An account and analysis of what Microsoft wants to make free software users believe. The GNU / Linux community and few users are aware of Microsoft's true blackmail and abuse practices. Let's take a look at the facts: sadly there was never love.
Microsoft's business has been taking multiple aspects over the years, venturing into the hardware market, even with computer solutions such as its cloud service, but it is never its life that has benefited free software, on the contrary, dozens of actions suggest that there is a hatred (founded or not, perhaps exaggerated, but there is) towards Linux. On the other hand, the philosophy of freedom with which the kernel was created and the philosophy of sharing and creating of the GNU movement have given improvements to free software and to the Internet market in general, the contributions of GNU / Linux are various, standing out over academic fields , scientists, research; on the other hand, the part of the business, to profit with sham, Microsoft and several companies like Apple, Adobe, Acer, take the prize. Let's not lose the reason attacking with lies, let's attack with facts, grounded truths and let's analyze the other side of Microsoft, let's see what Linux supporters think; do not throw insults without reason. We must defend our legacy, we created GNU / Linux, we are a community and we must be together in this. I like to make this comment often: Microsoft announces its alliance with Linux and does not make an effort to mention the correct name, apparently its public relations team (propaganda) is unaware of the work of the GNU project and its managers are unaware of the philosophy of software free, who are hell-bent on making money, not on improving their services.
Let's talk about these actions then, so you can analyze and realize if there really is that "friendship" between these two entities.
Patents, blackmail and so on.
Microsoft and Linux are good friends enough to strangle the penguin with patents while the media that Microsoft possibly buys says it is an open partner and ally of GNU / Linux. Microsoft may not be responsible for diverting this attention, but the truth is that Microsoft is trying to impose taxes on GNU / Linux, increasing its costs while making money for Microsoft, through the use of software patents. Incidentally, Microsoft continues to scam and insult partners like Canonical (http://mspoweruser.com/microsoft-applies-continuum-patent/), using ideas that were developed by them and claiming that they are their creation. A few days ago, a good number of sites propaganda to Microsoft or sold to publicity (Hypertexual, for example) spoke well about Microsoft opening up to the free world and "loving" Linux. Announced on Monday March 7th, some patents on Winstron tablets, mobile phones, e-readers and other gadgets with Android and Chrome that fall under Microsoft's patent portfolio. Does Microsoft love Linux? Well, just ignore “Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC,” which is attacking Linux, essentially creating blackmail and extortion with software patents. Someone saidhttps://twitter.com/webmink/status/707270385998413824): "They can embrace Linux whatever they want, as long as they continue their patent war and extortion, they are evil." Incidentally, Microsoft makes note of its effort to destroy Linux through its partners (http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-03-09/eu-s-android-probe-said-to-advance-as-rivals-censor-evidence-ill3uqi8). For Mr. Ballmer, ex-CEO of Microsoft, GNU / Linux is still cancer even if he says otherwise, even if it is backwards; I do not back down: cancer is Microsoft.
If you have believed the story of love, this story is not reality, a little perspective would do well, do not believe. Something unthinkable happened for Linux weeks ago: it became for a couple of days a TT on Twitter and popular on social networks, Linux would never do such a thing, it is all Microsoft marketing announced an unreal love and launching its SQLServer software (a licensed preview privative); what Microsoft does is recycle propaganda from others in order to mislead the public. It continues to do so, its campaign is expanded by company propaganda sites (http://www.zdnet.com/article/microsofts-latest-two-android-patent-pals-wistron-and-rakuten/).
They say that only Microsoft is making it easy for free software developers to adapt to Microsoft services.
Microsoft cannot love Linux or even learn to love it. You can only pretend to do so when it suits your marketing purposes or strategy. Now these extortionists plan to use old news, something from their version of Debian, for propaganda purposes. Which shows how throughout its history Microsoft has appropriated the work of others.
