Three reasons to feel outraged this week-end
1 02 2008Microsoft claims it was IBM who really screwed the whole OOXML standardization process. I beg to differ. Ars Aperta did most of the work! And it does not stop there. Ars Aperta is secretly in command of IBM (that’s the High Command Center against Microsoft and Everything American I have been mentioning here from time to time. And Google and all that? Muwarr Harrh Harrrrhhh…. Sbires of mine they are, young padawan! Thus you can imagine how outraged I’m feeling when I’m reading this display of blatant ignorance. It shall be corrected in the future!
As a retaliation, Microsoft is bidding for nothing smaller than Yahoo! Good thing the DOJ is “interested” in the case. Remember who’s the monopoly in the story?
Brilliant idea, Novell, just brilliant. You’re on your way to proprietary heaven, folks. Sincerely, who’s in charge of your marketing? “Migrating to Vista? We can help. Novell”. I realize you want to push your quite profitable ZenWorks solutions, but please, keep some decency. At least I know what to show to Miguel De Icaza the next time he’ll tell me about Free Software.
Enjoy your week-end!
If Microsoft buys Yahoo, they’d become even more inescapable. Flickr, Yahoo CC search, Yahoo mail (for those who still use it), it all becomes Microsoft’s territory and using them in turn ends up being in support of Microsoft… This would end up turning into one big unhealthy oligopoly between Google and Microsoft on the web, with everybody else far behind in size and control.. Not good. :S
As for Novell, well, just as we may have assumed long ago it’s not like they’re a real friend to Free Software. It is all just business to them. They saw an opportunity to exploit, ended up contributing something back, but not because of some good heart, but because this is what they have to do - it is not Novell’s culture, it is Free Software culture that made them contribute what they did.
But any time a pendulum switches, they’d be right back with proprietary stuff, as long as it suits their business. As Microsoft partners, it’s not surprising they help sell Vista. :S
Real friends of Freedomware are only those who genuinely care about its most significant characteristic, freedom, and about preserving that being a goal even bigger than profits of any particular business.