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[News] Mule CEO is Leaving

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Just announced in his blog. Among his recent hits (one to internalise):

Open source companies should boycott Microsoft's ISV corruption event

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| This past Friday a IT banking friend and I spoke at length about the upcoming 
| Microsoft event prior to OSBC which is designed to encourage OSS companies to 
| partner and win with Microsoft. The guys at Olliance have been trying to help 
| Microsoft not be such incredible clowns about open source and this event 
| seemed like a good idea.    
| 
| Nonetheless, I just couldn't convince myself to attend and in fact I was kind 
| of obnoxious about the whole thing. My main issue was that I had zero trust 
| that Microsoft was going to do right by me, my company or the community at 
| large.   
| 
| This weekend I was proven 100% correct. Microsoft wants nothing more than to 
| kill open source, and is clearly very threatened--far more than we have 
| realized in the past.   
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http://www.infoworld.com/weblog/openresource/archives/2007/05/why_open_source.html


Related:

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| Expect Microsoft to ally even more closely with the RIAA and MPAA in making
| yet another try at hardware-based DRM restrictions — and legislation making
| them mandatory. The rationale will be to stop piracy and spam, but the real
| goal will be customer control and a lockout of all unauthorized software. Two
| previous attempts at this have failed, but the logic of Microsoft's situation
| is such that they must keep trying.
| 
| I also expect a serious effort, backed by several billion dollars in bribe
| money (oops, excuse me, campaign contributions), to get open-source software
| outlawed on some kind of theory that it aids terrorists. We can only defeat
| that by making sure that national governments become so attached to
| open-source code that their military men and bureaucrats will short-stop the
| bribed legislators, rather than let their vital infrastructure be outlawed.
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http://www.catb.org/~esr/halloween/halloween11.html

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