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IBM Exec Calls MS Arrogant On Open Source | |
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| Time: 10:07 EST/15:07 GMT | News Source: ZDNet | Posted By: Viper | ||
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IBM has called Microsoft's recent attacks on the open source business model "arrogance", blasting them as futile and counterproductive. In recent weeks, Microsoft executives have launched an all-out propaganda war against open source software, based on the GNU Public Licence (GPL). Open source allows free access to the programming code that makes up operating systems and applications, but also requires that any source code modifications also be made available. Microsoft's comments have branded open source as anti-American and destructive to intellectual property, but IBM, which has recently become an outspoken proponent of open source, says Microsoft is swimming against the tide. "Microsoft is trying to shore up its defenses as the tide is coming in," Adam Jollans, marketing manager for IBM Software for Linux in the European region. "They're trying to stop the tide, but the tide comes in whether you want it to or not." | ||
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| #1 By 20 (Unknown) at 7/5/2001 11:44:00 AM |
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"Microsoft executives have launched an all-out propaganda war". I love this. In reality, this should read: "A few Microsoft executives have made a few off-hand comments, and we here at ZDNet have been bound-determined to make this molehile into a huge mountain and give MS a P.R. nightmare. Why? Because we're biased, hate MS and we like to make up news as we go along." |
| #2 By 135 (Unknown) at 7/5/2001 1:32:00 PM |
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That would be a really interesting comment, #2 if it were at all true.
ZDNet is a big media house and has a variety of different reporters, etc. If you watch half the group there are anti-Microsoft and the other half are pro-Microsoft. For example, pay attention to articles written by Stephen Vaughan-Nichols over in the Smart Reseller area. He's very anti-Microsoft and even rigs his tests to force Linux to do better. In general the media really just fall into two groups Pro or Anti Status Quo. Look at the Register, they are definately anti-status quo and you see this in their tag line 'Biting the hand that feeds IT'. It's not really a bias so much as they just report what they think they can sell papers with, whatever. |
| #3 By 20 (Unknown) at 7/5/2001 8:59:00 PM |
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Jagged (#4), I think they said Anti-American, or Anti-Capitalism, one or the other. Either way, they're kind of right. In America, intellectual property is a protected form of property. The whole ESR free software movement, and their whole group's seemingly oblivious take on anything having to do with someone protecting I.P. rights proves that they think that I.P. should always be free. From the RIAA legitimate battle on Napster, to CSS, to the GPL. They believe that any thought you have, no matter how original or profitable, should be public domain. They don't say this in so many words, but that seems to be their opinion. Slashdot seems to be an outpost for their propaganda, and if you read it, you see everything is anti-corporation (well, at least corporations which produce I.P.-based products). That seems rather Anti-American to me. |
| #4 By 20 (Unknown) at 7/5/2001 9:01:00 PM |
| Oh, one other thing... who the HELL is IBM to call Microsoft anything? Calling MS arrogant is something like the Pot calling the Kettle "black", isn't it? Since when has IBM been the bastion of free thought and free-flowing ideas that they seem to be implying by their high-horse? |
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