Comments on: OpenOffice.org Talks About Microsoft’s “Desperate Act“, Red Hat Not Agitated http://techrights.org/2007/05/15/openoffice-rebuttal/ Free Software Sentry – watching and reporting maneuvers of those threatened by software freedom Fri, 25 Nov 2016 09:41:40 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.9.14 By: Roy Schestowitz http://techrights.org/2007/05/15/openoffice-rebuttal/comment-page-1/#comment-699 Tue, 15 May 2007 21:10:45 +0000 http://boycottnovell.com/2007/05/15/openoffice-rebuttal/#comment-699 I wrote about threats and FUD as a form of vapourware here:

http://boycottnovell.com/2007/04/21/patent-vapourware/
Imaginary Software Patents as the Modern Equivalent of Vapourware

This also brings an example from the past (Comes vs Microsoft) where Microsoft admitted trying to “freeze the market” with what it called “vaporware”.

]]> By: shane http://techrights.org/2007/05/15/openoffice-rebuttal/comment-page-1/#comment-697 Tue, 15 May 2007 14:59:04 +0000 http://boycottnovell.com/2007/05/15/openoffice-rebuttal/#comment-697 …many internal problems such as the recent Longhorn (just renamed “Server 2008″) ‘feature castrataion’…

Hey, go easy on Microsoft. Shipping is a feature, too.

Is anyone surprised that Microsoft is using vaporware to freeze the market? Again?

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