A recent Fortune article touched upon the ongoing cold war between Microsoft and the Open Source community. In fitting with Microsoft’s tendancy to only talk about Free Software in terms of not actually being free of cost (which I’ve always seen as a diversionary tactic, to avoid acknowledging the actual issues of freedom and ownership that anyone involved in free software will be quick to focus on), this was addressing Microsoft’s software patents that Linux potentially violates. (more…)

May 17th, 2007 | Freedom | No comments