Microsoft is like SCO some time around 2004. It has already sued companies over Linux (since last year) and this was not properly challenged in court. Its own products are a hard sale and increasingly fewer (many get cancelled due to budgetary constraints) while competition leapfrogs it technically, although it still has some momentum remaining due to existing deployments, as well as size which decreases.
“Microsoft should rename itself "Microsoft 7" and see if that works.”In addition to this, Microsoft's Interactive Entertainment Business gets "re-orged" (euphemism to use when many people quit or get laid off) and its failed attempt to undermine the Free software community gets renamed [1, 2, 3] to "Outercurve". None of these are good signs in a company that lost direction. "A rose by any other name," writes Groklaw, "but I wonder if Microsoft and curve in the same thought is helpful?"
Microsoft should rename itself "Microsoft 7" and see if that works. Sometimes it does. As stated on Sunday, we no longer track Microsoft as closely as we once did for the same reasons we are no longer called “Boycott Novell” and Groklaw is no longer just about SCO. Threats to software freedom change all the time and Techrights is not fixated on any particular company, unless that company really does a lot to attack software freedom. Microsoft's attacks are becoming as pathetic as SCO's due to inability to compete technically. ⬆
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kozmcrae
2010-10-12 19:08:03
PS I don't recall seeing that particular combination of numbers and letters but I can't imagine it hasn't been used before.
Dr. Roy Schestowitz
2010-10-12 19:48:21
TemporalBeing
2010-10-12 21:24:32
Dr. Roy Schestowitz
2010-10-12 21:30:43
kozmcrae
2010-10-12 20:37:23
Dr. Roy Schestowitz
2010-10-12 21:13:06