Resumen: Ben Edelman es acusado de trabajar en nombre de Microsoft y Florian Microsoft también parece servir -esta sirviendo- la misma agenda, evidenciado por que ambos distorsionan la verdad
GOOGLE está bajo ataque. Techrights no es un defensor de Google (de hecho, hemos desafiado a Google a cambiar para mejor y para abolir las patentes de software [http://techrights.org/2011/01/21/protect-company-from-swpats/]), pero cuando los ataques de Google afectan al Software Libre, entonces todos en la comunidad deben considerar estos ataques como algo personal.
En 2010 escribimos mucho acerca Edelman[http://techrights.org/wiki/index.php/Edelman] respaldado “perro guardián del consumidor [http://techrights.org/wiki/index.php/Consumer_Watchdog]” atacar a Google, probablemente a instancias de alguien (Microsoft es un cliente importante de Edelman) y la semana pasada también mostramos Microsoft Florian [http://techrights.org/wiki/index.php/Florian_M%C3%BCller]difamando Google como parte de una serie de sus repugnantes ataques contra Android/Linux. Hemos estado siguiendo muchos de ellos y también analizamos las mentiras que contienen. Vamos a hacerlo de nuevo en un momento.
En primer lugar, queremos llamar la atención sobre este artículo de la MSBBC [http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-12241395](que todo el mundo debería saber es sesgada a favor de Microsoft, debido al compadrazgo). Se dice que un tal Ben Edelman ha puesto en marcha una campaña de desprestigio en contra de Google y Google dice que -Endelman- está trabajando para Microsoft. Sí, hemos visto esto antes y el MSBBC insiste en negarlo. Se escribe:
La compañía californiana respondió sugiriendo que él estaba trabajando en nombre de su rival, Microsoft.
Pero el señor Edelman dijo a la BBC que Google estaba lanzando “ataques personales” para distraer a la gente de su propio comportamiento.
Y, sin embargo, no niega el pago de Microsoft. Tenga en cuenta que Microsoft ha hecho antes, incluso recientemente en la LSE [1[http://techrights.org/2011/01/19/professors-sponsored-by-microsoft/], 2[http://techrights.org/2011/01/18/controlling-minds/], 3[http://techrights.org/2011/01/20/factual-errors-and-microsoft-funded/]]. No es raro que los empleados de Microsoft en la nómina a tiempo completo hagan esto también[http://techrights.org/2010/03/15/sxsw-google-fud-danah-boyd/]. Muchos de ellos se disfrazan de “investigadores”.
Microsoft no es capaz de alcanzar a Google, por lo que en su estrategia pasó a caracterizar a Google como un imperio del mal. No hay nada nuevo en esta estrategia y hemos reunido decenas de ejemplos.
“No hay duda de que ese es el objetivo de” partidarios de código cerrado “por todas las reflexiones de los últimos anti-Android en la prensa.” –Pamela Jones, GroklawLa segunda persona que está atacando a Google en estos días (en materia de patentes, codecs, Android, etc) es el “código cerrado partidistas” Microsoft Florian, que es lo que The Inquirer lo llama[http://www.theinquirer.net/inquirer/news/1938858/comments-android-code-hurt-googles-battle-oracle]. No es tan fácil de engañar por el nombre de “las patentes del software libre”, entonces, ¿eh? “No hay duda de que es el objetivo de “partidarios del código cerrado” por todas las reflexiones de los últimos anti-Android en la prensa”, escribió Groklaw. “Este es mi consejo: consideren la fuente, y presten atención.”
Supongamos que es un caso como TurboHercules, que resultó ser en parte propiedad de Microsoft. Fue lo mismo con T3 y con SCO, que luego resultaron haber sido pagados por Microsoft también. Volviendo a Microsoft Florian y el análisis de la noticia, antes de que su último trabajo fuese expuesto[http://techrights.org/2011/01/22/boosting-vista-phony-7-with-lies/] (que ayuda a lanzar otro SCO mientras se comunica con las personas que ayudaron de la SCO en la misma forma), Groklaw escribió: “Amigos, como ya he dicho, estad atentos. Nadie puede saber hasta el descubrimiento se haga y los expertos hayann presentado todo. Esta perspicaz comentario de Slashdot que muestra por qué usted no debe suponer, pero necesitan el seguimiento del código y las licencias con más cuidado de lo que algunos están haciendo. Este caso no es como el de SCO cuando una parte se hablaba regularmente con la prensa. Así que podemos confiar en los documentos presentados, no sobre los que puede o no tener órdenes del día y que pueden o no ser de todas formas confiables.”
