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Microsoft is Still Fighting Hard Against GNU/Linux, Resorting to Dirty Tricks

Summary: A couple of new examples of Microsoft breaking rules to break Linux or break apart Linux contracts

Antitrust complaints have already been filed against Microsoft in response to blocking of Linux through UEFI [1, 2, 3, 4], so ZDNet's Microsoft's bloggers start disinformation campaigns (two of them so far). It is like a coverup attempt.



Over in Tamil-Nadu [1, 2, 3] there are some interesting developments going on and Glyn Moody, having read an article we helped research, compared this to Newham's Microsoft fiasco. Another thing he said in his blog post about Microsoft's response to GNU/Linux adoption:

This looks like an important win for free software - not least because it could give impetus to similar plans elsewhere in Latin America. No surprise, then, that the FUD had already started appearing even before this decision was made public - for example this article on the "risks" of free software - which calls for "technology neutrality" and "interoperable standards".

But isn't it interesting that the same groups never called for such "neutrality" and "interoperability" between open source and closed source when it was the former that was completely locked out by biased procurement specifications? Strange that....


We wrote about this deception before. Lobbyists of Microsoft use this semantic trick a lot. It is important to be familiar with the common FUD tactics.

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