Lonutus on Linux Being Subverted.
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| Linux is in great danger at the moment. That danger started when Microsoft
| cut their deal with Novell.
|
| [...]
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| It now appears that Microsoft have started their (in)famous embrace and
| conqueror strategy on the Linux front.
|
| [...]
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| By claiming their support for Linux they are effectively and efficiently
| starting their ownership campaign of the Linux platform. Unless they are
| stopped then Linux will go the way of Netscape. With large companies like BMW
| buying into the Winolux combination of WIndows, NOvell and LinUX they are
| helping to seal the doom of Linux as a free and open computing foundation.
| They are opening the door to the commercialisation of Linux where it would
| just become another Windows package with its own EULA and yearly licensing
| and support fees.
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| Microsoft wants to create different classes of Linux. Ones that work, e.g.
| with Moonlight, and ones that barely do. Unsurprisingly, Microsoft wants to
| control and 'tax' those that work better. It separates Linux into tiers and
| wants to have different rates assigned to each.
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http://blogs.ittoolbox.com/linux/locutus/archives/how-linux-is-being-subverted-18960
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The other 20% on Novell or, When interop isn't
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| To paraphrase: interoperability is not about standards but rather about
| patent agreements that lock out customers and third parties, and instead
| creates interoperability between two consenting firms.
|
| [...]
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| I know Microsoft sees this. It's part of the plan. I just wish Novell could
| see this.
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http://blogs.cnet.com/8301-13505_1-9774550-16.html
Moonlight and the dupe quiz? Microsoft or Novell?
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| Microsoft doesn't respect Novell. Microsoft uses Novell. Novell has a
| temporary use for Microsoft as its sycophant to "prove" that Microsoft cares
| about interoperability. "See! We interoperate with Linux, provided that it's
| a Linux we can crush at a moment's notice the minute too many of you care
| about it. We'll even keep tabs on your Linux adoption with our nifty coupon
| program."
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| Novell needs to keep growing its Linux business independent of Microsoft.
| Then, and only then, will it be able to talk interoperability with Microsoft
| as an equal and then, and only then, will customers truly benefit. Customers
| that are locked into the Microsoft + Novell platform are not any more free
| than they were with just Microsoft. In fact, they may be worse off, because
| they've been duped into believing they actually have freedom.
|
| Watching shadows on the wall....
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http://blogs.cnet.com/8301-13505_1-9773642-16.html
Breaking news: breaking the break with a post
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| Miguel de Icaza means something for GNOME and for the Linux community at
| large. Yes, de Icaza is with Novell and he has sold his soul to Microsoft,
| yet...
|
| Yet I am now having one more proof that Miguel de Icaza can't be trusted (not
| more than Daniel Robbins). I can now be perfectly sure that Miguel simply
| loves whatever Microsoft had to "innovate".
|
| Cloning .NET under the name of Mono was not incidental.
|
| [...]
|
| May I use the F-word? «Not as long as you get/download Moonlight from Novell
| which will include patent coverage,» eh? Miguel, how many paychecks have you
| cashed from Microsoft, for being their loyal servant?
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| This kind of mentality is what I would expect from a whore, not from a
| brilliant developer.
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http://beranger.org/index.php?page=diary&2007/09/11/22/36/59-breaking-news-breaking-the-break
http://tinyurl.com/2p3vhg
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