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This is an old revision of FUDfudFUD made by BenoitAudouard on 2010-01-22 18:00:02.
- This topic could be named Get The Facts as it is a list of links
Counter-arguments provided against FUD
- http://lwn.net/Articles/232958/ [en] cf. article A think tank's view of free software
- more particularly http://lwn.net/Articles/233403/ [en] great examples of subjects addressed by FUDders about Free Software
(illegal in Europe) software patents
- http://www.informationweek.com/news/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=199600443 [en] simple, frank, Linus against MS software patents allegations
- http://www.mxtabs.net/blog/2007/05/08/response-to-hal-leonard-e-mail-to-the-music-publishing-community/ [en] guitar tabs are concerned as well, point by point answer
- http://formats-ouverts.org/blog/2007/02/24/1116-le-mp3-un-format-ouvert-et-bien-non [fr] les formats brevetés ne protègent pas des brevets, autant prendre des formats libres comme Ogg/Vorbis ou Ogg/Theora, cela aurait évité à Microsoft de payer 1,52 milliard de dollars à Alcatel-Lucent après plus d'un an de procédure
- http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brevetabilit%C3%A9_du_logiciel#L.C3.A9gislation_et_pratiques_actuelles [fr] l'Europe rend illégaux les brevets logiciels
- http://www.epo.org/patents/patent-information/east-asian/helpdesk/china/faq.html#new2 [en] software patents illegal in Asia
- http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20090603224807259 [en] Donald Knuth: Mathematical Ideas, or Algorithms, Should Not Be Patented
Get the facts and real costs for TCO
- http://blogs.cnet.com/8301-13505_1-9773662-16.html?part=rss&tag=feed&subj=TheOpenRoad Microsoft starts a "Get the Facts" campaign...against itself : " total cost of ownership for Windows XP is $4,407 annually, while Vista's cost is $3,802. The $4,407 figure was derived from costs of hardware, software, IT labor, and user costs...."
- http://open-net.ch/eng/Open-Source/TCO [fr] TCO Total Cost of Ownership is less for Linux than Windows (even using OpenOffice.org)
- https://linuxfr.org/~IsNotGood/26077.html [fr] how to accelerate windows vista
- https://linuxfr.org/comments/901732.html#901732 [fr] MS buys innovative technology to integrate it
- http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=09/01/24/1721216 [en] calculating how much it would cost to upgrade each of the 19.4 million PCs with 1 GB of memory and graphics cards or onboard chipsets able to run Aero, according to Keizer. Leffler put the maximum cost of upgrading the desktops at $155, while positing that the notebooks' integrated graphics would be more tricky to replace and would cost between $245 and $590 per unit. The total price tag for Microsoft would thus range from $3.92 billion to $8.52 billion and in some cases would include complete replacements of notebooks that could not be feasibly upgraded
- http://www.idc.com/getdoc.jsp?containerId=prUS21399008 interesting : Linux 13.4% , Windows 36.5%, only paid-licenses are taken into account (which shows that Microsoft is more expensive than free software installations), why pay more for less ?
open formats and interoperability vs compatibility
- https://linuxfr.org/~IsNotGood/26141.html [fr] closed ooxml vs open ODF
- http://linuxfr.org/comments/914662.html#914662 [fr] incompatibilities and bad conception on MS-OXML compared to OpenDocument coherency
- http://www.april.org/articles/communiques/pr-20080221.html [fr] interoperability "à la" Microsoft, not interoperable nor libre software compatible :/
- https://linuxfr.org/~maillequeule/26192.html [fr]
closed plateforms, DRM
- http://www.fsf.org/blogs/community/5-reasons-to-avoid-iphone-3g/ [en] iPhone, DRM by Apple are still there, restricted installation of software...
- http://xkcd.com/488/ [en] good illustration of why DRM are useless
- http://it.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/11/01/1728222 [en] Doom9 Researchers Break BD+
- http://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?t=140571 [en] BD+, the Blu-ray copy protection system that was supposed to last 10 years (really !?)
