Comments on: SDTimes Explains Why Microsoft Wants Open Source http://techrights.org/2008/12/30/microsoft-wants-open-source/ Free Software Sentry – watching and reporting maneuvers of those threatened by software freedom Fri, 25 Nov 2016 09:41:40 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.9.14 By: Roy Schestowitz http://techrights.org/2008/12/30/microsoft-wants-open-source/comment-page-2/#comment-57502 Mon, 05 Jan 2009 19:36:14 +0000 http://boycottnovell.com/2008/12/30/microsoft-wants-open-source/#comment-57502 Hi David,

Your front page states that you are “Member Site of IDG Tech Network”. My understanding of this, based on Phoronix which is on a similar boat, is that this means IDG carries advertising in SD Times?

]]> By: David Worthington http://techrights.org/2008/12/30/microsoft-wants-open-source/comment-page-2/#comment-57501 Mon, 05 Jan 2009 19:14:22 +0000 http://boycottnovell.com/2008/12/30/microsoft-wants-open-source/#comment-57501 Hello folks. Thanks for covering our interviews with Sam and Brad. I’d like to note that SD Times is not owned by or affiliated with IDG. We are privately held by BZ Media LLC.

-DW

]]> By: Roy Schestowitz http://techrights.org/2008/12/30/microsoft-wants-open-source/comment-page-1/#comment-57010 Wed, 31 Dec 2008 07:48:44 +0000 http://boycottnovell.com/2008/12/30/microsoft-wants-open-source/#comment-57010

MS has been burned by monopolies commision here in the UK…

Is it true that the UK lifted a finger against Microsoft? The whole ‘solidarity’ thing has always meant that the UK government was an ally of Microsoft.

]]> By: Goblin http://techrights.org/2008/12/30/microsoft-wants-open-source/comment-page-1/#comment-57007 Wed, 31 Dec 2008 02:26:40 +0000 http://boycottnovell.com/2008/12/30/microsoft-wants-open-source/#comment-57007 Excellent summary and I couldnt agree more.
Of course it wont happen, forgetting the fact that MS doesnt play nicely with others, abandoning its last bastion of salvation (a deluded belief in its patent portfolio) is the one thing I dont believe MS will do. IMO they cant swing their portfolio is full action for fear of failure and rendering it useless, yet they cant dump it and have nothing to fall back on when desperate.

I may have misinterpretted things here, but isnt MS’s portfolio and anti-trust in conflict with each other? If MS threatens in a big way cant that be construed as unfair competition? MS has been burned by monopolies commision here in the UK already, so what will be the response should MS bring out its portfolio and force others down similar routes to Novell? or worse, out of the market completely?

I have to admit when it comes to this level Im talking from an outsider looking in point of view, but this is how I interpret it. Am I wrong?

]]> By: twitter http://techrights.org/2008/12/30/microsoft-wants-open-source/comment-page-1/#comment-56992 Tue, 30 Dec 2008 23:07:23 +0000 http://boycottnovell.com/2008/12/30/microsoft-wants-open-source/#comment-56992 It is nice to see more people expressing what should be the consensus opinion about M$’s “Open Source” hype. M$ would be welcome to the free software world the same way any company is but they must first stop actively harming free software. They must lay down their mostly worthless patent portfolio, quit funding bogus “research”, abandon OOXML and other non standards, and start coding their software to work with free formats before anyone should take them seriously. After they do all of that, they are welcome to share their code with the rest of the community under the GPL and other free software licenses. If they don’t do these things, they will continue to fail in the marketplace as their products continue to fall further behind the free software world.

]]> By: And http://techrights.org/2008/12/30/microsoft-wants-open-source/comment-page-1/#comment-56984 Tue, 30 Dec 2008 19:11:12 +0000 http://boycottnovell.com/2008/12/30/microsoft-wants-open-source/#comment-56984 The quote of Allchin means in short that they are sitting on an IP bubble ready to explode as they lack real assets and sustainable business models for the net ;-)

“Evil” is neither a categorie of foreign policy nor business.

The fact that Microsoft fights Open Source and falls a trap of public expectations is good as the company bets against market reality in a changing environment. The Novell deal was a cheap way to have a stake in the new world. Via Novell as its proxy Microsoft can do what they can’t do officially i.e. embrace open source. I am pretty sure that was the plan from the very beginning when Novell overtook Ximian and SuSE.

It is like the church which is not homosexual, the pope just funds art http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Michelangelo-Ignudi.jpg

]]> By: Diamond Wakizashi http://techrights.org/2008/12/30/microsoft-wants-open-source/comment-page-1/#comment-56981 Tue, 30 Dec 2008 18:28:58 +0000 http://boycottnovell.com/2008/12/30/microsoft-wants-open-source/#comment-56981 Microsoft/Novell are to technology what blight is to a corn field. No good can come from Microsoft/Novell, they are evil.

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