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Protecting Linux from Microsoft (Yes, Microsoft Got Caught)
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| Earlier this week, the Wall Street Journalâs Nick Wingfield broke a story
| on Microsoft selling a group of patents to a third party. The end result
| of this story is good for Linux, even though it doesnât placate fears of
| ongoing attacks by Microsoft. Open Invention Network, working with its
| members and the Linux Foundation, pulled off a coup, managing to acquire
| some of the very patents that seem to have been at the heart of recent
| Microsoft FUD campaigns against Linux. Break out your white hats: the
| good guys won.
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http://www.linuxfoundation.org/news-media/blogs/browse/2009/09/protecting-linux-microsoft-yes-microsoft-got-caught
Linux Foundation to Microsoft: stop secretly attacking Linux
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| Linux Foundation executive director Jim Zemlin issued a scathing
| condemnation of Microsoft's recent attempts to unload Linux-related
| patents to patent trolls. He calls for the company to "stop secretly
| attacking Linux" and compete on the basis of quality rather than FUD.
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http://arstechnica.com/open-source/news/2009/09/linux-foundation-to-microsoft-stop-secretly-attacking-linux.ars
Microsoft: Yep, we teach Best Buy to trash Linux
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| Microsoft (MSFT) has confirmed the authenticity of a controversial set of
| training slides that it prepared to train Best Buy (BBY) employees in
| what the software giant calls "the important differences between Linux
| computers and Windows computers."
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http://www.dailyfinance.com/2009/09/09/microsoft-yep-we-teach-best-buy-to-trash-linux/
What Are You Prepared To Do?
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| Who is willing to take a Linux laptop into one of these stores and let
| the salesman give his pitch then categorically prove him wrong?
|
| Who is going to personally visit the Store Manager and tell him that
| millions of people are now aware of this campaign and sanctions are being
| prepared if they carry out this deception and FUD?
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http://linuxlock.blogspot.com/2009/09/what-are-you-prepared-to-do.html
Fun and FUD in the Fall Flamebait Follies
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| The news originally broke in Spanish on Matware, but an English
| translation -- complete with video clip -- confirmed the incredible news.
|
| The speech did apparently end up taking place at another location, but
| bloggers didn't take the news lying down.
|
| 'Devious Means'
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| "The saddest thing here is that this is a tax-supported public University | we are talking about," wrote jkohen, for example, in a lengthy
| conversation on LWN that quickly turned into an analysis of free speech.
|
| "One has to wonder, how many other speeches (not just by rms) have been
| quietly not-approved in other universities at MS's behest?" added
| coriordan.
|
| Similarly: "I think Argentina just embarrassed itself as a country,"
| Montreal consultant and Slashdot blogger Gerhard Mack told LinuxInsider.
|
| And again: "There can be no greater proof that Free Software is
| necessary" than this incident, blogger Robert Pogson said. "The EULA of
| M$ has 'no benchmarking' restrictions, too.
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| "M$ is caught trying to protect its FUD by devious means," Pogson told
| LinuxInsider. "Its claims of superiority ring hollow."
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http://www.linuxinsider.com/story/Fun-and-FUD-in-the-Fall-Flamebait-Follies-68080.html
Recent:
Are Microsoft Partners Spreading Open-Source Fear?
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| Microsoft and its channel partners are bound together with the glue of mutual
| commercial success. That's a big reason why Microsoft VARs are always quick
| to defend the software giant's interests. Criticize Microsoft in front of a
| group of partners and you may find yourself being forced to run for cover
|
| [...]
|
| Is Microsoft siccing its legions of loyal partners on the security reputation
| of open-source software? If so, it would contradict Microsoft's recent steps
| toward a rapprochement with the open-source community.
|
| [...]
|
| Criticism of the security of open source may have been more valid a decade
| ago, but today, Apache and the Linux stack are ubiquitous in the industry and
| run some of the largest online retail operations in existence, noted Greg
| Hanchin, principal for Denver-based security solution provider Dirsec.
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| "Open source is just another common piece of infrastructure; it's almost like
| Internet Protocol at this point," Hanchin said.
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http://www.crn.com/software/214200273
Related:
MS struggles to discredit Linux
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| What's cheaper than an OS you can buy outright once and install on every PC
| in your shop -- and upgrade cost-free for eternity to boot? Why, a slew of
| cheesy licenses for Microsoft Windows, 'Doze Division VP Brian Valentine
| claims in his latest cheerleading effort for his sales associates.
|
| That's right; a putatively independent analysis by 'we'll-conclude-anything'
| whores DH Brown is going to rip Linux a new one and find that Windows is
| actually cheaper. How Valentine knows this is anyone's guess. Perhaps he has
| a mole in the Brown organization as good as the one we have in his. Or
| perhaps MS simply paid for it. We don't know.
|
| It also appears that MS has bought off a number of Linux/Sun 'insiders' whose
| job it will be to explain to the sales team how to pitch the illusory
| advantages of Windows to unsuspecting IT managers. "Dumber people can run
| Windows" is the best advert I personally can come up with, though this is
| without the benefit of expensive analysts and turncoat 'insiders' to feed me
| intriguing tidbits.
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http://www.theregister.co.uk/2002/01/02/ms_struggles_to_discredit_linux/
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