-cost license that prohibits commercial use is
| useless to open-source developers. And therefore I cannot understand why
| anybody would think that Microsoft is doing the open-source community any
| favors.”
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| He’s got that right.
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http://practical-tech.com/development/is-microsoft-really-any-more-trustworthy/
Could Microsoft actually be getting an open-source clue?
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| The first announcement, that Microsoft was contributing a patch to ADOdb, a
| PHP database access interface, wasn't that big a deal. It is, after all,
| self-serving. Microsoft's contribution will enable people to use its own SQL
| Server instead of MySQL or PostgreSQL with PHP programs. Yawn. Nothing new
| here.
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http://blogs.computerworld.com/could_microsoft_actually_be_getting_an_open_source_clue
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| For several years the Microsoft astroturf has periodically reported on the
| activities of a pro open source faction within Microsoft. This factional
| fight is probably one of many within the Microsoft bureaucracy which
| apparently endures constant, intense infighting. But I don't see what
| interest it is to anybody other than a Microsoft bureaucrat.
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http://www.linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=2008-07-28-016-35-NW-MS-0002
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| Fourth, it means MS wants to seed the Apache Group with Code that they will
| attach their IP to. This way, they can extract funds from users in the
| future, with their contributions.
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| Is it a good deal for Apache? In the short term, it provides them with cash.
| Is it a good deal for MS? Of course, it gives them access to a code base and
| hopefully developers they desperately need. Is it good for the development
| and user community? NO!!! Why not? It means MS is once again employing their
| extend, embrace, and extinguish paradigm, which has worked so well for them
| in the past.
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http://www.linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=2008-07-28-016-35-NW-MS-0001
Recent:
A Patent Lie
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| Microsoft sang a very different tune in 1991. In a memo to his
| senior executives, Bill Gates wrote, "If people had understood how
| patents would be granted when most of today's ideas were invented,
| and had taken out patents, the industry would be at a complete
| standstill today." Mr. Gates worried that "some large company will
| patent some obvious thing" and use the patent to "take as much of
| our profits as they want."
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http://www.nytimes.com/2007/06/09/opinion/09lee.html
Microsoft’s deceptive advertising, again.
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| Does Microsoft think we the Linux and Open Source user base are just a bunch
| of morons? In the latest advertising campaign of the closed sourced software
| giant that’s exactly what they are hoping for. Go ahead and check out for
| yourself. At http://www.microsoft.com/opensource they try to make it look
| like they are all for Open source software. They even have what they call the
| Hero Pack, fill out a form and they will send you a pack of “open source”
| tools that will help you become an “Open Source Hero”. What a giant load of
| crap how does “evaluation copies” of server 2008 and Visual Studio rank as
| open source software. They are so cheap it’s not even full versions (like I’d
| use it if it was).
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http://dthomasdigital.wordpress.com/2008/05/28/microsofts-deceptive-advertising-again/
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