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Well everybody advocating FLOSS, grab my headline!
(taken from here: http://twitter.com/helios17)
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Text received: can I call u? response: I guess who r u? received:Karen response:k. Talked with her twice that day. Tearful, frightened. 1 day ago
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45 minute conversation with Karen. Educated her on FOSS/Linux. Apologies flowed, she is in awe of the Linux/FOSS Community. 1 day ago
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colleagues talked her into civil litigation for privacy violation, now on hold. Am installing Linux on her computer this Saturday. 1 day ago
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Ok there's no more news here fellows, it seems "at last" she admits that she has done something very wrong and is about to think over her actions. (Maybe not only that...)

For me personally she is a victim (as Mr. Starks did post before), educated with proprietary models of software and businesses, she had absolutly not the slightest CLUE that she pointed her trigger at appr. 300 Million FLOSS loving and sharing Open Source and AS WELL FREE/LIBRE Software Linux or "GNU/Linux" or "GNU/Hurd/L4" users, admins, devs. Linux not far in the future will be mainstream and it should be duty of all freedom appreciating people not to diffamine, nor insult, nor attack (in any way) other people who did come other ways to their actual state of mind.

And another thing:
Let us be thinking for around ten seconds about that this fact: in some other sort of reality her argues could be true (THAT SW IN FACT IS NOT! FREE) and we were living in a world where we could not accept such truth. We would be the victims of our own reality view and perhaps fantasy, you could be arrested for distributing software or anything else proprietary.
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Such basic unalienable rights were granted to all of us in the past long ago, received after thousands of generations before which had definitly not such a view of freedom (of software and others).

I think for your country it was 1776 after the "Boston Tea Party" AND after the long enduring war of Civil citizens in 1865 most of you were granted your basic rights you can today rely on.

Jeremy Rifkins wrote in one of his last books,
The end of property is near, now follow the ages of ACCESS (http://www.amazon.com/Age-Access-Hypercapitalism-Paid-Experience/dp...)

In my humble oppinion not every point of that vision is good and we will have to deal with things which decrease much more rapidly in money than we would have it expected.

And this is also a point which I am pointing to:
The rise of networked societies as well as the power of identities... (Trilogy from Manuel Castells (Professor as well as Advisor of the Agency of International Affairs) who leads now a "more or less" virtual university... (http://www.uoc.edu/portal/english/)

Last but not least:
I'm full of the oppinion that the OS wars are OVER!
Why? Because I say so....haha don't believe such nonsense!
New groundbreaking technologies arise like MONO as well as .NET combined with the virtualisation techniques of distributed platforms as well as everybody who runs to cloud computing.

Hmmmm
With technologies like QT4 eg I'm able to run the Beta2 of Amarok under XP... With the Efi-X module I would be able to turn a pc into something like a "superMAC"...(definitly not without consequences, but technically it would work).

William Henry Gates III is no more and Steve Ballmer is not the person who can lead MicroSoft into the future. He is a great marketer as well as a bloodhound concerning contracts (and jumping doll as well ;-)) )
But: And let me now be clear: I wrote before...
http://www.kyeldon.net/drupal-6.2/?q=node/68
MicroSoft has to change its underlying business model asap. Because the world is changing and they do not have a visionaire on the rooftops. In my humble view, there are only 3 persons who have the will and the charisma to take others with them:
First: Sam Ramji (and his team as well ...)
"Sam Ramji is the Senior Director of Platform Strategy leading Microsoft’s platform strategy efforts across the company, including long-term strategic planning in the Windows Server and Tools organization. Sam’s primary focus is to drive Microsoft’s Linux and Open Source Strategy, working together with Microsoft technology development teams and open source communities to build interoperable solutions. Prior to his current role at Microsoft, Sam was a Director of Emerging Business working on the Silicon Valley Campus where he managed relationships with Venture Capitalists and entrepreneurs. Prior to joining Microsoft, Sam led technical product strategy at BEA Systems, engineering teams building large-scale applications on Open Source software (at Ofoto.com) as well as hands-on development of client, client-server, and distributed applications on Unix, Windows, and Macintosh at prior companies. Sam holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Cognitive Science from the University of California at San Diego, and is a member of the Institute for Generative Leadership."

Second: Ray Ozzie (perhaps Craig Mundie...)
"Ray Ozzie, an industry visionary and pioneer in computer-supported cooperative work, is Microsoft's chief software architect.
Ozzie assumed the chief software architect's role in June 2006, when Chairman Bill Gates announced his intent to relinquish his Microsoft day-to-day responsibilities in July 2008. In his role as CSA Ozzie is responsible for oversight of the company's technical strategy and product architecture. Ozzie is also directing development of the company's next-generation software services platform.
Previously, Ozzie was chief technical officer from April 2005 to June 2006. He assumed that role in April 2005 after Microsoft acquired Groove Networks, a next-generation collaboration software company he formed in 1997.
Prior to Groove, Ozzie was a founder and president of Iris Associates, where he created and led the development of Lotus Notes. Before Iris, he contributed to the development of Lotus Symphony and Software Arts' TK!Solver and VisiCalc, and was involved in early distributed operating systems development at Data General Corp."

The past: Keith Curtis (just for OSS proposals)
Keith .. WHO ???
Yes Mr. Curtis who did work for MicroSoft in the past as a programmer did leave this company in the past and he started his own business as well as research. And he is coming to some conclusions which are mine as well: FLOSS Software will more and more be accepted, requested, polished, made money on (not always)...

Straightforward: A new UNKNOWN universe is about to be born and we the people can be witnesses of it.
(os.xcerion.com) as another example of a web based (XML powered) Desktop OS.

Today Google with its "Native Client" news which are focussing to link applications with full desktop power into the web.

I say: Let us embrace MicroSoft, if there efforts are truthfull and RELIABLE, everyone should be able to rely on it.

Alchemists were yesterday today and tomorrow we all have to look for a "sustainable/lasting" future in which biodiversity eg is a big MUST.

I am trying to set up a platform of global collaboration now (PHP) for about 10 years and one person cannot do anything like this. But together we could build a platform from which more and more people could benefit from: Free Access to every Article to users which are logged in a web of trust, supported by the best language translation programs based on nearly all platform which exist today: Haiku-OS, (GNU)/linux, MacOS(X), ReactOS, BSD, Singularity (Windows)....
The internet should not be about selling anything for any purpose to anyone.
http://www.kyeldon.net/drupal6.2/
https://www.launchpad.net/kyeldon
https://blueprints.launchpad.net/kyeldon/+spec/kyeldon.vision
http://www.kyeldon.net/ (non-prof current version)
Another World is still possible!
AndreasP
post.scriptum: I am from OLD europe, exactly Germany/Hessen/... cu