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More Mayhem From MSFT's Mundie

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the as-entertaining-as-he-ever-was dept.

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?"

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  1. Choice!? by mdemeny · · Score: 5, Funny
    Microsoft's chief technology officer also took the time to criticize Web services advocates and the Liberty Alliance.

    "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...