- http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/28/technology/28software.html?_r=1&oref=slogin [en] Industry Rethinks Moneymaking Software Practice, Best Buy $30 to remove bloatware
- http://games.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/11/09/172219 [en] class-action against EA ans ubsollicited DRM
- http://www.gnashdev.org/?q=node/51 [en] DRM in Flash, using encryption, makes DMCA action possible against users
- http://www.linux.com/feature/56449 [en] Why proprietary software is dangerous for business-critical applications
Missing some counter-arguments
- http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/2007/05/28/100033867/index.htm?postversion=2007051409 [en] the article is too long and rather lets the reader makes his/her mind, though the subject is important as software patents are illegal in Europe (shouldn't those who try to patent software be prosecuted BTW ?)
- https://linuxfr.org/~pounkfuckcomm0/24455.html [fr] 235 software patents
- http://bourse.jdf.com/actualites.html?id=071833&genre=FLASHS%20ETRANGERS&ticker=&pays=FR [fr] allegations without proof by MS
- https://linuxfr.org/~TImaniac/27337.html [fr] Silverlight with parts of could-have-been free software included and some document (as made compulsory by european commission)
References
- http://eucd.info a reference against software patents
- http://www.videolan.org/press/patents.html [en] example of impacts of software patents
- http://gpl-violations.org/ ever thought that the GPL was not well defended ? you should trust more free software to be legal than those that try to hide.
- http://forum.framasoft.org/viewtopic.php?f=82&t=23803 [fr] florilège DRM, vente liée, formats ouverts des suites bureautiques et de l'interopérabilité, téléchargements de musique, l'informatique dite de confiance (trusted computing), projet de contrôle de l'information sur Internet
- http://www.dwheeler.com/oss_fs_why.html [en] some matter of facts numbers about FLOSS
- http://www.dwheeler.com/blog/2006/04/14/ [en] article about protections of FLOSS against patents (oin, patentscommon...)
List of subjects
- software patents :
- they are illegal in Europe, people applying for them should be prosecuted and go to jail, don't you think ? What would you think if mathematical formulas were patented ? What do you think an algorithm is ? What do you think a program is made of ?
- proprietary software is at the same risk than open-source and libre software to make use of a patent without even knowing it, don't you think ? The danger being higher for proprietary software for being guilty of trying to hide it (when even the source code is available with libre software)
- https://linuxfr.org/~_/27922.html [fr] MS vs TomTom with trivial software patents
- http://www.linux-foundation.org/weblogs/jzemlin/2009/02/26/note-on-microsoft-tomtom-suit-calm-down-hope-for-the-best-plan-for-the-worst/
- http://esr.ibiblio.org/?p=826 [en] analysis by ESR, impacts on Linux/Libre Community or car navigation
- http://practical-tech.com/operating-system/deep-in-microsofts-tomtom-linux-patent-claims/ [en] some more links about FAT
- http://linuxfr.org/2009/11/19/26178.html [fr] Broadvoice, a libre codec audio to replace non-free ones and enhance speex
- http://www.voip-info.org/wiki/view/Asterisk+G.729+Licensing [en] how software patents complicate licensing
- http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=09/05/19/1931249 [en] yet another defective by design patent "Crippling Operating Systems"
- http://blogs.computerworld.com/novell_and_microsoft_stop_with_the_fud_already [en] FUD orchestrated through Novell by MS ? some interesting links
- intellectual property : gni ? maybe you mean copyright, trademark or illegal software patents in Europe ?
- security through obscurity http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Security_through_obscurity : flawed by design ?
