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● 05.12.08

●● Microsoft to FOSS Poster Child: Come And Join Hands with Us

Posted in Free/Libre Software, GNU/Linux, Microsoft, Open XML, Windows at 12:16 am by Dr. Roy Schestowitz

“Some things should only work on Windows, some things work cross-platform…”

–Steve Ballmer, 2007

Remember ThinkFree? There are many situations where Microsoft approaches or acquires projects to ensure it can successfully exclude competitors and make third-party software developers (including their end users) more Microsoft-dependent. Watch what Microsoft is up to with Bldender at the moment. Blender is a FOSS poster child.

=> ThinkFree | third-party software developers | ↺ up to with Bldender

Microsoft has just approached the Blender guys, and I would assume have or will approach other FOSS projects since we learn that Microsoft has assigned a guy to work with Open Source projects, with a request for information on how to make Blender run better on Windows.

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Get it? They view everything as a battle. “All Open Source innovation” means to him, I gather, that Windows runs the applications so well, the GNU/Linux operating system dies off. Who needs it? That’s how they think, because they don’t grasp any purpose to freedom for the code or for the end user. If you do, please watch out. The OOXML saga stands as a perfect example of how Microsoft plays to win, by hook or by crook. It is a “standard” that only Microsoft can fully use. That’s not openness to me.

Nothing has changed. Microsoft believes it can just buy people’s souls — buying them away from its #1 competitor. Watch out for those who possibly enable Microsoft to achieve this. Watch out, Blender developers. █

=> buying them away from its #1 competitor | those who possibly enable Microsoft to achieve this

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