Verily I say unto thee, that Mark Kent spake thusly:
> I'm sure that they have the "kill the other guy" process off to some
> truly fine art by now. Considering that this dates back to CP/M,
> DRDOS, stacker, and in more recent years SCO and others, they know
> *exactly* how to go about this. They're so good at it, they even
> managed to get a /judge/ removed from a case.
Assimilation and destruction is Microsoft's core business model, so
naturally they're good at it. However they are nonetheless starting
to lose their grip, and ultimately they cannot beat the momentum of
Free Software. MS are losing the Whack-A-Mole game because how does
one attack an invisible army, especially one as ubiquitous as FOSS?
There is no single company at FOSS's core, that MS can attack using
their usual methods, so they've resorted to some desperate measures
in a last ditch attempt to kill the "cancer". In the long term they
will lose that battle, because they are not just fighting a handful
of Linux geeks, or companies that they can "assimilate", or corrupt
politicians that they can bribe. Increasingly they are fighting for
the continued support of their own (ex)customers, an ever-expanding
number of people who have become disenchanted with Microsoft's vile
politics and Slopware; and a huge number of (sometimes influential)
people who care passionately about freedom and justice in IT, media
and communications; who desperately want to end the Microsoft reign
of terror and corruption.
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K.
http://slated.org
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| - http://blog.businessofsoftware.org/2007/07/cringely-the-un.html
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