Aquí está una de las réplicas más conocidas de las mentiras de Microsoft Florian. Se pone muy bien cuando dice[http://m.zdnet.com/blog/burnette/oops-no-copied-java-code-or-weapons-of-mass-destruction-found-in-android/2162]:
Florian Mueller, que por cierto NO ES ni un abogado ni un desarrollador (developer) a pesar de que se HACE PASAR por uno uno en la TV.
Otros mobbyists y/o grupos de presión, que también trabajan para Microsoft, se parecen más a actores que a técnicos. Jonathan Zuck viene a la mente[http://techrights.org/2010/08/04/jonathan-zuck-poses/]. PRETENDER es parte del trabajo y secuaces Microsoft jugarán con el guión. ¿Sabes qué? Tal como se esperaba, el refuerzo de Microsoft Matt Rosoff [1[http://techrights.org/2010/08/04/jonathan-zuck-poses/], 2[http://techrights.org/2010/10/12/msft-october-disaster/], 3[http://techrights.org/2010/10/12/msft-october-disaster/], 4[http://techrights.org/2010/11/03/pile-of-dead-microsoft-products/]] continúa su campaña de Miedo, Incertidumber y Duda FUD de la nueva plataforma, escribe FALSEDADES como el “abogado de propiedad intelectual MS Florian” que es la DESINFORMACION total. Groklaw escribió al respecto: “En primer lugar todo el mundo lo llamó un activista del software libre. Ahora le llaman abogado. Él NO es nínguno de los dos. ¿Cómo pueden los periodistas a repetir su obra sin hacer ninguna comprobación de los hechos, es una habilidad, sin duda. ¿Cuál sería la palabra que usariamos para esa habilidad?: D ”
“En primer lugar todo el mundo lo llamó un activista de software libre. Ahora le llaman abogado. Él NO es nínguno de los dos.” –Pamela Jones, GroklawWell, es lo mismo que Estadounidenses por Tecnología “Competitiva” ACT están haciendo. Pretenden estan trabajando a favor de las pequeñas empresas cuando en realidad hace exactamente lo contrario. Son pagados por Microsoft por hacer esto. El correo masivo a periodistas y engañarlos es parte de esta campaña de presión, el relleno de los paneles en algunas ocasiones.
Groklaw tiene esta réplica muy amplia a la FUD de Microsoft Florian[http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20110122054409107]. Por lo general es ignorado allí, e incluso evitado. Bárbara lo puso muy bien en su comentario en el que llamó Microsoft Florian F [redactado] M[redacted]%20[M[redacted]&type=article&order=&hideanonymous=0&pid=897184#c897392]] M [redactado[http://www.groklaw.net/comment.php?mode=display&sid=20110120171030983&title=More%20F[redacted]%20[M[redacted]&type=article&order=&hideanonymous=0&pid=897184#c897392]] por las consecuencias obvias:
Hay dos maneras de lidiar con los mentiros trolls como F [redactado] M [redactado].
1. No haga caso de ellos.
2. Exponerlos.
Para este sitio (Groklaw), ignorar al “Sr.” Flagrante Misdirección es la mejor política,
desde que * quiere * su nombre sea mencionado en sitios de buena reputación de alto perfil. Como uno
estafador, dijo, cualquier cosa que le pone un rango de búsqueda de mayor vale la pena.
Es por eso que no vamos a publicar su nombre aquí, y eso alentaría a otros a hacer lo mismo.
Otros pseudo-Nyms, si no les gusta el especial a través del “Redacted” entre paréntesis:
Fantástica Mula
Florian Sockpuppet
F M ****** ******
“El FMTroll” (va bien con “El MoGTroll”)
Las personas que lo conocen sabrán que te refieres, sin dar a Florescente Mulehead google-jugo.
“Más gente se da cuenta que F [redactado] M [redactado] no puede ser sólo filtrado”, escribió gnufreex en el IRC hace unas horas, señalando a este comentario LWN [http://lwn.net/Articles/424270/] que dice: “El problema con el MF es el hecho de que él empuja sus “noticias” a la prensa no-geek por lo que no puedes ignorarlo. Podemos ignorar sus comentarios (esto es una gran característica tener y es implementado en LWN), pero no podemos ignorar como el MF-empujó artículos en la prensa mainstream! No sé si él empuja el programa de Microsoft para la baja razón llamada “dinero” o por alguna razón superior, pero la realidad de la materia es: lo hace con regularidad y muy eficientemente. Por lo tanto debemos mantener la atención sobre lo que está haciendo … Pera filtrarlo es tan peligroso como para filtrar las noticias relacionados con Oracle o Microsoft relacionados en general: a poca gente le gusta más de esta noticia, pero no podemos ignorarlos “.
