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Microsoft Dislikes Nations Trying to Escape Lock-in

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the iron-fist dept.

Johnny Mnemonic writes "Reuters, link to C|Net, is reporting that Microsoft considers a possible collaboration among three Asian nations to produce their own OS "unfair". You just can't make this stuff up. Shouldn't Asian nations also have the Freedom to Innovate? Or is this merely a dodge by Microsoft to demonstrate that they really do face competition? Will they hire Boies to prosecute their case?"

2 of 616 comments (clear)

  1. Re:all in time by Iron+Monkey543 · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    They can change their ways, improve their products, or falter and die

    They could falter and die the SCO way :)

  2. no i didn't RTFA but by waspleg · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    since when did china/asia at all give a fuck about copyrights and patents or infringing on them

    as i recall asia has the biggest pirated everything black market on earth