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Re: [News] Wal-Mart Helps Support Microsoft's Monopoly

In comp.os.linux.advocacy, Roy Schestowitz
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 wrote
on Wed, 07 Feb 2007 15:06:20 +0000
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> __/ [ Roy Schestowitz ] on Wednesday 07 February 2007 10:55 \__
>
>> Wal-Mart to launch video downloads
>> 
>> ,----[ Quote ]
>> | They won't work with Macintosh or Linux-based computers or with iPods.
>> | The downloads can be backed up as many as three times, including to a
>> | DVD, but the backup DVD won't play in a conventional DVD player.
>> `----
>> 
>> http://www.wzzm13.com/news/news_article.aspx?storyid=70062
>> 
>> They must have learned from the BBC, or taken Microsoft's advice. Didn't
>> they buy a lot of Linux servers from Microsoft's 'support'/endorsement
>> recently? And then spoke about patents, probably to just please the
>> Microsoft exec behind the deal? He use to be an exec at Wal-mart. They also
>> use a lot of Red Hat, which makes them hypocrites that can sympathise with
>> another giant (Microsoft).
>
> Check out how they treat Firefox.
>
> http://mediadownloads.walmart.com/mmce/jsp/storeHome.jsp
>
> Open the link above using Mozilla Firefox and see for yourselves. With the
> executive links, one wonders if one giant shelters another by locking out
> the rivals. 

Ew.

Never attribute to malice what can be accomplished by
simple stupidity. :-) Then again, one has to wonder.

It of course looks far prettier in IE.  But IE can
run on Linux as well.  Muhahahahahahaha....

>
> http://weblog.infoworld.com/openresource/archives/2007/01/the_appearance.html
>
> "In the meantime, it's nice to see that Microsoft?s COO hasn't lost his
> Wal-Mart friends (he was CIO there, of course, before he joined Microsoft).
> It's important to call a favor now and again. Whatever smoke and mirrors it
> takes to get by"
>
> They spread anti-Linux FUD.
>

And Walmart no longer sells below-$200 Linux boxes.  Weird.

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