Some sold to Microsoft's propaganda, like the English news site BBC
http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-35752728, they are proudly spreading "news" of love, which is only love of money, love for the price of devices with Linux on them, for the few personal gain and their growing network of patents.
What are they looking for, what does Microsoft want with all this?
Many free software advocates disapprove of this news, not all branches of the open source community are welcoming Microsoft's supposed approach to Linux. You feel the greed of the managers and their lies. They basically make a ton of money without lifting a finger, just by submitting a stream of patent applications, at the expense of millions of people, in order to win billions from companies that actually do things.
What they are looking for is:
- Make Linux more expensive.
- Take advantage of Linux development and distribution, using the threat of onerous litigation, in order to have Microsoft software (malware / spyware) pre-installed on Android, for example.
- With Eclipse, SQLServer and their Debian-based distribution, they seek to destroy free software.
There are few articles about the truth, many are propaganda, what I want is to raise awareness about not hating a company senselessly for being like this, I want it not only to be read, to act; for each Microsoft news story, many have given their opinion against it, not insulting, showing the truth. This company has not changed in the sense of supporting free software, there is no "New Microsoft" or "open Microsoft", it is propaganda. They are not your friends, take a broad perspective on the subject and get closer to the truth.
Well, I really don't know what the problem is. Obviously Microsoft is a company that has nothing to do with free software, but now it is making a really strong commitment to the cloud (Azure), and the only thing they are doing with this is recognizing that their Windows Server is really useless because actually, most server software integrates much better with Linux, and Windows probably wastes more resources too. They know that if Azure ran only Windows servers, there would be no one who would buy them.
The "Microsoft (loves) Linux" thing is really a mere advertising slogan. I think wanting to see a drastic change in Microsoft's vision is a bit naive. And the media will sell it as all very nice, but in reality it is what they always do, but I would like to give them a vote of confidence, and it is these media that probably do not know what Linux is, and probably never do. they will. On the patent issue, because Microsoft continues to pocket more money for patents than for selling its own software, so they will not stop. In the end, what matters is money. That said, the patent system that is in place seems pretty stupid to me, but Microsoft is not the only one involved in this issue.
Now, what I don't understand is what you say about "Microsoft seeks to make Linux more expensive." Still more expensive? Apart from the free distributions (which will never go away), the companies that offer their versions of Linux commercial support like Red Hat and SuSe are actually much more expensive than Windows, but trust me, they are worth it. I encourage you to go and look at prices on Amazon Web Services or Azure (which offer: free Linux like Ubuntu, CentOS etc ..., Windows Server, SuSe and RedHat) and check the prices you pay according to the OS you need.
And I repeat, these paid distributions, for companies that need good technical support and always available, are worth it. And if they exist today, it is because they are used daily. And the best is free software, from which the community can always benefit.
Microsoft is a company, making money from anything is its horizon, I don't see where the problem is in that, of course, it is getting into the field of SL and Linux wanting to get some chew, that is ugly.
The issue of patents is questionable, all companies patent things, it is a matter of seeing the litigation that Samsung has with Apple, when at the end of the day, the only ones harmed are the users, total, patent litigation is paid, but the cost is passed on to the user, who pays whatever for the latest iPhone or Galaxy, when in the months after they cost half.
I think that in a certain way this "propaganda" that Microsoft makes of love towards Linux is "good", since this is how what is done on this side of the OS is made known even if the intentions are not such.
Well, we just have to wait and see what the time says, of course the community is the great supporter of SL and Linux and that is what should really matter.
Greetings.
I remember when (back in 2005) Microsoft spammed IRC-Hispano only on channels related to GNU / Linux and with messages like this:
«The main companies and independent analysts confirm this:
Windows has a lower total cost of ownership than Linux and offers better results.
Here are the facts you need to know when choosing between Windows and Linux. »
They have always been this clean.