Charles LibreOffice-H. Schulz, me escribió: “¿crees que Florian Mueller ha conseguido un nuevo cliente? # ORCL ”
Wayne Boreal escribió una post rápido al respecto ayer por la noche[http://madhatter.ca/2011/01/22/does-florian-muller-work-for-the-alexis-de-tocqueville-institution/]:
OK, así que Florian alega que Google violó los derechos de autor de Oracle, y que ha escrito una enorme explicación de lo que ha encontrado. Pero él NO ES un programador. En otras palabras, el probablemente no tiene las habilidades para evaluar lo que está viendo.
Curiosamente sus argumentos suenan como los argumentos de Ken Brown, de la Institución Alexis de Tocqueville hizo en Samizdat, su hasta ahora prueba inédita que Linus Torvalds no es responsable por el Kernel de Linux. Sólo que con seis años de retraso.
Aquí Slashdot deja constancia de los hechos[http://developers.slashdot.org/story/11/01/22/1754257/Google-Didnt-Ship-Relicensed-Java-Code-After-All]. Jan Wildeboer, que conoce personalmente a Microsoft Florian , dice que “Microsoft ve a Android conquistando el mercado móvil. Florian Mueller produce “pruebas” en Android y Oracle. Coincidencia? ”
Muchas de las tonterías germina/originan en la “siembra” de la FUD en Engadget por Microsoft Florian, que a su vez avergonzado por difundir esta información falsa[http://www.engadget.com/2011/01/21/oops-android-contains-directly-copied-java-code-strengthening/] que viene de este montón de tonterías[http://fosspatents.blogspot.com/2011/01/new-evidence-supports-oracles-case.html], que es una estafa de la investigación que Microsoft Florian se apropió. En lugar de disculparse por su error, Engadget agregó más ruido[http://www.engadget.com/2011/01/21/android-source-code-java-and-copyright-infringement-whats-go/] y que sólo muestra lo los bajos estándares de Engadget realmente tiene. Para aquellos que no pueden recordar, Engadget también da espacio a ex empleados de Microsoft que atacan a Android [http://techrights.org/2010/03/14/microsoft-mole-in-engadget/]. Es nombrado y avergonzado aquí[http://www.muktware.com/b/35/344/22/2011/700], con referencia específica a el escritor Nilay Patel:
No sé las credenciales del Sr. Mueller, pero el nombre del blog de software libre de patentes es irónico como la Free Software Foundation ha estado luchando contra las “patentes de software en general.
[...]
Al parecer, los resultados de Mueller en ninguna parte ‘ayudan’ a Oracle extorsionar a Google sobre Java. Como la compañía de bases de datos, que ha sido demandado por el gobierno para la sobrecarga de precios, Oracle ha dado un giro de su posición en Java, lo que resultó en la renuncia de Apache al Comité de Java. La Free Software Foundation también criticó las acusaciones de Oracle Java y salió al apoyo de Google.
Popular blogsite Engadget publicó un blog rechazando tales afirmaciones. Nilay Patel escribió nada nuevo, pero REPITIO lo que Müller escribió en su blog. Lo peor de blog Patel era “sin relación” mencionan a Prystar vs el caso de Apple. Prystar estaba vendiendo hardware con Mac OS instalado en él. Si este es el mejor ejemplo con que Patel pudo salir, no puedo hacer nada más que suspirar.
[...]
En la cobertura de hoy, especialmente por los blogs a favor de Apple, lo veo como nada más que crear FUD para asustar a los desarrolladores y usuarios, sobre todo cuando la batalla está lejos de terminar.
El nombre de Engadget ha sido perjudicado por toda esta rutina/truco de Microsoft Florian. La reputación de Android también se ha perjudicado, no importa cuantas correcciones serán publicados. El retorno de la inversión en los grupos de presión/lobbysts es muy alta y esta saga entera apenas lo demuestra. █
Resumen: La esperanza de Microsoft de impulsar Vista Phony 7 [sic] se sigue basando en mentiras sobre Android y muchos leguleyadas, Microsoft Florian juega un papel fundamental, aunque sólo sigue MINTIENDO.
OTRO semana, otro ataque contra GNU/Linux, por cortesía, por supuesto, de Microsoft Florian[http://techrights.org/wiki/index.php/Florian_M%C3%BCller], que está tratando de ser otro Enderle/O’Gara (quienes atacan Android como estos atacan a la gente de Linux). Los grandes mentiras y acusaciones sin respaldo siguen volando, como las reclamaciones que hizo para TurboHercules (así es como comenzó la lucha de los grupos de presión contra Linux hace un año) antes de que resultara que TurboHercules es en parte propiedad de Microsoft. Para los no iniciados, la estrategia de Microsoft de Florian implica inundar los foros con mensajes repetidos (siempre niega los comentarios en su blog después la gente lo expone allí mismo en su propia plataforma) y que inunda a los periodistas con correo masivo con los pedacitos que quiere que se inserten en forma de artículos, que se le atribuyen por supuesto. Los periodistas deben aprender a ignorar mobbyists (Florian personaliza sus mensajes ligeramente, para que no se vea como e-mail en masa), especialmente los que no niegan una conexión a Microsoft y tiene un historial probado de ser pagados para hacer lobby para Microsoft. Microsoft Florian no puede negar esto. Es un mobbyist con experiencia y su táctica descarada (como abusar de los periodistas por correo y charlatanearlos) están bien documentados en Techrights.
