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>I don't see why a city government migrating form one proprietary software vendor to another is considered newsworthy. I would be more impressed by something li
by cooldeal 13y ago
>I don't see why a city government migrating form one proprietary software vendor to another is considered newsworthy. I would be more impressed by something like, "City of Boston drops Microsoft for local hosting provider running free software".
That is because, for some, it's less about promoting software freedom and more about taking Microsoft down. That's why we have SJVN on the ZDNet "Open Source" blog promoting Chromebooks and Google Docs which are less "free" than Windows and MS Office because of being completely locked down and being tied to Google's Cloud.
For a even better example, see Ubuntu's Bug #1.
As usual, Linus has pithy insight.
http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2009/07/linus-torvalds-microsoft-hatred-is-a-disease/ http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2009/07/linus-...
- mwcampbell 13y agoThe problem with having the goal of taking Microsoft down is that some new, potentially abusive, power will probably rise in its place. What really matters is people's freedom. You seem to realize this, but I thought it would be worth pointing out anyway.
- myko 13y ago> promoting Chromebooks and Google Docs which are less "free" than Windows and MS Office Google Docs goes out of its way to import/export to various formats, including Microsoft's. Given this I think the above statement is hardly fair.
- improv32 13y agoHe means that the source for GDocs is private.