__/ [ arachnid ] on Thursday 07 December 2006 02:41 \__
> PJ came up with this little gem today in her coverage of the Iowa
> antitrust suit against Microsoft:
>
>> http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=2006120516224886
>>
>> ...In Monday's opening statement, Conlin read from a Jim Allchin memo,
>> from the DRI-Novell story. Here's part of what Allchin said about how
>> to deal with the competitive threat from Novell then:
>>
>> "We need to slaughter Novell before they get stronger....If you're
>> going to kill someone, there isn't much reason to get all worked up
>> about it and angry. You just pull the trigger. Any discussions
>> beforehand are a waste of time. We need to smile at Novell while we
>> pull the trigger."
>
> And I look forward to hearing more about this little event:
>
>> Of course Microsoft says it's changed since 1999. But in the
>> information provided by Wixted, there is this intriguing bit:
>>
>> "Microsoft turned over several discs to Conlin's staff that
>> contained the Nimda computer virus. The virus could have wiped out her
>> electronic records. Microsoft told Judge Rosenberg on November 9, 2006
>> in a hearing that the problem came from an outside vendor, but that
>> the virus was actually in the original source code."
This confirms that Microsoft is a bully. Nothing new, just business as usual.
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