Florian acaba de ser descubierto mintiendo de nuevo, pero la gran mayoría de la prensa no parece haber alcanzado a ella -la mentira- todavía. Un foro que Microsoft Florian regularmente trollea (insertar callos anti-Linux a un foro a favor de Linux es considerado Internet trolling ) esta ahora golpeando a Microsoft Florian [http://lwn.net/Articles/424107/], mientras que el enlace de este informe [http://arstechnica.com/open-source/news/2011/01/new-alleged-evidence-of-android-infringement-isnt-a-smoking-gun.ars], que dice:
Una mirada cercana a los archivos reales y la documentación adjunta, sin embargo, sugieren que no es un simple caso de copiar y pegar (copy & paste). Los archivos infractores se encuentran en un archivo comprimido en un componente de terceros suministrados por SONiVOX, miembro de la Alianza Abierta de Google Teléfono (OHA). SONiVOX, que antes se llamaba Sonic, desarrolla una síntesis de audio integrado (EAS) y el marco de acompañamiento envoltorios API de Java que comercializa como audioINSIDE.
“Más pruebas Florian Mueller es un troll pagado Microsoft”, lo llamó uno de nuestros lectores (IRC registros a aparecer en breve) y “Florian en realidad copió esta investigación[http://weblogs.java.net/blog/cayhorstmann/archive/2010/11/15/mystery-policynodeimpl-class]“, afirma otro. Hay una más en los registros del IRC (yo estaba fuera todo el tiempo que se discutió, la grabación TechBytes, después de irme a dormir).
“Tuve un deja vu lectura FM” análisis “,” escribió un lector, “porque lo he visto antes. Esto lo que hace Florian Miedo Incertidumbre y Duda-FUD vago. Puede ser probado o refutado. Es sólo Miedo Incertidumbre y Duda FUD a las personas … Para que los fabricantes piensen en WP”.
También hay un patético control de daños de las personas que odian a Linux y el ataque mientras haciendo como que no pasó nada. Los secuaces que luchan contra el Software Libre implican [http://www.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/f6kpd/oracle_vs_google_its_not_looking_good_for_android/] que todos los que no está de acuerdo con Microsoft Florian es su servidor, a pesar de que nunca he tenido ninguna cuenta en Reddit. Eso es difamación. Como gnufreex dijo, “los compinches de Microsoft en Reddit me dicen que yo soy tú … De hecho, se lo dicen que a todos los que señalan que Florian Mueller MINTIO acerca de Android”
Aquí está uno de los análisis fundamentales que desmienten todo el FUD de Microsoft Florian [http://www.zdnet.com/blog/burnette/oops-no-copied-java-code-or-weapons-of-mass-destruction-found-in-android/2162]:
A veces la maldad pura de lo que se publica en la web nos deja sin palabras. Especialmente cuando se levantó y repitió como un evangelio por sitios de renombre como Engadget. “Google copia el código de Oracle Java, pegó una nueva licencia, y lo envió”, informaron esta mañana.
Lo sentimos, pero eso no es cierto.
[...]
Lamentablemente, mientras que los artículos sensacionalistas como Engadget y Mueller recibirá un salpicón por toda la web y dejará miles de puntos de vista y cientos de comentarios, la aburrida verdad no atraerá tanta atención.
Exactamente.
“Código no fue copiado en la fuente de Android, después de todo [http://www.androidcentral.com/copied-code-not-android-source-after-all],” dice el titular de Android Central.
Los otros 37 ficheros existen también, pero está dentro de un archivo zip en una zona del árbol de las fuentes utilizadas para un conjunto de chips de audio en particular. Estos archivos parecen haber sido subidos por error, y tampoco fueron utilizados para construir Android o enviarlos con todos los dispositivos Android. Estos probablemente sólo se suprimiran del árbol, ya que no hacen nada.
Una historia más anti-Android demostrada falsa y nos trasladamos a los pastos. Vamos a prepararnos para la siguiente, porque todo el mundo quiere ver a algunos de esos verdes hermosos Android dólares. [ZDNet]
“Si yo fuera Google,” escribió gnufreex, “ya estaría demandando a Florian Mueller por difamación. Era evidente que trata de crear FUD para que los fabricantes de dispositivos se deshagan de Android y miren a WP7 ”
También ligado a este FUD de Microsoft Nick [http://blog.seattlepi.com/microsoft/archives/236580.asp], alegando que el artículo “es muyyy incorrecto … Schmidt partió de Novell hacia Google en 2001. Eso fue antes de que Novell compre SUSE y Ximian. Y, sin embargo, que el artículo afirma que fue Schmidt, quien inició esos.”
