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Perens Pushes "Sincere Choice" for Software

Posted by michael on from the choose-wisely dept.

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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  1. Cost down and quality up... by bytesmythe · · Score: 5, Funny
    Economics will drive down the cost of software and drive improvements in quality.

    You can forget Microsoft ever taking part in THIS initiative...

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    bytesmythe
    Hypocrisy is the resin that holds the plywood of society together.
    -- Scott Meyer
  2. hilarity ensues by MORTAR_COMBAT! · · Score: 5, Funny

    From the "Institute for Software Choice" news page, they provide a link entitled "ISC response to SF Gate, Perens Article" (/. discussion of that article here).

    Their link? A Microsoft Word document.

    ISC: If you are an organisation claiming to promote open standards, why in the world are you releasing data in the very, very closed DOC format?

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    MORTAR COMBAT!
  3. Re:I'm sorry... by Jonny+Ringo · · Score: 5, Funny

    That's right, they will help you out with the tough choices for todays business needs. Like should I stay with windows 2000? or move to XP? or the choice between Windows 98 and Me is always nice to have. Or when you buy a new computer they give you the choice of Windows xp home edition or Pro. Now your having trouble's decieding, aren't cha? becuase there are just too many choices.