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[News] More Bits of Coverage of Microsoft's Anti-GPL Announcement from Thursday

  • Subject: [News] More Bits of Coverage of Microsoft's Anti-GPL Announcement from Thursday
  • From: Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Sat, 23 Feb 2008 18:09:59 +0000
  • Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.advocacy
  • Organization: Netscape / schestowitz.com
  • User-agent: KNode/0.10.4
links for 2008-02-22

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| What If Microsoft Gave An Interoperability Party and Nobody Came?
| 
|       Jason Brooks - Open Source - Microsoft’s Interop Forecast Is Partly 
|       Cloudy 
| 
|       “However, the legal environment surrounding interoperability between 
|       Microsoft’s products and the open-source applications that have sprung 
|       up to rival Redmond’s proprietary wares is scarcely less murky today 
|       than it was yesterday.”   
| 
| 
| [...]
| 
|       Microsoft Spins Legal Defeat into PR Fool’s Gold
| 
|       “But if you take a close look at this PR stunt, and that’s all it 
|       really is, and then look at Microsoft’s long history of making, and 
|       breaking, interoperability promises, well I don’t believe that for a 
|       New York minute.”   
| 
| [...]
| 
|       Microsoft Watch - Corporate - Whose Principles Are They?
| 
|       “To be absolutely clear: The announcement about Microsoft’s so-called 
|       new interoperability push is a public relations ploy, since the company 
|       touts as a customer benefit something required by European 
|       trustbusters.”   
| 
| [...]
| 
|       Competitive And Anti-Trust Forces Spur Microsoft’s Openness Pledge — 
|       Microsoft — InformationWeek 
| 
|       “Despite the rhetoric, Microsoft said it will continue to play verbal 
|       hardball with commercial open source competitors that don’t license the 
|       company’s intellectual property.”  
| 
| [...]
| 
|       Groklaw - Promises, Promises from Microsoft. Again.
| 
|       “Nobody is buying it. Well. Employees, maybe.”
| 
| [...]
| 
|       Microsoft pledge excluding primary competitors
| 
|       “If Microsoft truly means to facilitate interoperability and fair 
|       access they should spare delegates the BRM, retract MS-OOXML from ISO 
|       and converge this work into the global effort for the Open Document 
|       Format, the existing Open Standard at ISO for office documents.”   
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http://www.sutor.com/newsite/blog-open/?p=2071

Yes, Microsoft 'loves' open source. loves to f* it. Maybe.

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