Todos estos ataques en contra Google a menudo resultan estar CONECTADOS a Microsoft. ¿Hay alguien sorprendido? █
Apple built this platform from scratch, but thanks to the work put in by the GNU project and countless others, we already have a platform. We have a rich set of development tools, a range of desktop environments and a wide range of development forges packed with source control, bug tracking and other features.
Late in 2010 one of our charitable organization clients, a local church, came to these decisions: 1) The aging XP Professional systems in their office needed to be replaced with new systems. 2) The existing XP Professional systems that were not so old needed to be upgraded to newer operating systems. 3) The existing SBS 2003 system needed to be upgraded to a new OS as well.
We at ERACC made the pitch for Linux on the desktop and the server but the staff at this client thought they “needed” to stay with something “famliiar like Microsoft” and voted for Windows 7 Professional on their new and “upgraded” desktop systems. (I knew they were not going to see fuzzy, cuddly familiarity with a migration from XP to W7. But I also know when to stop promoting Linux and move on along.) However, the fellows in charge of decision making about their server decided they wanted to try Linux and not spend money to “upgrade” SBS 2003 to Windows Server 2008. We considered this latter victory enough for our Linux sales pitch and laid out an upgrade plan for their office. Funds were procured and the parts for new systems were ordered from ERACC in late December. The work began the first week in January 2011.
[...]
At this point the upgrade from SBS 2003 to Linux is done. Some call this a “migration”, but we here at ERACC think of any move from Microsoft to Linux as an upgrade, so that is what we call it. Over the next few weeks each user’s PC will either be replaced with a new PC running W7 Pro or migrated to W7 Pro from XP Pro. To date, two of these are done and we are working on the third one this weekend. In case you are wondering, the W7 Pro installations work just fine with SAMBA 3.5.3 on Mandriva 2010.2 Linux.
I’ve come close though, with the recommendation of dagger, as a Python renaming tool that uses “conventional” variables to match the information stored in music files.
The following steps change the boot mandriva background, ie there are three stages. The first stage is the stage of preparation, the second phase is the editing stage, third stage is the stage of building.
So I feel like I owe a huge debt of gratitude to Wine developers and the surrounding community which have made it easier for us to convert to marvels of GNU/Linux.
Ok anyways… today I have a more sensitive topic… yes FOSS gamers have lives too. Hard to believe I know, but out there (yes, outside of your parents basement… the place where yo go for geo-caching) people have real parties (without the LAN- suffix) and they use FOSS games during those occasions! At least some do
Recently Mark Shuttleworth wrote about how Qt will become part of the Ubuntu 11.10 desktop, and that Qt-based apps will eventually be considered as possible default Ubuntu apps. Obviously, this would be a big change from using GTK-only applications (that is, aside from Firefox and Open/Libreoffice applications), but Mark encourages GNOME developers to consider using Qt, too. He writes, “Perhaps GNOME itself will embrace Qt, perhaps not, but if it does then our willingness to blaze this trail would be a contribution in leadership.”
I agree on this, and think that enabling usage of Qt in GNOME projects would be a contribution in leadership. It would be great if developers had the option of using tools like Qt Creator and Qt Quick when building applications for GNOME-based desktops (or other devices!).
2 days ago I wrote an enthusiastic blog about a cross-distribution collaboration meeting on App Stores we’ve organized in Nuremberg. Then, a day later, Canonical decided to ship Qt with Ubuntu. While not anything special from an openSUSE pov (we give both GTK and Qt equal treatment and offer the best platform to develop for both), it’s a nice move. In the announcement Mark Shuttleworth emphasized Qt integration with Ubuntu. I specifically write Ubuntu, not GNOME/GTK – Aaron Seigo responded to that with a blog post showing a bit of frustration with Canonical’s policy, the push for dconf & Ubuntu-specific Qt integration in apps.
I was aways setting Gnome Power Manager to stop the display from going to sleep or screensaver when I was going to watch movies. But it is annoying to launch System -> Preferneces -> power management and repeat the setting everytime.
Perhaps with the exception of Slackware, today’s modern distributions have completely mastered the fine art of installing a package’s dependencies automatically. The installation of a package and all its required dependencies is no more difficult than a single command.
This time the Tromsø office of the Free software Centre and the newly elected board member of the association FRESH I’ve been speaking in my interview series with Skolelinux -people.
It’s stable, smooth, reasonably quick, and extraordinarily newbie-friendly. Plus, it has goodies that most people would need on a daily basis. That said, there are a lot of applications that will need to be uploaded to the repository soon. Otherwise, I can only recommend this to people who will only be surfing the web and creating documents (and nothing else).
