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More Mayhem From MSFT's Mundie
Cally writes "Further embarrasingly lame FUD from Craig Mundie of Microsoft. This time, he claims the GPL is at odds with 'commercialization' of software, without which the government gets a smaller tax take. Looks like he's really talking to legislators there ... He also knocks the Sun-led Liberty Alliance Passport SSO service as 'this notion that the world should be offered an alternative.' An alternative?"
"Rather than form a federation with Microsoft and work with what we had already created, there was this notion that the world should be offered an alternative," Mundie said.
Ohmygod! Choice! We can't have that now, can we? If users have a choice, we couldn't engage in anti-compet- ^H^H^H^H^H...
I mean standards! That's the ticket... standards... yeah...
...Microsoft having to write software themselves because the code they would otherwise steal is GPLed.
What kind of twisted capitalism is Mundie cheerleading here?!
The kind where Microsoft is the only game in town. Perhaps we need a new word or phrase to describe it. Much like we say Marxist Communism as opposed to Soviet Communism, we have Microsoft Capitalism as opposed to Competitive Capitalism.
"Our products just aren't engineered for security,"
-Brian Valentine,VP in charge of MS Windows Development
What we have done with PCs so far is not natural
Microsoft exec admits to unnatural act with computer. Police hold goatse guy for questioning.
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No, the government dosen't get that money because the companies hide the money they save in shady offshore partnerships. On the other hand we all know that Microsoft is a trustworthy and upstanding corporate citizen who pays all the taxes they are supposed to. Kudos to Mundie for his valid point.
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In a recent speech at the World Technology Foods conference (WTF) Mr. Crave Munchie (a senior vice president at Megolithic Supermarkets) had this to say:
"By providing food free to anyone who asks, the so called 'Good Samaritans' are destroying the food market. The biggest danger is that posed by the Give People Lunch program. The GPL is just the worst. Under the terms of the GPL, people are asked to help other's in need. Where does it end? Imagine if the spirit of cooperation spread everywhere? How would you like to live in a society where all your basic needs where given away for free? How could anybody make money?
First restaurants would go out of business, then fast food chains and finally supermarkets. Most of these businesses are owned by politically correct minorities. Pushing them out of business is UN-American. What's wrong with these people, do they think food grows on trees? If the food service industry went out of business, healthy nutritious food like Twinkies Ho-Ho's and Ding Dongs would be gone."
Now, keep your hand raised if your company has enough money to buy every congressman on capitol hill, make them put on a sun-dress, lipstick and high heels, and pass out cocktails on a silver tray at your pool parties.
At this point there is only one evil, corpulent hand raised, and we all know whose that is.
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And in the end, folks, Britian and the US made peace and became allies.
Well hopefully, that won't happen in this version. Instead (to continue the metaphor), after some competition with the US, Britain's economy collapses. Their citizens try to leave for the US and mainland Europe, but everyone remembers how badly they were treated by the British at the height of their power, they refuse to allow them entry. A few British do manage to get out, but end up in slavery or employed in very demeaning jobs. Then, as the British people are starving and wallowing in misery, remembering how they screwed everyone over and realize they're paying the price now, a massive earthquake rocks the island, and it sinks beneath the sea.