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."

Comments

Re:is this really necessary?

[rolfwind]

Next time I have mod points, I think I'll mod down anybody who mentions modding their own posts up/down without do so in humor.

(Score: -1, Manipulative)
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(Score: -1, Pretensious)

Re:Abramoff == Repulican.

[larry bagina]

How about Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid? $61,000 (according to Reid himself) that came from Indian tribes and others that Abramoff was lobbying for. Indian tribe donations to Reid *increased* after they hired Abramoff. Put that in your peace pipe and smoke it.

Re:Abramoff == Repulican.

[WindBourne]

Yes, I can tell that it involved Reid; From wikipedia; Abramoff's lobbying firm has published billing records and congressional correspondence of more than two dozen contacts between Abramoff's lobbying team and Reid's office. Many of the discussions relate to the passage of a bill sponsored by Sen. Edward Kennedy that would slowly raise the minimum wage of the Northern Mariana Islands.[14][15] Reid was known to support raising the minimum wage there, a move opposed by the interests represented by Abramoff. So the question is, did Abramoff throw money at a politician who could NOT be bought? if so, way to go reid. We need more politicians like that.