All in all, Pardus is a truly underrated and underused distribution. It’s a wonderful offering that everyone should try. And everyone can, because it comes with support for about every language in the known world.
Fudcon 2011 will be coming up next weekend. I’m looking forward to it, and hope to see lots of Fedora folks I talk with on irc and on mailing lists, as well as new folks I haven’t met yet.
I’ve made Fedora branded stripes to submit it for potential inclusion in F15. Unfortunately, Mairin (the famous Fedorartist) explained that wallpapers need to be published under a free license, and since mine contained Fedora logo, it can’t be (that is, Fedora logo is TMed).
Ubuntu offers a lot of fonts, in addition to the defaults installed, and the MicroSoft msttcorefonts package , in its repositories. All these fonts mentioned here are provided as packages, which can easily installed using command line tools like apt-get or using Synaptic.
To be fair to Oracle, it shouldn’t be expected that the company carry all the projects forward that Sun sponsored. It would have been nice if Oracle could have seen fit to continue sponsoring activities like GNOME a11y — but hard to argue that GNOME is particularly strategic to Oracle. But the list of projects that Oracle has stopped investing in entirely, or have stopped contributing to the FOSS project, is fairly long.
Postfix stable release 2.8.0 is available. This release continues the move towards improving code and documentation, and making the system better prepared for changes in the threat environment.
A new version of GLX-Dock (previously known as Cairo Dock) is on the way – 2.3 (currently in beta), which will bing a lot of new applets: MintMenu, Cardapio and Lancelot menus, a translator applet, Thunderbird unread count applet, Transmission, Deluge and Ktorrent applets and more.
The debate raging in Italy about Silvio Berlusconi’s alleged taste for teenage girls and prostitutes has taken a surreal turn, after the country’s top porn star weighed in with high praise for the prime minister. “The truth is,” said Rocco Siffredi, “that Italians are proud of someone like Berlusconi who is 74, loves sex and has a good sex life – and I don’t just mean working-class Italians.”
[...]
Two years after Berlusconi’s wife left him over his friendship with teenager Noemi Letizia, and a prostitute, Patrizia D’Addario, claimed to have slept with him, Berlusconi is again facing criticism after accusations that he had sex with pole-dancing prostitutes at parties at his mansion near Milan. One guest, Nadia Macrì, described Berlusconi lying on a bed calling out “Next” as women queued to have sex with him.
Was Eric Schmidt pushed or did he jump? Both. According to close advisors, the Google C.E.O. was upset a year ago when co-founder Larry Page sided with his founding partner, Sergey Brin, to withdraw censored searches from China. Schmidt did not hide his belief that Google should stay in the world’s largest consumer marketplace. It was an indication of the nature of the relationship Schmidt had with the founders that he—as Brian Cashman of the Yankees did this week—acknowledged that the decision was made above his head. He often joked that he provided “adult supervision,” and was never shy about interrupting the founders at meetings to crystallize a point. In the eleven interviews I conducted with him for my book on Google, he freely told anecdotes about the founders, sometimes making gentle fun of them, never seeming to look over his shoulder. Yet he always made clear that they were “geniuses” and he, in effect, was their manager.
Disregarding the truth allegedly for financial reasons
Summary: Ben Edelman is accused of working on behalf of Microsoft and Microsoft Florian too seems to be flogging the same agenda, even if they both distort the truth
GOOGLE is under attack. Techrights is not a defender of Google (in fact we challenge Google to change for the better and to abolish software patents), but when the attacks on Google affect Free software, then everyone in the community should view these attacks as somewhat personal.
In 2010 we wrote a great deal about the Edelman-backed “Consumer Watchdog” attacking Google, probably at someone’s behest (Microsoft is a major client of Edelman) and days ago we also showed Microsoft Florian libelling Google as part of a series of his disgusting attacks on Android/Linux. We’ve been tracking many of them and also addressed the lies they contain. We’ll do so again in a moment.
First, we wish to draw attention to this article from the MSBBC (which everyone ought to know is biased in favour of Microsoft due to entryism). It says that someone called Ben Edelman has launched a little smear campaign against Google and Google says he is working for Microsoft. Yes, we have seen this before and the MSBBC insists on denying it. It writes:
The Californian company responded by suggesting he was actually working on behalf of its rival, Microsoft.
But Mr Edelman told the BBC that Google was launching “personal attacks” to distract people from its own behaviour.
And yet, he does not deny a payment from Microsoft. Bear in mind that Microsoft has done that before, even recently in LSE [1, 2, 3]. It’s not unusual for Microsoft employees on full-time payroll to do that too. Many of them are disguised as “researchers”.
