NOVELL is over, but Microsoft's destruction of its surroundings is not over. The Microsoft cult continues to damage good companies and this harms the jobs of very many good people. The cost of Microsoft to the economy is immeasurably high. In Nokia, for example, the number of full-time employees was greater than at Microsoft, but it did not prevent Microsoft from stealthily acquiring Nokia for just a few billions. The FSFE's founder compared the Nokia deal with Microsoft to that of Novell. Elop was compared by one of our readers to Rick Bellouszo, who basically just came Microsoft, then hopped onto another company. Prior to it he derailed and annulled a strategy which was driving GNU/Linux and other Microsoft rivals; he switched it over to Windows/Microsoft. He then jumped ship, receiving a reward in the form of a wage from Microsoft. These people are like Carl Icahn, only a lot less dumb.
Murtazin also tweeted yesterday that he has heard from sources that Nokia CEO Stephen Elop is a short-termer, and will retire at the end of 2012 once the Windows Phone transition is compete.
--Brad Silverberg, Microsoft
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2011-05-04 18:50:15
It is unlikely that Microsoft will prevail this time. IBM, Google and ARM are not likely to repeat the errors of the past by backing down or otherwise cooperating with Microsoft and Intel. Thanks for documenting the destruction of Nokia. We can hope for justice that might come from exposing the scheme in context.
Dr. Roy Schestowitz
2011-05-04 18:52:54
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2011-05-05 00:04:18
I found one technical article, from an Apple person, a bunch of Microsoft puff pieces and all of it is damning. Here, we have a technical discussion of the merits of RISC and how Belluzzo was a fool to abandon PA-RISC for Intel. I also found two Business Week articles, which basically expound a Microsoft party line. This one shows Belluzzo as a sales guy in the right place to do bad things to HP. He joined the xerography group and rode the desktop publishing world then the Microsoft PC expansion to end up in control of 80% of the company's revenues. Business Week is full of praise for the man, his Microsoft alliances and his attack on the HP Way.
So, in Belluzzo and an influx in Microsoft money, we see the company taking it's steps towards being just another PC maker, dependent on Microsoft instead of being a computer company. A peak at the hostility this generated can be seen in this book, which looks written from a Microsoft perspective. David Woodly Packard apparently disagreed with Belluzzo about becoming a Microsoft sales department but what's visible of the book simply smears Packard,
The next Business Week article paints him as the savior of SGI and HP all in one. Later, we get the Seattle Times trying to figure out why Microsoft hired this yahoo with no tech background. One year later, Microsoft filed two documents with the SEC. This one, where he was fired and paid $15,335,000 instead of getting the two million stock options he expected, and this one where the company lent him another $15,000,000. Chump change for the boys at Microsoft, especially for someone who had rendered such valuable services.
Given the tilt that Belluzzo had given HP, it is no surprise to find HP under a "Rock Star". Fiorina would spin off the instrumentation soul of HP and purchase Compaq only to crush the technically superior Alpha and end her tenure in a board room spying scandal as the Microsoft money machine broke down around them. Employees still hate her.
Dr. Roy Schestowitz
2011-05-05 11:56:02
http://techrights.org/2010/08/23/hp-reverses-some-palm-plans/ http://techrights.org/2010/08/25/mark-hurd-exit-post-mortem/ http://techrights.org/2010/09/30/apotheker-entryism-at-hp/
We'll see if Leo is another Belluzzo. Groklaw pointed out his Windows advocacy about 2 weeks ago.
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2011-05-05 23:16:33
Needs Sunlight
2011-05-05 09:02:23
Dr. Roy Schestowitz
2011-05-05 11:53:24
"Those acts - along with the reward from Microsfot - got him the nickname "the microsoft mole" (google "microsoft mole Belluzzo") in those companies, and occaionally the term "a belluzzo" is used to describe someone who seems to be acting in the interest of a different company than the one he works for."
girts
2011-05-04 16:58:43
Dr. Roy Schestowitz
2011-05-04 17:05:26
girts
2011-05-04 16:11:17
Dr. Roy Schestowitz
2011-05-04 16:16:52
Agent_Smith
2011-05-05 12:56:11
Dr. Roy Schestowitz
2011-05-05 14:03:09
Agent_Smith
2011-05-05 22:47:13
I guess he's aiming at crApple...
Dr. Roy Schestowitz
2011-05-05 23:54:50
Dr. Roy Schestowitz
2011-05-05 23:55:15
girts
2011-05-05 16:11:30
Dr. Roy Schestowitz
2011-05-05 16:37:13