--Microsoft's Jason Matusow, integral part of the 'Open' XML corruptions (further background in [1, 2, 3])
AT NASA, Microsoft's "Open" or "Open Source" simply mean that "open source" platforms like BSD and GNU/Linux are excluded [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6]. When Microsoft talks about "choice", it talks about "Microsoft or Microsoft". In many ways, Microsoft is the most guilty of subverting the meaning of "open", "open source", and "standard". And yet, in IDG's own mind, this point is being left out entirely. The following article does not cover Microsoft's role in this perversion of the term.
Closed source vendors hijack the term 'open'
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The ultimate irony? What is really posted on GitHub, at least as far as 15 minutes of searching would reveal, is not even the API itself, but merely a wrapper written Ruby for the API.
Open source? NOT.
The second instance of attempted-open-source-by-association was for a new software/hardware/storage bundle I can't tell you about until Monday. On Monday, a vendor will be introducing what it says is the first "open" product for <ok, I can't tell you that yet>. The vendor has determined that its new product is "open" because it will be publishing an API.
Open source? NOT.
Open? Well, let me just note that Windows has had an API for decades (it is an operating system after all). After so many rounds with antitrust litigation in both in the U.S. and in Europe, I doubt anyone would call it open.
In a somewhat Quixotic quest, Jive Software has been showcasing a white paper titled "Jive vs. Open Source" (PDF), with a page devoted to what it claims are the negatives of Drupal and Liferay.
On one hand, as CMS Watch argues, it's Marketing 101 to accentuate one's positives while highlighting the competition's weaknesses.
But by choosing to focus on open source, in general, and Drupal, in particular, Jive has effectively taken out a billboard advertisement that essentially proclaims: "We're really worried about Drupal. It's a big-time threat to our business."
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Jive doesn't have the heft of Microsoft, but perhaps it's taking a page from the same marketing handbook.
--Steve Ballmer, Microsoft CEO