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Recently two pieces of first class anti-free software diatribe hit the headlines. The first is Microsoft’s “please don’t use OpenOffice.org” video and the second is Steve Jobs’ anti-Android rant. Both are pretty shallow attempts at deflection and have been rightly called out as actually endorsing the subject of the attack as a valid opponent. In both cases it does seem to say that Microsoft and Jobs are concerned enough about OpenOffice.org and Android respectively that they need to tell the rest of us how bad they are. Read the article at Freesoftware Magazine.
It's a fairly good article, but the author needs to define the term "win." It leaves it pretty amorphous. He talks about how the fight has gone, but not what the goal is as far as OSS is concerned. We pretty much can concede that M$ & Apple's goals are to eradicate OSS.
I might define an OSS "win" as when OSS gets recognition, development attention & the covert war against it stops. Others may define it as significant (or dominant) market share. There's a big difference. If he is saying we HAVE no defined goal, he should conclude with that.
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I might define an OSS "win" as when OSS gets recognition, development attention & the covert war against it stops. Others may define it as significant (or dominant) market share. There's a big difference. If he is saying we HAVE no defined goal, he should conclude with that.