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- Munich Press, Münchner Merkur, Slams the Munich-based EPO
- Speculations About the EPO's Possible Role in DDOS Attacks
- Techrights Confirmed as a Target of EPO Surveillance, With Help From Control Risks Group (CRG)
- The Shameless Campaign to Paint/Portray Free Software as Inherently Insecure, Using Brands, Logos, and Excessive, Selective Press Coverage
- National Insecurity and Blackmail, Courtesy of Microsoft
- Microsoft Keeps Shrinking
- They 'R' Coming: More Microsoft Money for the Linux Foundation
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techrights' obsession with microsoft
I do not see microsoft as that much of a threat in any way; if anything, they have resigned themselves to a world where windows is less dominant and they are playing along better with others than they have ever been.
OTOH, I want to bring to attention the politics that are played in the 'open source' world -
1) IBM enlisted the support and mind share of OSS zealots (not just red hat spreading FUD on sun) to bad mouth Sun which was actually far more friendly toward open source and open standards and even contributed much more heavily than IBM (open office alone exceed anything IBM has done for open source). After bringing Sun down, IBM themselves have become completely irrelevant not just to OSS but to the industry in general.
2) Intel has been doing the same and spreading FUD and lies about their competition ( AMD and ARM). Unfortunately, the same people are biting into that as well. Intel has done more harm to the marketplace than microsoft has ( or is doing) and yet, I see the community not say a word but meekly surrender to intel's FUD and accept it as the truth. Intel's contribution to OSS is not only overrated but highly toxic. I know many of their developers contribute to xorg but I rest my case.
Microsoft just attacks GNU/Linux more often
I agree with you about Intel, IBM and could also add several others. I do write about them as well (see the Wiki or search the site to see hundreds of articles about these two alone). Microsoft just attacks GNU/Linux more often, hence more articles about Microsoft.
Re: Microsoft just attacks GNU/Linux more often
About that, is it any less now that Ballmer is out of the picture?
The new guy is trying to build a better image for the company.
Better image
Better image, yes. But the actions are the same, just more closely guarded/veiled. I wrote about a dozen articles to show exactly that. They are still blackmailing politicians, bribing, and extorting companies using patents, to name just few recent examples.