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Sendo vs. Microsoft: The Truth Comes Out
igotmybfg writes "The Register has a story which includes many details about the phone maker's Texas suit against the software giant. It seems that Microsoft had much more to gain from letting its partner fail than helping it to succeed: in the event of a bankruptcy, Microsoft acquired all of Sendo's intellectual property related to the z100 Stinger SmartPhone, and was then free to do whatever it wanted, which in this case turned out to be going behind Sendo's back and making a deal with Orange SPA." Read our original article about this to get more background information.
Imagine a beowulf cluster of THESE!
So any time there is an article about Microsoft on Slashdot, I am to assume they did something wrong.
They need an FAQ for this stuff.
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Bush attacks Iraq: we can ignore that, everybody already knew he was planning to do that.
I was already expecting Bush to work on his ongoing US-police state project, so that's not really news.
Seriously, I just noticed on Google News that Rev. Sharpton is planning to run for President.
That's undoubtedly the best news the Repulicans have had for years. It'll neatly split the Dem supporters, and seriously damange any opposition to continued Republican dominance. I mean, this seriously negates any Dem benefit the whole Lott debacle might have caused.
Yay, more Dubya.
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When you walk into the lion's den, you need more than a g-string on.
.sig material.
Slashdot is just full of good
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Shesh. Where's the overrated or troll mod points when you need 'em.
How obtuse can logic get...shesh...
Sorry to be OT. I meant that putting hot sex stories mixed up with Linux stories was not fair to the average geek, who usually lacks a sex life. ;-)
Excellent comment! In a few words, you have managed to convey the very essence of why Microsoft needs to be reined in. Microsoft is not about competition, superior products, best value to consumers, or innovation. Microsoft has a monopoly in an essential market and they are using the power and wealth that derives from it to extend it. The old communist monopolies in the former USSR stifled economic growth and innovation with their central control, inefficiency, and lack of change. Now, Microsoft is doing the same thing in information technology by strangling innovation, controlling standards, creating artifically high costs for software, and destroying small companies that threaten the status quo. Hardware has become sufficiently-powerful to make major improvements in the way all people live. It is only software that is preventing this. No single company should ever be a position to excercise som much control over so many critically-important markets. It has been the "business" of government in a capitalist system since the middle ages to create and maintain free and open markets and government needs to start doing that. Microsoft *is* an enemy of both capitalism and a free society and they need to be treated as such.