Does Microsoft really want to be open source's friend?
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| 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.
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http://www.linux-watch.com/news/NS5171153103.html
Yahoo could be Microsoft’s ‘prove it’ moment on open source interoperability
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| 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?
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| 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
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| 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
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| 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
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| 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
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| 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
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| 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
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| 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
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| 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.
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http://www.webpronews.com/topnews/2008/02/11/microsoft-replies-to-yahoo-rejection
Microsoft rejects Yahoo! rejection
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| 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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