Microsoft Brings Linux to the Desktop
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| Years ago, I used to work for Microsoft. I remember watching--with
| some awe--the about-face that we made when Steve Ballmer finally
| convinced BillG that Netscape and the Internet were indeed a direct
| threat to the Windows franchise. That's when you started seeing
| CraptiveX show up in Internet Exploder, IIS being included "for
| free" in Windows NT Server, the corrupted Java implementation,
| etc. Essentially, that's when we all of a sudden became "the
| Internet company," embracing, extending, and corrupting all the
| way. It was kinda scary watching how fast we turned on that dime.
|
| I was also there when Microsoft tried to buy out Intuit, since
| we discovered that we couldn't beat them. The anti-trust watchdogs
| in the US Government "got in our way," as the top suits put it.
| We eventually abandoned that and continued with MS Money. The
| bosses were livid, and so were the employees, nearly all of whom
| (including me back then) owned stock. We resolved never, ever to
| let that happen again.
|
| In 1998, I finally began to wake up. These days, I've been
| constantly pressured to use MS Windows XP, and now Vista. For
| four years, I've told them all to go jump in the lake. I use
| GNU/Linux in a "Microsoft shop." And I've kept my job somehow. :-)
|
| Folks, Microsoft will do anything and everything to kill off any
| competitor, real or perceived. I've seen it. What they
| represent--the destruction of our freedom--is our enemy. I'm not a
| Linux zealot, or even a GNU/Linux zealot. I'm a Freedom zealot. And
| I fight for it every day.
|
| As for Novell, you're right; to heck with Novell. Let us all simply
| avoid SuSE like the plague...and may Novell learn the hard way never
| to betray us again.
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http://blog.lobby4linux.com/archives/109-Microsoft-Brings-Linux-to-the-Desktop.html
Related:
Microsoft Decides to "Clone Netscape"
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| "Here is final copy of the memo we sent to BillG for think week about
| what we should do to get 30% browser share. Pls do not distribute
| broadly... 2. Clone and Supernet Netscape. PSD needs to get serious
| about cloning Netscape. We must have a plan to clone all the
| features they have today..."
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http://antitrust.slated.org/www.iowaconsumercase.org/122106/PLEX0_5071.pdf
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