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Articles Written by: ROY SCHESTOWITZ
It is crucial to remember that quality assurance is nothing to sneeze at when it comes to software which stores information like medical data and people’s wages. Microsoft’s quality assurance — or lack thereof, especially in Microsoft Office — has ...
From ROY SCHESTOWITZ,
LXer,
30 Dec 2008
Most of his posts are on “live.com”. How long will it stay there?
I made a complete copy of these last night, just in case.
Roy, this is great journalism. You are doing a really good job of finding and following obscure threads to bring out a more ...
From ROY SCHESTOWITZ,
LXer,
28 Dec 2008
Microsoft never utters the phrase “Free Software”. Microsoft tries to obliterate the meaning of “Free Software” as in fighting-for-freedom- and-against-monopolisation- of-knowledge-software (remember the distasteful comments of Bill Hilf, one of ...
From ROY SCHESTOWITZ,
LXer,
12 Dec 2008
THOSE WHO FOLLOWED RECENT posts about this subject [1, 2, 3] already know that we are not huge fans of the “Linux Defenders” initiative; not because it’s ineffective but because it’s the wrong way to approach the problem. It is a way that pleases big ...
From ROY SCHESTOWITZ,
LXer,
11 Dec 2008
New government, new political party, new lobbying muscle
“Did you know that there are more than 34,750 registered lobbyists in Washington, D.C., for just 435 representatives and 100 senators? That’s 64 lobbyists for each congressperson.”
If a slogan ...
From ROY SCHESTOWITZ,
LXer,
8 Dec 2008
Summary: Microsoft is paying companies — in the form of discounts — in order to give the illusion that everyone respects Microsoft’s argument that Linux infringes on Microsoft IPR and that software patents are universally scary. This payment is akin to ...
From ROY SCHESTOWITZ,
LXer,
5 Dec 2008
“ recommends Windows” is an paid-for advert, not a recommendation
Let’s take it one step at a time and see how this works.
In short, Microsoft informs computer shops that if they put some Vista advertising in their newspaper advertisements (or ...
From ROY SCHESTOWITZ,
LXer,
2 Dec 2008
Living and dying with Mono
A FREQUENTLY-ASKED question is, “what distinguishes between the FSF’s approach to .NET and that of Novell?”
A reader brought to our attention this video from a year and a half ago where Richard Stallman answers a question ...
From ROY SCHESTOWITZ,
LXer,
16 Nov 2008
“Microsoft executives had previously told Computer Business Review that the company had not carried out a detailed patent assessment before reaching its patent covenant agreement with Novell.
“We did not do a drains-up inventory,” said Microsoft’s UK ...
From ROY SCHESTOWITZ,
LXer,
22 Oct 2008
“Open source is an intellectual-property destroyer […] I can’t imagine something that could be worse than this for the software business and the intellectual-property business. I’m an American; I believe in the American way, I worry if the government ...
From ROY SCHESTOWITZ,
LXer,
19 Oct 2008
