[Meme] Pretending Everything is Microsoft's
- Dr. Roy Schestowitz
- 2021-08-16 11:34:07 UTC
- Modified: 2021-08-16 11:34:07 UTC
Summary: ZDNet is a reality distortion zone where the sponsor, Microsoft, gets to paint everything with the "Microsoft" brush; it's not journalism but a gross and deliberate misuse of the label
"Steve Jobs threatened to sue me, too. [and also] Bill Gates and Steve Ballmer. They’d flown in over a weekend to meet with Scott McNealy. [...] Bill skipped the small talk, and went straight to the point, “Microsoft owns the office productivity market, and our patents read all over OpenOffice.” [...] Bill was delivering a slightly more sophisticated variant of the threat Steve had made, but he had a different solution in mind. “We’re happy to get you under license.” That was code for “We’ll go away if you pay us a royalty for every download” – the digital version of a protection racket."
--Jonathan I. Schwartz, Sun
