tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9773082856702092572024-02-19T22:09:25.838-08:00Open ManifestoEverything out in the Open!Advisorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07527418110367579506noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-977308285670209257.post-39564459189855889992008-07-31T05:37:00.000-07:002008-07-31T06:35:02.749-07:00MS's biggest blunder, uses Linux and Apache and PHP for its infrastructure to promote Windows VistaHi Dear Readers,<br /><br />I am back with a new blog for all of you that will bring you news and updates about everything related to Free and Open Source Software FOSS, Open Content, Open Business and anything OPEN you can think of, yeup, its my newest blog titled "The Open Manisfesto Blog!"<br /><br />As a starting point, I've got an amazing story up my sleeve as a first entry. With this story I am also becomming a FOSS Detective hunting down all those proprietary software giants trying to use FOSS to promote their productives "Grrrr" but not openly accepting their support for FOSS! Well guess who made the latest blunder? None other than, your's truly, MS! Yeup, and they did it with their online marketing campaign for promoting Windows Vista titled the the <a href="http://mojaveexperiment.com/"><span style="font-weight: bold;">"Mojave Experiment"</span></a>.<br /><span style="font-weight: bold;"><br /></span>While surfing the Internet, I found this story link on the <a href="http://tgdaily.com/content/view/38637/128/">TG Daily</a> website that talks about MS's new online marketing campaign to promote Windows Vista code named the Mojave Experiment. Interestingly, I don't know why this idea hit me but I did a header scan of the Mojave website and guess what I found:<br /><br />Headers For: http://mojaveexperiment.com<br /><br />Connection: close<br />Date: Wed, 30 Jul 2008 15:53:51 GMT<br />Accept-Ranges: bytes<br />ETag: "27b85b4-bfc-62838080"<br />Server: Apache/2.2.3 (CentOS)<br />Content-Length: 3068<br />Content-Type: text/html, text/html; charset=iso-8859-1<br />Last-Modified: Wed, 30 Jul 2008 03:30:58 GMT<br />Client-Date: Wed, 30 Jul 2008 15:53:51 GMT<br />Client-Peer: 72.47.200.149:80<br />Client-Response-Num: 1<br />Title: The "Mojave Experiment"<br /><br />X-Meta-Description: Welcome to the 'Mojave Experiment.' What do people think of Windows Vista® when they don't know it's Windows Vista? We disguised Windows Vista as codename 'Mojave,' the 'next Microsoft OS,' so regular people who've never used Windows Vista could see what it can do - and decide for themselves. Now decide for yourself.<br /><br />X-Meta-Keywords: microsoft, windows, mojave, vista, San Francisco, Switch, experiment, instant search, media, center, photo, stitch, aero, flip, parental, controls, productivity, ease of use, compatible, really<br /><br />Response code: 200<br />Response message: OK<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);">First the website is in FLASH and not </span>MS Silverlight, secondly its infrastructure or the website is running on PHP, Apache and CentOS!!!!!<br /><br /></span><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">So much for MS's claims that FOSS is unstable or insecure or blah blah. Gotchya!</span></span><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"><br /></span><a href="http://tgdaily.com/content/view/38637/128/"></a><span style="font-weight: bold;"><br /></span>Advisorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07527418110367579506noreply@blogger.com2