__/ [ Roy Schestowitz ] on Monday 21 May 2007 03:38 \__
> Taking a cynical view of open source
>
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> | The vendors were tripping over themselves swearing allegiance to the
> | open source movement. It was like Republicans genuflecting at the
> | graven image of Ronald Reagan. They were testifying that the Really
> | Smart Enterprise Users (RSEU) were demanding, actually demanding,
> | lots of solutions here. And each of them was going to be first
> | in line.
> `----
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> http://computerworld.co.nz/news.nsf/tech/8932218FC099AE3CCC2572DE007D14E7
>
> What a waste of bandwidth. How much do these people get paid to spew out a
> bunch of streotypes?
PWNED!! The guy is a Microsoft shill indeed.
"Anderson is senior managing director of Yankeetek, a Cambridge, Mass.,
venture incubator. He is also founder of The Yankee Group and the William
Porter Distinguished Lecturer at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Mail Anderson."
http://www.networkworld.com/columnists/2007/051007anderson.html
The Yankee Group is widely known as a Microsoft sockpuppet (with high puppet
reputation). Apart from the Get the Facts anti-Linux junk they also deliver
other FUD, e.g.:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laura_Didio
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| An example of her opinion on how Open Source Software is handled shows
| in this remark (quoted from a phone interview from her home in
| Massachusetts): "The thing about Linux is, you can talk about a free,
| open operating system all you want, but you can't take that idea of free
| and open and put it into a capitalist system and maintain it as though
| it is some kind of hippie commune or ashram, because if you can do it
| like that, at that point I'm like, 'Pass the hookah please!'" [1]
|
| Even recently, after admitting that a SCO victory in their case against
| IBM seemed like an extreme longshot, Didio said, "There is a larger
| issue, though: Even if the SCO case gets dismissed entirely, it does
| not remove the copyright cloud hanging over Linux and open source." [2]
|
| [...]
|
| Unsurprisingly, Linux advocates have in response heavily criticised
| DiDio. Typical criticisms are a lack of formal Computer Science
| qualifications and promoting studies funded by Microsoft; frequently
| this has resulted in questioning of her integrity and her being
| characterised as "a Microsoft shill".
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