Proprietary vs Open Source: The Fight Continues
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| Asheesh Raina, principal research analyst for Gartner's Software Group
| said, "We believe that Microsoft is strengthening its patent portfolio
| to rectify the exploitation of its Intellectual Property (IP) by
| technology providers that generate substantial revenue from OSS
| including Linux."
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http://www.sda-asia.com/sda/features/psecom,id,1209,nodeid,1,_language,Singapore.html
Compare with:
http://www.bestsyndication.com/?q=052807_microsoft_takes_aim_open_source.htm
"Internet Information Server (IIS) has been losing ground to the free Apache
software, while SQL has been fighting off competition from the free open
source version called MySql. Website developers are turning to the free web
programming language called PHP (stands for Personal Home Page), instead of
paying Microsoft (MS) for their programming languages. Fewer and fewer web
hosting companies are providing MS solutions. The development community has
turned their efforts to open source solutions (LAMP Linux Apache MySQL
PHP)."
http://www.zdnet.co.uk/talkback/0,1000001161,39287221-39001070c-20085333o,00.htm
Microsoft can no longer innovate effectively.
Related:
NY Times bans Microsoft analysts from Microsoft stories
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| If the paper would prefer not to quote an analyst who has
| experience with a client, it did a poor job. Silver is Gartner's
| vice president in charge of client computing. Microsoft happens to
| do lots of business with Gartner and also happens to have a
| client-software monopoly. We're guessing that Silver knows
| Microsoft's products well and has direct involvement with the
| company.
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| And, sure enough, he appears a number of times on Microsoft's
| own site and thousands of times in stories about Microsoft.
|
| Jim Murphy - wait for it - covers Microsoft too and is even more
| prolific than Silver.
|
| [...]
|
| Part of the problem stems from the reticence of companies such as
| IDC and Gartner to reveal their clients. That should make everyone
| nervous, but it doesn't. So called objective technology publications
| keep publishing material bought by vendors without telling you this.
| They're also too lazy or scared to ignore the likes of Gartner and
| IDC until the firms change their disclosure rules.
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http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/12/15/nytimes_ms_ban/
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