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Subject: [DMCA_Discuss] Recent Bits On Liberated Software Challenges to Microsoft Dominance
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Date: 2003-01-27 1:39:20
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Date: Sun, 26 Jan 2003 12:47:59 -0500 (EST)
From: "David P. Dillard" <jwne@astro.temple.edu>
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NEWS: Some Recent Articles and Sources Regarding Open Source
and Other
Operating Systems Challenge Microsoft's Market Dominance
The use of open source software to reduce or eliminate total
dependence on Microsoft is a growing and fast spreading
trend in the world of computers. Here are some resources
that are examples of this development. Microsoft in turn is
making some changes of its own to retain customers.
==========================
As Linux Nips at Microsoft, Its Advocates Talk Numbers
By STEVE LOHR
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/01/20/technology/20LINU.html
The evidence is now overwhelming that Linux, once a symbol
of software's counterculture, has become a mainstream
technology.
The Linux World conference that begins in New York tomorrow
promises to be a staid, corporate affair. The speakers' list
is filled with corporate technology people who will be there
to discuss the dollars-and-cents rationale for Linux, an
operating system that is distributed free and developed
according to open-source principles, in which programmers
donate their labor to debug and modify the software
cooperatively.
<snip>
These days, executives at companies that have adopted Linux
speak in pragmatic terms of the benefits of saving money and
gaining flexibility.
Even Microsoft has quietly decided to change its tactics
this year. No longer will its executives make speeches
against what Microsoft regards as the evils of free software
and its inherent agenda of denying intellectual property
rights.
Related News Story
Week in review: Linux grows up
By Steven Musil
Staff Writer, CNET News.com
January 24, 2003, 12:00 PM PT
<http://news.com.com/2100-1083-981954.html>
==========================
Open source needs political muscle
Saturday 25th January 2003
By Jonathan Collins in New York
<http://www.it-director.com/article.php?id=3503>
Deployment of Linux in US government institutions could be
stunted if the open source community does not learn better
lobbying skills, a leading US academic has warned.
==========================
FT on Europe's Open Source Option
Posted by michael on Wednesday January 22, @09:10AM
from the good-to-have-options dept.
<http://slashdot.org/articles/03/01/22/1333227.shtml?tid=>
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Lindows case set for trial
A judge refuses a request to toss out Microsoft's trademark
case against the rival software maker, saying a jury should
decide whether Microsoft has the right to the word
"windows."
<http://www.businessweek.com/technology/cnet/stories/982098.htm>
A federal judge in Seattle refused Wednesday a request by
software maker Lindows to toss out Microsoft's trademark
case against it, paving the way for an April trial.
A jury is now set to decide whether Microsoft has the right
to the word "windows" in certain cases, or whether it's a
generic term.
==========================
January 24, 2003
Wall Street Gaining Respect for Linux
By Peter Galli
<http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,3959,844018,00.asp>
NEW YORK
One of the primary reasons financial service companies have
adopted the Linux operating system is the savings it has
brought, IT executives from Wall Street firms said at a
panel at LinuxWorld here this week.
Discussing the topic "Linux on Wall Street: Practical
experience implementing Linux in financial services,"
speakers pointed out that Linux is everywhere, driven by its
total cost of ownership benefits and the ability Linux gives
IT departments to innovate.
==========================
Microsoft reveals secret code to Russia
Posted by Marshalus on 24 Jan 2003 - 18:41 CET | 11 comments
<http://www.neowin.net/comments.php?id=8686&category=main>
Russia has become the first country to get its hands on one
of the world's most closely guarded corporate secrets --
Microsoft Corp.'s blueprint for its computer programs, the
software giant said on Monday.
==========================
COLUMN: Microsoft's GSP - tactical manoeuvre or strategic
shift?
20/January/2003
<http://www.netimperative.com/cmn/viewdoc.jsp?
cat=all&docid=BEP1_Feature_0000047950>
Niki Panourgias says Microsoft's revealing of its source
code to governments may be more than a mere surrender to
political pressure; its entire strategy might be up for
review.
