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| schestowitz | >> I'm not sure what the real role of the M$ team working with Samba | Nov 03 10:41 |
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| schestowitz | >> is, but the developers should not lose sight of the whole picture | Nov 03 10:41 |
| schestowitz | >> that is M$. Just because one small department is helpful for one | Nov 03 10:41 |
| schestowitz | >> group, for right now does not mean that the greater threat has | Nov 03 10:41 |
| schestowitz | >> diminished or gone away. In some ways it the threat is greater | Nov 03 10:41 |
| schestowitz | >> because it gets the Samba team and others to let their guard down. | Nov 03 10:41 |
| schestowitz | >> | Nov 03 10:41 |
| schestowitz | > It's not unlike a vendor buying them a meal or beer for them, or | Nov 03 10:41 |
| schestowitz | > providing swag. It's not done for their benefit. | Nov 03 10:41 |
| schestowitz | One of my former colleagues is a Samba developer. Are any of them tied with Microsoft? I know about Likewise, but Samba does not seem to like those Microsoft folks. I never asked Jeremy Allison about them. | Nov 03 10:41 |
| schestowitz | > From "Microsoft contributes open-source code to Samba" | Nov 03 11:20 |
| schestowitz | > | Nov 03 11:20 |
| schestowitz | > ?But,? Allison concluded, ?I want to be fair to the | Nov 03 11:20 |
| schestowitz | > guys who sent the patch, that?s another department in | Nov 03 11:20 |
| schestowitz | > Microsoft (the one who is suing people :-). These guys | Nov 03 11:20 |
| schestowitz | > are in the OSS-lab in Microsoft and they?re great!? | Nov 03 11:20 |
| schestowitz | > | Nov 03 11:20 |
| schestowitz | > http://www.zdnet.com/blog/open-source/microsoft-contributes-open-source-code-to-samba/9860 | Nov 03 11:20 |
| schestowitz | > | Nov 03 11:20 |
| TechrightsBot | Title: Microsoft contributes open-source code to Samba | ZDNet .::. Size~: 130.25 KB | Nov 03 11:20 |
| schestowitz | > This is a little more advanced than simply buying someone off with | Nov 03 11:20 |
| schestowitz | > swag or free beer, but it's the same principle. One rogue department | Nov 03 11:20 |
| schestowitz | > doesn't set policy for the whole beast. | Nov 03 11:20 |
| schestowitz | Microsoft also gave code to Mono (MS-PL-licensed). At the same time Microsoft asserted that it can sue over it. | Nov 03 11:20 |
| schestowitz | Microsoft gave to Linux code which makes Linux dependent on Windows. This week I met a company that uses it and the Linux Manager was very unhappy about it (the decision came 'from above'). | Nov 03 11:20 |
| schestowitz | Microsoft is using EEE tactics to encircle its competition and devour it. | Nov 03 11:20 |
| schestowitz | http://identi.ca/notice/84878582 "Do you really hate Microsoft right?:) The majority of your posts are anti-M$ :)" https://joindiaspora.com/posts/732476 | Nov 03 12:05 |
| TechrightsBot | @Schestowitz (schestowitz)'s status on Thursday, 03-Nov-11 11:59:10 UTC - Identi.ca: Apple ACKs that #iphone4s is defectice http://ur1.ca/5lvw5 #apple | Nov 03 12:05 |
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| schestowitz | When writing about threats to Linux, Microsoft will inevitably be mentioned a lot because of the things it does. | Nov 03 12:05 |
| schestowitz | https://joindiaspora.com/posts/732476 | Nov 03 12:31 |
| schestowitz | "Exactly. It's hard to love GNU/linux, or free software in general, and not hate MS. They called GNU/linux "a cancer", not the other way around. And they're always trying to hurt it, instead of just competing. They don't exactly deserve "love". " | Nov 03 12:31 |
| TechrightsBot | @: | Nov 03 12:31 |
| schestowitz | "I used Windows and now i'm a full time Linux user but i don't hate M$ or Apple, they are just a part of the choices. Maybe i wasn't "hurt" until now and i'm not very informed about this topic. :)" | Nov 03 12:31 |
| schestowitz | Hate is such a strong word. I "hate" those companies as much as the zebra hates the tiger which chases it... difference, is it's in the tiger's nature. To Microsoft and Apple, being a predator doesn't need to be in their nature. But they are brutes. | Nov 03 12:32 |
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