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● 08.21.08

●● SpikeSource is Not Open Source

Posted in Free/Libre Software, GNU/Linux, GPL, Microsoft, Windows at 7:49 pm by Dr. Roy Schestowitz

‘Certifying’ FOSS for Microsoft Windows is not open source

We wrote about SpikeSource in the past. We warned about its direction, which seems to be a worrisome trend. Suspicion and prejudiced prudence seem a little more justified now that SpikeSource, which is partly aligned with Intel and Microsoft (partners in collusions [1, 2, 3]), pitches ‘mixed source’.

=> warned about its direction | a worrisome trend | 1 | 2 | 3 | ↺ pitches ‘mixed source’

That’s the way SpikeSource CEO Kim Polese (above, from Wikimedia) puts it. (She is fluent in both buzzword and English.)

What she’s talking about is an ongoing effort to wrap Intel’s brand around a “certification” program powered by SpikeSource.

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“Open source is becoming software,” just as a decade ago ecommerce was becoming commerce, she explained. Everyone is mixed source.

Every company can focus on the value of collaboration. Pure open source players are becoming thin on the ground.

The word “Source” in the name of the company may be deceiving. Find out more about SpikeSource [1, 2] and its assistance to a convicted monopolist. █

=> 1 | 2 | ↺ a convicted monopolist

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