After takin' a swig o' grog, [H]omer belched out this bit o' wisdom:
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> | "[Microsoft] are willing to lose money for years and years just to
> | make sure that you don't make any money, either." - Bob Cringely.
> | - http://blog.businessofsoftware.org/2007/07/cringely-the-un.html
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"Cringely: Maybe "mean" is the wrong word to use for Microsoft.
"Ruthless" is good. The company is built in the image of Bill Gates
and Bill is a guy who gets caught-up in the game of business and
doesn't typically see its personal cost. To use what might seem to be
an obscure example, just look at all the various partnerships and
industry consortia that Microsoft has announced through the years
that never produced a product or even a usable specification. There
have been literally dozens of these operations that are intended
solely to freeze the competition until Microsoft can figure what the
heck it actually wants to do. To Microsoft its a PR exercise that
helps them compete but to customers it is just a damned lie. That's
ruthless."
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He who hesitates is Gates'!
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