don’t want you to read it???
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| Author | Content |
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| jimf Apr 15, 2007 11:01 AM EDT |
What the heck??? All I've been hearing is 'Read the actual license!'. |
| Abe Apr 15, 2007 11:44 AM EDT |
I haven't read it, I don't intend to, and I hope no one else other than JimF does. |
| tuxchick Apr 15, 2007 1:55 PM EDT |
I'm going to indulge in a hearty "oh rob, you are such an un-entertaining dunderhead" without even reading his "article." FWIW, I doubt that mr. rob got paid for this article. The site smells like one of those 'pay us to print your stuff' deals. |
| jimf Apr 15, 2007 3:59 PM EDT |
> I haven't read it, I don't intend to, and I hope no one else other than JimF does. Does that mean I get to tell you whether it's meaningful or just BS :D |
| jdixon Apr 15, 2007 4:19 PM EDT |
> Does that mean I get to tell you whether it's meaningful or just BS... Well, it's Enderle, so that places the odds of its being BS at 20 to 1 or better. How much better depends on how much he knows about the subject. In this case, that probably means more like 100 to 1. |
| jimf Apr 15, 2007 4:32 PM EDT |
> Well, it's Enderle Oh, the Enderle piece.... I thought Abe was talking about GPLv3 :D |
| schestowitz Apr 15, 2007 6:02 PM EDT |
Arggggggggggghh!! Stop quoting Microsoft shills. Don't you know that Microsoft is using its proxies to make people scared of the GPLv3? Open sourcerers do battle for GPLv3 ,----[ Quote ] | Mark Taylor, a former head of the Open Source Consortium in the UK, | thinks the whole thing is being blown out of all proportion. | | He told us: "The only people worrying about the GPL draft are people | like ACT. Everyone else is really pleased with the draft. The original | GPL aimed to prevent deals like the one between Novell and Microsoft. | They just found a loophole. This draft closes it." `---- http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/04/10/open_gpl3/ Clearing up anti-GPL3 FUD ,----[ Quote ] | Some of the bad publicity about GPL3 is deliberate. A particularly | bad article by Dan Lyons of Forbes magazine painted an offensive | picture of GPL3 and Richard Stallman, even accusing Stallman of | having sex with flowers (!!!) after Lyons failed to comprehend | a scientific joke. `---- http://technocrat.net/d/2007/3/22/16651/ Perens Lashes Out at Claims GPL 3 Brings Legal Risks ,----[ Quote ] | "Let's make it clear that [ACT] is Microsoft's lobbying front and | that they are going to paint as negative a picture as they can," | Perens told eWEEK in an interview. | | "Obviously, GPL software is displacing Microsoft enough to have | them concerned, and it's doing it at customers who are important | to them. A lawyer's job is to scare the other side if they can--because | they know it's cheaper than winning a case in court," he said. `---- http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1895,2112267,00.asp ACT ['Microsoft pressure group?'] Warns of Legal Risk with Latest GPL Draft ,----[ Quote ] | But ACT, a Washington-based technology lobby group whose membership | includes large companies like eBay, Oracle, Orbitz and VeriSign, and | which was founded in 1998 in response to the Microsoft antitrust case, | is largely dismissed by those in the open-source community as nothing | more than a lobby group for the interests of Microsoft and those | other large corporations. `---- http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Association_for_C... ,----[ Quote ] | "ACT has been accused of being an industry front for Microsoft, | promoting a Microsoft-friendly agenda in relation to property rights | and anti-trust legislation." `---- http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Association_for_C... ,----[ Quote ] | Long before it employed bloggers to do the job for it, Microsoft hired | sympathetic members of the public to make its case in online forums, | posing as disinterested citizens. Things got much more professional as | the antitrust trial unfurled. After hiring DCI in the late 1990s, | Microsoft created two new trade groups, the Association for Competitive | Technology (ACT), and the Americans for Technology Leadership (ALT), | and marshaled campaigns such as "Freedom to Innovate" - encouraging | Windows users the chance to make spontaneous gestures of support for | Chairman Bill. | | These weren't always too successful. A campaign in 2001 to petition 17 | state's Attorney Generals - who had pooled resources to bring their | own antitrust action against Microsoft - resulted in supportive letters | being written by dead people. | | And the astroturf taint continues today. | | Most recently, a spoof video portraying Al Gore as a Penguin was reported | to have originated from a computer registered to the DCI Group, although | the lobby group said it did not fund or approve the video. `---- http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/09/14/google_lobby/ Related: Rob Enderle: 'I started writing about Linux because I was told I couldn't and the more people told me I couldn't, and particularly when they said 'or else,' the more the Linux dirty laundry became attractive to me' Rob Enderle: 'I saw what appeared to be a word-for-word copy of about every third line of code in the central module of the Linux kernel' Rob Enderle: 'many Linux supporters are a bunch of potty-mouthed malcontents. Enterprises are better off staying away from Linux and open source' Rob Enderle: 'Linux is being widely used on the desktop in the third world, where applications are limited and labor is inexpensive..' Rob Enderle Rob Enderle: 'I have a hard time seeing the Zealots as any different from terrorist... I strongly believe that if September 11 showed us anything, it was that zealots' Linux fails to defend itself against imaginary FUD problem ,----[ Quote ] | I wouldn't normally respond to pleas for attention, but Rob Enderle's | latest piece on Linux and FUD cannot escape comment. `---- http://www.businessreviewonline.com/os/archives/2007/02/linu... Microsoft Xbox to Join the Battle for Video Downloading ,----[ Quote ] | Editors' Note: November 10, 2006, Friday An article in Business Day | on Tuesday described a decision by Microsoft to offer movies and | episodes of television shows for downloading through its Xbox Live | online service in the United States. | | The article quoted Rob Enderle, principal analyst at the Enderle | Group, discussing the features that set Xbox Live service apart | and its position in the market. | | But the article did not note that Mr. Enderle had Microsoft as a client, | a fact later pointed out by a reader. Mr. Enderle does consulting work | for several of Microsoft's product groups, though not for the one | developing the Xbox; still, had The Times known of Mr. Enderle's work | for Microsoft, it would not have sought out his opinion on the product. `---- http://select.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=F50713F83A5B... http://tinyurl.com/y3avsv NY Times bans Microsoft analysts from Microsoft stories ,----[ Quote ] | The New York Times continues to perplex with its analyst- quoting | policy. Rather than having analysts declare their ties to clients, | the paper would prefer to quote analysts that have no experience | with a client - a protocol which seems to undermine the very point | of citing analysts. | | The Register this week started pushing the Times to explain its | quoting stance after noticing that Rob Enderle - the most quoted | technology analyst on the planet - had been blocked from commenting | on companies with which he has a financial relationship. The ban | against Enderle appeared odd, given that Times reporters continue | to cite analysts from larger firms who also have financial | relationships with the companies discussed. | | [...] | | As it turns out, there's a cottage industry devoted to Rob | Enderle, where Linux zealots fire off this form letter to editors | whenever Enderle appears talking about Microsoft. Perhaps the Linux | crowd could put its fabled collective mind toward creating letters | for all the major analysts. Lord knows, the Times could use | some help. `---- http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/12/15/nytimes_ms_ban/ |
| jimf Apr 15, 2007 7:00 PM EDT |
now wasn't that special. |
| Abe Apr 16, 2007 5:57 AM EDT |
Quoting:I thought Abe was talking about GPLv3 :D Come on now, I didn't mean it that way, It must have been your guilty feeling. :D :D (double smiley!) |
| jimf Apr 16, 2007 8:00 AM EDT |
> must have been your guilty feeling. No guilt here at all :D |
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