The following article is from "The Open Source" by
Nicholas Petreley (infoworld)
MS masters NC mind-set
WAKE UP, open-source community. The battle is not for the desktop;
it is not for the server; it is not for the operating system; it is
not for the development environment; it is not about the GNU General
Public License (GPL) vs. Microsoft's business model. The battle is
primarily about who will control user-authentication services....
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If it does bother you that Microsoft could control most
authentication services, however, then now is the time to join me in
sending a wake-up call to the open source community. We must not only
be diligent to provide the operating system, the tools, and the
standards upon which the future of network computing may be built. We
must also provide the services based on those tools. To do any less
is to allow Microsoft to slip through the back door and sabotage the
future of open standards and open source while we are distracted by
the battles Microsoft pretends to wage in the foreground.
Nick is the founding editor of VarLinux.org ( www.varlinux.org ).
Reach him at nicholas@petreley.com.
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-Bob
