John Hebert wonders: > > Doesn't this mean that Microsoft should be tried for treason? Remember that > Jim Allchin is the same Microsoft executive who implied that Linux was "<a > href="http://news.cnet.com/investor/news/newsitem/0-9900-1028-4825719- > RHAT.html?tag=ltnc">un-American</a>". >
I think he should get a medal, so long as WE quit using that junk. M$, the choice of incompetent autocracies everywhere! If they can't compile the code with their own independently developed compiler, their desktops will be owned. I wish we could sole source their military hardware and nuclear facilities too. Have we suckered them into McDonalds yet? Ummm, beefy. Then I woke up and the fantasy was over. "Engagement" has been and will be a failure that only makes our enemies stronger. Isolation, such as we used to do in the USSR, works much better. This really is treason but it might also be legal. Boing got into all sorts of stew over missile guidence systems, which we can be sure found their way to North Korea, Iraq and all sorts of other nice places. Since then, China got most favorable nation status. I'm disgusted.
