Does open source need a Micro-cop?
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| Microsoft is playing good cop, bad cop, offering “to promote greater
| interoperability, opportunity and choice” on the one hand, dismissing efforts
| to build real standards on the other.
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| Specifically, it provided documentation allowing developers to link with its
| MS-XAML, an XML schema for embedding applications, while dismissing Google’s
| OpenSocial initiative, and having its little friend, Facebook, do so as well.
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http://blogs.zdnet.com/open-source/?p=2166
"Usually Microsoft doesn't develop products, we buy products."
-- Arno Edelmann, Microsoft
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ZeroPaid Interviews Russell McOrmond - Part 2 of 3
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| Those who were successful using legacy methods are not being phased out
| without a fight. Rather than trying to claim publicly that FLOSS is "a
| Cancer", they have now set their sights largely at policy makers. The push
| has been to confuse governments around things such as DRM and software
| patents. These are policies which have nothing to do with protecting
| innovation and creativity, and everything to do with protecting incumbent
| software manufacturing vendors from FLOSS competitors.
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http://www.zeropaid.com/news/9300/ZeroPaid+Interviews+Russell+McOrmond+-+Part+2+of+3/
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| A source that deals with the company said unofficially that Gates
| proposed Microsoft's Digital Rights Management technology as a national
| standard to fight piracy at the governmental level.
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http://www.kommersant.com/p719683/r_528/
Years of deadlock on EU patent bring some new thinking
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| When Bill Gates visits Brussels on Thursday to speak with
| government officials, software developers and customers, he
| plans to wade into one of Europe's longest-running, most
| fruitless debates: the pursuit of a unified patent system.
| Gates, chairman of Microsoft, wants a simple system that will
| allow the world's largest software maker and other companies
| to protect their intellectual property in the European Union -
| and profit from licensing their patents.
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http://www.iht.com/articles/2006/11/08/business/patents.php
Leaked letter warns of open source 'threat to eco-system'
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| leaked letter to the European Commission has revealed the extent of
| lobbying by proprietary software groups to prevent the widespread
| adoption of open-source software.
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| Sent in response to a recent report on the role of open-source
| software in the European economy, Microsoft-funded pressure
| group, the Initiative for Software Choice (ISC) warned of
| potentially dire effects if too much encouragement was given
| to open source software development.
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http://www.techworld.com/news/index.cfm?RSS&NewsID=7109
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