Exploring the reality behind exclusionary deals with Microsoft and their subtle (yet severe) implications
Not everyone seems to understand Tivoization, but regardless, Linus Torvalds likes it. In the following video, Richard Stallman talks about Tivoization and explains his pet peeves, which you may or may not sympathise with. The part of about TiVo starts about a minute after the start.
Highlight: Novell was the first to acknowledge that Microsoft FUD tactics had substance. Novell then used anti-Linux FUD to market itself. Learn more
Highlight: Xandros let Microsoft make patent claims and brag about (paid-for) OOXML support. Learn more
Highlight: Linspire's CEO not only fell into Microsoft arms, but he also assisted the company's attack on GNU/Linux. Learn more
Highlight: Microsoft craves pseudo (proprietary) standards and gets its way using proxies and influence which it buys. Learn more
Highlight: The invasion into the open source world is intended to leave Linux companies neglected, due to financial incentives from Microsoft. Learn more
Analysis: Xen, an open source hypervisor, possibly fell victim to Microsoft's aggressive (and stealthy) acquisition-by-proxy strategy. Learn more
JuhaK said,
July 17, 2007 at 10:20 am
Amost word to word on some old speech RMS gave in Taiwan, you can find it gnu.org.
http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/audio/audio.html#TW
Adam Kosmin said,
July 17, 2007 at 2:02 pm
Please remove the silly flash content from the site as no free software exists that can render the content.
Thank you,
Adam Kosmin
http://windowsrefund.info
Roy Schestowitz said,
July 17, 2007 at 5:55 pm
Adam, there is actually a project close to gnash that can play YouTube videos. It is Free software. YouTube still uses Flash 7, so proprietary codec (with required royalties) are not a problem (but I agree with your point, which was raised before).