Roy Schestowitz wrote:
> This Microsoft-Novell partnership's not all it's cracked up to be
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> | But, at the same time, Microsoft basically is calling Novell and other
> | Linux vendors thieves. Under what circumstances would a pro-customer
> | company encourage its users to buy software from a partner who was
> | stealing its own IP? I?m having trouble coming up with any
> | justifications for that kind of behavior. And Microsoft isn?t supplying
> | any convincing ones , either.
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> http://blogs.zdnet.com/microsoft/?p=113
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> Microsoft and Novell tell all (or not)
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> | As for Microsoft's message, it was FUD-as-usual...
> |
> | ...In short, yes, Linux is chock-full of our IP, but we agree not to sue
> | any of Novell's customers, but can't wait to sue everyone else (which
> | would be just about everyone on the planet, including Novell's
> | customers, since most enterprises will have different Linux
> | distributions running internally)... So, please, Microsoft, the very
> | best thing you could do for Linux and open source is to start asserting
> | your "rights." I can't wait.
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http://weblog.infoworld.com/openresource/archives/2006/11/microsoft_and_n.html
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> Related:
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> To Microsoft you're not a customer. You're a thief.
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> | Well, guess what? You're required to validate the authenticity of your
> | operating system when you download a calculator from Microsoft...
> |
All of my Linux's are valid, so I'm alright jack.
> | [...]
> |
> | Microsoft have lost the plot. They pay UMG $1 per Zune sold, kissing
> | their asses, then proceed to call iPod users a thieves. Why? Because
> | Microsoft is weak and sold out by paying the music cartel. Most users
> | of music players actually rip music off CDs on to their players.
> | Therefore, according to Microsoft, all you Zune users are thieves.
> |
People will always need to top up their music with new music, the likes of
iTunes and Yahoo music seem to understand that. Just because MS can't
compete there's no call in being rotten to those who can and to their
users.
We are allowed to put our licensed music onto ipods and our own CDs, it
isn't stealing from MS or anyone else, stealing is when you take
feloniously the personal property of another without his concent and
knowledge. Seems that you can take things off girls because they don't get
a mention in the dictionary definition of stealing, think I'll go and lay
claim to my sister's car then.
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