Microsoft is unable to catch up with Google, so the strategy shifted to characterising Google as an evil empire. There’s nothing new in this strategy and we gathered dozens of examples.
“No doubt that’s the goal of “closed source partisans” for all the recent anti-Android musings in the press.” –Pamela Jones, GroklawThe second person who is attacking Google these days (regarding patents, codecs, Android, etc.) is “closed source partisan” Microsoft Florian, which is what The Inquirer called him. Not so easily deceived by the name “FOSS patents” then, eh? “No doubt that’s the goal of “closed source partisans” for all the recent anti-Android musings in the press,” wrote Groklaw. “Here’s my advice: consider the source, and stay tuned.”
Assume it’s a case just like TurboHercules, which turned out to be partly owned by Microsoft. It was the same with T3 and with SCO, which later turned out to have been paid by Microsoft too. Going back to Microsoft Florian and examining the news, before his latest lies got exposed (he helps pull another SCO while communicating with the people who helped SCO in the same way), Groklaw wrote: “Folks, like I said earlier, stay tuned. No one can know until discovery is done and the experts have presented everything. This insightful comment from Slashdot shows you why you shouldn’t assume but need to trace code and licenses more carefully than some are doing. This isn’t a case like SCO’s where a party was speaking regularly to the press. So we can rely on the filings only, not on those who may or may not have agendas and who may or may not be reliable anyhow.”
Florian Mueller, who by the way is neither a lawyer nor a developer although he plays one on TV.
Other mobbyists/lobbyists, who also front for Microsoft, are actually more like actors than they are technical people. Jonathan Zuck comes to mind. Being a pretender is part of the job and Microsoft minions will play along with the script. Guess what? Just as expected, Microsoft booster Matt Rosoff [1, 2, 3, 4] continues his FUD campaign from the new platform; he writes falsehoods like “intellectual property lawyer Florian Mueller,” which is total disinformation. Groklaw wrote about it: “First everyone called him a FOSS activist. Now they call him a lawyer. He’s neither. How he gets journalists to repeat his oeuvre without doing any fact checking is a skill, no doubt about it. What would the word be for that skill? : D”
“First everyone called him a FOSS activist. Now they call him a lawyer. He’s neither.” –Pamela Jones, GroklawWell, that’s the same thing ACT is doing. It pretends to be working for small businesses when it fact it does exactly the opposite. It is paid by Microsoft to do this. Mass-mailing journalists and deceiving them is part of this lobbying campaign, stuffing panels too sometimes.
Groklaw has this very comprehensive rebuttal to the FUD from Microsoft Florian. Usually he is just ignored there, or banned even. Barbara put it nicely in her comment where she called Microsoft Florian F[redacted] M[redacted] because of the obvious consequences:
There are two ways to deal with lying trolls like F[redacted] M[redacted].
1. Ignore them.
2. Expose them.
For this site (groklaw), ignoring Mr. Flagrant Misdirection is the best policy,
since he *wants* his name mentioned on high-profile reputable sites. As one
scammer said, anything that gets him a higher search engine rank is worth it.
It’s why I won’t post his name here, and would encourage others to do the same.
Other pseudo-nyms, if you don’t particularly like using the “redacted”
brackets:
Florid Mullet
Florian Sockpuppet
F****** M******
“The FMTroll” (goes well with “The MoGTroll”)
People in the know will know who you’re referring to, while not giving
Florescent Mulehead any google-juice.
“More people realize that F[redacted] M[redacted] can’t be just filtered out,” gnufreex wrote in IRC a few hours ago, pointing to this LWN comment that says: “The problem with MF is the fact that he pushes his “news” to non-geek press so we can not just ignore him. We can ignore his comments (this is great feature to have and it is implremented on LWN), but we can not ignore MF-pushed articles in mainstream press! I don’t know if he pushes Microsoft agenda for low reason called “money” or for some higher reason, but the fact of the matter: he does it regularly and quite efficiently. Thus we should keep attention on what he’s doing… To filter him out is as dangerous as to filter out Oracle-related or Microsoft-related news in general: few people likes most of these news, but we can not just ignore them.”
LibreOffice’s Charles-H. Schulz wrote to me: “do you think Florian Mueller has gotten a new customer? #ORCL”
OK, so Florian is claiming that Google has infringed on Oracle’s copyrights, and he’s written up a huge explanation of what he’s found. But he’s not a programmer. In other words, he most probably doesn’t have the skills to evaluate what he’s looking at.
Curiously his arguments sound just like the arguments that Ken Brown of The Alexis de Tocqueville Institution made in Samizdat, his as yet unpublished proof that Linus Torvalds isn’t responsible for the Linux Kernel. It’s what, only six years overdue?
