____/ Linonut on Monday 04 February 2008 22:37 : \____
> * [H]omer peremptorily fired off this memo:
>
>> Verily I say unto thee, that Linonut spake thusly:
>>> * Jerry McBride peremptorily fired off this memo:
>>
>>>> There you go... msft business as usual...
>>>
>>> It is Microsoft's first hostile takeover (in the technical sense, not
>>> the emotive sense), though.
>>
>> Hostile takeovers, harvesting, assimilation, expansionism ... whatever;
>> it's the Vole's bizniz model. The fact that they're executing it even
>> more aggressively than usual, just proves how desperate they are to
>> diversify, before their cash-cows keel over and die of mad-cow disease.
Embrace the 'Microsoft religion'. Remember that it's perceived as a cult even
inside the company.
> I agree. Google's got Ballmer soiling his pants.
>
> It is no longer just about sweat.
Some economists have a good understanding of Microsoft's /real/ financial
situation. Microsoft resorted to mafia culture against Linux and ODF and its
top exec described the move towards the Web as a "econmic life and death
situation" situation (that was about 4 months ago).
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