Enemy action?
Auric Goldfinger said:
Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. The third time it’s enemy action.
There appears to be a move afoot to re-position Microsoft as an “open source” company. Once was at the City of Edmonton; twice is the British Library. Is there a third time?
This is why Open Source misses the point of Free Software. In other words, Free as in Free Market — a competitive landscape offering real choice of systems and suppliers, not locked into a single vendor’s proprietary software stack.
If somebody finds a third example, add a link in the comments, so readers can draw their own conclusions from the evidence.
I attempted to post a comment to the Port25 blog entry on the City of Edmonton “open source” rah rah post by Microsoft, pointing out that it wasn’t free software… and the post never made it past the moderator (it was ignored entirely)… I think it’d be good to promote the fact that they’re blocking dissenting opinions.