Linked by Thom Holwerda on Thu 22nd Oct 2009 21:38 UTC, submitted by google_ninja
"Digital civil liberties organization Open Rights Group, Knowledge Ecology International and software developer Richard Stallman tell the EC in a letter that they are concerned about Oracle's possible squashing of competition in the database market by abandoning MySQL."
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Member since:2005-07-24
Looks like Stallman recieved a phone call from one of his sponsors ordering to him to make some noice about this adquisition.
You really think that RMS requires *prompting* to make these kinds of statements???
If anything IBM and Red Hat try to distance themselves from kooks like RMS. And I'm sure that IBM and Red Hat both have better lobbying strategies than covertly using RMS as an attack dog.
I'm simply amazed that anyone would try to turn RMS's standard and expected hysteria into such a bizarre conspiracy theory.
Now, if the usual stream of hysteria suddenly ceased for no apparent reason, then I would begin to suspect that maybe the real RMS had been kidnapped by agents of the BSA and replaced by an android or something.
Member since:2008-10-30
I'm simply amazed that anyone would try to turn RMS's standard and expected hysteria into such a bizarre conspiracy theory.
Are you not aware that RMS has been acting more and more as a PR pipeline for IBM and RH?
IBM has a strong interest in prolonging the takeover in order to gain a larger share of Suns hardware customers before the deal closes.
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2005-09-27
Looks like Stallman recieved a phone call from one of his sponsors ordering to him to make some noice about this adquisition.
Who are the biggest losers of that adquisition?
oh, let me guess, IBM and RedHat.
Edited 2009-10-22 22:55 UTC