____/ Linonut on Tuesday 19 February 2008 12:48 : \____
> * Mark Kent peremptorily fired off this memo:
>
>> Microsoft have been breaking so many laws for so long in so many ways,
>> it's hard to do anything but smile when they are on the losing team.
>> They are still trying to manipulate the ISO system, they've got ECMA
>> running around like a little puppy, they're funding SCO ...
>
> <litany of Microsoft skullduggery snipped>
>
>> The issue with Microsoft is not really that some posters here, or people
>> elsewhere, are anti-Microsoft, rather, it's that Microsoft are
>> anti-everyone. You don't make friends by attacking everyone else.
>
> Hey, all's fair in Evangelism and War:
>
> http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20071023002351958
>
> Effective Evangelism
> James Plamondon, Technical Evangelist
>
> Evangelism Is War
>
> Our mission is to establish Microsoft's platforms as the de facto
> standards throughout the computer industry. Our enemies are the
> vendors of platforms that compete with ours: Netscape, Sun, IBM,
> Oracle, Lotus, etc. The field of battle is the software industry.
> Success is measured in shipping applications. Every line of code that
> is written to our standards is a small victory; every line of code
> that is written to any other standard, is a small defeat. Total
> victory, for DRG, is the universal adoption of our standards by
> developers, as this is an important step towards total victory for
> Microsoft itself: "A computer on every desk and in every home,
> running Microsoft software."
>
> You can download the whole sordid story in PDF format:
>
> http://www.groklaw.net/pdf/Comes-3096.pdf
>
> Niccolo, Niccolo. The only way some benefits taste better is in getting
> used to the bad taste.
Have you seen the guy's comment about the repeated use of the word "Jihad"?
Yes, Microsoft is truly a king in its own mind...
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