{"id":25992,"date":"2009-02-08T01:07:31","date_gmt":"2009-02-08T01:07:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/gregladen\/2009\/02\/08\/microsoft-evil\/"},"modified":"2009-02-08T01:07:31","modified_gmt":"2009-02-08T01:07:31","slug":"microsoft-evil","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2009\/02\/08\/microsoft-evil\/","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft = Evil"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From slashdot:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;Microsoft is advertising for a new director of open source strategy, but this one has a specific purpose: fight the Linux desktop. &#8216;The Windows Competitive Strategy team is looking for a strong team member to lead Microsoft&#8217;s global desktop competitive strategy as it relates to open source competitors.&#8217; For a variety of reasons, this move is almost certainly targeted at Ubuntu Linux&#8217;s desktop success. With the Mac, not Linux, apparently eating into Microsoft&#8217;s Windows market share, what is it about desktop Linux, and specifically Ubuntu, that has Microsoft spooked?&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>figures.  <a href=\"http:\/\/tech.slashdot.org\/article.pl?sid=09\/02\/07\/1553206\"><em>details and links here.  <\/em><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From slashdot: &#8220;Microsoft is advertising for a new director of open source strategy, but this one has a specific purpose: fight the Linux desktop. &#8216;The Windows Competitive Strategy team is looking for a strong team member to lead Microsoft&#8217;s global desktop competitive strategy as it relates to open source competitors.&#8217; For a variety of reasons, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2009\/02\/08\/microsoft-evil\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Microsoft = Evil<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[67,130,57],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5fhV1-6Le","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25992"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25992"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25992\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25992"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25992"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25992"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}