Sony: Microsoft "bribing" publishers for exclusive content
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| "We don't buy exclusivity. We don't fund development. We don't, for lack
| of a better term, bribe somebody to only do a game on our platform. We
| earn it." OUCH. And here we were thinking this was a business, Jack;
| silly old us.
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http://www.gamersquad.com/category/PlayStation-3/Sony-Microsoft-bribing-publishers-for-exclusive-content/
Microsoft is "bribing" in the same way in order to gain support for OOXML,
particular legislation, patent FUD, HD-DVD, etc.
"Bribery" (in this particular sense) has never been a bad word at Microsoft.
It's just a business strategy.
Recent:
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| Yet governments continue to push ahead with this idiot idea -- both Britain
| and Japan for example are considering extending existing terms. Why?
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| The answer is a kind of corruption of the political process. Or better,
| a "corruption" of the political process. I don't mean corruption in the
| simple sense of bribery. I mean "corruption" in the sense that the
| system is so queered by the influence of money that it can't even get
| an issue as simple and clear as term extension right.
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http://www.lessig.org/blog/archives/003800.shtml#003800
,----[ Quinn said... ]
| Almost to a person, to anybody involved or who knows about
| the ODF issue, they attributed the story to Microsoft, right, wrong
| or otherwise. Senator Pacheco may be a bully but I do not believe he
| is disingenious and would stoop to such a tactic. Senator Pacheco and
| Secretary Galvin's office remain very heavily influenced by the
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| Microsoft money and its lobbyist machine, as witnessed by their
| playbook and words, in my opinion.
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http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20060119232859729
Politicians in Microsoft's Pocket
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| Continuing on the theme of which politicians are receiving money from
| who. Here is a list of candidates who took money from MSFT.
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http://www.fonz.net/blog/archives/2007/06/04/politicians-in-microsofts-pocket/
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