Why Did CNET Remove Microsoft's Attack on Open Source?
- Dr. Roy Schestowitz
- 2009-05-06 20:37:29 UTC
- Modified: 2009-05-06 20:37:29 UTC
Amnesia or unfortunate accident?
Summary: CNET article on Microsoft's open source FUD simply vanishes
SOMETHING must be working terribly wrong in CNET if it has selective memory.
Balrog has just found
this page, whose content was mostly deleted for unspecified reasons.
Microsoft exec calls open source a threat to innovation
A high-level Microsoft executive says that freely distributed software code could stifle innovation and that legislators need to understand the threat.
The story "Microsoft exec calls open source a threat to innovation" published February 15, 2001 at 11:00 AM is no longer available on CNET News.
The Web Archive does not have a copy of the full article, which was widely cited. Google finds nothing similar, either.
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"Open source is an intellectual-property destroyer [...] I can't imagine something that could be worse than this for the software business and the intellectual-property business. I'm an American; I believe in the American way, I worry if the government encourages open source, and I don't think we've done enough education of policymakers to understand the threat."
--Jim Allchin, President of Platforms & Services Division at Microsoft
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DiamondWakizashi
2009-05-06 21:53:35
"Microsoft exec calls open source a threat to innovation," Bloomberg News, February 15, 2001, 11:00 a.m. PT
One of Microsoft's high-level executives says that freely distributed software code such as Linux could stifle innovation and that legislators need to understand the threat.
The result will be the demise of both intellectual property rights and the incentive to spend on research and development, Microsoft Windows operating-system chief Jim Allchin said this week.
Microsoft has told U.S. lawmakers of its concern while discussing protection of intellectual property rights . . .
''Open source is an intellectual-property destroyer,'' Allchin said. ''I can't imagine something that could be worse than this for the software business and the intellectual-property business.'' . . .
http://www.usdoj.gov/atr/cases/ms_tuncom/major/mtc-00028313.htm
Roy Schestowitz
2009-05-06 22:00:51
I'd preferably like to find the CNET article or rule out the possibility that they just relocated the article. I had some conversations with InfoWorld's editor last week for similar reasons. 'Amnesia' is not always an accident; there are mischievous staff members.
David Gerard
2009-05-08 00:43:39
Roy Schestowitz
2009-05-08 01:00:34
Scott Mace
2009-05-08 03:30:24
Roy Schestowitz
2009-05-08 07:11:35
Scott Mace
2009-05-09 00:05:09
If I knew either Wilcox or Shankland personally, I'd ask them myself. I'll be watching to see what you can find out!
Scott
Stephen Shankland
2009-05-11 14:39:49