[NTLUG:Discuss] Bad Signs for Open Source

[Mike Hart]

Yahoo Turns from Netscape/Java!!

This appears on todays Yahoo news site.

http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/cn/20010914/tc/yahoo_turns_from_sun-netscape_technology_1.html

I've used Yahoo almost exlusively for my 'free'
services in the last 2 years because they've supported
open platforms over microsoft technologies. That is:

Their games are java based
Their IM client runs on just about every platform
They Sync to palm/WAP phone (and not CE)

This is a very very bad sign for open source.. please
take a few minutes to click on the link above and find
the 'comments' section and slam the hell out of yahoo
for posting this intention to move their services to
microsoft based ActiveX technologies, beg them to
continue providing java as primary etc.... I'm sure
they posted this On their front page to look for
negative feedback before they actually start
dismantling their java systems.

Yahoo has quietly been the number one open source site
(even if they haven't released the code for their IM's
etc...)  If yahoo starts requiring IE... that will
greatly reduce what you can do with netscape or any
open source java enabled browser that doesnt run
winmedia and active X. 




--- Newsletters <jrnewsletters at jcrcomputing.com>
wrote:
> Mark Bickel wrote:
> 
> >>When I saw the 2-page glossy "fluff" microsoft ad
> my immediate reaction was
> >>amusement rather than anger. If the content or
> amount of the ads were taken
> >>to a higher level (more M$ BS & FUD) my reaction
> might be a bit less benign.
> >>
> Well, had there only been just the 2-page glossy
> "fluff" MS ad, I 
> wouldn't be here considering cancelling the
> subscription.  However, what 
> I do think is bad is that in the "Report from the
> Front" Section which 
> is section giving a thumbnail of what is going on
> with various Linux 
> companies, is a little blurb on Page 9 entitled
> "Microsoft Rushing 
> Windows XP".  Absolutely nothing is mentioned
> pertaining to Linux in the 
> little writeup...it is a small infomercial for
> WinXP, and even though 
> they give the link for a reference to the company
> they are talking about 
> in all of the writeups in this section, it is
> offensive to me to see the 
> www.m$.com (not the actual link).  This writeup is
> not marked as an 
> advertisement.  It makes me wonder how long before
> Linux Magazine starts 
> running full feature Windows only articles.  This is
> not want I wanted 
> when I subscribed to this magazine.  I wanted Linux
> news and articles 
> and could care less about Windows.
> 
> In case anyone is wondering, I'm talking about the
> October 2001 issue of 
> Linux Magazine.  It should soon be out on newsstands
> if it isn't there 
> already.
> 
> 
> _______________________________________________
> http://www.ntlug.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss


__________________________________________________
Terrorist Attacks on U.S. - How can you help?
Donate cash, emergency relief information
http://dailynews.yahoo.com/fc/US/Emergency_Information/