:Digital Copyright Canada: Get the Facts, Get the FUD, or Simply Get Distracted?
Digital Copyright Canada: Get the Facts, Get the FUD, or Simply Get Distracted? Jul 13, 2005, 01 :00 UTC (5 Talkback[s]) (8888 reads) (Other stories by Russell McOrmond)
"An article in CNet news.com by Martin LaMonica talks about how Microsoft is claimed to be learning to live with Free/Libre and Open Source. 'Software Manufacturing' vendors such as Microsoft and IBM are making moves which on the surface look like they accommodating, but I believe this is a distraction away from the harmful political activism they are engaged in around technology policy.
"While Ballmer was quoted as saying 'We compete with products. We don't compete with movements,' the 'software manufacturing' movement has changed its anti-competitive techniques away from technical work to the political and legal activism. Rather than trying to offer the best software at the best price, they are actively lobbying to change Patent and Copyright laws to favor (or mandate) 'software manufacturing...'"
