06.22.10
Gemini version available ♊︎Serena Denies Allegation That Microsoft Paid it to Stage Ditching of Google
Summary: Despite Microsoft’s habit of paying companies to ditch Microsoft’s competition (be it GNU/Linux or Google), Serena says that rumours about it are wrong
MICROSOFT loves to suppress fair competition. A good example of that would be sub-notebooks. We wrote about that subject in:
- Russia’s Antimonopoly Service Targets ASUS, Toshiba, H-P, Samsung and Dell for Potentially Colluding with Microsoft
- ASUS Enters the Slog Business
- More Suspicious Moves from ASUS
- It’s Unofficial: Microsoft Pays ASUS (Kickbacks) to Block GNU/Linux. Will EU Commission Step in?
- ASUS: “Currently, We’re Closely Tied up With Microsoft”
- What is Going on with ASUS and GNU/Linux?
- ASUS Profits Fall 94% After Getting “Closely Tied Up with Microsoft” at the Expense of GNU/Linux
- Microsoft Embracing, Extending, and Extinguishing Sub-notebooks
- Does Microsoft Blackmail Sub-notebooks Vendors?
- What Microsoft’s Anti-Linux Taskforce in Wal-Mart Teaches Us About Sub-notebooks
According to this report, Microsoft may be dumping ‘free’ (gratis) software on companies (sometimes it bribes users) which it then uses as “case studies” for abandonment of Google. It’s a form of bounty. [via]
I heard that Microsoft gave Serena BPOS for free for three years, a claim Serena disputes.
The truth might be close to it. The exact phrasing of this dispute would matter a lot because there is wiggling room in plausible denial and this was done before. Microsoft is making some cases against the competition, often by paying to manufacture these cases. A good example might be LSE, which failed badly [1, 2, 3, 4, 5] and ran away from Microsoft to GNU/Linux. █
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