Giving Your Data to Microsoft, Now Available as 'Open Source' (for Windows Only)
- Dr. Roy Schestowitz
- 2010-07-29 17:27:34 UTC
- Modified: 2010-07-30 11:44:02 UTC
Summary: Another fresh look at what Microsoft means when it talks about Open Source inside the company (Fog Computing and lock-in)
ONE of Microsoft's top boosters, Marius Oiaga, occasionally plays along with the Microsoft deception about "Open Source" and the likes of that. Many boosters of the company do not do this, but Oiaga does indeed. He did this again some days ago and Microsoft is seen pretending to be open with the word "Interoperability" and other buzzwords. We saw this before and last week we posted a long rebuttal. They essentially reuse the same talking points, so this rebuttal possibly applies to many public talks where Microsoft deceives the audience.
Jean Paoli, known to us for his role in
the corruption-filled pursuit for a rubber stamp for OOXML, says things like "We have produced several useful open source tools and SDKs for developers, including the Windows Azure Command-line Tools for PHP," but guess what? It's
Windows-only software that only serves Microsoft in the sense that it helps put people's data inside Microsoft's datacentres (Fog Computing). Watch out for Microsoft's (mis)use of the term "Open Source", or at least the general principles.
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Comments
Needs Sunlight
2010-07-29 18:41:37
http://jz10.java.no/java-4-ever-trailer.html
Dr. Roy Schestowitz
2010-07-29 19:11:59
Needs Sunlight
2010-07-29 19:24:54
e.g. "I innovated a donut off of an old man after I knocked him down a flight of stairs in his wheel chair."
Amicus_Curious
2010-07-29 19:05:41
The sense of "open source" comes from the widespread availability of SDKs, APSs, and programming tools that put all developers, large or small or even individual, on the same level and give each the opportunity to compete equally with others.
That is where the FLOSS cultists miss the boat. Next to no one cares about how the application is built, they only care about how well it works and if it does not work well enough they will seek another application. They are not going to bother to try to fix it themselves even if they were capable. They have their own fish to fry and piddling around with someone else's mistakes is hardly an interesting occupation. Of course there are the few who do seem to want to do just that, but they are folks whom you probably should avoid any contact with.
Needs Sunlight
2010-07-29 19:25:26
Dr. Roy Schestowitz
2010-07-29 19:47:48
Several years ago someone sent me the following E-mail: