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HAVING just mentioned how the Linux Foundation offers openwashing services (for a fee), we thought it's time to deal with an issue sometimes alluded to in editorial comments (in Daily Links).
"It's like "trial version", almost like freeware. It's designed to just get people or businesses locked in."A short while ago Analytics India Magazine (habitual booster of Microsoft and GitHub) was openwashing Microsoft (more of the same nonsense and fiction; the subject of our next post). Even more than before! It's openwashing pure proprietary software and surveillance like Azure, using a stunt we mentioned the other day. The headline in particular is interesting; it refers to "Enterprise Open Source"; that is a totally meaningless term designed to create the illusion that Free software, by default, is not suitable for use in a business. That's what terms like "commercial software" typically insinuate and the term "Enterprise" is closely related to "Enterprise Edition", which basically means proprietary 'edition'. In reality, or in practice, the term "Enterprise Open Source" is often used to describe proprietary software with an openwashing slant (e.g. CE/Open Core). It's like "trial version", almost like freeware. It's designed to just get people or businesses locked in. That gives Free software and Open Source alike a bad name. Because it's neither of those things.
"They should be banished, based on their corporate affiliations, but surely they can summon some spin to frame that as an act of intolerance..."Make no mistake about it; Microsoft does that too! A lot!
When we hear the term (of a real department/account) called "Open AT Microsoft" we immediately think "open your bowel..."
These Microsoft openwashing staff are full of bullshit. They're lying for the criminals who manage them and often become moles inside the Free/Open Source software community. They should be banished, based on their corporate affiliations, but surely they can summon some spin to frame that as an act of intolerance (as if a large corporation is a gender or a race). Speaking of which, about an hour ago an article was published to say "Russell Gelvin, an Attorney for Traverse Legal, will talks about the pros and cons of using open source software." But the headline of it is a misfit. ⬆