Here is Slashdotsetting the record straight. Jan Wildeboer, who knows Microsoft Florian personally, says that “Microsoft sees Android taking over the mobile market. Florian Mueller produces “evidence” on Android and Oracle. Coincidence?”
I don’t know the credentials of Mr Mueller, but the name of the blog FOSS Patents is ironical as Free Software Foundation has been fighting against ‘software patents in general.
[...]
It appears Mueller’s findings are nowhere close to ‘help’ Oracle extort money from Google over Java. As the database company, which has been sued by the government for overcharging them, Oracle has taken a U-turn from their stand on Java, which resulted in Apache resigning from Java Committee. Free Software Foundation also criticized Oracle’ Java accusations and came out with support for Google.
Popular blogsite Engadget posted a blog rebuffing such claims. Nilay Patel wrote nothing new but repeated what Mueller wrote in his blog. The worst part of Patel’s blog was ‘unrelated’ mention to Prystar vs Apple case. Prystar was selling hardware with MacOS installed on it. If this is the best example Patel came come out with, I can do nothing but sigh.
[...]
In today’s coverage, especially by the pro-Apple blogs, I see it as nothing more than creating FUD to scare developers and users, especially when the battle is far from over.
The name of Engadget has been harmed by this whole routine/stunt of Microsoft Florian. Android’s reputation too has been harmed, no matter how many corrections will be posted. The ROI in lobbying is very high and this whole saga just proves it. █
Summary: An alternative, more polite name for the Mono bullies
We have just come across a new term. A news site which is focused on Free software calls the Mono boosters “the Mono lobby”, akin to “Team Mono” or “Monomaniacs” in some other Web sites. Neil Richards explains “How To Erase Mono From Your Ubuntu PC, Forever”:
I am worried that Microsoft will come after Canonical as they went after Novell, Xandros, TurboLinux, TomTom, Amazon and many other GNU/Linux players. Dependency on Mono might pull Ubuntu into a blackhole from which there will be no return.
The Mono lobby is actively pushing the trojan through the gates of two major forts of Free Software — Android and Ubuntu. While Google may not care much about Mono, Canonical must. Canonical doesn’t make 6.x billion dollars in a quarter to fight Microsoft.
If you are a Free Software user and are concerned about this cancerous spread of Mono, you can send a message to Canonical — by uninstalling Mono from your Ubuntu machines and make sure that it won’t recur.
Meanwhile, over at OMG!Ubuntu, Banshee ‘involvee’ David Nielsen [1, 2] carries on advertising Banshee and needless to say, there is no word of caution about Mono (the administrators of OMG!Ubuntu politely told me that they would post an article on this subject). The Mono lobby is not exactly fair and balanced, yet it accuses others of not being fair and balanced. “This is great,” pointed out gnufreex in IRC yesterday, “Notice Banshee and F-Spot got bad names” in this new video:
The person who made this video rants about sexual connotations in Banshee and F-Spot or at least suggests them. A replacement for “Banshee” involves the word “vagina” and F-Spot is seen as too similar to “G-Spot”. Given that the Mono lobby is rather foul-mouthed (telling me “fuck you” and telling my co-host Tim that he is a “cunt”), maybe these application names are suitable after all. Calling these people “Mono lobby” is an understatement. They are Mono bullies. █
Summary: Microsoft suffers another blow in the mobile space where it loses to Android and is forced to compensate customers whose data it lost
OVER a year ago we argued that SideKick was most likely on its deathbed, but since the brand may still have some life left in it, T-Mobile seems to have moved over to Android and it now plans a relaunch.
Aside from the news about Android, there is apparently a SideKick settlement (we cannot find more reports to corroborate). The Microsoft boosters say:
A proposed settlement has been reached in the class-action lawsuit over the high-profile October 2009 outage of the data service behind T-Mobile’s Sidekick, run by Microsoft’s Danger Inc. subsidiary.
In any case, the major news is this new report which says “Sidekick reborn as Android-powered Sidekick 4G”. To quote: “The Sidekick was one of those mobile gadgets that everyone knew about, but not everyone used. It was powered by Danger, which Microsoft picked up and then used for the KIN, but T-Mobile always had the rights to the Sidekick name.
“Well, this morning the Sidekick was re-launched, at a press breakfast but this time it will be powered by Android. So far there’s no word on pricing or official launch date (first half of 2011), but what we do know is that it will run on T-Mobile’s 4G network.”
There are many more articles about it (e.g. [1, 2, 3), but some reports show more certainty than others, so we’ll wait until it’s made more official. █
Resumen: Ben Edelman es acusado de trabajar en nombre de Microsoft y Florian Microsoft también parece servir -esta sirviendo- la misma agenda, evidenciado por que ambos distorsionan la verdad
De hecho, se lo dicen que a todos los que señalan que Florian Mueller MINTIO acerca de Android”
