● 03.14.08

●● Quick Mention: Microsoft’s FOSS Invasion Continues. Next Target: Python

Posted in Finance, Free/Libre Software, Microsoft, Windows at 7:30 pm by Dr. Roy Schestowitz

Might organisers ever learn to decline sponsorships and reject attendance? Given Microsoft's plan to subvert Free software, they should. But on the face of it, based on the following press release, Microsoft is also intruding Pycon 2008.

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Zenoss Joins Google, Microsoft and Sun as Sponsor of Pycon 2008

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Microsoft will be there only to serve Microsoft. Recent examples include Java, Eclipse, Apache and OSBC, among many others. Arguments back then were made to show why Microsoft does this (look inside the links for further details). █

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