Updegrove's Groklaw article
Updegrove's Groklaw article
Posted Apr 14, 2011 16:30 UTC (Thu) by nye (guest, #51576)In reply to: Updegrove's Groklaw article by vonbrand
Parent article: Groklaw shutting down in May
Would you still say that if it were anyone but Florian defending them?
I'm confused as to how so many OSS people seem to think IBM are in the right and I can only assume it's because they hate the messenger.
When Apple did more-or-less the same thing they were being Bad; when Microsoft sold copies of Windows with a EULA saying you couldn't run it virtualised they were being Evil; when IBM sell copies of their OS with a EULA saying you can't run it on anything but their own expensive hardware, suddenly that's cool?
It's a blatant abuse of a monopoly position - far worse than bundling IE or WMP with Windows or rubbish like that, but for Groklaw IBM can do no wrong, and herds of people just copy and paste their opinions from there.
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