Proprietary software companies with Microsoft commonalities or staff overlap are 'diluting' the message of the ideological competition, notably Free (libre) software. Given enough spendings it is not so hard to derail this competition, whose profit margins are a lot smaller.
“Microsoft is trying to tell people what to think and how to feel about "open source" (and Free software).”Mr. Galoppini says that "The Open Source Think Tank (agenda) will be held April 7–9, 2011," but he also helps remind us that those who run the event are now acquired by Black Duck, a proprietary software company with software patents. It is holding the Open Source Think Tank under its thumb, at times using funding from Microsoft as we saw before. There are other Open Source "think tanks" that Black Duck has been getting into very recently. What's wrong with that? Well, as we warned years ago, it is pretending to be an authority in open source even though it is a proprietary software company. These deceptions have helped mobbyists and lobbyists of Microsoft pretend to represent the opposite side while in fact doing it a disservice if not attacking it.
There is another story which is more or less related to the above. One reader of ours has just drawn our attention to what the Apotheker-led HP is doing with Microsoft right now:
Among the flood of computing vendor announcements that marked the start of the new year was one that might have been easily overlooked: Microsoft and HP unveiled converged application appliances for small businesses, business intelligence, analytics and email serving.
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awaiken
2011-01-25 15:04:47
Dr. Roy Schestowitz
2011-01-25 15:10:57
awaiken
2011-01-24 23:19:33
Dr. Roy Schestowitz
2011-01-25 05:37:20
awaiken
2011-01-24 21:47:34
Dr. Roy Schestowitz
2011-01-24 22:03:32
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