Posted by: Anonymous Coward
on April 19, 2005 07:43 PM
The Bartko situation fits in with a persistent corporate behavioral pattern from Redmond -- contempt for its own customers and potential customers. Microsoft has long used deceptive and unethical practices to promote its products. This persisted past "Bartko" with the failed "switch to Windows" campaign and persists to this day in sponsored "studies."
In most reasonable people's opinions, what JBoss did was wrong. However, JBoss did not engage in a strategy aimed at deceiving state or federal legal systems. Nor did JBoss leverage financial benefits of a monopoly position to engage in agressive, dishonest, and anti-competitive tactics. As far as I can see, JBoss never made a financial investment in its deceptive practices. So, unless you are Microsoft or a Microsoft partner, the real loser here is you and your business. Your company gets to pay high license fees to subsidize the tactics used to defend those license fees. Nice.
As far as RMS goes, I don't understand your point. From what I understand, this is a philosophical disagreement and nothing more. Is there something I am missing?
CDH
References:
Microsoft regrets "Switch to Windows" campaign http://news.zdnet.com/2100-9595_22-961994.html
Boss astroturf controversy http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1759,1595279,00.a<nobr>s<wbr></nobr> p
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Re:Oh, wow. Bartko
Posted by: Anonymous Coward on April 19, 2005 07:43 PMIn most reasonable people's opinions, what JBoss did was wrong. However, JBoss did not engage in a strategy aimed at deceiving state or federal legal systems. Nor did JBoss leverage financial benefits of a monopoly position to engage in agressive, dishonest, and anti-competitive tactics. As far as I can see, JBoss never made a financial investment in its deceptive practices. So, unless you are Microsoft or a Microsoft partner, the real loser here is you and your business. Your company gets to pay high license fees to subsidize the tactics used to defend those license fees. Nice.
As far as RMS goes, I don't understand your point. From what I understand, this is a philosophical disagreement and nothing more. Is there something I am missing?
CDH
References:
Microsoft regrets "Switch to Windows" campaign
http://news.zdnet.com/2100-9595_22-961994.html
Boss astroturf controversy
http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1759,1595279,00.a<nobr>s<wbr></nobr> p
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