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____/ Chris Ahlstrom on Friday 24 Jun 2011 17:27 : \____
> Roy Schestowitz wrote this copyrighted missive and expects royalties:
>
>> ____/ High Plains Thumper on Friday 24 Jun 2011 11:08 : \____
>>
>>> Roy Schestowitz wrote:
>>>> High Plains Thumper on Friday:
>>>>> Roy Schestowitz wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> Maybe he realised he'd be a hypocrite by posting here. The trolls all
>>>>>> use sites and services that are Linux based _all the time_.
>>>>>
>>>>> I guess none of them use Windows Phone 7 because it really sucks :-)
>>>>
>>>> It keeps Microsoft from being called a "patent troll" when it extorts
>>>> Linux phone makers.
>>>
>>> Well, they're slowly killing Nokia with WP7 and bad management practises,
>>> who was a decent cellphone manufacturer at one time.
>>
>> Microsoft tries to drown other companies along with it.
>
> Now that's just fscking silly, Roy.
>
> I can't picture Microsoft taking down companies with it, not deliberately.
>
> They do seem to buy certain competitors and then dump them, just like
> they have hired people away from competitors and then left them to languish.
>
> It's more helpful (generally) to approach Microsoft as a wild animal, rather
> than as a crazy person or as an essentially evil company, in my opinion.
Watch what it did to Yahoo!, Novell, Corel...
I read the other day that even Skype managers have started fleeing.
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