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[News] Microsoft Accused of Extortion and Lies Against GNU/Linux

  • Subject: [News] Microsoft Accused of Extortion and Lies Against GNU/Linux
  • From: Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Mon, 01 Mar 2010 09:41:19 +0000
  • Followup-to: comp.os.linux.advocacy
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Microsoft-Amazon IP deal dusts up old âtarget Linuxâ story

,----[ Quote ]
| But now, Iâm beginning to question why 
| Linux and open source get such prominent 
| mention in the press release on this 
| latest deal with Amazon. Others have 
| questioned why Amazon would agree to such 
| a deal, and while I believe itâs often a 
| reality of best interest/better than 
| court, I also question how far any attempt 
| at FUD can really travel in an industry 
| that has largely already made its decision 
| on Linux. For the most part and in most 
| every case, the benefits outweigh the 
| risks, whether they be real or perceived.
`----

http://blogs.the451group.com/opensource/2010/02/24/microsoft-amazon-ip-deal-dusts-up-old-target-linux-story/

Extortion

,----[ Quote ]
| If you want to spread FUD, this will do. 
| We also have no word on how many 
| businesses have told M$ where to go. So 
| far they have only sued TomTom. United we 
| stand. Divided we fall. Thatâs the game. 
| If the world does not stand up to bullies 
| they become more aggressive and dangerous. 
| Seeking to diversify their cash cow, the 
| patent portfolio will be milked 
| repeatedly. I notice this does not rate an 
| SEC filing so it is not huge but its FUD 
| value may be much higher.
| 
| The worst possible outcome is the 
| extension of the M$ tax to GNU/Linux. That 
| will not happen. Software patents are on 
| their way out. Copyright FUD did not work 
| for SCOG, M$âs stooge. Patent FUD will not 
| work for M$. Even if they somehow play the 
| game out for years as SCOG has done, 
| patents expire in much shorter time than 
| copyrights. The best M$ can hope to do it 
| use this FUD to retain control of the US 
| market where software patents are 
| tolerated. Most of the rest of the world 
| gives them no play.
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http://pogson.6k.ca/2010/02/23/extortion/

Is Microsoft the New Old IBM: a Ponderous Innot-vator?

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| Twenty years ago IBM was a bloated, 
| ponderous corporate giant, dominating the 
| computing world not by advancing 
| technology but by intimidating not only 
| its few competitors, but even its 
| customers. Did a long-term user of IBM's 
| support services buy so much as a single 
| product from Amdahl? Too bad -- the 
| service contract was de facto terminated. 
| It seemed there was no way to break the 
| stranglehold IBM had on the very concept 
| of computing. (If you want the full story 
| on all of this, I recommend "Who Says 
| Elephants Can't Dance?" by Louis Gerstner, 
| the CEO who turned IBM around) 
| 
| [...]
| 
| As to Microsoft, that article shows how 
| perfectly they are imitating the flawed 
| history of IBM by attempting to intimidate 
| anyone they regard as a rival.
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http://www.linuxplanet.com/linuxplanet/opinions/6994/1/


Recent:

Hackers break Amazon's Kindle DRM

,----[ Quote ]
| The hack began as an open challenge in this 
| (translated) forum for participants to come up 
| with a way to make ebooks published in Amazon's 
| proprietary format display on competing 
| readers. Eight days later, a user going by the 
| handle Labba had a working program that did 
| just that.
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http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/12/23/amazon_kindle_hacked/
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