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| Authored by: Anonymous on Thursday, July 12 2012 @ 04:42 PM EDT |
or so they say. And as another poster above asked,
How come with this dreadful history of lies, deception,
and general malfeasance, companies still line up
to do "business" with MS. Sure there's been some
muttering in the ranks over Surface, but wait till
the smoke clears and see how many real players
have abandoned the game.
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Thursday, July 12 2012 @ 09:20 PM EDT |
What Microsoft did was wrong. There is no question in my mind about that. It's
too bad the DoJ didn't go after Microsoft for the MS Office Monopoly and punish
Microsoft for withholding the namespace APIs and other antitrust things they
did.
That doesn't mean that this lawsuit isn't a farce, though. You wouldn't have
needed to be very clever to know that it would be stupid for Novell to trust
Microsoft to follow through with all of their promises. It wouldn't have even
needed to have been such of a blatant antitrust violation. What if Microsoft had
just run into technical problems with the APIs? (That's not what happened, but
Novell couldn't have been certain it wouldn't happen.) Novell supposedly never
thought of that. Really?
I don't doubt that Ray Noorda would have fully supported WordPerfect, including
porting advanced features into the versions on other platforms, but I don't
think the management that took over after he was forced out was nearly as
committed. That would have taken considerable resources. We are supposed to
believe that they were still that committed, yet were not willing to think about
what might go wrong if Microsoft didn't keep their promises? After all the times
Microsoft lied?
I'm becoming increasingly convinced that Novell is counting on Microsoft being
unwilling to point out how gullible Novell would have had to have been to trust
Microsoft. That will probably let Novell win eventually. But it also makes the
trial come across as farcical to me. I'm convinced Microsoft deserves to loose,
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| Authored by: hairbear on Friday, July 13 2012 @ 03:43 AM EDT |
I really don't like the argument that seems to be suggested here that just
because Micro$oft repeatedly behaves deceptively, that they should then be able
to get away with behaving deceptively with Novell. If I lie and cheat you
repeatedly, does that make it OK to keep doing it ?
hairbear
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