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Re: [News] "Microsoft is Imperialistic", Locked Out of Forum, Linux Advocated

In comp.os.linux.advocacy, Roy Schestowitz
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 wrote
on Wed, 24 Jan 2007 13:27:51 +0000
<1436873.kiu7Scrisj@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>:
> From the 'duh' dept.
>
> Africa: 'Microsoft is Imperialistic' Says Open Source Advocates
>
> ,----[ Quote ]
> | Microsoft Corporation's products have been locked out of the
> | on-going World Social Forum (WSF) in Nairobi Kenya.
> | 
> | With over 300 computers provided for participants and the press,
> | organizers of the WSF have preferred to provide open source
> | software products and blocked all Microsoft related products for
> | the forum's usage and its related activities.
> | 
> | [...]
> | 
> | Activists at the forum also believe that since Microsoft is a
> | corporate brand from the United States of America, a country
> | they believe has intentions of maintaining the status quo of
> | a unipolar world over which it is above international law and
> | the UN, the brand should be locked out.
> | 
> | [...]
> | 
> | "The open source movement is providing Linux, a robust free
> | software. Everybody owns it and it can be shared. And this
> | is what WSF is all about - a free society, a movement
> | fighting for ownership of free resources" he adds.
> `----
>
> http://allafrica.com/stories/200701230831.html
>

I'm not sure I like this.  True, Microsoft isn't exactly
synonymous with competition, fair play and sharing, but
this doesn't look like the right response, somehow.

I wish I could put my finger on what is, though.  Still,
with Linux, one can certainly use the alternative without
difficulty, and probably be more productive.

>
> Related:
>
> Buy Microsoft, it's your patriotic duty
>
> ,----[ Quote ]
> | That seemed to be the message at the London launch of Microsoft Vista,
> | Office 2007 and Exchange 2007 on 30 November 2006. Gordon Frazer,
> | Microsoft's UK managing director, devoted most his opening speech to
> | a gallimaufry of statistics and quotations intended to show that
> | buying these new offerings would somehow make Britain more competitive.
> `----
>
> http://www.it-director.com/enterprise/other/content.php?cid=9038&ref=fd_itd
>

It would be interesting -- in a nasty sort of way -- to
contemplate whether Bill Gates and Karl Rove -- or George
Bush -- have ever met and discussed certain concepts.

>
> ,----[ Quote ]
> | "Microsoft says open-source software is un-American. Has the
> | company completely lost its mind?

Not yet.  I think there's still a few people left who
haven't found jobs elsewhere yet. :-)

> | 
> | - - - - - - - - - - - -
> | By Andrew Leonard
> | 
> | Feb. 15, 2001 | Once upon a time, Microsoft executives confined
> | their criticism of Linux and free software to old-fashioned FUD
> | -- fear, uncertainty and doubt. Linux wasn't good enough for
> | enterprise-class systems, they declared. You couldn't get
> | quality support, and it was too hard and clunky for average users.
> | 
> | Fair enough. But now, judging by comments made Wednesday by
> | Microsoft's operating systems chief Jim Allchin (and reported
> | by Bloomberg News), it turns out that free and open-source
> | software is something far worse than anyone could possibly have
> | imagined. It is nothing less than a threat to the American
> | way of life! "
> `----
>
> http://archive.salon.com/tech/log/2001/02/15/unamerican/index.html


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