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Situation critical

The BBC's desperate attempt to lead the new media revolution has been fraught with controversy, delays and huge costs. Bobbie Johnson asks how it all went wrong

Monday May 14, 2007
The Guardian

Computerworld > Taking a cynical view of open source

"Open source is not a movement; it's a religion. It is a set of principles and practices that let everyone share non-existent or semi-existent intellectual property. Remember the Communist Manifesto: "From each according to his ability, to each according to his need." It is this generation's Woodstock."

Written by Howard Anderson Framingham, who is:

"the senior managing director of Yankeetek, a Cambridge, Mass., venture incubator. He is also founder of The Yankee Group and the William Porter Distinguished Lecturer at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology."

http://www.networkworld.com/columnists/2007/051007anderson.html

The Yankee Group is the FUD arm of Microsoft, and home to that other Microsoft Shill, and generally stupid cow, Laura Didio.

Update: 25th Jan 2008: Welcome CNet and Inq. readers.

According to avid Yahoo'er, Amanda Kerik, Yahoo seems to have developed a policy of censoring answers in their "Yahoo! Answers" service, if that answer contains a suggestion to use Open Source alternatives to Microsoft software.

I've just read on Digg that Channel4 are going to be offering a content download service. Great eh? Only problem is it's for Windows users only. Hmmm, maybe not so great.

Show your support for this issue at http://slated.org/ch4_microsoft_bias_vote.

So, in that great Slated tradition, I put metaphorical pen to paper, and sent yet another "letter" of complaint ... as follows: