Charlie Wilkes wrote:
> For a big company, the payoff of such hijinks is too skimpy to
> justify the reputational and legal risks.
If the Vole was in any way concerned about ethics or the law, then they
wouldn't have engaged in the unscrupulous behaviour that now makes them
the subject of yet another antitrust investigation, and yet another
class-action lawsuit. But as they've shown time and again, they are
above the law. Like in a game of monopoly, they simply buy themselves
out of jail.
As for the "big fish don't bother hunting small fish theory", well the
Vole seems to have other ideas. That's the nature of greed, I suppose -
too much is never enough.
Just look at the extraordinary efforts they go to, to secure OOXML as
the Next Standard®, when there is already an Open Document Format, even
to the extent of bribery (proved and documented).
Then there's the fact that Linux, with its supposedly insignificant
market share, is nonetheless deemed such a threat to the Vole, that they
feel the need to "partner" with a string of Linux vendors to form a
protection racket.
Microsoft has nothing of any value, and they know it. Virtually their
entire "portfolio" is nothing but assimilated technology, glued together
by clueless monkeys, and directed by management who use propaganda and
bribery to peddle this Slopware, and they've proved themselves greedy
and desperate enough to resort to attacking /any/ perceived threat, no
matter how small.
--
K.
http://slated.org
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