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[News] Dana Blankenhorn Redefines FOSS as Anti-Money

  • Subject: [News] Dana Blankenhorn Redefines FOSS as Anti-Money
  • From: Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Fri, 08 Jan 2010 18:59:48 +0000
  • Followup-to: comp.os.linux.advocacy
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Songbird now in convenient Philips hardware form

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| Songbird, the open source media player, is now 
| being embedded in Philipsâ GoGear line.
| 
| This is a win-win.
| 
| [...]
| 
| This is the way open source is supposed to 
| work. Itâs supposed to connect with the 
| market. If you donât want your hands stained 
| with filthy lucre youâre FOSS, not open 
| source.
`----

http://blogs.zdnet.com/open-source/?p=5565

What rankles in open source buy-outs

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| Legally, the analysts telling mySQLâs 
| community to shut up are saying, yes, it 
| could. And you couldnât say a thing about it. 
| Thatâs just capitalism.
| 
| It may be, just as Tom Sawyerâs game to get 
| his friends to whitewash Aunt Pollyâs fence 
| was capitalism. But when Mark Twain wrote that 
| his sympathies werenât really with Tom. He was 
| satirizing capitalism itself, and telling 
| young readers to be wary of its glib promises.
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http://blogs.zdnet.com/open-source/?p=5552


Recent:

Should open source hate Apple?

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| Microsoft did not really change its tune after the court case wound down.
|
|     * Microsoft subsidizes the channel so every PC in the store runs Windows,
|     even netbooks where thatâs more trouble than itâs worth.
|     * Sharepoint is designed specifically to extend its monopoly.
|     * Remember the OOXML standards battle, where Microsoft corrupted the
|     standards process itself to maintain control of the applications market?
|     * The Novell deal, in which Linux vendors admit that 2+2=5 so Microsoft
|     wonât assert non-existent  patent claims against them, still gets me mad
|     every time I think about it.
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http://blogs.zdnet.com/open-source/?p=4732
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