Comments

• CHrisophorus

  2008-02-27 18:04:44

  Again, you're marketing your speculations as fact.

• Roy Schestowitz

  2008-02-27 18:12:53

  Will you only believe when they come out with an official statement, as if that might ever happen?
  
  This reminds me of folks who want some kind of an authenticated document from Bill Gates to prove that Microsoft wants to kill Free software (or turn it to Fee software) .
  
  Should we also question BayStar connections with Microsoft (which were only found out later, after compelling suspicions)?

• CHrisophorus

  2008-02-27 18:28:46

  I only say that you speculate, and market these speculations as solid fact. That's not the way to go about things the way I see it.
  
  Lying never helped the truth triumph and aims never justified the means.

• Rui Miguel Silva Seabra

  2008-02-27 18:34:11

  Lying is when you have a perceivable reasonable understanding of one thing, and try to convince people that a contradictory thing is the true fact.
  
  What Roy is saying may be speculation, but so was Richard Stallman's "The Right to Read" until DRM came up.
  
  So was "Microsoft is highjacking Open Source" until now they OFICIALLY DID.
  
  When some people's speculations end up being true time after time, they become insight, rather than speculation.
  
  You call it speculation. I call it insight. And BTW, I *did* comment about this eventuality when I heard of Citrix buying XenSource and commented so on a private mailing list. I wonder what some of the (then) critics think now...

• CHrisophorus

  2008-02-27 18:43:27

  Don't put Roy Schestowitz onto the same level as Richard Stallman; one of the two is a universally respected, intellectually brilliant and personally integer person.
  
  It is a completely different thing to draw up a scenario of what might be and c a l l it a scenario, or to speculate and market your speculations as the irrefutable truth.
  
  Stallman is a visionary, Schestowitz does spiteful gutter paper sensationalism.

• Roy Schestowitz

  2008-02-27 19:03:18

  CHrisophorus,
  
  I wrote about XenSource about 30 times here (with new external references that support my assertions) and hundreds of times elsewhere. I've watched them closely and I haven't a doubt about what's happening.
  
  If you are not convinced, start here. You needn't even read anything I say. Just follow the links to articles from the mainstream press. You won't even need to join any dots. It's all too clear. At times it even comes right from the horse's (Citrix) mouth.It's quotes, it's documented and hopefully this understanding can be passed on to you.

• Rui Miguel Silva Seabra

  2008-02-27 20:33:47

  CHrisophorus: it's ridiculous to think I'm putting Roy onto the same level as Richard Stallman. By that logic I did exactly at the same time put many other people with the remark about Microsoft trying to dillute "Open Source".