- copyright : see http://gpl-violations.org for a great tool / organization to defend free software
Libre software in the news
- http://images.businessweek.com/ss/08/12/1201_ceo_guide_open_source/index.htm [en] if business week publishes it, it's true ? isn't it ? (I would have chosen some other alternatives, like PostgreSQL for RDBMS or VirtualBox for virtualization, but that's ok
- http://www.linux-foundation.org/weblogs/jzemlin/2009/01/26/windows-kicks-linux-to-the-curb-youve-got-to-be-kidding/ [en] GNU/Linux at 20% for netbook !
links
- http://linux.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/11/16/2146233 [en] why Kyocera needs a patent license from Microsoft to develop its embedded Linux products ?
- http://www.vnunet.fr/news/apple__google_et_microsoft_poursuivis_pour_violation_de_brevet-2029732 [fr] software patents : l'arroseur arrosé
- http://linuxfr.org/2002/08/12/9227.html [fr] less job when proprietary goes open source ? nope, see the comments : other interesting jobs
- http://linuxfr.org/2002/12/03/10510.html [fr] FUD by magazines bought by ads or not competent enough ?
- http://www.lemondeinformatique.fr/actualites/lire-l-image-de-marque-de-microsoft-en-chute-libre-aux-usa-25715.html [fr] 59ème sur 100 en 2008 (11ème en 2004)
- http://linuxfr.org/~fleny68/26891.html [fr] Réunion à la DGCCRF sur la vente liée: vers un chantage sur le prix de vente ? décoller des autocollants double le prix ?
- http://digg.com/linux_unix/GNU_Linux_Desktop_Market_Share_is_4_Gartner [en] 4% de GNU/Linux (et non les 1% souvent avencés), par le Gartner
- http://www.heise-online.co.uk/security/MS-Malicious-Software-Removal-Tool-damages-harmless-software--/news/112226 [en] l'arroseur arrosé (trouvé au détour de http://linuxfr.org/~MSUSA/27625.html)
- http://blog.fedora-fr.org/renault/post/La-d%C3%A9mocratisation-de-l-informatique%2C-une-mission-du-Logiciel-Libre [fr] le permis de conduire pour l'informatique, rien de tel que l'éducation telle la lecture et le calcul ;-)
- http://www.framablog.org/index.php/post/2008/12/27/linux-influence-anciens-utilisateurs-windows [fr] un seul choix pour tous les dominer o_O ?
- http://www.itwire.com/content/view/22386/1103/ [en] 2009 still not the year of GNU/Linux ? see the comments though ;-) (they explain why the author is plainly just wrong in some of his assertions
- http://www.theregister.co.uk/2003/06/25/so_why_has_linux_failed/ [en] retrospective
- je ne sais plus quel magazine "respectable" qui avait fait le test et avait trouvé le moins d'erreurs dans Wikipedia => Il s'agit de la revue scientifique (en anglais) "Nature" : http://www.agoravox.fr/article.php3?id_article=5353
- http://linux.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=09/05/15/1818214&art_pos=13 [en] opensource en Afrique et le fameux TCO
- http://wiki.eagle-usb.org/wakka.php?wiki=AttentionLesChevilles [fr] réflexion sur les atouts du libre sans se décrédibiliser
data loss
- http://www.neowin.net/news/main/09/10/11/major-bug-in-snow-leopard-deletes-all-user-data/ [en] how to lose your /home what did you need in this upgrade BTW ?
- http://linuxfr.org/~logik/28894.html [fr] Qui à dit que les léopards des neiges ne mangeaient pas d'/home ?
- http://www.lemonde.fr/technologies/article/2009/10/12/des-utilisateurs-du-telephone-sidekick-de-microsoft-perdent-toutes-leurs-donnees-personnelles_1253004_651865.html#xtor=RSS-3234 [fr] would you be happy to lose your contacts in your smartphone ? (Minitel 2.0 syndrome inside)
- http://linuxfr.org/~Dabowl_92/28752.html [fr] SMB2 : just close the service to avoid a BSOD (really useful for a file server whose admin is surfing the web...). I think standards users are happy to lose their current work thanks to a BSOD :/
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