Posted by: Anonymous Coward
on July 20, 2006 12:27 AM
Just about everybody who has posted here to date seems to recognize this McAfee "paper" for what it is...a FUD tool to bolster their protection-racket business. Back in the day, I used to use their products. Today, I use GNU/Linux and so do not need their "protection services" any longer. If GNU/Linux, which is both Free Software and Open Source, seriously takes off on the desktop, their product won't be as needed anymore.
This is, I believe, eerily similar to what is happening in Massachusetts with OpenDocument. Marc Pacheco, a particularly nasty state senator in Massachusetts, just released a report from some commission that he was heading to investigate the state Executive branch's OpenDocument plan. I have read Pacheco's "report". It is full of invective and borders on personal attacks, especially against Eric Kriss and Peter Quinn. Of course, he's been careful not to reveal any direct ties to Microsoft, but the language that he has generally used to try to blast OpenDocument just happens to be the same language that Microsoft and their allies use. Fortunately, Gov. Mitt Romney told Pacheco where to stuff it.
The only reason people like Pacheco do this is the exact same reason why McAfee wrote their anti-open source "paper". They're somehow getting paid. Either it's directly, or it's campaign contributions, or their in-law's/nephew's/niece's business gets a nice, fat contract, or something like that.
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Reminds me of Mass. OpenDocument resistance
Posted by: Anonymous Coward on July 20, 2006 12:27 AMThis is, I believe, eerily similar to what is happening in Massachusetts with OpenDocument. Marc Pacheco, a particularly nasty state senator in Massachusetts, just released a report from some commission that he was heading to investigate the state Executive branch's OpenDocument plan. I have read Pacheco's "report". It is full of invective and borders on personal attacks, especially against Eric Kriss and Peter Quinn. Of course, he's been careful not to reveal any direct ties to Microsoft, but the language that he has generally used to try to blast OpenDocument just happens to be the same language that Microsoft and their allies use. Fortunately, Gov. Mitt Romney told Pacheco where to stuff it.
The only reason people like Pacheco do this is the exact same reason why McAfee wrote their anti-open source "paper". They're somehow getting paid. Either it's directly, or it's campaign contributions, or their in-law's/nephew's/niece's business gets a nice, fat contract, or something like that.
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