Microsoft does not want to believe anything, or blackmail anything. You want to place your products, like any company. In particular, you want versions to run on Linux. It doesn't promise to release licenses, sell colored mirrors, or anything like that.
I don't know where the bad is.
Complaining about companies in free software is the most clumsy thing to do, it is seen that many do not know Red Hat, Novell (Micro Focus now), Oracle, or Canonical.
It seems to me that you have not read the part of extortion and threats with patents to the Linux Kernel and mockery / insult to Canonical claiming patents for the Continuum idea that was developed long before by Canonical (the fact of convergence, not Continuum). Besides that it seems to me that the author knows perfectly Red Hat and Canonical and is not criticizing them.
You definitely don't know the subject right? Dig a little deeper and you will see how many fallacies there are in the "article."
Continuum is a false convergence. Red Hat and Canonical have their "dirty laundry" too.
Well, I really don't know what the problem is. Obviously Microsoft is a company that has nothing to do with free software, but now it is making a really strong commitment to the cloud (Azure), and the only thing they are doing with this is recognizing that their Windows Server is really useless because actually, most server software integrates much better with Linux, and Windows probably wastes more resources too. They know that if Azure ran only Windows servers, there would be no one who would buy them.
The "Microsoft (loves) Linux" thing is really a mere advertising slogan. I think wanting to see a drastic change in Microsoft's vision is a bit naive. And the media will sell it as all very nice, but in reality it is what they always do, but I would like to give them a vote of confidence, and it is these media that probably do not know what Linux is, and probably never do. they will. On the patent issue, because Microsoft continues to pocket more money for patents than for selling its own software, so they will not stop. In the end, what matters is money. That said, the patent system that is in place seems pretty stupid to me, but Microsoft is not the only one involved in this issue.
Now, what I don't understand is what you say about "Microsoft seeks to make Linux more expensive." Still more expensive? Apart from the free distributions (which will never go away), the companies that offer their versions of Linux commercial support like Red Hat and SuSe are actually much more expensive than Windows, but trust me, they are worth it. I encourage you to go and look at prices on Amazon Web Services or Azure (which offer: free Linux like Ubuntu, CentOS etc ..., Windows Server, SuSe and RedHat) and check the prices you pay according to the OS you need.
And I repeat, these paid distributions, for companies that need good technical support and always available, are worth it. And if they exist today, it is because they are used daily. And the best is free software, from which the community can always benefit.
I loved the article, it did not have arguments like the patents I had until now, thank you very much, I will use your article as a resource in more than one discussion hehe
I liked all your articles and this one the most.
Regards!
"Instead, the philosophy of freedom with which the kernel was created and the philosophy of sharing and creating of the GNU movement have given improvements to free software and the Internet market in general"
That straw of philosophy has done little to improve Open Source, it has grown thanks to the fact that companies invest in it to obtain profits, the philosophy of sharing does not believe it, nor does Torvalds
"Destroy free software"
Free software cannot be destroyed, by its very nature, please.
More than technical arguments sound very passionate.
It was about time someone told the truth because they want to recover that failure of windows 10 doing what they do best. DECEIVE only a united community will give the best answer to all the failures that Microsoft has and will have….
Cheers !!!!
Honestly, I doubt that the 2nd most used Desktop Operating System in the World is a Failure. Even more so if the 1st is Windows 7 ... The Public has always been free to choose. And it has.
"Instead, the philosophy of freedom with which the kernel was created and the philosophy of sharing and creating of the GNU movement have given improvements to free software and the Internet market in general."
Actually, the OpenSource ecosystem has grown because large companies invest in it to obtain benefits, the idea or philosophy of sharing is not believed by Torvalds.
"With Eclipse, SQLServer, and their Debian-based distribution, they seek to destroy free software."
Free or open software by its nature is impossible to destroy.
The article has very little technical detail and a lot of passionate argument.
I am one of those who rejoices with the recent news of Microsoft's approach to GNU / Linux. Why am I going to use your products? Obviously not.
