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[News] [Rival] Microsoft 'Opening Up' Just a Trap, a Threat

  • Subject: [News] [Rival] Microsoft 'Opening Up' Just a Trap, a Threat
  • From: Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Sun, 24 Feb 2008 06:11:58 +0000
  • Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.advocacy
  • Organization: Netscape / schestowitz.com
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Does Microsoft really want to be open source's friend?

,----[ Quote ]
| In other words, Microsoft is opening up its secrets for you to look at, but, 
| woe to you if you try to use any of them in anything that might actually make 
| money. Microsoft isn't offering open source a new opportunity, it's offering 
| open source a trap.   
`----

http://www.linux-watch.com/news/NS5171153103.html

Yahoo could be Microsoft’s ‘prove it’ moment on open source interoperability

,----[ Quote ]
| Yahoo has invested heavily in open source. Microsoft obviously is a Windows 
| shop. How do you rectify the two? You connect the infrastructure without 
| nuking Yahoo’s investment. If that happens, Microsoft will have one massive 
| case study to take to the market. Microsoft will have its “prove it” moment 
| about interoperability and can silence a lot of critics.    
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http://blogs.zdnet.com/BTL/?p=8071

Given the bullying and what seems like lawsuits by proxy against Yahoo,
Microsoft is behaving more like a criminal than ever before.
        

Days ago:

A Yahoo Proxy Contest: How Good Are Microsoft’s Chances?

,----[ Quote ]
| Microsoft refuses to boost its Yahoo bid, valued at $31 a share a few weeks 
| ago. It refuses so thoroughly, in fact, that the Redmond, Wash., software 
| giant may be willing to wage a proxy battle to oust Yahoo’s board, according 
| to this report. (To do that, Microsoft must nominate a new slate of directors 
| for Yahoo within the next three weeks).    
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http://blogs.wsj.com/deals/2008/02/19/a-yahoo-proxy-contest-how-good-are-microsofts-chances/?mod=yahoo_hs


Microsoft Usually Doesn’t Do This Sort of Thing. Except It Does. All The Time.

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| When Microsoft proposed its $31 a share takeover of Yahoo, the deal’s rich 
| 61% one-day premium seemed a necessary part of the audacious bid: at a price 
| like that, who could refuse?  
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http://blogs.wsj.com/deals/2008/02/15/microsoft-usually-doesnt-do-this-sort-of-thing-except-it-does-all-the-time/?mod=yahoo_hs


How Yahoo went from Web star to Microsoft prey

,----[ Quote ]
| A desperate, expensive bid to beat Google; turf wars among divisions
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http://www.marketwatch.com/news/story/how-yahoo-went-web-star/story.aspx?guid=%7BB4CA2BEB%2D6DCC%2D41E6%2D871D%2DEC0DB6F67DC4%7D&siteid=yhoof
http://tinyurl.com/34uso2


links for 2008-02-22

,----[ Quote ]
| What If Microsoft Gave An Interoperability Party and Nobody Came?
| 
|       Jason Brooks - Open Source - Microsoft’s Interop Forecast Is Partly 
|       Cloudy 
| 
|       “However, the legal environment surrounding interoperability between 
|       Microsoft’s products and the open-source applications that have sprung 
|       up to rival Redmond’s proprietary wares is scarcely less murky today 
|       than it was yesterday.”   
| 
| 
| [...]
| 
|       Microsoft Spins Legal Defeat into PR Fool’s Gold
| 
|       “But if you take a close look at this PR stunt, and that’s all it 
|       really is, and then look at Microsoft’s long history of making, and 
|       breaking, interoperability promises, well I don’t believe that for a 
|       New York minute.”   
| 
| [...]
| 
|       Microsoft Watch - Corporate - Whose Principles Are They?
| 
|       “To be absolutely clear: The announcement about Microsoft’s so-called 
|       new interoperability push is a public relations ploy, since the company 
|       touts as a customer benefit something required by European 
|       trustbusters.”   
| 
| [...]
| 
|       Competitive And Anti-Trust Forces Spur Microsoft’s Openness Pledge — 
|       Microsoft — InformationWeek 
| 
|       “Despite the rhetoric, Microsoft said it will continue to play verbal 
|       hardball with commercial open source competitors that don’t license the 
|       company’s intellectual property.”  
| 
| [...]
| 
|       Groklaw - Promises, Promises from Microsoft. Again.
| 
|       “Nobody is buying it. Well. Employees, maybe.”
| 
| [...]
| 
|       Microsoft pledge excluding primary competitors
| 
|       “If Microsoft truly means to facilitate interoperability and fair 
|       access they should spare delegates the BRM, retract MS-OOXML from ISO 
|       and converge this work into the global effort for the Open Document 
|       Format, the existing Open Standard at ISO for office documents.”   
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http://www.sutor.com/newsite/blog-open/?p=2071


