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Report From "Get The Facts"

Posted by Hemos on from the continue-the-update dept.

Richard W.M. Jones writes "Huw Lynes wrote an interesting report from Microsoft's "Get The Facts" show in London (earlier Slashdot story). Along with the report he provides some analysis of their apparent strategy, which includes equating "Shared Source" with "Open Source" and making out that Linux isn't free."

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  1. Linux IS Free by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll


    if your time is worth nothing
    now where is my compiler, i need to post another comment

  2. Re:Simple by 91degrees · · Score: -1, Troll

    Free as in "The damn code is Free and remains that way" not Free as in "Whiny little bitch freeloaders like you arn't free to do as you please".

    Exactly. Whiney little bitch freeloaders like me can do what we plase with BSD licenced code and public domain stuff. That's because it's free.

    If you want to release under the GPL, that's your choice. Just don't start making out it's "Free as in speech. You can do what you want with it".

  3. Re:Linux isn't free by 91degrees · · Score: 0, Troll

    Britney Spears songs aren't free either.

    Neither is Microsoft Windows.

    Neither is Linux.

    But Microsoft do not claim Windows is free, and Britney doesn't claim her songs are free.

  4. Re:Edinburgh event by black+mariah · · Score: -1, Troll

    The problem is that being a smelly hippy Linux zealot ballslurper is all most of the people here can do. Acting sensibly isn't the forte of the Slashdot crowd, in case you haven't noticed.

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    'Standards' in computing only impress those who are impressed by things like 'standards'.
  5. Re:The facts... by boligmic · · Score: -1, Troll

    No, you wouldn't. Who is spreading the FUD now?

    Windows - the best OS on the market today!