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• Kabatology

  2009-05-12 13:54:11

  I bet Microsoft played some funny game down there in SA. it's not the first time. A similar case happened between Mandriva Linux, Microsoft and the stupid or selfish Nigerian gov't. Here is an excerpt from the Official Mandriva Blog "Now, we hear a different story from the customer - - we shall pay for the Mandriva Software as agreed, but we shall replace it by Windows afterward." More -> http://blog.mandriva.com/2007/10/31/an-open-letter-to-steve-ballmer/

• Roy Schestowitz

  2009-05-12 14:30:33

  Yes, it later made the Wall Street Journal.

• Needs Sunlight

  2009-05-12 14:42:18

  Notice that the astroturfers are hitting some of the ZA sites with anti-capitalist rhetoric and spin. They have not much to say about the One Microsoft Way: a top-down, one-size-fits-all, centrally-steered, command economy with no choice or dissent.
  
  http://slashdot.org/articles/980824/0854256.shtml
  
  http://itmanagement.earthweb.com/osrc/article.php/3809221/Bruce-Perens-Is-Open-Source-Capitalist-or-Communist.htm
  
  Capitalism depends on a free market and that's only possible with commodity services and, in the case of computing, commodity protocols and formats. These cornerstones of the free market are things that the Party Leaders in Redmond have been staunchly fighting on both sides of the Atlantic.
  
  http://www.groklaw.net/articlebasic.php?story=20070127202224445
  
  In short, M$ is about as anti-capitalism as a group can get.
  
  Add to that the management's disregard for US and EU busineses, disregard for the laws in both zones and apparent treason or perjury, you have an anti-government

• Needs Sunlight

  2009-05-12 14:45:38

  Notice that the astroturfers are hitting some of the ZA sites with anti-capitalist rhetoric and spin. They have not much to say about the One Microsoft Way: a top-down, one-size-fits-all, centrally-steered, command economy with no choice or dissent.
  
  http://slashdot.org/articles/980824/0854256.shtml
  
  http://itmanagement.earthweb.com/osrc/article.php/3809221/Bruce-Perens-Is-Open-Source-Capitalist-or-Communist.htm
  
  Capitalism depends on a free market and that's only possible with commodity services and, in the case of computing, commodity protocols and formats. These cornerstones of the free market are things that the Party Leaders in Redmond have been staunchly fighting on both sides of the Atlantic.
  
  http://www.groklaw.net/articlebasic.php?story=20070127202224445
  
  In short, M$ is about as anti-capitalism as a group can get.
  
  Add to that the management's disregard for US and EU busineses, disregard for the laws in both zones and apparent treason or perjury, you have an anti-government, anti-capitalist movement on your hands.
  
  Add to that one that uses FUD and extortion, then a case can be made that it is more than just a hostile foreign, anti-government, anti-capitalist movement on your hands.
  
  Add to that the ongoing economic damage from its activities, including but not limited to bad design, and you have actualized damage hostile foreign, anti-government, anti-capitalist movement on your hands.
  
  How is it that Redmond is not a smoking crater and the ringleaders + top henchmen not aerosol? It's not like there isn't a list of MS employees and their roles nor are we lacking registrys of Certified Gold Partners.

• Roy Schestowitz

  2009-05-12 16:45:47

  I quite like Roughly Drafted's take on it.

• David Gerard

  2009-05-12 21:18:24

  He did one like that for XP as well:
  
  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_-8IufkbuD0

• Roy Schestowitz

  2009-05-12 21:24:22

  Yes, we have that as Ogg Theora. Brian Valentine is now doing his damage from inside Amazon, so he does not attack GNU/Linux directly from Microsoft (there are antitrust memos that show this).