__/ [ cc ] on Tuesday 20 March 2007 22:44 \__
> On Mar 20, 11:57 am, Roy Schestowitz <newsgro...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> wrote:
>> __/ [ cc ] on Tuesday 20 March 2007 10:45 \__
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>> > On Mar 20, 4:32 am, Roy Schestowitz <newsgro...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>> > wrote:
>> >> __/ [ John A. Bailo ] on Tuesday 20 March 2007 06:12 \__
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>> >> > Roy Schestowitz wrote:
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>> >> >> Perens blasts Microsoft/Novell "protection racket"
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>> >> >> | More than that, though, Perens said, if the Novell-Microsoft
>> >> >> | patent deal is allowed to stand. It would take only as few as "two
>> >> >> | or three intellectual property law-suits" of open-source
>> >> >> | developers or small business at a cost of at least $5 million
>> >> >> | dollars a pop, to destroy open-source development.
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>> >> > Good. Then those guys can get a payoff and maybe buy some new
>> >> > clothes.
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>> >> Johh, shut up, okay? It's not even funny.
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>> > So Novell has a chance to spread Linux far and wide, and the Linux
>> > community is up in arms over it. Figures.
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>> That's then type of thing Novell would have you believe. The amount of
>> damange it has done (and will continue to do) by far outweights the value
>> of these coupons, which Microsoft uses to create unfounded fear.
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> Where's the proof of this damage? You see Microsoft together with
> Linux and assume nothing good can come of it? Microsoft helped bail
> out Apple remember, and look where they are today. Not that they
> weren't helping themselves as well, but still.
*LMOA*
Bail out? Eliminating competing software suites? Technical sabotage and
illegal acts to pull the plug on Netscape? They choked Apple using crime.
How does guilt fit into this? Could Microsoft have seen the danger of
excessive backlash? Microsoft is more powerful than governments because it's
inclined to comply with no law and it is susciptible and subjected to no
regulation. Whenever it violates a law, it just bribes the right people. And
it has got the connections, all around the world (proxies, lobbyists,
pressure groups, and business partners).
Don't pretend that Microsoft plays nice. It just spins the world any way it
desires. Allowing corporate power to reach the stage where even Novell needs
to sell Linux through Microsoft -- with Microsoft's 'permission' -- pretty
much tells you the story, doesn't it? Everyone has a price. Microsoft
vacuums money by forcing people to use its products (no choice available)
and then using that money to continue the cycle of abuse.
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