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Why is Microsoft Making its Own Life Difficult?
sebFlyte asks: "Asking Slashdot readers what they think of Microsoft's methodology and ethos might seem like a silly thing to do, but a ZD-Net article raises some interesting points. The main one is that: 'Microsoft's behaviour is technically, morally and practically indefensible. It could publish its CIFS specification tomorrow if it so chose, an act that would correspond closely to the spirit and letter of the European decision. The company would then be free to compete through the simple process of making better products, something it claims to favour, while also encouraging precisely the sort of interoperability it says is missing.' The question I'm curious to canvas opinion on is why Microsoft is taking an attitude that is believed by so many to be damaging to their market position."
I'm going to go with incompetence.
Regardless of how he treats anyone, he has made a greater impact and changed the world for the better than any other individual in his field, except maybe for Tim Berners-Lee and a couple of others. He's a businessman and he runs a company whose goal is to make money. I'm convinced that no matter what he does, there will always be someone like you on Slashdot to bitch about it as immoral.
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No one is saying that making money is immoral. But lying, cheating, and (virtually) stealing are. Indeed, MS has been /convicted/ of monopolistic behavior.
You have simply given up. +1 to the hippie lifestyle, maaan.
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MS is the way they are because most of their customers are too stupid to know any better.
You are being MICROattacked, from various angles, in a SOFT manner.