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Re: [opensuse] Linux patent suit: In search of the Microsoft smoking gun
- From: James Knott <james.knott@xxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 14 Oct 2007 11:47:46 -0400
- Message-id: <47123A22.6020704@xxxxxxxxxx>
Druid wrote:
> On 10/13/07, Cristian Rodriguez <crrodriguez@xxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>> Fred A. Miller escribió:
>>
>>> http://blogs.zdnet.com/microsoft/?p=828&tag=nl.e589
>>>
>>>
>
> Its impressive how some few people that use linux have such obsessive,
> compulsive, insane behavior on talking about microsoft, posting news
> about microsoft, creating theories about microsoft, repeating
> ad-nauseam that microsoft is bad, and other bla bla bla etc, etc, etc.
> They talk more about microsoft than their own marketing team.
>
While there may or may not be an MS connection in this suit, there was
one with SCO. Also, take a look at what happened with OOXML & ISO or
the EU recently and many, many other examples over the years, as to why
some of us are so openly anti-MS. MS has repeately "competed" in a
criminal manner and yet so many people are oblivious to this fact and
seem to thing MS is the most wonderful thing to hit the computer
industry, despite all the harm they've caused. MS has the computer
industry by the throat and they must be resisted in any legal way
possible! As an example of how they've got their tentacles wrapped
around many people, yesterday, I attended the Ontario Linux Fest in
Toronto. One of the presentations was about how someone was arranging
computers for very low income high school students. They would take
donated computers and install Ubuntu, including OpenOffice on them. One
of the things they have to do is change the default file formats in
OpenOffice to those of MS Office. She tried to get some teachers to use
OpenOffice and found they weren't allowed to have any software that
competed with MS on the computers, due to the contract the school board
has with Microsoft. This is despite the fact, that the Province of
Ontario arranged a province wide license for StarOffice, for all tax
funded schools.
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> On 10/13/07, Cristian Rodriguez <crrodriguez@xxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>> Fred A. Miller escribió:
>>
>>> http://blogs.zdnet.com/microsoft/?p=828&tag=nl.e589
>>>
>>>
>
> Its impressive how some few people that use linux have such obsessive,
> compulsive, insane behavior on talking about microsoft, posting news
> about microsoft, creating theories about microsoft, repeating
> ad-nauseam that microsoft is bad, and other bla bla bla etc, etc, etc.
> They talk more about microsoft than their own marketing team.
>
While there may or may not be an MS connection in this suit, there was
one with SCO. Also, take a look at what happened with OOXML & ISO or
the EU recently and many, many other examples over the years, as to why
some of us are so openly anti-MS. MS has repeately "competed" in a
criminal manner and yet so many people are oblivious to this fact and
seem to thing MS is the most wonderful thing to hit the computer
industry, despite all the harm they've caused. MS has the computer
industry by the throat and they must be resisted in any legal way
possible! As an example of how they've got their tentacles wrapped
around many people, yesterday, I attended the Ontario Linux Fest in
Toronto. One of the presentations was about how someone was arranging
computers for very low income high school students. They would take
donated computers and install Ubuntu, including OpenOffice on them. One
of the things they have to do is change the default file formats in
OpenOffice to those of MS Office. She tried to get some teachers to use
OpenOffice and found they weren't allowed to have any software that
competed with MS on the computers, due to the contract the school board
has with Microsoft. This is despite the fact, that the Province of
Ontario arranged a province wide license for StarOffice, for all tax
funded schools.
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