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Re: MS on owning it all ..

__/ [ The Ghost In The Machine ] on Tuesday 03 April 2007 17:31 \__

> In comp.os.linux.advocacy, Roy Schestowitz
> <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>  wrote
> on Tue, 03 Apr 2007 02:32:28 +0100
> <4171581.VtaLo5hn6l@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>:
>> __/ [ Doug Mentohl ] on Monday 02 April 2007 16:05 \__
>>
>>> For example, we should take the lead in establishing a common approach
>>> to UI and to interoperability (of which OLE is only a part). Our efforts
>>> to date are focussed too much on our own apps, and only incidentally on
>>> the rest of the industry. We want to own these standards, so we should
>>> not participate in standards groups. Rather, we should call 'to me' to
>>> the industry and set a standard that works now and is for everyone's
>>> benefit. We are large enough that this can work.
>>
>> It says it all, doesn't it?
>>
>> Steve Ballmer "We ARE the standard"
>>
> 
> "We are the world,
> We are the standard.
> We are the ones who make your brighter day.
> So start your paying
> There's no choice you're making
> We're running most your lives
> It's true we'll make a better day
> Just Microsoft."
> 
> (with apologies to Michael Jackson)
> 
>
http://www.lyrics007.com/Michael%20Jackson%20Lyrics/We%20Are%20the%20World%20Lyrics.html
> 

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always a criminal.

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