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Free Software Foundation files new objection to amended Google Book Search settlement
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| The Free Software Foundation (FSF) filed
| another objection in court to the proposed
| amended Google Book Search settlement (The
| Authors Guild, Inc., et al. v. Google
| Inc.). The objection notes that proposed
| amendments which discuss works under free
| licenses unfairly burden their authors
| with ensuring license compliance, and
| urges the court to reject the proposed
| settlement unless it incorporates terms
| that better address the needs of authors
| using free licenses like the GNU Free
| Documentation License (GFDL).
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http://www.fsf.org/news/2010-02-gbs-objection
The Google Books Settlement Culture Clash, and What About Fair Use?
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| That's the dream of more than book
| publishers. Here's an exhibit from the
| Comes v. Microsoft antitrust case of a few
| years back, Exhibit 3590 [PDF]. It's a
| discussion in 1994 with Bill Gates and his
| executives about the Internet, and it
| includes an email from Nathan Myhrvold on
| how Microsoft could in time take over
| control of the Internet.
|
| [...]
|
| Old-fashioned copyright owners want the
| Internet to cut it out and be about them
| feeding us content and we sit back and
| just consume what they send us. After we
| pay. And agree to DRM.
|
| Of course, it's funny, what Myhrvold
| wrote, in that they totally missed the
| boat about the Internet, and about Linux,
| but that's a good thing. They probably
| could have killed Linux early on, had they
| tried. Their arrogance has cost them. It's
| too late now, hopefully, to just crush it,
| not that they haven't been trying. They'll
| have to buy community members to sell out
| and write their software to run on Windows
| instead of Linux now one by one, if they
| can find enough greedy types, and that
| takes longer even in Microsoft's best case
| scenario.
|
| [...]
|
| I hope the EU Commission is reading
| Groklaw at moments like this. The email is
| from 1995, but didn't they do what he
| suggested? I'm remembering the Microsoft
| extensions to HTML. I'm also thinking
| about OOXML. There's lots more in the
| exhibit about their browser plans, but are
| you thinking Silverlight? I am. Here's a
| snip from one last exhibit, Exhibit 3589
| [PDF], an email thread with a memo shared
| with the top brass at Microsoft on how to
| get the Internet away from open standards
| bit by bit:
|
| I recommend a recipe not unlike the
| one we've used with our TCP/IP
| efforts: embrace, extend, then
| innovate.
|
| Phase I (Embrace): all participants
| need to establish a solid
| understanding of the infostructure and
| the community - determine the needs
| and the trends of the user base. Only
| then can we effectively enable
| Microsoft system products to be great
| Internet systems.
|
| Phase II (Extend): establish
| relationships with the appropriate
| organizations and corporations with
| goals similar to ours. Offer well-
| integrated tools and services
| compatible with established and
| popular standards that have been
| developed in the Internet community.
|
| Phase 3 (Innovate): move into a
| leadership role with new Internet
| standards as appropriate, enable
| standard off-the-shelf titles with
| Internet awareness. Change the rules:
| Windows becomes the next-generation
| Internet tool of the future.
|
| Are you reading this Apache guys? Ubuntu
| Mono freaks? In the "Potential Risks"
| section on page 15:
|
| Microsoft/Internet Culture Clash. -
| One of the biggest challenges facing
| Microsoft's success in the Internet
| community is acceptance and respect.
| Although we have an incredible amount
| of respect in the commercial software
| business, the Internet has been
| founded on public domain protocols and
| products which generally included
| source availability at no charge. It
| has been only recently that vendors
| have suggested profiting from the
| Internet by selling the browsing tools
| and technologies, and offering
| commercial services on the Internet
| itself. The information and software
| has been free for 15 years, we need to
| be careful to embrace the current
| technologies and community before we
| attempt to reshape it.
|
| Put 'Open Source' everywhere in that snip
| where it says 'Internet' and you have the
| picture. They pretend to be with you,
| sharing goals, and then they win. If you
| are stupid enough to fall for the "let's
| be friends" part of their scheme.
|
| Their concept of the Internet is that it's
| a strip mall. They want it to be *their*
| strip mall.
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http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20100131212745380
"Ubuntu Mono freaks," she says.
Miguel de Icaza speaks
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| A couple of recent major milestones are:
| â Mono for the iPhone: the MonoTouch
| products, a major effort to simplify
| iPhone development and bring garbage
| collection, type safety and all of the
| features from .NET to iPhone developers.
|
| â We have also just released a plug-in to
| Visual Studio that allows developers to
| move their applications from Windows to
| Linux, create RPM packages from Visual
| Studio and even use our SUSEStudio.com
| website to create full appliances from
| their software projects.
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http://www.linuxuser.co.uk/news/miguel-de-icaza-speaks/
Recent:
Avoiding Mono
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| I do not use Mono because I believe it is
| not in our best interests. I chose Linux
| because it is an alternative. If I wanted
| Windows and .NET then I would choose that
| option. It is all about staying distinct
| and offering something different and
| better to my way of thinking. Getting
| Windows and .NET second hand is not what I
| want. You might not be surprised to find
| that I also donât use Wine for the same
| reason. Truthfully, I probably would not
| use Mono or Mono applications if its legal
| status was clear. I do not feel
| comfortable with giving Microsoft any
| leverage over us. The more Mono dependent
| we become the more we become subject to
| them and I did not get into Linux to be
| chasing after Microsoft and its standards.
| That is just me. I love independence. Each
| person must decide for him or herself.
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http://linuxcanuck.wordpress.com/2009/12/08/avoiding-mono/
NOME in .NET? â Not on my desktop!
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| I believe the weapon of Mono is to âget Linux users hookedâ to the .net
| environment, always offering the superior and more mature version on the
| Windows platform. Just like when you first tried alcohol you would probably
| start off on lighter products until you acquired a taste for it, progressing
| later in life to liking stronger spirits. With Windows having
| the âdefinitive versionâ and users hooked or caught in the .net, Microsoft
| could effectively remove or hold to ransom the addiction of using .net from
| non-Windows users. Just an idea, but from a PR standpoint IMO it would seem
| far more viable than MONO being used to trick people into installing
| Microsoft patent infested code.
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http://openbytes.wordpress.com/2009/08/25/gnome-in-net-not-on-my-desktop/
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