Microsoft's recent announcement that it would provide access
to Windows source code to governments is reminiscent of the
US software giant's past u-turn on internet strategy in the
face of Netscape's increasingly dominant position in the
browser market. Microsoft's latest move is as direct an
admission as one could hope for from the US software giant
of the impact that open source software is having on the
lucrative - and relatively stable - public sector market.
The move is even more striking when one looks back at the
vehemence of Microsoft's campaigning against open source
adoption by governments and the resources and reputational
capital the company expended in fighting this battle.
Leading Microsoft executives have gone on the record and
lobbied politicians against open source and free software
claiming they would stifle innovation and result in the
demise of both intellectual property rights and the
incentive to spend on research and development. Microsoft
has also been a member of the Initiative for Software Choice
(ISC), a lobbying group that has campaigned for governments
not to adhere to policies that promote open source software.
==========================
Indian computer industry reacts to Microsoft's recent
largess
By Paul Andrews
Special to The Seattle Times
<http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/businesstechnology/
134620979_gatesindia240.html>
At a speech last week before a Silicon Valley gathering
marking the 50th anniversary of the Indian Institute of
Technology (IIT), the Microsoft chairman drew standing
ovations for his company's recently announced $400 million
investment over the next three years in a nation wracked by
poverty, overpopulation and AIDS.
==========================
Linux is a natural for India
Saturday January 25, 2003 - [ 08:12 AM GMT ]
Topic - Advocacy
- By Prakash Advani -
<http://newsforge.com/newsforge/03/01/21/1423219.shtml?tid=19>
Today India is a hot topic for discussion as far as Linux is
concerned. Many users around the world want to understand
the mindset of Indians regarding Linux. This article
attempts to give some insight to the market dynamics here,
and how they make Linux a natural fit for India.
Linux and open source offer the cost advantage of the
software being free, and that's important for Indian people
who are flocking to Linux.
==========================
Japanese manufacturers back off proprietary OSes
By Junko Yoshida
EE Times
January 23, 2003 (4:18 p.m. EST)
<http://www.eet.com/sys/news/OEG20030123S0034>
LAS VEGAS Japanese consumer electronics manufacturers are
backing away from efforts to push proprietary operating
systems into wider use and are turning instead to
open-source OSes, specifically Linux. The retreat underlines
the failure of proprietary OS strategies for consumer
electronics.
Sony Corp. and Matsushita Electric Industrial Co. made it
clear in separate interviews at the recent Consumer
Electronics Show that they no longer plan to invest in
maintaining their once-prized homegrown OSes: Aperious by
Sony, and Pie by Matsushita.
The companies also revealed that industry-wide initiatives
they once pursued eagerly, such as HAVi or the Java TV
application programming interface, are no longer top
priorities. Support for such consumer electronics alliances
are dwindling, and the leaders of those alliances are now
back-pedaling.
==========================
Danish schools get free StarOffice
Jan Olsen
JANUARY 03, 2003
<http://australianit.news.com.au/articles/
0,7204,5791815%5E15344%5E%5Enbv%5E15306-15321,00.html>
Sun Microsystems Denmark has struck an agreement with the
country's education ministry to give away its latest
StarOffice to students and teachers.
The agreement means that 1.1 million primary and secondary
pupils, higher education students, their teachers and staff
can download StarOffice 6.0 for free or pay a government
agency $US1.40 ($2.49) for a CD-ROM.
"They can use it at school and at home," said Peter Lange,
the product marketing manager for Sun Microsystems Denmark.
"It is a complete package with no limitations regarding to
copying the program."
The program competes with Microsoft's market-dominating
Office productivity suite.
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The full articles may be seen at the URLs that accompany
each article.
Sincerely,
David Dillard
Temple University
(215) 204 - 4584
jwne@astro.temple.edu
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