[Sarcasm] Microsoft Antitrust Settlement Is a Success!
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| In particular, Barnett is so right about middleware on Windows. Just look at
| those Java-based programs on Windows. Why there's...Hmm...Well, I'm sure
| there's big-time Java-based software for Windows out there somewhere. After
| all, it's not like 99 percent of Windows development is done with Visual
| Studio. Heck, it's no more than 98 percent! Tops!
|
| [...]
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| Those state attorneys should be ashamed of doubting our mighty
| Microsoft corporate overlords. They should look at the good work
| Microsoft is doing in other countries. Why, in Sweden, for example,
| Microsoft is contributing money to poor companies. In return all
| Microsoft asked is that they vote for Microsoft's Open XML format.
| Does that sound like something a power-mad, money-grubbing company
| with the morality of a great white shark in a feeding frenzy would do?
|
| Of course not!
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| Here, have some of this Kool-Aid I've been drinking. Some nice
| people from Redmond, Wash., sent it to me. It's so tasty! Go
| ahead, take a swig. You'll love it.
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http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1759,2178222,00.asp?kc=EWRSS03129TX1K0000616
It seems like the vote in Denmark and Switzerland will be nullified.
Related:
Microsoft's 'Men in Black' kill Florida open standards legislation
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| It was just a bit of text advocating open data formats that was slipped into
| a Florida State Senate bill at the last minute with no fanfare, but within
| 24 hours three Microsoft-paid lobbyists, all wearing black suits, were
| pressuring members of the Senate Committee on Governmental Operations
| (COGO) to remove the words they didn't like from Senate bill 1974.
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http://enterprise.linux.com/article.pl?sid=07/04/16/2019244&from=rss
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