>From the company that is always crying about its "freedom to Innovate" comes a story even I could not make up. They are saying Other nations have no right to innovate on their own. If you team up to come up with a product then it is UNFAIR according to a company that is richer than many nations combined!!!
http://news.com.com/2100-1016_3-5072069.html?tag=fd_top
A plan by Japan, China and South Korea to develop an operating system alternative to Microsoft's Windows software could raise concerns over fair competition, Microsoft said Friday.
Japan, the world's second-largest economy, made a proposal at an Asian economic summit this week to build an inexpensive and trustworthy open-source operating system that would be based on a system such as Linux, which can be copied and modified freely.
"We'd like to see the market decide who the winners are in the software industry," said Tom Robertson, Microsoft's Tokyo-based director for government affairs in Asia.................
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