http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/freedom-or-power.html

I use lots of FOSS and to me it isn’t all about the operating system.

The thing about using Linux for 1 day is one of many examples of baseless claims you sometimes make. My first MySQL installation was on Linux and that was the one I used to familiarize myself (with the help of a few good books) with MySQL and PHP.

I never said Linux needs to be saved from IBM. But some free and open source software needs to be defended against IBM, and some of that defensive effort indirectly also benefits Linux.

I won’t reply to you on Twitter anymore, but still you should in your own best interest be at least somewhat reasonable with what you claim.

“Microsoft’s Kin Smartphones Could Eclipse Windows Phone 7″ –Microsoft Nick

http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Mobile-and-Wireless/Microsofts-Kin-Smartphones-Could-Eclipse-Windows-Phone-7-560177/

This is journalism?

http://techrights.org/2008/12/12/journalistic-parrots-for-slert/
http://techrights.org/2008/11/29/journalism-is-junk/

But this is so much spin and distraction from Florian, the Microsoft representative. It would be nice if comments here were used to present news from Spanair instead of libel against Roy.

Perhaps, Florian, you too will earn the MVP title but these personal discussion are a distraction. The newly revealed Microsoft fail is more interesting and the truth is coming out.

Here are a few recent articles. “To err is human, to kill is Microsoft, correctly blames Microsoft but might not have all of the facts right. Wikipedia has an interesting discussion, which states that the copilot “repeats the flaps and slats correct values without actually checking them.” With rampant malware on board, how can we know that the cockpit indicators showed the correct values? Microsoft seems to have scrubbed Wikipedia of Windows mention. I’m looking forward to more information coming out.

All sorts of Microsoft friendly sites have articles spinning this, SeattlePI, Windows7 Heads, MSNBC, The Register … Here is a late article clearly implicating Windows but acting as if all software has the same problems. Here’s a Google bomb, the same BS article in two places Windows 7 heads and Secuirtythreat.info. With spin and smoke this furious, there is surely a fire.

Spanair seems to be a major Microsoft victim. They use IIS for web service and there are many reports of the site being flaky. They also used .NET for ticketing. It’s almost as depressing when these things are used for non critical, customer facing systems.

The relationship between Microsoft and McDonald Douglas is not easily discovered by Google. Search results are polluted by links about Microsoft’s flight simulator software. Never the less, we can find Microsoft inserting itself into XOpen and ruining a company called MDIS. In 1993 MD swapped out MDIS management and in 1995 MDIS replaced Unix with Windows. MDIS fired two thirds of it’s staff and changed it’s name to Northgate Information Solutions after losing lots of money, which is only to be expected from Windows use.

http://nighthacks.com/roller/jag/
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# It’s a sad comment on the morality of large modern software companies that Microsoft, while I don’t think they’ve gotten any better since Sun sued them, probably has the high ground.
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For the reading impaired, Gosling meant that Microsoft didn’t chaged for the better. Instead, industry changed for the worse, when they saw that crime paid off for Microsoft. And that is another reason why Microsoft must be destroyed.

Oh, one more thing. I know why Floyd hates Eben Moglen. Eben worked for IBM in his young days. IBM is evil!! It is conspir~1 !!1111oneleven

I raise concerns and objections related to particular issues.

In OIN’s case it’s a structural concern, but I made four alternative constructive suggestions for how to address its #1 problem (the very problem that affects Google now).

As far as Miguel de Icaza is concerned, I don’t interpret a factual remark about what an MVP title is like as an “alignment”.

About TurboHercules and “staged”, you linked to the LWN discussion and I encourage everyone interested in this to read it because that claim (by someone who’s certainly not a reliable, let alone competent source) was then debunked by me thoroughly. The guy who made that claim had to admit that the 11-year-old Hercules open source project isn’t staged, and that IBM’s letters aren’t staged.