Comments on: A Quick Look at More Reactions to Microsoft’s Taxoperability http://techrights.org/2008/02/22/taxoperability-reactions-reactions/ 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/2008/02/22/taxoperability-reactions-reactions/comment-page-1/#comment-5873 Sat, 23 Feb 2008 02:02:02 +0000 http://boycottnovell.com/2008/02/22/taxoperability-reactions-reactions/#comment-5873 I’m back to using the term Free software (since last year). Also watch this from the news:

Philippines open source bill gets Sun’s support

“Familiar battle lines are being drawn over pending legslation mandating free and open source (FOSS) software for government and educational use in the Philippines.”

“While Microsoft and the Philippine Software Industry Association (PSIA) are opposing the controversial free and open source software (FOSS) act (House Bill 1716) filed in the Philippine Congress, Sun Microsystems Inc. plans to support the bill. ”

http://www.itworldcanada.com/a/News/1f4e1e17-e6e8-4193-a0de-846d815f2c62.html

That’s why Microsoft hates FOSS (it wants to redefine ‘open source’) and Sun does not. That’s why I worry about Microsoft, not about IBM, Sun and Google.

]]> By: Skeptic http://techrights.org/2008/02/22/taxoperability-reactions-reactions/comment-page-1/#comment-5872 Sat, 23 Feb 2008 01:58:15 +0000 http://boycottnovell.com/2008/02/22/taxoperability-reactions-reactions/#comment-5872 Richard Stallman long ago predicted the redefinition of “open source”. E.g., As Eben Moglen observed,

“What Microsoft did to ‘Open Source’ was what Stallman always said could be done to it: first you take the politics out, and when the veal has been bleached absolutely white, you can cover it with any sauce you like. And that’s what Microsoft did, and ‘Open Source’ became the sauce on top of Microsoft proprietarianism. And once that process has been completed they have to go after the next vocabulary.”

(http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/11/20/eben_moglen_on_microsoft_novell/page2.html )

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