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Posted in FSF, Interview, Microsoft, Novell, Videos at 4:10 am by Dr. Roy Schestowitz
In this seemingly-new interview with ComputerWorld’s Todd Weiss, Eben Moglen pretty much explains why Microsoft is the biggest threat to Free software.
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What do you see as the biggest danger to open-source software today? On the one hand, there’s still a locus of resistance. Microsoft still maintains strongly the view that its business model, which depends upon concealing source code from users, is a viable and important and indeed necessary model. And so as long as a company that sells a billion dollars a week in software is in that sense fundamentally still trying to [fight] the free way of doing things, Microsoft remains a very dangerous party.
Here is a video that was added to YouTube just a couple of days ago. In this video, Eben explains how introducing royalties with Novell’s kind ‘help’, the freedom of software gets jeopardised (in all senses of the word “free”).
=> ↺ how introducing royalties
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