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Traitorous Thoughts - Microsoft Hatred
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| Picking up traction is the idea that âMicrosoft Hatredâ
| is driving Mono/Moonlight/CodePlex/Miguel criticism,
| and perhaps is even the real ideological foundation of
| the Free Software movement.
|
| Of course, this is absurd and insulting, but I suppose
| I should take a moment to point out that RMS and the
| FSF also object to Apple, Amazon, DRM, and Software
| Patents. It is a very consistent and principled stand
| for end-user freedom and against those actors trying to
| control and restrict freedom. It just so happens that
| Microsoft is one of the largest offenders in this area.
| So they get a lot (but proportionately appropriate)
| amount of criticism.
|
| Further the idea that objection and criticism == hatred
| is false. The intent is to discredit the critic by
| portraying is message as emotionally driven and
| irrational. But pointing out that some companies are
| working very hard to remove freedom through DRM,
| patents, proprietary formats, price dumping, illegal
| practices, bribery, vote-stacking, or other offensive
| practices is fact-based, rational, and grounded in
| documented evidence.
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http://www.the-source.com/2009/09/traitorous-thoughts/
Recent:
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/
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