Bruce Perens and the OSI board [LWN.net]

Bruce Perens and the OSI board

Posted Mar 24, 2008 23:33 UTC (Mon) by BrucePerens (subscriber, #2510)
In reply to: Bruce Perens and the OSI board by smoogen
Parent article: Bruce Perens and the OSI board

you have been vilified and threatened by some in the FLOSS community.

Yes, but that was a long time ago, and nothing like it has happened lately. The guy who did it was eventually made to pay in a gruesome manner that I would not have wanted inflicted upon him: He was made fun of. For years.

Read this, please. I think it makes the point that MS thinks they really are at war. We really have to watch out for their trying to game the system, and warn folks when it happens.

Bruce

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Bruce Perens and the OSI board

Posted Mar 25, 2008 20:00 UTC (Tue) by smoogen (subscriber, #97) [Link]

I am not saying that the executives inside of Microsoft are not out to try and keep their
monopoly at all costs. I am saying is that the implication that everyone from Microsoft is
verboten is wrong. I say this from the fact that I still get the "Oh you worked at Red Hat,
aren't they the Microsoft of Linux trying to taking away the GPL from people?" 8 years after I
left. 

No amount of explaining ever changes it for them.. and every time someone starts complaining
about companies in Linux they come out and say that Red Hat is the worst of them, blah, blah,
blah. The same for people who are anti-Novell, anti-FSF,etc. Its just that Microsoft gets the
most angry villagers. You are sure to get a whole bunch of pitchforks, torches, and angry
emails by raising the spectre that Microsoft is going to control XYZ. Heck I remember when the
rumour that Red Hat was going to be bought by Microsoft how much hate email hit the servers...
first from the Red Hat haters, and the others who hate Microsoft and thus sure that we were
all in it.