Posted by
ryuzaki0
on from the does-this-thing-ever-end dept.
T-Kir writes "The BBC has an interesting article saying that now Microsoft has had the settlement granted in the US, it still faces EU sanctions concerning software bundling (or should that be bungling?) into its OS and deliberate attempts at inoperability with non-MS server operating systems."
There was a time when I actually liked slashdot.
Lately however, it's become so Anti-Microsoft - it's almost ridiculous.
Keep in mind that there are over 60 thousand employees at Microsoft. All of us have families and mortgages to pay just like you.
Oh yea - I keep forgetting - most slashdot readers are just a bunch of college kids anyway.
Someday - when you all enter the real world - you'll understand how great much (not all) of the Microsoft technology is and come over to the real world with the rest of us.
'Stuff that Matters' is really 'Stuff that gets me home to my family earlier'
There was a time when I actually liked slashdot. Lately however, it's become so Anti-Microsoft - it's almost ridiculous. Keep in mind that there are over 60 thousand employees at Microsoft. All of us have families and mortgages to pay just like you.
My heart bleeds. Perhaps Slashdot has become so anti-microsoft lately because Microsoft have been ramping up the rate at which they give people reasons to dislike them?
Wow a bash microsoft article on slashdot
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Anonymous Coward
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· Score: -1, Flamebait
What original and fresh material!
If you have problems with microsoft software, there are tons of alternatives, just don't use it. All Microsoft has is a monopoly on the clueless market.
Looking at "competiton" further down the main page, along with the dupes and other errors, I'm getting tired of Slashdot's gross unprofessionalism.
Surely the VA/OSDN folks read this site, correct? And surely they can see that a popular blog could do with some proper journalist types onboard, or at least more competent editors.
Anyway, it looks like www.dotslash.org is free, and I might take it to make a similar site but with greater emphasis on quality. Also, there'll be karma, but no limits on no. of posts per day; similarly, readers will get to vote on stories (with higher karma accounting for more votes per person).
So it'd be more democratic like K5, but with more focus on tech/science/geek stuff. The stories would be similar to Slashdot, but there'd be no adverts, no corrupt bitch-slapping by mods, user-rated stories and above all: professionalism.
It's great to see that someone is staying strong against Micro$oft. I can't believe how much injustice is being done by our so-called "justice" system. They spout tough-sounding sound bytes, but never follow through with any sort of action against what is basically at this point a criminal organization. It's not even surprising, though, given how much money M$ gives to politicians.
Fortunately, our allies in the EU are not so easily bought. After seeing what Nazi-driven companies like Volkswagen could do, the Europeans are suspicious--and rightly so--of any successful business. This will pay off in the end. Even as we Americans become slaves of Micro$oft, the Europeans will find freedom from their oppression and create a haven for Linux and freeware.
Perhaps in ten years, when the US is a wasteland with a handful of ultra-rich masters ruling over millions toiling in poverty, the EU will allow some of us to join them in harmonious cooperation. I fear that Europe remains the one final outpost of Western civilization, freedom, and democracy.
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Karma: Good (despite my invention of the Karma: sig)
Re:Tough Cookie
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CatWrangler
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Well, I must assume then that Commissioner Mario Monti couldn't be French then, or the EU would have surrendered by now.
Microsoft could really shaft the EU by charging exorbitant fees for software they hold near monopolies on just to punish them. Microsoft could say, transport yourself to Linux, it is free after all.
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Re:Does the EU have power?
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Anonymous Coward
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I love it how you eurofags have the gall to say something like that. Realize that the US is one country. You're talking about over a dozen countries -- do you realize how fucking ridiculous you sound?!?
Europe isn't some small kid the US can wack down!
That's right EuroTrash, it's a whole classroom of small kids.
Hoser.
Re:It's not about you...
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Anonymous Coward
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> Keep in mind that there are over 60 thousand > employees at Microsoft. All of us have families > and mortgages to pay just like you.
I wonder how those employees can live with themselves? I guess they must have convinced themselves that nothing is going on, that the company they work for is not a criminal, despicable company.
It is easy to see here shades of what many Germans did in Germany during WWII with respect to what their government was doing. It's fortunate that MS is not at the same level of despicableness.
Slashdot Mirror
The EU at least knows where the REAL war should be fought ;)
What original and fresh material!
If you have problems with microsoft software, there are tons of alternatives, just don't use it. All Microsoft has is a monopoly on the clueless market.
Looking at "competiton" further down the main page, along with the dupes and other errors, I'm getting tired of Slashdot's gross unprofessionalism.
Surely the VA/OSDN folks read this site, correct? And surely they can see that a popular blog could do with some proper journalist types onboard, or at least more competent editors.
Anyway, it looks like www.dotslash.org is free, and I might take it to make a similar site but with greater emphasis on quality. Also, there'll be karma, but no limits on no. of posts per day; similarly, readers will get to vote on stories (with higher karma accounting for more votes per person).
So it'd be more democratic like K5, but with more focus on tech/science/geek stuff. The stories would be similar to Slashdot, but there'd be no adverts, no corrupt bitch-slapping by mods, user-rated stories and above all: professionalism.
It'd be like Slashdot 2.
Anyone interested?
It's great to see that someone is staying strong against Micro$oft. I can't believe how much injustice is being done by our so-called "justice" system. They spout tough-sounding sound bytes, but never follow through with any sort of action against what is basically at this point a criminal organization. It's not even surprising, though, given how much money M$ gives to politicians.
Fortunately, our allies in the EU are not so easily bought. After seeing what Nazi-driven companies like Volkswagen could do, the Europeans are suspicious--and rightly so--of any successful business. This will pay off in the end. Even as we Americans become slaves of Micro$oft, the Europeans will find freedom from their oppression and create a haven for Linux and freeware.
Perhaps in ten years, when the US is a wasteland with a handful of ultra-rich masters ruling over millions toiling in poverty, the EU will allow some of us to join them in harmonious cooperation. I fear that Europe remains the one final outpost of Western civilization, freedom, and democracy.
Karma: Good (despite my invention of the Karma: sig)
Microsoft could really shaft the EU by charging exorbitant fees for software they hold near monopolies on just to punish them. Microsoft could say, transport yourself to Linux, it is free after all.
---
When you come to a fork in the road, take it! --Yogi Berra--
I love it how you eurofags have the gall to say something like that. Realize that the US is one country. You're talking about over a dozen countries -- do you realize how fucking ridiculous you sound?!?
Europe isn't some small kid the US can wack down!
That's right EuroTrash, it's a whole classroom of small kids.
Hoser.
> Keep in mind that there are over 60 thousand
> employees at Microsoft. All of us have families
> and mortgages to pay just like you.
I wonder how those employees can live with themselves? I guess they must have convinced themselves that nothing is going on, that the company they work for is not a criminal, despicable company.
It is easy to see here shades of what many Germans did in Germany during WWII with respect to what their government was doing. It's fortunate that MS is not at the same level of despicableness.