More snake oil in medical IT, Practice Fusion's "Google Partnership" bunk
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| Lately, I have been targeting companies that have been trying to use
| "open source" in marketing, without holding to either free software,
| or even the lesser open source ideals. However, recently, a company
| tried a different kind of snake oil marketing.
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http://www.freesoftwaremagazine.com/blogs/more_snake_oil_in_medical_it_practice_fusion_s_google_partnership_bunk
http://tinyurl.com/3xfz4s
Microsoft does this as well, corrupting the meaning of "Open Source" and
pushing others to the roots of "Free software".
Marketing - Linux vs FOSS
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| If you want PR and marketing, you do not go to the engineering
| department. Ask an engineer for a quote and you're liable to get
| an oratory full of recursive acronyms and technical jargon.
| Nothing like that is going to get carried by the mainstream media.
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| But there is still a gap. This advertising is for "Linux", "Novell"
| and "SUSE" and has nothing to say about GNU or the FSF. For that,
| you'll still have to head over to the engineering department for a
| brochure and a lecture.
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http://technocrat.net/d/2007/3/24/16779/
Related:
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
A New Evangelist for Microsoft
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| When I first heard about this? let's call it "rumor," I have to admit
| that I was rather shocked at the very prospect of Microsoft wanting
| to bring on an "open source" evangelist into their ranks.
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http://www.osweekly.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=2432&Itemid=449
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