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Does anybody really believe this nonsense? Let me turn it into English. Microsoft wants to earn more money from you. It intends to do this by releasing products even earlier with loads more defects because the faith it puts in methodologies like Extreme Programming (ie “Extreme” as in taking risks), and Scrum, whatever that is, is touching but entirely unsupported by any experiment. The only thing that is supported by experiment is that if you rush complex applications to the marketplace, they will be full of bugs. The only reason Microsoft lengthened its development schedules in the first place was because of the extraordinary reliability of Linux.
Microsoft happy to kill off other ISVs' code businesses, but not it's own
Based on a smidgen of new detail on how Microsoft will proceed into the business services market, it appears that Redmond will be happy to add services that augment its core Windows, messaging, and Office applications — and thus stab in the back those ISVs that have created the third-party safety net for Microsoft users. But when it comes to building out services that may in any way replace the functions of its core code products — the equivalent of "Business Live," if you will — Microsoft appears to want no part of it.
Team ODF: Back on Offense (Did he Mention Massachusetts?)
But the real government fun was to come a few hours later (less than an hour ago, as I write this), when Michael D. Rhodin, General Manager of Workplace, Portal and Collaboration Software for IBM – and resident in Massachusetts – emailed and faxed a letter to Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney, announcing in great detail how the new technology had been developed in…(wait for it)…Massachusetts. Here are a few excerpts (the complete letter appears at the end of this entry):
[Ed: Now, if we can just bail out Mr. Quinn... - dcparris]
[Ed: Now, if we can just bail out Mr. Quinn... - dcparris]
Phony auctions are offering the box -- no console, just the box
How hot is the new Xbox 360? Some people offered hundreds of dollars just to buy the cardboard box in which it's packed. One person even bid $630 merely for a picture of the machine. But then reality hit.
Time Indian techies: Virtual Woodstock
BANGALORE, DECEMBER 4: Geeks, computer guerrillas and the philosophy of freedom ruled Bangalore’s Palace Grounds last week. Microsoft and proprietary software were almost bad words; open source, free software and Linux were the operating terms. After four days of ideological debates, tech exchange and interactions with some of the who’s who of the free and open source world, India’s biggest ever free and open source software conference (FOSS.IN) wound down this weekend. The message from the virtual Woodstock software engineers to Indian programmers was loud and clear: break free from company-driven coding and express themselves in the open source and free software world — which offers among other things star status for innovators.
[ED-We covered this earlier but the moniker "Virtual Woodstock" was too good to pass -bstadil]
Stark criticism of Microsoft's Imagine Cup
By entering you agree that Microsoft will not have any obligation to limit or restrict the assignment of such persons or to pay royalties for any work resulting from the use of residuals. " So although as the legal notice states later, you are not granting a license of any copyrights or patents, you grant Microsoft an irrevocable, royalty free, fully paid up, worldwide license to use, review, assess, test and otherwise analyze your entry and all its content in connection with this Contest.
Florian Müller won, but declined the award
While Microsoft supported the proposed directive, Mr. Rocard wanted to very clearly exclude software from the scope of patentability. Mr. Rocard had a special message for Microsoft and EU commissioner Charlie McCreevy: "You will discover that we were right."
Special session on OpenDocument is coming: Make your voice heard
We expect that the Legislature will return for a special session on December 19th or 20th to consider the economic stimulus bill, so we believe that is the deadline by which you should send your comments.
Richard Stallman Gets in Trouble with UN Security for Wearing a Tin-Foil Hat
Richard Stallman, Mark Shuttleworth, and I are in Tunis, Tunisia for the UN World Summit on the information society. We've had an interesting day :-) Richard is opposed to RF ID, because of the many privacy violations that are possible. It's a real problem, and one worth lobbying about.
[Link fixed. I love how low-tech foils high-tech. Foils. Get it? haw- Ed.]
Microsoft asks US to bully EU
The Financial Times said it has seen a memo from Microsoft which shows executives have met White House officials and asked them to influence the European Union.
[Ed. You can go here to read the original The Financial Times article. This post was edited to link readers directly to the Inquirer's article, as it would be inappropriate for LXer to copy articles without permission from the author(s)/publisher(s) of other sites. - dcparris]
[Ed. You can go here to read the original The Financial Times article. This post was edited to link readers directly to the Inquirer's article, as it would be inappropriate for LXer to copy articles without permission from the author(s)/publisher(s) of other sites. - dcparris]
Free Software's surprising sympathy with Catholic doctrine
Affinities between Catholic doctrine and Free Software.
[Ed.- Huh. Does this remind anyone else of a similarly-themed, excellent article published right here on LXer]?