Linked by Thom Holwerda on Fri 26th Jan 2007 21:37 UTC
A coalition of rivals charged on Friday that Microsoft's new Vista operating system coming out next week will perpetuate practices found illegal in the European Union nearly three years ago. The group, which includes IBM, Nokia, Sun Microsystems, Adobe, Oracle and Red Hat, said its complaints made last year are yet to be addressed just days before Vista is due for release.
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RE[8]: This is not be a Pro/Anti Microsoft Thread
by h3rman on Sun 28th Jan 2007 20:31
in reply to "RE[7]: This is not be a Pro/Anti Microsoft Thread"
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All right, now I have a better idea of where you're going. A lot of what you say makes good sense.
Yet, I think with all the hypocrisy that comes with giant firms like IBM and Oracle complaining against Yet Another Corporate Giant MS, they try to use something that is essentially a good thing, i.e. legislation that tries to prevent a regulated competitive market into a "Darwinist" jungle.
Not to mention the fact that unlike IBM, MS has never actually helped the nazis murdering people, so if we let ethics get involved in this legal issue too much, we might go places we don't want to go.
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"What does any of this have to do with FOSS?"
Alot, actually. Have you noticed that the FOSS projects tend to be much more resilient (while being less competitively-bent) than most of these completely-closed-source companies (save for the few that you mentioned)?
Essentially, it all comes down to whether you place more stock in making money or making a good product. If its the former, you'll sue, sue, sue MS over some bullshit "OMG, ur teh monopoly!" matter. If its the latter, you'll stop calling your legal corps, open up the source code of your product, and actually invest more into the development of better products.
"So, apparently you dislike corporations that are not cool enough to the free/open source software world so much that you desire their imminent death."
Nah, I just detest punks who cry "monopoly" to the courts so that they can keep their own.
"What kind of nonsense is that? Seven dogs fighting for a bone, one bigger than the rest, but the rest are actually not much nicer than the big dog, so just let the biggest dog kill the others and have it all?"
It's called "Pitbull Fighting 101", my friend.
"Your idea of the economy is pretty communist: let the biggest party crush the others and have them decide what the people want. And let the black market (FOSS, in this analogy) pick up the crumbs."
Oh, but I thought that FOSS was *the* way to go? ;-)