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Sun Fell Prey to Open-Washing. Who's Next? Microsoft?
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| Openwashing is similar to greenwashing, in
| which a company markets itself as
| environmentally friendly but is actually
| faking it. A high tech firm openwashes
| itself when it makes noises about open
| software but is really interested in
| preserving its proprietary offerings and
| hampering free open systems practices.
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http://industry.bnet.com/technology/10005738/sun-fell-prey-to-open-washing-whos-next-microsoft/
Thoughts on Jeremy's Sun/Oracle Analysis
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| Meanwhile, I'm less optimistic than Jeremy
| on the future of Oracle. I have paid
| attention to Oracle's contributions to
| btrfs in light of recent events.
| Amusingly, btfs exists in no small part
| because ZFS was never licensed correctly
| and never turned into a truly community-
| oriented project. While the two projects
| don't have identical goals, they are
| similar enough that it seems unlikely
| btrfs would exist if Sun had endeavored to
| become a real FLOSS contributor and
| shepherd ZFS into Linux upstream using
| normal Linux community processes. It's
| thus strange to think that Oracle controls
| ZFS, even while it continues to contribute
| to btrfs, in a normal, upstream way (i.e.,
| collaborating under the terms of GPLv2
| with community developers and employees of
| other companies such as Red Hat, HP,
| Intel, Novell, and Fujitsu).
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http://ebb.org/bkuhn/blog/2010/03/03/jeremy-on-sun.html
Windows breeds fear and ignorance.
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| And I put the blame squarely on Windows.
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http://openattitude.com/2010/03/03/windows-breeds-fear-and-ignorance/
Recent:
Microsoft's smartphone market share: sub 10 percent and falling
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| According to the latest figures from Canalys, Microsoft is losing share in
| the smartphone market as the number of platforms proliferates and it now
| commands less than 10 percent.
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http://www.itwire.com/content/view/27040/127/
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