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Microsoft's Ethical Guidelines

Posted by kdawson on from the oxy-meet-moron dept.

hankwang writes "Did you know that Microsoft has ethical guidelines? It's good to know that 'Microsoft did not make any payments to foreign government officials' while lobbying for OOXML, and that 'Microsoft conducts its business in compliance with laws designed to promote fair competition' every time they suppressed competitors. In their Corporate Citizenship section, they discuss how the customer-focused approach creates products that work well with those of competitors and open-source solutions. So all the reverse-engineering by Samba and OpenOffice.org developers wasn't really necessary."

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  1. what is the point of this MS bashing? by timmarhy · · Score: 0, Flamebait
    what the fuck do nerds who post this dribble think is going to happen, that MS will tremble at their scorn? Every single company with more than a few 100 employees has these kinds of corporate statements which are supposed to be all touchy feelie but completely optional. some dick at MS probably has a job doing nothing but writing this crap, it doesn't make MS a single bit evil.

    frankly that anyone finds this news worthy shows the level of naivety around here....

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  2. Vista broke DHCP. by Zombie+Ryushu · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Are you aware, that Vista did something that caused DHCP to break for many many home based residential gateway "routers" - and among one of the things that was broken was Linux's dhcpd?

    I have one Vista Client. We can't use DHCP with it, we have to use static addressing just for that node to work.

    More and more Vista boxes with broken DHCP clients get put out every day. And when I'm brought a Vista client with one of those horribly broken DHCP clients I'm told "Its Linux's problem, "fix" Linux's DHCP Server.

  3. Re:All your base are belong to us... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    It was written with Slashdot's typical degree of rabid zealotry.

    Fixed that for ya.