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Bruce Perens on the Status of Open Source
Lars Lehtonen writes to tell us that Bruce Perens has posted the text of his LinuxWorld press conference. In his talk he takes a look at many of the hot topics surrounding the open source community including ODF, NTP vs RIM, and GPLv3. From the article: "It's interesting to note that Jack Abramoff, the lobbyist implicated in scandal with Republican Tom Delay, was employed by Bill Gates' dad's law firm "Preston Gates", a political proxy for Microsoft. Microsoft succeeded in lobbying both Republicans and Democrats to oppose ODF."
First of all, I never understood what makes this Bruce Perens guy any more credible than any random person on Slashdot. The guy seems to mainly troll about RedHat and Windows and make un-informative IANAL posts. And then you have this story, which seems to put him firmly in "KOOK" territory. Why's he so famous in the Linux crowd?
Second, isn't Bill Gates' dad a big time progressive democrat? He only goes public to argue how the American people should make he and his son pay higher taxes. The basic premise connecting him to GOP operatives seems a little off.
Finally, the idea that ODF is of any importance at all to guys like Delay and Abramoff is really silly.
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