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Old 11-17-2014, 02:00 PM   #1
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LXer: The open-sourcing of Microsoft

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Microsoft is finally getting real about open-source software. No, I'm not being sarcastic.

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But of course, it isn't FREE as in RESPECTS USER FREEDOM. Unfortunately, FREEDOM is no longer of interest to what was once the free software community, slogans like "New! Shiny! Open source!" win the day...

"Open source" has completely co-opted FREEDOM software and is just another marketing term, and this is just another market-share ploy... the darkness advances yet more.
 
  


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