Treachery In The Trenches
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| Much has been said concerning the Novell/Microsoft "Covenant". I too will
| add my presence to the fray, and it comes in the form of a short,
| simple opinion.
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| Treachery.
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| Treachery in the most vicious of embodiments.
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| [...]
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| Two other groups come out of this on the other end of the good vs bad
| scale.
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| 1. The Linux Community.
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| 2. The OpenSuse Communit
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| [...]
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| I believe that most people do not grasp the immense entity of Microsoft.
| This is an organization and a man who commands the attention and bidding
| of world leaders. On a recent trip to America, the President of China
| spent his first evening in the United States, not with our President,
| but Bill Gates. He was the guest of the Gates mansion that first
| evening and the guest of honor for a dinner attended by over one
| hundred people. Why? To ask him to crack down on Software piracy
| and to insure that his computer manufacturers put Microsoft Windows
| on thier newly made machines instead of shipping them with no OS. He
| didn't see the President of the United States for over 36 hours...he
| spent that time with Bill Gates at his home and at the Redmond
| Campus.
|
| [...]
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| If I sound like an anti-capitalist, I assure you I have
| manipulated the capitalist system to my advantage many times,
| but there is a difference between Capitalism and Preditory
| Capitalism. Microsoft practices the latter with unashamed abandon.
| Don't think for a moment that MS is unaware of Novell's plight.
| They have manipulated the situation in order to position
| themselves into a dangerous place.
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http://blog.lobby4linux.com/index.php?/archives/88-Treachery-In-The-Trenches.html
This Preditory nature can also be attributed to Oracle and Ellison who said
"it's capitalism, I'm competing". I guess there's no integrity in
monopolistic commerce...
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