● 01.04.09

●● Quick Mention: Big Microsoft Partner Devours Open Source Documentation Project (SWiK)

Posted in Free/Libre Software, Microsoft, Virtualisation at 11:30 am by Dr. Roy Schestowitz

EMC is Microsoft’s partner of the year for 2008 and it also caused a lot of trouble inside VMware (overthrowing its management), which it put in the hands of a former, abusive executive from Microsoft. It’s neither intended to advance Free software nor to promote GNU/Linux.

We are therefore apprehensive about discovering that EMC has just announced that it would acquire SourceLabs.

SourceLabs, an open source software support startup based in Seattle, has been sold to storage giant EMC for an undisclosed price, according to a source familiar with the deal.

For more analysis, see:

EMC reportedly buys SourceLabs, but for what purpose?EMC Acquires SourceLabs, And With It Open Source Documentation Project SWiKEMC gets open source mojo cheap

What might this acquisition be for? █

“…[C]ut off Netscape’s air supply.”

–Paul Maritz, Vice President, Microsoft (Now VMWare CEO)

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