Related:

Microsoft to Authorize Proxy Fight at Yahoo

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| In an escalation of its fight for Yahoo, Microsoft will authorize a proxy 
| fight at the Internet company this week, people briefed on the matter told 
| DealBook. Unless Yahoo quickly reverses course and enters into talks, 
| Microsoft would then seek to nominate a slate of directors to Yahoo’s board 
| by March 13, the final deadline for nominations, and pursue a lengthy 
| campaign to oust the board.     
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http://dealbook.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/02/19/microsoft-to-authorize-proxy-fight-at-yahoo/index.html?hp


Why Microsoft Should Fret

,----[ Quote ]
| But what if at stake in the battle isn't just Microsoft's position in selling 
| ads, but the very survival of its core software business? Microsoft would 
| never admit that so much is on the line.   
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http://online.wsj.com/article/SB120277476716860601.html?mod=yahoo_hs&ru=yahoo


Microsoft to take case to Yahoo shareholders: report

,----[ Quote ]
| The board believes Redmond, Wash.-based Microsoft is trying to take advantage 
| of some recent weakness in Yahoo's share price in order to "steal" the 
| company, the report said.  
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http://www.marketwatch.com/news/story/microsoft-take-case-yahoo-shareholders/story.aspx?guid=%7B7F963245%2D5B26%2D4A77%2D8D18%2D4D2122A9D4AE%7D&siteid=yhoof
http://tinyurl.com/3dpl6n


,----[ Quote ]
| Microsoft is threatening to launch a boardroom coup at Yahoo! within six
|              ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
| weeks if the internet search engine fails to accept its $45 billion (£23
| billion) hostile takeover proposal or start serious merger talks, The Times
| has learned.
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http://business.timesonline.co.uk/tol/business/industry_sectors/technology/article3300964.ece?EMC-Bltn=LOXCF1


Options Before Microsoft: Upping Bid; Tender Offer; Hostile Takeover; Pressure
Tactics

,----[ Quote ]
| Hostile board overthrow: This would be the most contentious, and Microsoft 
| has indicated its willingness to go through with this if need be: it could 
| seek to oust Yahoo's board at its next election; it would have until March 13 
| to nominate a new slate of directors. Yahoo has taken "poison pill" 
| provisions, and Microsoft have to oust the board to get past these 
| provisions.     
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http://biz.yahoo.com/paidcontent/080209/1_319741_id.html?.v=1


Microsoft Replies To Yahoo Rejection

,----[ Quote ]
| The response to Yahoo's "no thanks" to a $44.6 billion acquisition held the 
| not-so-subtle threat of a more aggressive takeover action by Microsoft. 
| 
| [...]
| 
| "The Yahoo response does not change our belief in the strategic and financial 
| merits of our proposal. As we have said previously, Microsoft reserves the 
| right to pursue all necessary steps to ensure that Yahoo!’s shareholders are 
| provided with the opportunity to realize the value inherent in our proposal," 
| Microsoft said in their statement.    
`----

http://www.webpronews.com/topnews/2008/02/11/microsoft-replies-to-yahoo-rejection


Microsoft rejects Yahoo! rejection

,----[ Quote ]
| Steve Ballmer still wants to swallow Jerry Yang's company.
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http://www.regdeveloper.co.uk/2008/02/11/microsoft_still_wants_yahoo/

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