Comments on: You Can Still End the Desktop Monopoly. Fight the ‘Monopoly Enabler’ (OOXML).

By: Roy Schestowitz

Roy Schestowitz — Mon, 23 Jul 2007 13:53:47 +0000

Last year there were some discussions which compared the deal with Sun to other deals. The transcript had to be pulled from the Web Archive because Microsoft no longer had it online.

http://boycottnovell.com/2006/11/25/sun-novell-ms/

http://boycottnovell.com/2006/11/27/sun-patent-microsoft/

It’s interesting to read this several months later. In hindsight, Mark was correct as well.

http://boycottnovell.com/2006/11/23/novell-mark-kent/

By: Sam Hiser

Sam Hiser — Mon, 23 Jul 2007 12:21:38 +0000

Attracting trolls is the second highest form of flattery, Roy. The time to spend responding to them is time away from what you were doing.

Let’s keep the focus in on this theme here of OOXML as a first part of the plan to extend the ISO complex of proprietary standards. The other good theme is that Microsoft pays competitors to step down. We have evidence that Sun took money to agree not to interoperate with MS document formats (and this is affecting ODF), not to mention the deals you’re keeping tabs on.

Stay the course!

By: John Drinkwater

John Drinkwater — Mon, 23 Jul 2007 11:15:23 +0000

What’s with all the trolls recently?
I can’t wait for his next claim, where he labels you Communist, or a member of the Nazi party

Boy & beryl_user, it’s quite easy to be anti-OOXML (Microsoft) yet pro-America. Please, get a clue.

By: Roy Schestowitz

Roy Schestowitz — Mon, 23 Jul 2007 10:39:09 +0000

Will you stop nymshifting? How many different identities have you trolled with, ‘beryl_user’? Your style is consistent, so the morphing fools nobody.

By: beryl_user

beryl_user — Mon, 23 Jul 2007 10:33:07 +0000

Ahhh, so now we see what this is about. You’re not just anti-Microsoft, you’re really just another hater of Americans. Wow, FLOSS evangelization never looked better than in your expert hands! Boy Shitznowitz rocks!

By: Roy Schestowitz

Roy Schestowitz — Mon, 23 Jul 2007 07:16:41 +0000

Just a few hours ago, in a discussion that I had elsewhere:

msg-id: < ol48a3de7skvljr0g4915gduja29jcqe8g@4ax.com >

“This company [Microsoft] for all intents and purposes is now a sovereign nation. They play by their own rules. And they are immune to the U.S. legal system.

Their weak spot is that they are so large and spread out that they’ve lost control of themselves.

So the answers to your questions are No… and Yes, but it will take some time and energy.”

About the Groklaw article, it was mentioned some hours ago as well:

http://boycottnovell.com/2007/07/22/gpl-linspire-finance/

In short, we apparently have enough evidence to show that Microsoft pays its competitors to concede competition. The government fails to see this and intervene. Maybe it just turns a blind eye because Windows gives America tremendous control over the rest of the world.

By: GNU/Linux user

GNU/Linux user — Mon, 23 Jul 2007 07:04:31 +0000

Just take a look at news like this http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=2007072014373817 You should know that there are a strong facts that say against MS business policy.

Actually Microsoft is not a Devil. Governments are our Devils. Governments make stupid laws and allow Microsoft to play not fair. In democratic countries governments should be the law, unfortunately they are not. Today companies are in charge, and law is not for puny common people.

By: Boy Shitzforwitz

Boy Shitzforwitz — Mon, 23 Jul 2007 05:59:53 +0000

This FUD post is brought to you by the combined efforts and funding of RedHat, Canonical and the Free Software Foundation, which also hosts the excellent ‘badvista.org’ FUD campaign. FLOSS rocks!