Comments on: Mainstream Media Finally Discovers Microsoft’s Anti-Google AstroTurf

By: Yuhong Bao

Yuhong Bao — Mon, 07 Sep 2009 04:13:07 +0000

Yep, when I mention the Open Letter to Hobbyists, I like to mention that it was only 7 years after that letter was written that Stallman decided that leaving users helpless was wrong and started the free softwaer movement.

By: Roy Schestowitz

Roy Schestowitz — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 19:32:06 +0000

See the infamous Letter to Hobbyists, which advises kicking people out. Microsoft is still about exclusion.

By: Yuhong Bao

Yuhong Bao — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 05:42:44 +0000

“Of course, we should be thankful that the Google founders like most businessmen are not as instinctively evil as Bill Gates.”
Yep, indeed I think Bill Gates was an aggressive businessman, which is probably part of the problem.

By: aeshna23

aeshna23 — Mon, 31 Aug 2009 12:41:25 +0000

I hope Google is fighting back and doesn’t want to pretend to be above the fray. I worry that Google’s corporate culture may be a little too passive about business warfare. Of course, we should be thankful that the Google founders like most businessmen are not as instinctively evil as Bill Gates. That last sentence is just another way of saying that most business men seek to profit from competition not by the illegal pursuit of monopoly.