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Veteran developer ditches Microsoft for open source
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| If you've ever used Microsoft Access or Excel, you have likely used a product
| that Mike Gunderloy had a hand in developing. The irony is that Gunderloy
| himself doesn't use those products anymore. He's given up Microsoft for open
| source -- and he's not going back.
|
| [...]
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| If that happened, Gunderloy reasoned, it could become impossible for a
| developer to write any code that didn't tread on some vendor's patent
| somewhere. "It was the sweeping land grab by Microsoft that pissed me off."
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| Add to that Microsoft's infamous May 2007 claim that Linux and other open
| source software infringed on 235 Microsoft patents, and Gunderloy had seen
| enough. He broke with Microsoft and started looking around for new languages
| to learn.
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http://www.linux.com/feature/142083
Nobody needs to befriend the bully anymore.
Return of the InstallFest...It's Starting Here
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| So far, I have come away with several interesting realizations, the more
| important of which are these: That people are more ready and willing to
| distance themselves from Microsoft than I had originally anticipated, and
| translating that into getting them to use Free/Open Source Software will have
| a huge effect on the digital landscape in this area and elsewhere — and let
| me emphasize the elsewhere because if it can happen here, it can happen
| elsewhere.
|
| So who’s ready to make history in their community?
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| Oh, and if you have Microsoft stock, I’d sell. Fast.
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http://linuxlock.blogspot.com/2008/07/return-of-installfestits-starting-here.html
http://tinyurl.com/6y5l27
Related:
Africa: 'Microsoft is Imperialistic' Says Open Source Advocates
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| Microsoft Corporation's products have been locked out of the
| on-going World Social Forum (WSF) in Nairobi Kenya.
|
| With over 300 computers provided for participants and the press,
| organizers of the WSF have preferred to provide open source
| software products and blocked all Microsoft related products for
| the forum's usage and its related activities.
|
| [...]
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| Activists at the forum also believe that since Microsoft is a
| corporate brand from the United States of America, a country
| they believe has intentions of maintaining the status quo of
| a unipolar world over which it is above international law and
| the UN, the brand should be locked out.
|
| [...]
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| "The open source movement is providing Linux, a robust free
| software. Everybody owns it and it can be shared. And this
| is what WSF is all about - a free society, a movement
| fighting for ownership of free resources" he adds.
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http://allafrica.com/stories/200701230831.html
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