I have been involved in this GNU / Linux for many years; almost 20, and in those years I have suffered nothing but attacks from Microsoft and its users / fanboys. I was working on a pioneering project in the use of GNU / Linux in the public administration (gnuLinEX) and we had many visits from Microsoft salesmen who promised gold and moor as long as we abandoned our idea of spreading free software.
Now, after all I've suffered, I see that, little by little, it is beginning to be seen that we are winning that war that we began to fight so long ago and our adversaries are beginning to recognize it.
If you can not beat them, join them; And frankly, I think that is the decision that Microsoft and many other companies have made: to join the one that cannot be destroyed.
So yes. I am happy every time I see a news of this type because it reminds me that all the efforts made have not been in vain and are paying off.
Another article written by a fanatical and blinded person, very sad indeed.
But let's go by parts, to begin with, Microsoft is a company (read first the definition of this word) that is dedicated to the development of computer solutions, that is, software that from the beginning even had its own version of Unix called Xenix, contrary to what it is. Linux which is not Unix at all.
Continuing with Unix, this is a closed operating system and its owner has also opposed SL and mainly Linux and does so also through patents but I don't see any fanboy crying for that much less in this publication.
On the other hand, Microsoft is attacked for wanting to make money with Linux, but what about Red hat or SUSE? They also make money on Linux and their licenses are much higher than Microsoft's and there are no fanboys crying about that, right?
On the other hand, it is pointed out that Microsoft is entering the field of hardware which is too false, Microsoft was in the hardware business long before Windows itself and it did so with the softcard which was a card with a z80 chip for the Apple II for that it could execute corporate CP / M programs among others.
Now of course that with this we can say that it is finally the year of Linux but how? Hand in hand with Microsoft and that is something that bothers you right? And it is that Linux and free software have nothing wrong l wrong are sick minds like those of the lady who has taken to write this article full of hatred and ignorance on the subject.
Greetings.
The year of Linux at the hands of Microsoft ?. In any case, the year of Linux has been for a few years from the hand of Google.
But it is true that Microsoft has done nothing more than put the bumpers in the wheels of GNU / Linux and free software.
Poople? Pffff those are others who profit from Linux disproportionately and blatantly.
In any case it is not going to be that Microsoft teaches them to make a distro for the desktop hahahahahaha
Who Microsoft really attacks is companies that are really dependent on its technology like Corel Corp. (yes, that same author of CorelDraw has been prosecuted for patent infringement because Corel happened to put WordPerfect into "MS Word" mode and many other details, for just using MS Visual Studio as the only SDK). I've only seen that in media such as Genbeta and Fayerwayer (the latter is gaining trust again by finally leaving the publiposts).
The article is very successful, it is really sad to see people who believe that Microsoft is betting on GNU / Linux, I suppose it is one more Trojan, if Microsoft is a company and companies are interested in making money, we talk about RedHat about SUSE and Canonical make money with GNU / Linux as obviously it is worth it, but we can see all the work they have contributed to the community, from the beginning, RedHat with Fedora, Canonical with Ubuntu, etc, we can see their contributions, where are the Microsoft contributions?
Microsoft did not even have to change its position, they are some people and OpenSource / free software companies that gave up and ended up selling to this company.
Let's go back 10 years: Icaza created Gnome as an answer to KDE that was not completely free, for the GNU project that it belonged to. Debian prided itself on its kernel without proprietary blobs. Ubuntu had its # 1 bug on Microsoft. Novell defended the entire GNU / Linux world against legal attacks from SCO. The Redhat CEO rejected any alliance with MS "unsubstantiated tax that lacks transparency."
Today all those I mentioned have joined, or have been bought, or are employees of Microsoft. Are there still people who still believe in the war against Windows, Office and Microsoft? Your leaders were sold, and Microsoft did not even have to move, it is still closed. MS's "love" is a bundle of bills.
