____/ Mark Kent on Saturday 29 December 2007 23:09 : \____
> Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> espoused:
>> ____/ Mark Kent on Wednesday 19 December 2007 14:34 : \____
>>
>>> Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> espoused:
>>>> ____/ Mark Kent on Wednesday 19 December 2007 11:22 : \____
>>>>
>>>>> Unfortunately, for this strategy to work, the sensitivities are very
>>>>> tight, the new business has to grow at >= to the rate of decline of the
>>>>> proprietary business
>>>>
>>>> That's why Microsoft is so scared of Linux and has considered it the #1
>>>> threat for so many years (going as far as bribing several people to sue
>>>> against it... and not just SCO).
>>>>
>>>
>>> Back to The Innovator's Dilemma - had Microsoft adopted open-source long
>>> ago, they'd probably be in fine fettle now...
>>
>> It pays off to just abuse ISO, pay settlement money for anticompetitive
>> conduct, bribe SCO and others to sue Linux, make unsubstantiated claims and
>> threats, spread disinformation, employ astroturfers, buy media companies,
>> and so forth.
>>
>> Microsoft found out that crime pays more than business.
>>
>
> There is a kind of crime tipping point where, once you go beyond it,
> you are no longer a criminal, rather, you become a highly successful
> businessman.
...*And* you are able to buy a positive PR mask to hide your crimes. I've
always used the analogy of car theft or hit-and-run incidents. Microsoft is
already a convicted criminal. It's a felon with documents. What does it have
to earn by actually behaving at this stage?
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