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Storm Brewing over Microsoft on the Horizon?
SexyFingers writes "Robert X. Cringely, of I, Cringely discusses one of the last anti-trust lawsuit beleaguering Microsoft. It seems like Microsoft is looking bad on these bouts... words like, lie, dissemble, ignores were applied to Microsoft."
They'll worm their way out of it somehow, and after any publicity this generates dies down, they'll go right back to viciously fucking competitors, customers and business partners alike.
With so many law suits,I think bill Gates will be suffering from Headaches and others problems....
You think he is enjoying that pile of cash?
Why does yahoo do this
Not for the first time, and not for the last time. It's all about exchanging. They're rich enough to be sued over and over.
I don't ascribe to the idea of a one-dimensional "intelligence" axis. But for the task in question - lying and deceit - women usually outperform men. That the kid is as smart as his mother means the kid is doing as well as a woman. But as human evolution, contrary to popular belief, has not stopped at all, and, contrary to popular belief, major differences can show up in one generation, it is quite possibly the case the kid would do worse than a current-model female child his age.
... the guilty survives.
I hate the evil empire I really do, but I've got work to do here. Really, people are getting much too excited about this, Microsoft will eventually die, but not yet anyway. It just depends on how much Longhorn sucks.
-- Checking emails and kicking cheats `till the day I die.
Wouldn't normally evidence that suggests that MS is doing naughty things (manipulation of evidence, etc.) invite a DoJ probe or something to see what exactly they're up to?
Not under this administration.
Even if its proven they lied/committed perjury.. I don't think its going to really matter much.
The government already has proven they aren't interested in doing the job that was needed, and gave Microsoft a 'pass'.
Sure they might pull out some token fine to make the people feel better, but it wont amount to anything more then a blip on the books...
Unlike ATT, when they were attacked, Microsoft has managed to take control of the situation and will in the end, win, regardless of the outcome.
---- Booth was a patriot ----
You're dreaming if you think Kerry isn't just as big a friend to the mega corps. In case you've forgotten he, or at least his wife, owns one. His running mate won't want to hurt the mega corps either, who will he sue for mega bucks if the large corps go under?
If this were Joe nobody, they would come and take the relevant hardware from him. If this were Small Business Nobody... they would still take their equipment away from them.
However, because they are mega-huge corp... they ask for the information.
It's silly to think they are going to make it easy to screw themselves.
"You should always go to other people's funerals; otherwise, they won't come to yours." -- Yogi Berra
Firstly, this is the link that works:
Secondly, you should argue against that policy. In all likelihood you never speak with anyone who has the ability to change it or even themselves ever speaks with someone with the ability to change it, but if the information is classified, it is usually exempt from FOIA, and if it isn't, you shouldn't attempt to undermine the FOIA by pre-emptively deleting stuff. In fact, short of imformation that has a need for temporary secrecy such as the evaluation of various bids or discussions of security issues, you should be putting all that stuff online anyway. A policy of all emails being archived, and all archives older than 3 years automatically going online unless manually excepted, would be appropriate. You make your living from my tax dollars.
Please consider suggesting this, or non-confrontationally discussing how you would hypothetically operate under such a policy, in coffee room talk or other informal situations. Such gossip and chatter can have a bigger effect than you might immagine, and when expressed as idle speculation in a non-official setting can be done with little danger to your job.
One issue you might raise with the government folks is this: do they like the protections of the Hatch Act ? Are they aware that involvement in a scheme to evade FOIA might one day be construed as reason to invalidate those protections ? Can they invision a deficit burdened government going after every way possible of cutting costs, including making an issue out of the FOIA evasion just to find an excuse to slash pensions ?
Evil great and small can happen because people turn their back because it is to inconvenient to deal with it right now.
But microsoft is an easy evil. You are not going to be shot for going after ms or any other cooperation that has gotten out of control. Yet.
But leave it like this and the common american Sci-Fi theme of evil cooperations controlling the world, odd that in capatalist america hollywood movies often have cooperations as the evil enemy, will become true.
Your strategie seems to be that Longhorn will suck. I got news for you. Every fucking windows release ever has sucked. Note that all the MS apologists are saying stuff like "Well this new release is less crap then the old one" but mostly are pointing out how good the next one will be and that all your current troubles are your fault anyway.
So go right ahead and keep supporting MS with your computer tax and blind obedience. Others are fighting by not giving MS a penny and supporting those who help break out, (Have you bought your copy of Doom3 and Opera yet?)
For those objecting to the nazis being brought in to this discussion lets not forget that they and their kind (what is the difference between "gein juden" and "whites only") were in power and doing their petty hatred and corrupting long before the famous "final solution" was put into effect. All those years people cried out in protest and people like the above poster silenced them by saying they shouldn't make a fuss and let people get on with their jobs and that it all would work out okay.
I am not saying that MS will be rounding up people or anything similar. I do foresee a future were cooperations like MS but also like media have such a huge amount of control that being critical about them becomes impossible. Already controversial movies are being boycotted and tv series cancelled because the powers that be don't like them.
MS will not be the evil but may easily be an instrument. Just as radio tv and the newspapers have become controlled by a tiny handfull of rightwingers (the same families that gave contributions to the nazis) we might loose the net as the last bastion of free expression that can be heard.
Why else should MS be pushing to make DRM into every piece of media made? Exactly why should my home movies have DRM? To protect my interests or to make sure a protest movie can be easily traced?
Tin foil hat time or not but MS was caught recording what DVD's people watched. MS said it was a mistake when people found out and asked questions. It was a mistake alright. People never should have found out or am I just paranoid?
But that is the weird thing about paranoia isn't it. Your only paranoid if your wrong. Like those people who warned of the nazis and the many other horrors before until it is to late people like you have the majority. Afterwards you cry out, why did nobody do nothing.
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Actually, if they've been lying as accused, the company is largely finished. People will go to jail and Microsoft will be ripped to shreds. Arthur Anderson's corporate sins weren't as big as this and they're toast.
They will weasel their way out of it again. After all they have so much smearing cream ($$$$) in their pockets that law is a non issue for them.
Unless, that is, Burst has enough evidence to win.
Yes, but usually not with evidence and in a Court of Law
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