The exception is Stallman, his ideas remain unchanged. So is Torvalds' pragmatism.
Your description speaks of you in an exact way: Fanatic. Fanaticism leads nowhere, it makes us see reality with a bias. I do not attribute any kind of seriousness to your article, it is my opinion. Greetings.
Since I have been a GNU / Linux user since 2012, in addition to having had experience in various GNU / Linux Taliban groups, I must tell you that Microsoft is not the SCO, which has been the real participant in the slow adoption of GNU / Linux and free software in recent years at the business level. Even Microsoft itself had been extorted by that company for just using open source software (and even that those from Redmond gave them their financial support).
On the other hand, Microsoft makes those half ports of its SDK to GNU / Linux to compete directly with Oracle, which has given a bad name to Sun Microsystems works such as Java, and at the server level, Microsoft has practically lost the battle, to such a degree of stopping to alliances with Red Hat and others, with certain terms that do not seriously compromise the legal aspect of the software it releases (that's why the licenses it releases are MIT and / or BSD). It can even be said that Ballmer realized that GNU / Linux is practically an important part of its niche to which it aims.
Regarding patents, keep in mind that Microsoft did not even make a real convergence, which, with a single executable, practically ran on both smart devices and desktop PCs, which Canonical wanted to do but couldn't (but Mozilla did with Firefox OS applications, which, most of them, run in the Firefox browser without the need for virtual machines).
Now, the real problem comes from Red Hat and Canonical, which were criticized for focusing on the economic aspect more than the community (as for example, the case of Fedora and the Cuban Fedorians on the subject of technical support via IRC, and the case of Canonical for not taking seriously its projects related to Ubuntu and derivatives).
So, the problem is not exclusively Microsoft, but also the companies that sponsor them (Fedora and Red Hat). In the case of SuSE and IBM, they practically love GNU / Linux, but they do not neglect the community aspect of free software.
PD: Please, do not make the flame because Cuba has already lifted the embargo.
PD2: gNewSense, Parabola, Trisquel and the like are 100% sponsored by the Free Software Foundation, and apparently the author needs to explore pump.io and Diaspora *.
PD3: For the author of this article. Do you have an Ekiga account for a video chat? Since Tox turns out to be a headache to install on Debian.
"Destroy free software"….
The GPL, LGPL and others compatible with these licenses are made precisely so that this type of thing never happens. You have to speak more objectively and leave subjectivity.
The problem with Microsoft is that it promotes within the GNU / LINUX software development environment; the use of their development toolkits; some say this is good but; they do not really think that these tools only introduce proprietary code, closed and patented by Microsoft that, if necessary, will enforce that right to prevent the advance of free software.
I strongly agree with the writer of the article.
I see that a great many are Microsoft adepts and believe in godmothers and happy endings.
But hey….
Congratulations to the writer of the article.
Please comment on this http://www.muylinux.com/2016/03/31/ubuntu-bash-windows-10
What a laugh with people and their fights, if you don't like Microsoft, don't use it and that's it. Dedicate yourselves to promoting Linux for its positives (because it also has its negatives) and your fanboys like Apple, Google and Microsoft do. Raise a statue to Richard Stallman, worship him and be happy.
Personally, I think that Microsoft is falling very low when trying to ally with GNU / Linux, a company that is rotten in money doing such a thing, let me tell you that I see a huge concern because they are noticing that users are escaping and that their cell phone windows phone was a failure and gnu / linux is leveling up to ubuntu touch cell phones are being released. On the other hand, I am a gnu / linux programmer and unfortunately there are many institutions and companies that are afraid to touch gnu / linux and that has been hurting me but if microsoft with its great alliance stupidity manages to run gnu / linux graphical applications then already my gnu / linux programs can be used in windows 10 and I will benefit so microsoft continues so the stupid is not gnu / linux but you are with your despair, greetings;).