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Microsoft's Ethical Guidelines
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."
After the Vista debacle and how easy it was for Samba to implement the new CIFS, Microsoft has surrendered to the inevitable now.
They've now built and operate an interoperability testing laboratory for the Samba team to use to improve integration with Samba.
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Offtopic, Flamebait, Troll...
Maybe.
But Insightful?
It'd be insightful if it wasn't copypasta.
I didn't say it was your fault, I said I was going blame you for it!
That's why all the African countries are a miserable failure.
No! It's because the WTO actively keeps them that way and creates vendettas, so we can steal all their resources.
The miserable failure are you, for believing the bullshit of the WTO.
Just go and watch "The Yes Men". The WTO is the single most criminal organization on the world.