[H]omer wrote:
> Verily I say unto thee, that Linonut spake thusly:
>
>> Unlike Borland, where Microsoft paid a PR penalty (and later scored a
>> lawsuit) for sending limos to the parking lot and interviewing
>> anybody who would get in,
Typical [H]ypocrite lie.
The only PR penalty was against Borland, for whining and losing money and
market share.
>> by entering a formal due diligence period
>> with Intuit, Microsoft got access to many details, including Intuit's
>> product plans and employee records. By the time they bailed on the
>> deal, Microsoft had a very good idea exactly which Intuit employees
>> to recruit to both improve Microsoft Money and to hurt Quicken,
>> QuickBooks, and TurboTax.
>
> Microsoft's Mafia tactics are well know. This is just one of many.
Mafia activities are illegal. Everything MS did above - if they did it and
of course you have no proof whatsoever that they did, and a lawsuit by the
inferior competitor Borland means nothing - was legal. Naturally, that
won't stop you from being a Idiot Asshole Liar (oh, I already said that
http://groups.google.com/group/comp.os.linux.advocacy/msg/b4ff8437647fac05 )
>> (Wonder what tack they took to get to Miquel?)
>
> They offered him a job,
? You missed a chance to put your idiot spin on this offer: "evil MS plot
against Linux", "sabotage the open source movement" blah blah blah
> then he got "very interested"[1] in
> Microsoft's chronically insecure[2] ActiveX. He's had a woody for the
> Vole's garbage ever since, including the blob-infested[3] OOXML,
> which he describes as "a superb standard"[4]; and Microsoft's
> anti-Cross-Platform[5] answer to Flash called Silverlight, which he
> describes as "a fantastic development platform"[6].
He also said the .NET Framework is "the best technology out there..."
http://mail.gnome.org/archives/gnome-hackers/2002-February/msg00031.html 1/2
way down
> Yes indeed, he's quite the Microsoft Evangelist.
He's an evangelist for quality software and technology, wherever it's found.
> His other two hobbies
> include poisoning Gnome[7] with Microsoft's proprietary junk, and
> attending Microsoft Professional Developers conferences[8].
>
> [7] http://boycottnovell.com/2008/02/15/mono-contamination-in-ubuntu/
I bet you and Roy have a whole 2 boycotters signed up by now... you and Roy.
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