[The one that essentially bribes:]
What $3 Million Buys Silverlight
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| News Analysis: Does Adobe pay its customers to be customers? Microsoft does.
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| [...]
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| I won't get too smarmy about the deal, which could be viewed as Microsoft
| paying for Silverlight customers. But Microsoft is paying for a big customer,
| and one that will deliver lots of payback.
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http://www.microsoft-watch.com/content/web_services_browser/what_3_million_buys_silverlight.html
[And one that actually plays fair:]
SiCortex Expands European Presence with UK Reseller Agreement
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| SiCortex, the emerging leader in compact, low power Linux® clusters, today
| announced that it has entered into an agreement with Streamline Computing, a
| leading provider of high performance computing (HPC) systems and software, to
| sell SiCortex’s family of ultra compact, high performance Linux systems in
| the United Kingdom.
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http://www.businesswire.com/portal/site/google/?ndmViewId=news_view&newsId=20080305005336&newsLang=en
Microsoft vs Linux? It's a question of morals, of ethics. Microsoft and Intel
thrive in dumping, abuse, and exclusion of rivals. Silverlight is no
exception. Silverlight fights Google, LAMP and Adobe. It also fight
information and the Web.
Recent:
Feeling the heat at Microsoft
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| A couple of years ago you reiterated that IBM was Microsoft's biggest
| competitor and you said not just on the business side, but overall. If I ask
| you who is Microsoft's biggest competitor now, who would it be?
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| Ballmer: Open...Linux. I don't want to say open source. Linux, certainly have
| to go with that. Perhaps Google on that layer, although frankly speaking,
| most of what we have there is upside. We're small and they're big. (With)
| most things, we're big and the other guy is small, so we have more to lose
| than gain. In this case, we have more to gain than to lose with Google.
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http://www.news.com/Feeling-the-heat-at-Microsoft/2008-1012_3-6232458.html?tag=ne.fd.mnbc
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