Summary: In addition to private meetings with Bill Gates, President Obama plays a role in serving Microsoft's interests
OVER the past couple of years and even more than that (ahead of the 2008 elections) we have covered incidents where Steve Ballmer went to the White House for private meetings with President Obama. These red carpet trips were not intended to help the American population, they were intended to benefit a monopoly abuser which is currently terrorising rivals such as Google, in more than a single nefarious way.
"Obama cites piracy data from Ballmer in comments on Hu visit," argues a Microsoft booster in a report about incidents we will probably expand on later this year:
When Steve Ballmer talks, President Obama listens, apparently.
The Microsoft CEO is among the corporate executives in Washington, D.C., today for the visit of President Hu of China. As always, trade between the two nations is one of the big topics on the agenda, and Obama talked at one point about the need for a "level playing field when it comes to our trading partners."
Another government bailout for Microsoft? Where would the company be without subsidies, government purchases, or purchases from other government favorites? Those hand outs, while obnoxious waste of taxpayer money, pale next to the legal protection given binary files, aka copyright, and the ongoing war against sharing that threatens everyone's our right to software freedom, publication, free speech, due process, assembly and so on and so forth. Microsoft is more at home in Communist China.
"In reality, the project includes a new “legal instrument” shifting administrative burden and liability on EPO staff while creating new uncertainty and externalising Amicale activities."
If people reboot their PC or server today, and it relies on "Secure Boot" on Sept. 12 or later, then depending on the firmware there may be trouble ahead
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2011-01-23 17:06:59