On 08/09/2010 12:48 PM, Stephen Russell wrote: > On Mon, Aug 9, 2010 at 12:23 PM, Paul McNett<[email protected]> wrote: >> On 8/9/10 7:30 AM, Ed Leafe wrote: >> IOW, as Ed said, it is all about marketing. Individual Microsoft employees >> were just >> doing their job, but as a company they had this story arc planned out all >> along. > ----------------------- > > I am glad to know someone has the inside track for M$. If you share > it with other firms and investors you could get rich! We all want to > know what M$ is going to do and WHY there are doing it. Can you > please share more details on what else M$ is going to do? > > It is amazing how everyone here has 20/20 vision looking in the rear > view mirror here. > > I'd like to talk to someone who knows what is gong to happen next, > because talking over spilled milk is getting old. Oh that "....." > changed their policy and now "....." > > > >> You can call it "just doing business". I call it evil. > ------------ > > Evil is stoning women because they chose to wear clothing that > revealed their ankles. > > This whole conversation is not evil. Evil is killing the abortion Dr. > at the local clinic because "He is a baby killer!" > > Evil is talking young people into attaching bombs to themselves and > stand in line at the bank on payday waiting for peak headcount before > they detonate. > >
Microsoft's pulling support for open source dynamic languages like python is just a little different twist on Microsoft's same old song and dance of "embrace, extend, extinguish". I doubt that will ever change, so I expect that behavior to continue into the future. LOL Regards, LelandJ _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: [email protected] Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech Searchable Archive: http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/[email protected] ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
