Open Irony: Microsoft Creates/Sponsors OpenMainframe.org to Attack GNU/Linux
March 19, 2010 | In: The IT Crowd
…We decided to look more closely at the imaginary entity that Microsoft is using against IBM. One should mind this because Microsoft is attacking GNU/Linux through IBM in this case.
We just found it so repellent to think that Microsoft uses “Open” and .org versus Free software. Only when Microsoft pays the bills can that type posturing endure, coming from the company that threatened to “whack” Dell for ‘daring’ to offer GNU/Linux as a choice. How dare Microsoft complain about monopoly? It dares not. That’s why it uses small companies as proxies. Microsoft now owns part of T3 and they also use Neon. For those who do not know, Microsoft has funded other such research in previous attacks like T3’s (it even paid professors to serve as “pawns in the battle,” to use Microsoft’s expression).
Read the full article @ http://boycottnovell.com/2010/03/18/microsoft-the-new-open/
