● 09.17.08
●● Microsoft Fails Open Source Outreach
Posted in Deception, GNU/Linux, Microsoft, Windows at 11:02 am by Dr. Roy Schestowitz
Microsoft may be messing about with the press (as it did before [1, 2]) in order to get portrayed as open source ‘darling’. It’s the usual promises and spin that reporters swallow without a grain of salt.
The headline game is being played by IDG where it states: “Microsoft hails open source outreach”
Well, maybe Paul Krill wants to become another Galli, i.e. please Microsoft in the press to eventually get a job at Microsoft. There’s some history there [1, 2]. This is not the first time that he does this and here is his latest:
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Microsoft continued to make its case on Tuesday that it is a friend to open source, listing a number of efforts it has undertaken in spaces ranging from Linux to virtualization and rich Internet application technology.
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“Virtualization”? Like that Novell collusion? And “rich Internet application technology”? Like Silverlight, which locks out GNU/Linux users [1, 2, 3] and acts as patent bait inside distributions? What happened to critical reporting?
Had Microsoft been serious about Free/open source software, it would not try so hard to tie it down to a proprietary stack [1, 2, 3]. Ozzie has already acknowledges recently that open source is a greater threat to Microsoft than Google. They now hope to abduct open source and make it something else — part of the Microsoft ecosystem [1, 2].
What type of operating system is Microsoft trying to drag developers’ feet to anyway? According to this latest report from Mar Jo Foley, Windows 7 is likely to be just another Vista, i.e. a downgrade from Windows XP.
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From what admittedly little I had a chance to see, Windows 7 does not look or feel like a major departure from Windows Vista.
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Issues and false promises around this release were also mentioned in:
Windows 7: R.I.P.Microsoft Is Giving Up on WindowsMicrosoft to kill Windows with ‘web-centric’ Midori?CIOs Uncensored: For The Sake Of IT, Leave XP AloneWhat we do know about Windows 7
Developers have been stubbornly avoiding Vista, according to fairly recent surveys. GNU/Linux is targeted by more developers than Vista. Microsoft tries to change this and Novell continues to serve as Microsoft’s bridge. █
“In the face of strong competition, Evangelism’s focus may shift immediately to the next version of the same technology, however. Indeed, Phase 1 (Evangelism Starts) for version x+1 may start as soon as this Final Release of version X.”
–Microsoft, internal document [PDF]
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