Posted by: Anonymous
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on August 05, 2008 12:32 AM
one problem, they do not play with that which is cross platform. When this was a Windows ISV then Microsoft would punish them or attack their customers and product. With open source, Microsoft does not have anything to threaten the ISV with except patent threats which is a card they can not play and more know this. So they must get into the larger open source projects and work to tie them to the Windows toolsets. An API there, a subsystem there and soon the OSS project has extra work to do for building on the Linux stack.
There is nothing I've ever seen from Microsoft which would indicate they just want to compete. When something competes with their only profitable products(MS Windows and MS Office ) they destroy it. Remember them talking about "killing the baby" with regards to Netscape, Balmer saying he'll kill Google, Bill Gates saying "does anyone remember Windows?" when the discussions on what to do with Java got out of hand. They go for the throat every time and this is no different.
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Posted by: Anonymous [ip: 75.80.160.171] on August 05, 2008 12:32 AMThere is nothing I've ever seen from Microsoft which would indicate they just want to compete. When something competes with their only profitable products(MS Windows and MS Office ) they destroy it. Remember them talking about "killing the baby" with regards to Netscape, Balmer saying he'll kill Google, Bill Gates saying "does anyone remember Windows?" when the discussions on what to do with Java got out of hand. They go for the throat every time and this is no different.
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