web at work wrote:
----- Original Message ----- From: "Fred A. Miller" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Friday, February 08, 2008 5:56 PM
Subject: Re: [users] EU Initiates Investigation Against Microsoft OOXML
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James Knott wrote:
http://www.consortiuminfo.org/standardsblog/article.php?story=20080208082501776
http://money.cnn.com/news/newsfeeds/articles/newstex/AFX-0013-22872163.htm
Thanks, James! Excellent!
Fred
At least some agency is looking into M$'s actions in the voting of ISO
standards.
If M$ get there way, everyone will be bowing to their computer god and be
happy to pay for stuff that is currently free.
You got it!
Next they will try to try to make it a crime to "own" a Linux computer,
or a crime to use anything that was not developed by their team.
Of course if they get to be the owner of Yahoo, then they will try to take
Google to court for something that would make M$ the only "proper"
web search system.
Yep.....sooner or later.
It most likely not come to the last three paragraphs, but M$ is doing
everything they can do to make their stuff the only option. Here in the
USA, M$ is getting away with lots of stuff that the EU is taking them to
task for. One hopes that the USA will one day stop doing lip service
to M$. Even the court rulings against M$ are getting lessen or reversed.
The government cannot live without their yearly licences and discounts
so they do not want M$ to get pissed off and not give what it needs, when
it needs it. EU seems not to have that trouble.
We have an option....call open source. There's NO EXCUSE for using
MickySoft today.....period!
We all got used to the way Gates did business, but Ballmer is a lot more
sneaky....much more stab you in back after he sneaks in the back door.
He's every bit, if not more, driven do crush competitors than Gates, and
he doesn't care how legal or moral the methods are.
Fred
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"Security" in Windows comes from patching a sieve.
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