Perens Pushes "Sincere Choice" for Software

jalefkowit writes "Looks like Bruce Perens has found something to keep him occupied, now that he's parted ways with HP: the Register is covering his launch of a new political platform, "Sincere Choice", which he wrote to clarify the distinctions between the values of the open-source community and the Microsoft-funded Institute for Software Choice. Sincere Choice addresses several issues in critical to open software, including interoperability, competition by merit, open standards, and copyright."

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Software choices?

[I_am_Rambi]

Microsoft-funded Institute for Software Choice.

You have one choice. Microsoft.

Boy this is wrong

[Reality Master 101]

I agree with some of the things he advocates, but the follow is so wrong and bad I can't believe it:

No user should be required to use a particular product simply because other users do. Competing products should interoperate with each other through open standards.

Sheesh, you're saying that companies and/or the government (PARTICULARLY the latter) should everyone run different software? And the IT departments are supposed to support every oddball application, just because a user is too lazy and/or stubborn and/or religious to learn a different one? And in the case of the government, MY TAX DOLLARS are supposed to support this?

I'm sorry, but if you hate Microsoft that much and want to use something else, go to a company that uses the software that you want to use.