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Microsoft offers a Sophie's Choice
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| Open source is completely orthogonal to the
| choice discussion, Kazun writes, pointing to
| Microsoftâs Open Government Data Initiative as
| proof.
|
| But hereâs my problem with that, and here is
| why open source is not orthogonal at all, but
| part of the same dimension.
|
| You get one choice. You buy Microsoft and
| youâre locked into Microsoft. You canât go
| back.
|
| In Microsoftâs world its formats and open
| source are the two children, and you get to
| make one choice. Then you have to move on.
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http://blogs.zdnet.com/open-source/?p=6028
Recent:
Software industry's false choice for governments
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| At Microsoft's Public Sector CIO Summit this
| week, Microsoft is promising governments
| "choice," a theme normally reserved for the
| freedom-loving open-source set.
|
| But Microsoft's "choice" campaign is all about
| giving governments the option to step into the
| Google-blessed cloud realm without leaving the
| comfort of their Windows/Office/etc.
| environments. For some, and perhaps many, this
| may be just the sort of safe choice they're
| seeking.
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http://news.cnet.com/8301-13505_3-10458845-16.html
Reader: Steve Jobs says no tethering between iPad and iPhone
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| Steve Jobs appears to have fired off a
| tersely worded email reply to a user in
| Sweden who asked whether the WiFi-only iPad
| could be tethered to the iPhone: "No."
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http://www.appleinsider.com/articles/10/03/05/reader_steve_jobs_says_no_tethering_between_ipad_and_iphone.html
Related:
MS âSoftware Choiceâ scheme a clever fraud
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| Microsoft's new "Software Choice" campaign is all for your right to choose...
| as long as you choose Microsoft. It's too bad that Intel and the U.S.
| Government couldn't see through the rhetoric.
|
| Microsoft is worried about Peruvian Congressman Edgar Villanueva's proposal
| for his nation's government agencies to standardize on Free Software for
| their own internal use. But Villanueva makes an important point: everybody
| has to deal with the government. If a government uses proprietary software,
| its citizens will probably have to use the same software to communicate with
| it. A government web site that only supports Internet Explorer would lock
| citizens into that Microsoft product. In contrast, a government site using
| open standards and avoiding patented software would allow citizens to choose
| between many different kinds of software to access the site.
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http://www.theregister.co.uk/2002/08/09/ms_software_choice_scheme/
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