The FUD-based Encyclopedia
In this article, I respond to Robert McHenry’s anti-Wikipedia piece entitled “The Faith-Based Encyclopedia.” I argue that McHenry’s points are contradictory and incoherent and that his rhetoric is...
View ArticleI'd like to thank God, the academy, and Microsoft for making possible...
You know how when people win awards, like an Oscar for example, they get up there and gush things like “I’d just like to thank my parents, and the academy, and my fifth grade drama teacher, and God for...
View ArticleFSM Dead! Official!
It is now official.FSM is dead. Send no flowers. It is time for us to pack up our keyboards, reassign our internet links to catty cable TV, give up bags and to spend our time doing something...
View ArticleFight Microsoft's lobbying of the world's governments: call to free and open...
The free and open source software community has witnessed, over and over again, how far a visit to the right government officials can go. Bill Gates seems to know the game, and what cards he should...
View ArticleCan we please stop fighting FUD with FUD?
It has long been the case that proprietary software companies regularly engage in FUD (fear, uncertainty and doubt) tactics against their opponents. This particularly seems to apply to Microsoft's...
View ArticleMicrosoft Recycles Cash in Campaign Against Free Software
According to Matt Asay, justice is served by the recent $2.5M judgment against SCO in favor of Novell.The wheels of justice grind slowly, but exceedingly fine.Closer inspection reveals that while...
View ArticleThe bad guys are worried - did we win?
Recently two pieces of first class anti-free software diatribe hit the headlines. The first is Microsoft's "please don't use OpenOffice.org" video and the second is Steve Jobs' anti-Android rant. Both...
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