Microsoft Fogs up the Window
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| Microsoft still won't come clean on what its retail strategy to reach
| small businesses means for hundreds of thousands of Microsoft
| reseller partners, most of them small businesses.
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http://blog.channelinsider.com/content001/microsoft/microsoft_fogs_up_the_window.html
That's precisely the problem with one large company encouraging and helping
another large company, e.g. Wal-mart, Dell-Intel kickbacks, Dell-Microsoft
threats over Linux. This leads to an oligopoly, so no SMBs have a chance of
surviving. Overseas companies, e.g. British SMBs, will die in the hands of
monopolies through globalisation. Open Source are the way out of this lethal
loop.
Related:
Microsoft's Dirty OEM-Secret
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| They are, in short the secret to Microsoft's success. And the word
| secret is to be taken quite literally: No OEM may talk about the
| contents of his contract, or he will lose his license, and (assumption)
| likely be sued for breach of contract as well.
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http://www.kuro5hin.org/story/2001/10/23/13219/110
Investors sue Dell on payments from Intel: WSJ
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| An investor lawsuit seeking class-action status accuses Dell Inc. of
| improper accounting in its relationship with chip giant Intel,
| according to a media report published Thursday evening.
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| [...]
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| The suit alleges that Dell received at times as much as $1 billion
| a year in "secret and likely illegal" kickbacks in the form of
| "e-Cap" or "exception to corporate average pricing" payments"
| from Intel to ensure that Dell used no other chip supplier,
| according to The Journal.
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http://www.marketwatch.com/news/story/investors-sue-dell-payments-intel/story.aspx?guid=%7B400315B0%2DE375%2D4920%2DB300%2D784220BEFE35%7D&siteid=yhoo&dist=yhoo
AMD says court seeks data from Intel in antitrust case
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| Chipmaker Advanced Micro Devices Inc. said a U.S.
| federal court had overruled Intel Corp.'s
| objections in an ongoing antitrust litigation.
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| The court has ordered Intel to produce documents and other
| evidence bearing upon its "exclusionary conduct" outside
| United States, AMD said in a statement.
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http://biz.yahoo.com/rb/061228/amd_lawsuit_intel.html?.v=1
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