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And you thought Microsoft's open source FUD was bad
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| Perhaps recognizing that not everyone will buy into its FUD, TeleSoft claims
| to support the popular Linux operating system, but with a kernel-loadable
| module approach that keeps its IP safe from that voracious appetite of
| IP-stealing Linux. Nice. TeleSoft wants to have its cake ("open source is
| terrible!") and eat it, too ("but our open source is not so terrible!").
|
| TeleSoft provides protocol stacks to the telecom industry, and from the sound
| of things it's getting sick of losing to open source. I used to work in this
| embedded Network and Communications market years ago and open-source adoption
| was exceptionally high. Threatened by open source's low price and high
| functionality, it's not surprising to see TeleSoft fight back.
|
| But it might want to use factual information next time. The developers it's
| targeting with this FUD campaign will struggle to understand TeleSoft's point
| that "no documentation and quality testing means no guarantee of
| interoperability." (What does quality testing have to do with
| interoperability?) They'll scoff at the notion that open source isn't (or
| can't be) "tailored for [customers'] unique hardware and operating system."
| In fact, the opposite is, or can be, true.
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http://news.cnet.com/8301-13505_3-10066653-16.html
Recent:
Now Hiring - Astroturfer, apply at Microsoft
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| Evidently, a "Senior Marketing Manager" has the responsibility of:
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| * "assisting in defining and driving core marketing initiatives – most
| specifically online & offline community-building"
| * "further the dialogue on the value of the Microsoft platform to open
| source audiences"
| * "be a cornerstone for a global thought leadership website and will be
| regularly featured in industry press around the world"
| * "act as a visible external evangelist for Microsoft"
|
| Wow! That's all direct quotes from the job description. It is so blatant, I'm
| beginning to wonder if it's some kind of joke. Particularly the 'evangelist'
| line.
|
| Kind of like the famous Halloween documents, this posting really tips
| Microsoft's hand and shows us exactly what they're thinking. After all the
| smoke and mirrors over the deals with Linux distros Suse, Linspire, Xandross,
| and Turbo Linux, this shows that those distros were in fact acquired in order
| to be killed. It's not Linux that Microsoft wants, it's the customers.
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http://penguinpetes.com/b2evo/index.php?title=now_hiring_astroturfer_apply_at_microsof&more=1&c=1&tb=1&pb=1
Related:
Microsoft Pays $200 for Mentioning Its Tools
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| If you're a professor and you mention Microsoft programming tools in a
| scholarly presentation -- in fact, even if you just use the tools --
| Microsoft will send you a check for $200.
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http://chronicle.com/data/articles.dir/art-44.dir/issue-33.dir/33a03001.htm
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