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Gartner Group and NASSCOM: Will Lie for FUD, on Behalf of Microsoft and Proprietary Software

Microsoft is like a political party

Bill Gates and Nasscom
Photo from NASSCOM's Web site



Summary: Some of the latest arguments against Free/libre software turn out to be arriving from couriers of Microsoft and its agenda

LAST NIGHT'S article about Microsoft's lobbying in India sure made a lot of a splash. It had impact. It has been widely circulated by now, even by former Microsoft managers who had grown tired of the company's abuses. Upon further research we found out the role of NASSCOM.



For those who cannot recall the historic role of NASSCOM, here is a quick summary of posts of ours, covering NASSCOM:



NASSCOM is now pushing against the Indian government's Free software-friendly policy. Techrights is unusually popular in India (based on various Web metrics like Alexa) and our Indian readers have often been cynical about the integrity of their officials/politicians. They probably recognise Microsoft's influence in the Indian government and right now Microsoft appears to be doing its lobbying (against FOSS) in India using a group that is tied to Bill Gates (not just Microsoft) and masquerades as non-commercial. This is gross distortion of justice, even corruption.

"NASSCOM is now pushing against the Indian government's Free software-friendly policy."Another Bill Gates-backed (and Bill Gates-funded) group, the Gartner Group, recently spread a lot of FUD against FOSS and advertised Windows using lies (some Gartner staff came from Microsoft). One very recent piece of FUD against FOSS (there is some against containers, using 'security') says that there is a lack of skills. Gartner recently injected these claims into a lot of Web sites, assisted by gullible writers. Mike Olson, speaking to the media, shoots down Gartner's latest FUD, noting that Gartner cites a non-existent dilemma. And to use his own words: "The reason I think Gartner's report is off base, enterprises don't need to build deep data science skills if they can buy solutions and applications that run on top of the platform that allows them to solve business problems."

The problem with Microsoft is that it is well connected and a lot of the talking points against Free software come from buddies, partners, former staff and mouthpieces of Microsoft. This cannot be conveniently ignored and refuting the lies isn't a case of shooting the messenger, just showing who the messenger works for/with.

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