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.
Yesterday we read that it was quite cruel how IBM (or Red Hat) compelled staff to pretend to be happily leaving or "retiring" when the reality was, they had been pushed out with some "package"
If patent law had been applied to novels in the 1880s, great books would not have been written. If the EU applies it to software, every computer user will be restricted, says Richard Stallman
So the real extent of layoffs is greater than what's publicly stated (there are silent layoffs) [...] Whatever IBM says about the scope, scale, or magnitude of the "RAs", it doesn't tell the full story
This is a real problem and most certainly a big problem because when people try to find real information about security and GNU/Linux they instead read "word salads" made by bots
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2011-01-23 17:06:59