See if you can spot the pattern.
COLA: Microsoft has a monopoly.
TROLL: Microsoft makes lots of money.
COLA: Vista lacks drivers.
TROLL: Microsoft makes lots of money.
COLA: Microsoft wasted 6 years and 10 billion dollars on a lemon.
TROLL: Microsoft makes lots of money.
COLA: The Xbox scratches discs, crashes and catches fire.
TROLL: Microsoft makes lots of money.
COLA: Microsoft deliberately sells the Xbox at a loss, just to undercut
its competition.
TROLL: Microsoft makes lots of money.
COLA: The Zune is ugly and restrictive.
TROLL: Microsoft makes lots of money.
COLA: Ballmer makes unsubstantiated allegations against Linux.
TROLL: Microsoft makes lots of money.
COLA: OneCare deletes Emails but doesn't catch viruses.
TROLL: Microsoft makes lots of money.
COLA: Microsoft coerces OEMs to exclude Linux.
TROLL: Microsoft makes lots of money.
COLA: Microsoft bribes ISO members and corrupts the standards process.
TROLL: Microsoft makes lots of money.
COLA: The Gates Foundation is a money laundering operation for MS.
TROLL: Microsoft makes lots of money.
COLA: Microsoft wanted to "knife the baby" at Apple.
TROLL: Microsoft makes lots of money.
COLA: Microsoft wanted to "tilt lotus into the death spiral".
TROLL: Microsoft makes lots of money.
COLA: Ballmer threatened to "fucking kill Google".
TROLL: Microsoft makes lots of money.
COLA: Microsoft deploys "stealth updates".
TROLL: Microsoft makes lots of money.
COLA: Microsoft forced OEMs to keep Netscape off the desktop.
TROLL: Microsoft makes lots of money.
COLA: Microsoft accused Google of "reading your Emails".
TROLL: Microsoft makes lots of money.
COLA: Microsoft accused Google of monopolising advertising, after it
tried and failed to do the same thing.
TROLL: Microsoft makes lots of money.
COLA: Microsoft uses shill journalists to spread anti-Linux FUD.
TROLL: Microsoft makes lots of money.
COLA: Microsoft spreads lies through advertising on Linux web sites.
TROLL: Microsoft makes lots of money.
COLA: Microsoft bought IIS Web share via GoDaddy to improve it's stats
via parked domains.
TROLL: Microsoft makes lots of money.
COLA: Microsoft pays "annalists" to create misleading reports on market
trends.
TROLL: Microsoft makes lots of money.
COLA: Microsoft employs market researchers like "Penn, Schoen & Berland
Associates" to spread FUD about Linux.
TROLL: Microsoft makes lots of money.
COLA: Microsoft uses shell companies like SCO and IP Innovations LLC to
damage Linux with litigation.
TROLL: Microsoft makes lots of money.
COLA: Microsoft has destroyed the BBC.
TROLL: Microsoft makes lots of money.
COLA: Microsoft has corrupted the British National Archives.
TROLL: Microsoft makes lots of money.
COLA: Microsoft divided the Linux community with a protection racket.
TROLL: Microsoft makes lots of money.
COLA: Microsoft lied about DirectX 10 not working with XP.
TROLL: Microsoft makes lots of money.
COLA: Windows is buggy, bloated and insecure.
TROLL: Microsoft makes lots of money.
COLA: Microsoft lies about the vulnerabilities in its products.
TROLL: Microsoft makes lots of money.
COLA: Microsoft Excel has serious computational flaws.
TROLL: Microsoft makes lots of money.
COLA: Microsoft Outlook and Exchange are buggy and break standards.
TROLL: Microsoft makes lots of money.
COLA: Microsoft has corrupted the Web with broken standards.
TROLL: Microsoft makes lots of money.
COLA: Microsoft employed "munchkins" to destroy IBM OS2/Warp.
TROLL: Microsoft makes lots of money.
COLA: Microsoft stockholders invade newsgroups to criticise rival
products, so as to protect their investments.
TROLL: Microsoft makes lots of money.
COLA: Microsoft are willing to lose money for years and years just to
make sure that you don't make any money, either.
TROLL: Microsoft makes lots of money.
Conclusion: It's "OK" to be criminal thugs that produce Slopware and
break standards, then force said products onto unsuspecting victims
using bribery and corruption ... as long as you make lots and lots of
money is the process.
So the award for the World's Most Successful Crime Syndicate goes to ...
Microsoft. Sorry, there's no money awarded in this prize (and therefore
it has no value) because there's no money left anywhere - Microsoft took
it all. Congratulations.
Meanwhile, the rest of us engage in something *other* than the mindless
and obsessive pursuit of money, and actually *create* software (rather
than just buy it from another company then claim it as "innovation").
Yes, unbelievably there are actually some people in the world who still
believe in integrity, and not just "getting it out the door as quick as
possible, before the stockholders become restless". Microsoft is not a
software company; it's a stock trader, a reseller, an IP harvester, it's
basically nothing but a big warehouse filled with the legacy of others'
work, bought wholesale by Microsoft, and sold off at auction.
Yes, Microsoft make lots of money. Lots and lots and lots.
And that is *all* they do make.
So you can be sure that whatever technical argument you ever have
against Windows, or for Linux, will always illicit a predictable
response from the stockholders ... ahem, I mean Trolls, just don't
expect it to be relevant ... to anyone but a stockbroker.
Here endeth the lesson.
--
K.
http://slated.org
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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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