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Re: [ossig] Microsoft and Linuxworld Malaysia 2003
Christopher DeMarco wrote:
Imran William Smith <iwsmith@mimos.my> writes:
Yes, watch out for the ShARed Source virus at
LinuxWorld.
You know, it might be important to represent "the truth" - I'd be
willing to donate a couple of hours during the event to handing out
flyers and explaining the impact of Shared SARS in front of the M$
booth...
What if we compiled some of the Shared SARS criticism (the stuff written
by the Indian academics is the only stuff I've really read, but it's
good!) into a quick fact sheet? Would anybody else be willing to donate
a few hours to making sure there's a non-M$ representative at all times
to help distribute Shared SARS vaccine?
The difficulty with attacking shared source is, they keep changing it.
Just when you can say it's only given to a few Governments, suddenly
it's lots of Governments. Then when you attack it's need for a huge
NDA, hey presto, no NDA but a simple license agreement. It's a slippery
snake of a policy!
Yesterday I complained to the inquirer for their article
http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=8992
which was previously entitled:
Microsoft speeds up Open Source campaign
now they've changed it to
Microsoft speeds up "Open Source" campaign.
I previously got
a reply from Mike Magee (ed of the inquirer) saying 'good
point' when I mentioned that their earlier article,
"Microsoft opens source code to China" was confusing,
and would have been better titled
"Microsoft shares source code with China".
--
Imran William Smith
Project Manager, Open Source Development,
MIMOS Berhad, Malaysia
Asian Open Source Centre : http://www.asiaosc.org
MIMOS Open Source : http://opensource.mimos.my
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