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____/ Mark Kent on Friday 03 October 2008 07:22 : \____
> Homer <usenet@xxxxxxxxxx> espoused:
>> Verily I say unto thee, that Roy Schestowitz spake thusly:
>>
>>> Microsoft's new slogan: everyone is as "evil" as us.
>>>
>>> Another one: let's live in peace (but tomorrow we'll attack you from
>>> the mountains).
>>
>> This really sums up their whole mentality ... "evil" is just a necessary
>> part of the game, and therefore attacking others is par for the course.
>> Therefore anyone who whines about this is some kind of "loony hypocrite"
>> or something. I've said this before, but I really do not think they know
>> they're doing anything wrong ("Greed is good", so doing anything, "evil"
>> or otherwise, to achieve that goal is perfectly "acceptable").
>>
>
> This is the cultural problem which I believe has so infected their
> thinking that they're unable to see competition in any other way.
It's also an obsession with /control/. This relates to revisionist that led
people to believe that proprietary is "normal" or "default", whereas open
source is something "new", even "disruptive". It's natural for the industry to
collaborate like it used to (Free software predates proprietary), but
Microsoft needed to /end/ this collaboration. And it says a lot.
- --
~~ Best of wishes
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