Last week, I got into an argument about whether Microsoft was using TomTom to go after Linux. I also attended several events where the massive costs of the AMD vs. Intel litigation were discussed. I got to thinking how both entities — AMD and FLOSS — are currently defined by the dominant company in their space. For FLOSS — the open source software community, not the stuff you clean your teeth with — it is Microsoft that seems to define them, and they have been largely the anti-Microsoft folks for all of this decade.
Looks like a bit Biased article towards M$ advantage. Everyone knows that they are not doing charity and the TomTom case is just another way sewing the seeds of murky businesses, since M$ is having problems with the Open Source community. They war on technology have turned into a war on dirty politics and undermining activities. If you don't see or believe it, then M$ have succeded.
FLOSS is growing by leaps and bounds around the world and TFA suggests it has a branding problem?
The world needs software and can produce what it needs cooperatively in the FLOSS model. The more complex the licensing/distribution model of other systems becomes the more attractive is FLOSS. Then there is malware and DRM, all stuff the end-user does not need. M$ produces Vista and FLOSS has a problem? What a joke.
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What Apple and Google Could Teach AMD and FLOSS
Posted by: Rob Enderle March 16, 2009 04:00 AMLast week, I got into an argument about whether Microsoft was using TomTom to go after Linux. I also attended several events where the massive costs of the AMD vs. Intel litigation were discussed. I got to thinking how both entities — AMD and FLOSS — are currently defined by the dominant company in their space. For FLOSS — the open source software community, not the stuff you clean your teeth with — it is Microsoft that seems to define them, and they have been largely the anti-Microsoft folks for all of this decade.
The world needs software and can produce what it needs cooperatively in the FLOSS model. The more complex the licensing/distribution model of other systems becomes the more attractive is FLOSS. Then there is malware and DRM, all stuff the end-user does not need. M$ produces Vista and FLOSS has a problem? What a joke.