Microsoft has mad so many people unhappy that it's afraid of any competition. So the only way to defend themselves is extend and embrace and try to lock people in. That is essentially what .NET is all about. Bill Gates publicly admitted that Microsoft protocols were designed to be propietary to thwart interoperability. This is why Microsoft is on this patenting binge. Now that it is harder to lock customers with propietary protocols they can dersail OSS and other competitors with IP patents. So in other words public IP now becomes private.
----- Original Message ----- From: DJA <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Main Discussion List for KPLUG" <[email protected]> Subject: Re: Google office (Microsoft officals predict) Date: Thu, 05 May 2005 16:45:58 -0700 > > Lan Barnes wrote: > > > > They don't care if they lose money or cause the technology in question > > to die out. Just as long as no one else gets big. > > That's pretty close. Microsoft was created in Bill Gate's image. > His underlying motive is not so much greed, but personal > insecurity. Face it, he has low self esteem. He doesn't really give > a rat's ass about acquiring wealth or fame. He merely wants to > prevent anyone else from getting any, even if he has to dig the > world's biggest pit and shovel anything and everything into it and > then fill in the hole. > > The thought of anyone else getting attention bothers him, because > in his mind, it exposes his inferiority. And even though he's spent > his entire life trying to prove otherwise, he's obviously yet to > prove it to himself. Even sadder is that, historically speaking, it > will probably look as if he had been living out a self-fulfilling > prophesy. > > Like a crack addict with the same emotional problems, striving to > deprive others of acquiring their own wealth and power are the > drugs which Gates uses to distort the image he sees when looks in > the mirror. > > -- Best Regards, > ~DJA. > > > -- [email protected] > http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list -- ___________________________________________________________ Sign-up for Ads Free at Mail.com http://promo.mail.com/adsfreejump.htm -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
