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| Another possibility is that he is simply
| writing something attacking Redhat based
| upon some very loose research. His "Who am
| I" page mentions being very close to
| Microsoft, even enough to have had actual
| meetings with Bill Gates.
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http://www.pwnage.ca/?q=node/18
miRoamer Joins Industry Consortium to Further Develop Open Source In-vehicle Infotainment Platform
http://www.pr-inside.com/miroamer-joins-industry-consortium-to-r1723849.htm
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Using open source as a marketing ploy
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| This is typical trend riding fluff. If you go the Aras website you
| read about "Microsoft Enterprise Open Source Solutions", which is
| comical in and of itself.
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http://weblog.infoworld.com/openresource/archives/2007/01/more_open_sourc.html
Is Microsoft Hijacking Open Source?
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| What really worries me is what looks like an emerging pattern in Microsoft's
| behaviour. The EU agreement is perhaps the first fruit of this, but I predict
| it will not be the last. What is happening is that Microsoft is effectively
| being allowed to define the meaning of âopen sourceâ as it wishes, not as
| everyone else understands the term. For example, in the pledge quoted above,
| an open source project is ânot commercially distributed by its
| participantsâ - and this is a distinction also made by Kroes and her FAQ.
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| In this context, the recent approval of two Microsoft licences as
| officially âopen sourceâ is only going to make things worse. Although I felt
| this was the right decision â to have ad hoc rules just because it's
| Microsoft would damage the open source process - I also believe it's going to
| prove a problem. After all, it means that Microsoft can rightfully point to
| its OSI-approved licences as proof that open source and Microsoft no longer
| stand in opposition to each other. This alone is likely to perplex people who
| thought they understood what open source meant.
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| [...]
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| What we are seeing here are a series of major assaults on different but
| related fields â open source, open file formats and open standards. All are
| directed to one goal: the hijacking of the very concept of openness. If we
| are to stop this inner corrosion, we must point out whenever we see wilful
| misuse and lazy misunderstandings of the term, and we must strive to make the
| real state of affairs quite clear. If we don't, then core concepts like âopen
| sourceâ will be massaged, kneaded and pummelled into uselessness.
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http://www.linuxjournal.com/node/1003745
When open source projects close the process, something's wrong
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| Twice in recent weeks open source projects have surprised me with their lack
| of openness. In both cases, developers acted or spoke out in such a way as to
| intentionally push other developers away from their work.
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| The root of both problems is an unwillingness to commit to a truly open
| development process.
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http://www.linux.com/feature/120635
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