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Jeremy Allison Calls Microsoft Dangerous Elephant
oranghutan writes "At the annual Linux.conf.au event being held in Wellington, NZ, one of the lead developers for the Samba Team (and Google employee) Jeremy Allison described Microsoft as 'an elephant that needs to be turned to stop it trampling the open source community.' Allison has been an outspoken critic of the vendor since he quit Novell over a deal it did with Microsoft that he saw as dangerous to open source intentions. And now he has evolved his argument to incorporate new case studies to explain why Microsoft's use of patents and its general tactics on free software are harmful.
jeremany allinson won't stop me from tampling on all other forst post attempts !
It wouldn't be a problem if the FLOSS community would stop stealing from legitimate patents holders. I know you FLOSS developers are busting your ass, writing code, and what not and not getting paid for it, but.....God! What a bunch of losers!
How about inventing something of your own instead of stealing ideas from others!
If you were any good you'd be getting paid for what you're doing.
Apparently under the latest version Alistair can hurl insults at Morrigan under WINE, so it's all good.
"People who think they know everything are very annoying to those of us who do."-Mark Twain
sorry, there are no European elephants....
I wish I could talk trash like him.
A. A. Milne saw this coming. :-)
Floating face-down in a river of regret...and thoughts of you...
And I - being no one of significance, am going to call Microsoft a small, fluffy, harmless kitten that needs to be petted.
Take THAT.
I teach a computational physics class for freshmen.
When I was going over our syllabus, I said: "Email your homework here. Don't send us Microsoft Word documents. My TA and I don't have Word, we're probably not on a computer that does when we grade your homework, and we can't be arsed to go find a decoder for whatever the newest obscure Microsoft format is."
The students were shocked -- you don't have Word? Really? How is this possible? (Answer: LaTeX.)
(Except for the one guy with the Ubuntu laptop, in the back, who chuckled...)
And who knew that a Google employee and FOSS advocate would bad-mouth MS at a Linux conference?!?!? When I read this I was so shocked that I dropped my monocle AND did a spit-take! That's the fourth monocle I've broken this week.
SJW: Someone who has run out of real oppression, and has to fake it.
But then, I'm not on the MS 'turfing payroll
Do you happen to have any idea how I can get on the MS Apologists' payroll?
:(
I'm too broke to keep doing this for free
Boot Windows, Linux, and ESX over the network for free.
What's .NET?
A TLDN, duh.
Here's a cookie... *psst* it's MAGIC
No, he was referring to Data's brother. He just forgot to hit the shift key.
Free Martian Whores!
That's the fourth monocle I've broken this week.
That'd make a spectacle or two.
"If a nation expects to be ignorant and free in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be."