__/ [ [H]omer ] on Thursday 24 May 2007 01:24 \__
> Verily I say unto thee, that Roy Schestowitz spake thusly:
>
>> Nortel Strong Arms Open Source Vendor
> [...]
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http://blog.tmcnet.com/blog/tom-keating/voip/nortel-strong-arms-open-source-vendor.asp
>
> It's an outrageous turn of events. May Nortel be fully and publicly
> exposed in the mainstream media for their corruption. I hope this story
> buries them once and for all.
It makes a lot of waves. A lot. They are being named and shamed.
> This is exactly the kind of problem that FOSS vendors have to contend
> with; bullying, deceit, cover-ups, threats, lies and FUD from
> proprietary vendors. See, it's not just Microsoft. Microsoft just
> happens to be the *biggest* and most corrupt.
Recently, Microsoft's shill (O'Gara) was caught tying to alter press releases
from OSDL (or turning them against OSDL. Also see:
Where'd They [Microsoft and its ilk] Get That? - Part One
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| Is that not a wonder? She [O'Gara] tells us what is in a sealed
| document, that it is about some privileged IBM email. Privileged
| means that the public isn't supposed to learn about it. So does
| sealed. If you go to the court, they are not supposed to give you
| that info, so the logical source would be one of the parties. I
| think we may safely assume it wasn't IBM, and it would be improper
| for SCO to release it.
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http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=2007040623380173
Dan Lyons gets obsessed
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| If you read Dan Lyon's blog, 100% of it in recent time has been
| snippy comments directed to Groklaw and other Open Source entitities.
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http://technocrat.net/d/2007/4/6/17445
Oh! Also see this one:
Interview with Dr Andrew S Tanenbaum
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| Andrew S Tanenbaum: A couple of years ago this guy called Ken Brown
| wrote a book saying that Linus stole Linux from me, from Minix,
| and therefore the intellectual property rights are unclear and
| therefore companies shouldn't use Linux because I might sue them.
|
| It later came out that Microsoft had paid him to do this --
| and I defended Linus. I wrote on my Web site saying that this
| guy Brown came through, visited me and I gave him the
| [correct] story.
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http://www.builderau.com.au/strategy/architecture/soa/Interview_with_Dr_Andrew_S_Tanenbaum/0,339028264,339273224,00.htm
http://tinyurl.com/3c78xz
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