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Microsoft: Trust and Antitrust

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the ironic-t-shirt-slogan dept.

Microsoft is in the news for two reasons today: the continuing saga of the antitrust cases, and Microsoft's public relations push for "trustworthy computing". A selection of links: Microsoft claims two months of code reviews and half-day seminars surpasses everything ever done by the open source community; Salon talks about the problems with a monoculture; SBC, an abusive telecom monopoly, complains about Microsoft's behavior, an abusive OS monopoly; and Microsoft responds, claiming that SBC is merely being self-serving.

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  1. Crying to mommy by mckeowbc · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    SBC: Mommy Microsoft is being bad
    MS: No I'm not he is
    Mommy (U.S. Government): You're both being bad, now go to your rooms.

  2. hey michael by cavemanf16 · · Score: 0, Offtopic
    We don't care. You're so hypocrytical. You want to maintain a monopoly on being able to bitch-slap everyday users who are posting a lot and contributing articles to your "news-links" website like we're playing some MUDD game. You guys have this policy of "oh we're so open source and FREE!" and yet you have a job solely because of the work of others. All you do is collate and staple together (sometimes quite poorly too) the work and reading done by others.

    Yes, I have karma to burn because like your FAQ says, it's useless. And yes, I just finished moderating up a bunch of posts containing off-topic Katz bashes to his ultra-redundant and buzzword filled rant today. Haha!

  3. Re:Hellz yeah! by SkyLeach · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    That was just plain mean moderator (-1). :P

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  5. Re:Hellz yeah! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

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  6. Re:Quote from the article: by crankyinmv · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    I have a question for everyone.

    When did the Mac stop sucking ?

    I've developed applications from OS 6.x to 8.5, and most of the toolbox functionality was a joke.

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