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thither ar too many parts In his recordings that do not make sense that train me to my decision. The accounts of Pocahontas are a major factor that many say make metalworkers works not credible. When behind metalworker was kidnapped by the King of the Photostat Tribe, Pocahontas dad, they were about to kill him then and there. Side note they kidnapped metalworker just to kill him quite of ailing him during the battle between smiths men and the Native Americans.why would they spear Smiths brio after they killed all his men? Anyways, right before the King & his men were about to kill him, weapons drawn, this school girlfriendish girl Jumps in and shields Smith from the men. Pocahontas with no appeal or petition got his head in her build up and laid her own upon his o save him from death. She happened to be the kings daughter. She was so brave that she risked her own life story effective to save a stranger that was an enemy In her fathers eyes. But ass Smith does not come b ack us any time of season why Pocahontas did this for him because when Pocahontas covered him they didnt kill him.Later in the story he records how after he was released, Pocahontas was providing him with nutrient and other things so he wouldnt starve to death. But yet once more Smith doesnt record why she is doing this for him, making a reader like me suspicious about his credibility. possibly she had a crush on him but I dont destine they were secretly in love because she was belike too young for him. Throughout Smiths writings in A General History & his accounts of Pocahontas, e makes mostly everything wait to not be his fault.He doesnt tell us or explains to us the wrong decisions he made that acquit to his close encounters with death. He makes It seem like he was o innocent. He was proud, arrogant, and boastful, writing in tertiary soul about himself, removing himself away from the narrative. He TLD care about the other tribes around his area, wangleing food and necess ities from them. Even though it was for the rock-steady of his own colony or group of people, it still isnt right to steal from others and sin like that, then go on to write about Religion and how people should go about it in the unused World. Most likely the other tribes will fight back. I call into question if Smiths recordings of Pocahontas are real because how can Smith condense kidnapped & released all because a girl he neer met shielded him. Pocahontas saved him and now he gets to go? Why didnt the king search for him? Its funny because Smith refers to the king as a devil and refers to the Native Americans as Barbarians. How was the King the devil if he spared your life and traded with your colony In the future?I think Smith was captured then released on a deal that was dad between him and the King, believably a deal to help the Photostat tribe out because Smith was a skilful re etymonful man. I dont know why he had to put the Pocahontas story into his recordings inste ad of just telling the truth, because that accounts of Pocahontas in his 1607 recordings, but he mentions the Photostats. It wasnt till his 1624 recordings 20+ years later, that he mentions Pocahontas commodious after she died. So now we dont have any witnesses or any accounts from Pocahontas about what really happened or if the story is fabricated and never actually appended.I believe Smiths accounts in A description of new England are credible. He drew maps for future colonies and focused heavily on religion, encouraging people to come to the New World. But I do not think he cared about any of these things. He probably wanted people come to so he could make m unrivaledy by promoting the World, because maybe someone was paying him. He probably sold the maps he drew to the people he was recruiting to come to the new World. To conclude my paper I tell you again that I do not believe that John Smith was a reducible writer.If he explained the things that happened in the Photostat tr ibe more thoroughly, I think I would have a change of mind about his credibility. Why would a young girl who is a stranger to Smith save his life twice for no reason? Why wouldnt Smith explain why she does these things? The king released Smith and later became friends with him, why? That makes no sense. A normal person would be confused as am while reading this. As I said if one story isnt believable, it makes me question all his other accounts of what happened.The WorldThe worlds biggest software program maker matte that it had been robbed, so much so that they posted a high-level summary of 235 patents that were allegedly violated by Free and Open Source Software (FOSS), including the Linux Kernel, Samba, OpenOffice. org, and others . Microsoft does not play when it comes to patent infringement, but did they have a case? So if Microsoft ever sued Linux distributor Red Hat for patent infringement, for instance, OIN might sue Microsoft in retaliation, trying to enjoin distribut ion of Windows.Its a cold war, and what keeps the peace is the threat of mutually assured remnant patent Armageddon an unending series of suits and countersuits that would hobble the industry and its customers. (Parloff may 28, 2007). Shortly after that, Microsoft entered into a series of three contracts with Novell, one of which was a patent agreement that basically said, Dont sue us and we wont sue you. So now the question is At the time of the scenario, some shocking consequences were predicted for FOSS. How has FOSS fared since then? From what I have researched so far FOSS generally has still faired fairly well through the whole ordeal.The GNU still viewed as a pinnacle for open source software and distribution. The green goddess with Novell was made to walk around the GPL of the GNU and expose loop holes for Microsofts gain but overly creating a pressing dilemma for the GNU. The deal struck between Novell and Microsoft was a we dont sue you and you dont sue us which in dicates that not only was FOSS involved in patent infringement but also Microsoft. The Deal included over 200 million dollars to Novell and 43 Million to Microsoft for certify distribution of Novells Server software.Linux has grown from its earlier days as a fringe operating, evolving more and beseeming more wide spread as a use for servers. What impact have these events made since then, or will they make? The threat of a lawsuit had little if any impact on the chuck up the sponge open source market at all. People continued to download just about anything these days. Why you ask? It simple, FOSS has good quality codes that can be changed, shared, copied at will, and downloaded. Its adaptable and it can be betrothed to perform almost any large-scale computing job and it is almost crash proof.Software that is free is good to anybody no one can deny that. Many individuals that used open source applications on their smart devices, as well as large companies which use these applicati ons for daily activity for their need in their company. FOSS is spacious for everyone because it can be shared, copied, changed and of course downloaded. FOSS is not going anywhere just for the reason being that its free. Has FOSS been hurt, helped, or neither? Big corporate companies have been changing their philosophy on open source software since Microsoft posted their findings in 2006.Major corporations like IBM, Oracle and Google have been using FOSS. They are big affiliate to FOSS so in my opinion I think it has helped them because then other small companies that actually experience up to these powerful corporations would later start using FOSS. When something is starting to being used and downloaded on a constant basis, this means its becoming popular and it is in high demand. So it has helped them since then. Free software is great, and corporate America loves it. What in FOSSs or Microsofts actions against FOSS has changed since then?Microsoft actions towards FOSS since then allegations were published is to get paid, the company is trying to still get royalties from developers that use FOSS. After the deal between Novell and Microsoft, Novell continued acquire open source software getting their royalties and charging for them instead of being free. Microsoft did not sued FOSS but are lobbying their hardest (unsuccessfully I might add) in getting most of the large corporations to not join or ally themselves with FOSS. Bibliography Parloff, R. CNN Money, Microsoft Takes on the Free World. Last modified may 28,2007. Accessed July 29, 2012. http//money. cnn. com.