Thursday, May 23, 2002

Opensource vs Microsource, Microsoft Corp. is aggressively lobbying the Pentagon to squelch its growing use of freely distributed computer software and switch to proprietary systems such as those sold by the software giant, according to officials familiar with the campaign. The best part of the article is, "Microsoft has said using free software with commercial software might violate companies' intellectual-property rights." Not sure how this is not blatent anti-trust kinds of behavior (wow thats alot of negatives for a single sentence). All this on the heels of a "senior Microsoft Corp. executive telling a federal court last week that sharing information with competitors could damage national security and even threaten the U.S. war effort in Afghanistan because Microsoft code was so flawed it could not be safely disclosed." Amazing!!!

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