Microsoft is Doing it Again... to Yahoo and Google
Dr. Roy Schestowitz
2008-10-30 15:55:02 UTC
Modified: 2008-10-30 15:55:02 UTC
Never make room for bullies in the cloud
"Mr. Emerson and I discussed a variety of investment structures wherein Microsoft would 'backstop,' or guarantee in some way, BayStar's investment.... Microsoft assured me that it would in some way guarantee BayStar's investment in SCO."
The freezing (or blocking) of the deal has nothing to do with technical considerations. It's Microsoft's intervention that single-handedly suffocates Yahoo, preventing it from making sound strategic moves. Even if inevitable, the more it's delayed for, the more Yahoo! crumbles and the cheaper it is to acquire. Microsoft knows what it's doing, and it's truly despicable.
Based on today's news reports, Yahoo! is again being pressured to approach Microsoft, which denies wooing the Internet giant despite very recent and contradictory comments from Microsoft's CEO.
It is almost funny how quickly people forget what Microsoft has done over the years, labeling critics of Microsoft "intolerant" [1, 2, 3, 4, 5] rather then pursue the source of intolerance. ⬆
“The true hypocrite is the one who ceases to perceive his deception, the one who lies with sincerity.”
SUSE's relationship with firms such as these generally means that SUSE works for authority, not for community, and when it comes to cryptography it just follows guidelines from the US government
Linux Foundation staff uses neither Linux nor Open Source. They're essentially using, exploiting, piggybacking goodwill gestures (altruism of volunteers) while paying themselves 6-figure salaries.
the powerful companies/governments/societies get to know everything about everybody, but if anyone out there discovers or shares dark secrets about those powerful companies/governments/societies, that's a "crime"
HowTos (or howtos) are very important in their own right, but they can easily distract from the news and howtos are usually quite timeless or time-insensitive
Given the number of disgruntled employees who leave Canonical and given Ubuntu's trend of just copying whatever IBM does in Fedora, is there still a good reason to choose Ubuntu?
We're already learning, over IRC, that out new site is fully compatible with simple command line- and ncurses-based Web browsers. Failing that, there's Gemini.