Microsoft will sneak in its "intellectual property"
Posted by: Anonymous
[ip: 80.137.26.64]
on August 05, 2008 07:28 AM
Everyone ever going into a cooperation with Microsoft, and that includes huge companies like IBM, later regretted it. Each and everyone was shafted by Microsoft. There is not a iota of proof that Microsoft has changed its principle business strategy here. There is only sweet talk (vulgar: typical Microsoft lies)
Once Microsoft finds someone / some project that trusts them they will contribute to that project or use some chills to contribute to that project to sneak in some of their "intellectual property". And at some point they will play that card and sue the project out of existence. Embrace, extend, extinguish.
And (not "or", "and") they will corrupt projects with money. Making them so dependable on Microsoft money and sponsorship that they at some point can finally dictate the direction of the project. And they will steer such projects into becoming insignificant. Beware of Greeks bearing presents.
And (not "or", "and") they will join FOSS organizations, like the Linux LSB or the Apache Foundation and from the inside they will bring the organization's work to a crawl or halt by using every possible dirty trick they can find. Ask the CORBA people or any standard committee Microsoft joined.
And (not "or", "and") they will use their money to totally corrupt organizations and decision making processes. See how unscrupulous they totally corrupted the ISO (and years before that the ECMA, which they apparently fully "own" these days) for their MS-OOXML standard. Or small states when it came to the OLPC. Microsoft buys complete governments (and half of the US government). Why would they stop short corrupting a few FOSS projects?
And (not "or", "and") they will break every law they don't like in the process. They have broken so many national and international laws, that it is almost an obsessive, compulsive behavior of Microsoft to break laws. Why? Because they have the money to get away with it.
BTW: It saddens me to see this Sam Ramji guy wearing a firefox T-shirt. He should be denied to do so. Firefox is the grandchild of Netscape. Netscape, for those wiper snappers who entertain to trust Microsoft, was the browser company that was systematically destroyed by Microsoft. Its offsprings only very narrowly escaped into the FOSS world. This Sam Ramji guy wearing a firefox T-shirt is like he is pissing on the grave of Netscape. For that alone, and of course all the lies he was singing at OSCON he should have been the target of a thousand rotten tomatoes.
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Microsoft will sneak in its "intellectual property"
Posted by: Anonymous [ip: 80.137.26.64] on August 05, 2008 07:28 AMOnce Microsoft finds someone / some project that trusts them they will contribute to that project or use some chills to contribute to that project to sneak in some of their "intellectual property". And at some point they will play that card and sue the project out of existence. Embrace, extend, extinguish.
And (not "or", "and") they will corrupt projects with money. Making them so dependable on Microsoft money and sponsorship that they at some point can finally dictate the direction of the project. And they will steer such projects into becoming insignificant. Beware of Greeks bearing presents.
And (not "or", "and") they will join FOSS organizations, like the Linux LSB or the Apache Foundation and from the inside they will bring the organization's work to a crawl or halt by using every possible dirty trick they can find. Ask the CORBA people or any standard committee Microsoft joined.
And (not "or", "and") they will use their money to totally corrupt organizations and decision making processes. See how unscrupulous they totally corrupted the ISO (and years before that the ECMA, which they apparently fully "own" these days) for their MS-OOXML standard. Or small states when it came to the OLPC. Microsoft buys complete governments (and half of the US government). Why would they stop short corrupting a few FOSS projects?
And (not "or", "and") they will break every law they don't like in the process. They have broken so many national and international laws, that it is almost an obsessive, compulsive behavior of Microsoft to break laws. Why? Because they have the money to get away with it.
BTW: It saddens me to see this Sam Ramji guy wearing a firefox T-shirt. He should be denied to do so. Firefox is the grandchild of Netscape. Netscape, for those wiper snappers who entertain to trust Microsoft, was the browser company that was systematically destroyed by Microsoft. Its offsprings only very narrowly escaped into the FOSS world. This Sam Ramji guy wearing a firefox T-shirt is like he is pissing on the grave of Netscape. For that alone, and of course all the lies he was singing at OSCON he should have been the target of a thousand rotten tomatoes.
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