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Why Microsoft cozied up to open source at OSCON
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| I'm no mind reader, but the reception of the audiences at the events I was
| able to attend in person -- in particular the Participate 08 panel and the
| Ramji keynote -- tell me that many in the OSCON crowd weren't taking
| Microsoft's story at face value. That skepticism stems from two roots. First,
| it is far removed from the company's historical views of open source as
| a "cancer" and "anti-American." Second, the company has a history
| of "embracing and extending" competing technologies in a manner that crushes
| them.
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| Microsoft clearly has not changed its opinion of open source without a
| reason, and whatever that reason is, the change must be one that Microsoft's
| management has decided is advantageous. So what is the play? What does the
| company hope to gain?
|
| Conspiracy theorists will say that Redmond's goal is to destroy open source,
| either by poisoning it from the inside or by co-opting it. There is a subtle
| difference between those scenarios, hidden in the terminology itself.
| Understanding that is the key to figuring out what Microsoft is really after.
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http://www.linux.com/feature/143771
LinuxWorld Conversations Start Tomorrow
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| LinuxWorld kicks off tomorrow in San Francisco. In many ways, it has a
| real “State of the Union” feel to it, being one of the oldest shows devoted
| exclusively to Linux technologies and business trends.
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http://www.linux-foundation.org/weblogs/jzemlin/2008/08/04/linuxworld-conversations-start-tomorrow/
Related:
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| Was the general feel amongst the attendees at Linux Asia 2007;
| MS however, just wanted to say ''let us walk hand-in-hand''
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http://www.ciol.com/content/developer/Linux/2007/107020104.asp
Recent:
No Justification Need
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| What's at the forefront of my crabbiness is the almost-complete capture of
| the Open Source Business Conference's news cycle by Brad Smith's presence at
| that conference left me wondering who else was even there this week, other
| than Smith, Matt Asay, and a few pundits and luminaries. In a nicely done
| spin for the media, OSBC suddenly became about how Microsoft braved the
| lion's den, instead of the real progress a lot of companies are making in
| open source development and business.
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http://www.linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=2008-03-28-020-26-OP-SW
All That Got Stolen Was Microsoft's Thunder
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| The best response I've seen was from Jonathan Corbet at a panel at the Open
| Source Business Conference in San Francisco last May. Corbet is a Linux
| kernel developer himself and executive editor of the Linux Weekly News.
|
| "I feel I've been called a thief," he said levelly during a panel at the
| event, and pointed out that Microsoft was one of the companies that had
| patented "thousands of trivial functions ... There's no way to write a
| nontrivial program that can't be claimed to infringe on someone's patents."
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http://www.informationweek.com/blog/main/archives/2008/03/message_to_brad.html
Brad Smith continues its FUD spreading, wants to tax RedHat
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| Brad Smith continues its FUD spreading, wants to tax RedHat. The only
| solution for Microsoft to tax linux is software patents. Microsoft wants to
| render GPL free software non-free. The message is clear.
|
| [...]
|
| Microsoft needs to be sued more often, because in their current position they
| still believe too much in a patent system where no software developer has
| ever used a patent to write a computer program.
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http://www.digitalmajority.org/forum/t-49513/brad-smith-continues-its-fud-spreading-wants-to-tax-redhat
Microsoft's dilemma: The importance of the downstream
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| To work within the open-source community, which Microsoft will absolutely
| have to do if it wants to remain relevant in the 21st century of the Web,
| Microsoft must stop polluting the downstream with patent encumbrances.
| Period. Full stop. Microsoft is not alone in being threatened by open source.
| Everyone is to a greater or lesser extent, including open-source companies.
| MySQL's biggest competitor is not Oracle. It is fee-free use of MySQL. Ditto
| for other open-source companies.
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http://www.cnet.com/8301-13505_1-9899201-16.html
Feeling the heat at Microsoft
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| A couple of years ago you reiterated that IBM was Microsoft's biggest
| competitor and you said not just on the business side, but overall. If I ask
| you who is Microsoft's biggest competitor now, who would it be?
|
| Ballmer: Open...Linux. I don't want to say open source. Linux, certainly have
| to go with that.
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http://www.news.com/Feeling-the-heat-at-Microsoft/2008-1012_3-6232458.html?tag=ne.fd.mnbc
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