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Når tid skal vi si nei til M$ og andre?

Dette gjør de mot oss.......

"hide source code to keep developers divided, disenfranchised and dependent; tie inferior products to dominant ones; defiantly violate and avoid court orders; quash promising competitive start-ups; leverage dominant products into other, unrelated businesses; carve up markets to eliminate real competition; utilize predatory pricing practices to foreclose competition; commoditize and objectify their customers by making them captive; cause developers to constantly re-invent the wheel by hiding the source code; exercise general thuggish behavior in business dealings; compel weak competitors to destroy their own innovative products to protect established profitable ones; fail to respond to customer requests and needs in a timely fashion; exploit natural "choke-holds" in the economy for their own advantages; manipulate and delay technological progress to maintain supremacy; hide coding bugs thereby jeopardizing stability and security; de-humanize software developers by considering them as "inputs" or "assets"; stifle innovation; "embrace and extend" or otherwise pollute open standards in order to break and appropriate them; use exclusionary contract provisions to enforce censorship over disclosure of bugs and defects; shut-off or block channels of distribution to legitimate competitors; announce vaporware to foreclose adoption of real competitive products; frustrate, taunt and antagonize governmental officials protecting the public interest; truncate choices; create confusion and frustration in users by selling inferior code; take the innovations developed by others as their own; practice differential pricing to punish those that oppose them; misinform and exploit users; use undocumented features as an anti-competitive device; suppress the open, efficient and free nature of the scientific method by keeping the code secret; purposefully break the code of competitors so that there are code inoperabilities across products; prohibit friends from sharing software with friends; coerce their users to fore-go promising competitive technologies; use overly restrictive and exclusionary contracts against weaker competitors; and perform other anti-social, anti-competitive and improper acts to establish, maintain and extend their software monopolies. "

For de som vil lese mer:

http://freedevelopers.net/freedomdec/index.php

Vil vi ha Paladdium (Microsofts nyeste "oppfinnelse")?

Sier ikke mer

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Er det bare jeg som bryr meg om dette? Og jeg som trodde dette kunne bli en bra diskusjon. :o