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Posted in Free/Libre Software, Microsoft at 1:50 pm by Dr. Roy Schestowitz
Summary: Microsoft’s agitation of Yahoo! since February 2008 takes its toll on more Free software-oriented staff
When Yahoo! became a zombie to Microsoft it was apparent that Free software would suffer as a result. Yahoo! is — after all — the home of some Free software projects, systems administrators, and developers. The founder of Delicious has just gone on the record saying that he regrets selling to Yahoo! and The Register says that the founder of Hadoop is leaving too.
=> became a zombie to Microsoft | apparent that Free software would suffer | ↺ has just gone on the record saying that he regrets selling to Yahoo! | ↺ says that the founder of Hadoop is leaving too
Yahoo! is losing the founder of Hadoop, that increasingly popular open source grid platform based on Google’s proprietary software infrastructure.
There is at least one GNU/Linux distribution which is based on Hadoop and some Free software-based ‘clouds’ depend on this project too. Other prominent losses include Jeremy Zawodny, who is now writing occasionally for Linux Magazine. Zimbra too felt the wrath of Microsoft due to uncertainty that has been cast onto it. So, we’re inclined to believe that Microsoft’s damage to Yahoo! is also an attack on Free software. We are already concerned about VMware buying SpringSource because VMware is headed by former Microsoft employees right now [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6]. █
=> ↺ Jeremy Zawodny | ↺ writing | ↺ occasionally | ↺ for | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6
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