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[News] Microsoft Spins (and Lies About) Free Software

  • Subject: [News] Microsoft Spins (and Lies About) Free Software
  • From: Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Thu, 19 Nov 2009 02:24:28 +0000
  • Followup-to: comp.os.linux.advocacy
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More open source spin from Microsoft

,----[ Quote ]
| But the TCP/IP stack will not be open-
| sourced - because, as Peter Galli, who 
| runs Port 25, Microsoft's means of 
| communicating with open source, says , 
| "the TCP/IP stack is third party software 
| that Microsoft licenses from EBSNet, so we 
| do not have the rights to distribute that 
| source code.
| 
| "If someone needs to access the source 
| code for the TCP/IP stack, they can 
| contact EBSNet directly."
| 
| What use is a framework that caters to 
| internet-connected devices without a 
| TCP/IP stack?
`----

http://www.itwire.com/content/view/29422/1090/

Convenient Fictions

,----[ Quote ]
| Itâs a convenient fiction that a vocal 
| minority within the open-source community 
| believes Microsoft is the source of all 
| evil in the technology world.
| 
| For âsuch peopleâ, it is far easier to 
| denounce an imaginary one-dimensional 
| straw man directing irrational âhateâ 
| towards a single entity than a principled 
| stand against anti-freedom activities, no 
| matter the source.
| 
| The fact of the matter, as a moment of 
| honest research will show, is that the 
| âvocal minorityâ has something to say 
| about Microsoft, Apple, Intel, the MPAA, 
| the RIAA, and many other entities â large 
| and small â that engage in anti-user, 
| anti-Freedom activites.
| 
| [...]
| 
| However, it makes no more sense to take 
| this single incident and use it as 
| exculpatory evidence than it would to use 
| this single incident as damming evidence. 
| Yet, by connecting this single âerrorâ to 
| the hateful straw man, that is exactly 
| what âsuch peopleâ are attempting â 
| avoiding any mention of over a decade of 
| history of clearly-not-mistake hostile and 
| illegal actions.
| 
| Such dishonest apologetics do no one a 
| favor. They do not cast Microsoft in a 
| more favorable light. They do not 
| strengthen the credibility of the 
| apologist. And they do not convert the 
| critic.
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http://www.the-source.com/2009/11/convenient-fictions/


Related:

Novell's "Mixed Source" Announcement

,----[ Quote ]
| This whole Novell-Microsoft saga to me was kind of like a hostile 
| takeover of GPL code, or an attempt at it, to neuter it so as to 
| make that code go more proprietary whether it wants to or not. 
| Folks who like the proprietary ways better and didn't much like 
| the GPL, or don't understand its value, thought the license 
| doesn't mean what it says or that they could get cute with it 
| and make oodles and boodles of money by selling code that 
| belongs to other people in ways those authors told them in 
| their license they don't like.
| 
| Well, the GPL does mean what it says. And if you steal the 
| Golden Egg and in so doing kill the Golden Goose that laid 
| it, what have you accomplished? The development method that 
| makes the code so much better is the Golden Goose, and the 
| GPL is central to the health of that Goose. I suppose that 
| is why Microsoft wants to get it neutered or eaten for 
| dinner, but why would anyone else help them, particularly 
| someone selling or wanting to buy Linux? You cut off your 
| own future, or make it subject to Microsoft's whims. 
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http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20070606120901152
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