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● 07.23.08

●● What Lies Inside…

Posted in GNOME, GNU/Linux, Google, ISO, Microsoft, Novell, Open XML, OpenDocument, Virtualisation, Xen at 8:44 am by Dr. Roy Schestowitz

Because people are sometimes loyal to their former employer and former colleagues

A reader as suggested that we post a summary of previous posts presenting possible Microsoft ‘plants’ — employees put inside its rivals, that is.

It’s an old and classic tactic for battling competition, turning one from a competitor into a partner; at least having it surrender or distracted. Here is a quick and partial list:

XenSource (Citrix). The first example may be XenSource, which moved to Redmond and also accepted a General Manager from Microsoft into its ranks. It later let itself be acquired by Microsoft's Partner of the Year, Citrix.

=> accepted a General Manager from Microsoft into its ranks | Microsoft's Partner of the Year

VMWare. See our interpretation of the appointment of Maritz. It’s a series of posts.

=> the appointment of Maritz

Novell. Miguel and Nat went on the radar before. Then Ron Hovsepian turned up as “suspicious” after a disclosure.

=> went on the radar before | Ron Hovsepian

Corel. See this recent summary.

=> recent summary

Google. We touched on this in here, as well as in other places.

=> here

Nokia. Discussed here. Nokia has deals with Microsoft and it houses the former Microsoft employee who ‘killed’ Ogg in HTML5.

=> here

BBC. See this video and the accompanying links.

=> this video

Vodafone. Covered here.

=> here

ISO. Here is just one among a set of incidents.

=> just one

ODF. Discussed recently. Also see this.

=> recently | this

Yahoo. Icahn is inside Yahoo now. Evidence exists to suggest that he was with Microsoft all along. It’s breach of the law, if true.

=> suggest | with Microsoft all along

Apple. Similar to Novell.

=> Similar to Novell

As a side note, on the issue of threat watching inside Open Source, Fortify is now spreading FOSS FUD to boost its business, OpenLogic shouts about ‘mixed-source’ in its latest press release on the Microsoft-sponsored ‘Open’ Source ‘Census’ [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6] (with friends like these on top of GNOME [1, 2], who needs enemies?) and Black Duck, a proprietary software company headed by a former Microsoft employee, gives some FOSS code (none of which it produces) to Koders, which too is a case of a proprietary company exploiting FOSS as ‘raw data’. █

=> inside Open Source | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | ↺ friends like these | 1 | 2

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