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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."
I read the founding principles, everything sounded all warm and fuzzy.
I clicked a link on the DHTML menu bar, to view the members of this new effort.
My menu disappeared...
MY advice Bruce, is this: if you want to provide open competition and all that, do not write your website in IE code!
When faced with a problem, many web developers say "I know, I'll use JavaScript!".
Now they have two problems.
Why should MS have to change? It is after all their product, and they know that even with shitty proprietary standards, they can still dominate the market, so why should they open up those standards and let all the *nix people in? Personally, I like the idea of open standards. But, keep in mind, if someone wrote a proprietary *nix file format and it ended up being widely used, MS is going to come saying "Oh, that should be an open standard, give it to us!". Now, since everyone wants MS's monopoly to die, they would more than likely say 'no'. Same thing, shoe is just on the other foot.
No, I'm not on MS's payroll.
Can all fish swim?
Here's the problem:
<meta name="generator" content="Microsoft FrontPage 5.0">