04.19.09
Posted in America, Bill Gates, Finance, Fraud, ISO, Microsoft, Office Suites, Open XML, OpenDocument, OpenOffice at 9:17 am by Roy Schestowitz
Summary: From ISO to Washington, a vigilant’s view helps the understanding of particular deeds
ANDY UPDEGROVE has just found this news which is titled “New ISO Technical Committee Addresses Fraud Countermeasures and Controls.”
Oh, the irony! Can ISO use this standard to finally take care of itself? For the uninitiated, OOXML’s reputation as a fraud is well earned and the evidence too compelling, not just plentiful. ISO took part in this alongside Microsoft, which has its share of cronies inside ISO [1, 2].
Looking at the news, we find this article which speaks about Microsoft’s deprecation of old formats that application adapted to over the years. In relation to this article, writes Andre:
The latest discussed advocacy scheme for OOXML: The old binary formats implementations are insecure and attention to fix security flaws of implementations is reduced.
This would not be the first time that Microsoft is using this strategy. We wrote about it many time since the issue first arose [1, 2, 3, 4]. The only security menace appears to be Microsoft OOXML, which is new, untested, and whose code is not available for inspection.
For those who want a mature product which uses the international standard, there is already OpenOffice.org, whose situation is explained in the following new article from IT Pro.
IBM, Sun and OpenOffice.org
During the ongoing flirtation between IBM and Sun Microsystems, little has been said about OpenOffice.org, which has been viewed as one of the less significant parts of Sun’s open source portfolio.
Here are some remarks on the product’s relation to Novell’s fork [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7].
“OpenOffice.org [...] is claimed to be downloaded 2-3 million times per week.”More and more nations are moving to OpenOffice.org and the software is claimed to be downloaded 2-3 million times per week. That’s a stunning number which shows it just about doubling in over a year. It’s probably due to the economic slump around the world — a slump which stimulates savings. Microsoft is of course very worried about this because its Office margins are hurt just like Windows', so it resorts to FUD and thinks about software patents as a weapon.
On a separate note, does the state of Washington even consider anything but Microsoft Windows and Office? Of course not, according to the latest findings. Their choice is based on ‘faith’ or relationships (or whose pockets the diplomats are in). Speaking of Washington, watch what Microsoft is doing right now.
Microsoft is offering 30,000 of the vouchers in Washington as part of a national program.
This is part of a broader scam which we covered last week. There are some more Gates public relations stunts at the moment. It helps shift focus away from the principal functions of the Gates Foundation (where far bigger amounts of money are circulating — billions, not millions [1, 2]). █
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04.18.09
Posted in Africa, Asia, Europe, FOSS, FUD, ISO, Microsoft, Open XML at 4:08 am by Roy Schestowitz
Trust thy institute
Summary: A batch of stories that deserve greater attention
THIS IS A SET of new observations about Microsoft’s affairs in international establishments and governments.
Beware the Black Ducks
It is worrying to find that a purely proprietary software company created by a (former) Microsoft employee is becoming some sort of a self-appointed speaker for FOSS. A few days ago we found Black Duck Software cited in some major publications where its take on open source is embraced without question, despite the company’s sheer hypocrisy (it doesn’t even do open source) and occasional FUD, which is exactly how it makes business for itself. It’s the classic business model to offer medicine which combats perceived risk and newly-created problems.
ISO
The OOXML fiasco is far from over and there is a new scandal brewing. To summarise:
ISO SC34, now heavily controlled by Microsoft people who go to ISO meeting happening all over the planet, has published a report of defects of the pseudo ISO standard ISO29500. They do not provide a definition of what is an “existing document”.
That’s what happens when ISO gets controlled by Microsoft (at least the relevant parts of it).
India
In previous writings about the Bharatiya Janata Party (in India) [1, 2] we placed insufficient emphasis on this party’s level of posturing (potential stunt). We first witnessed it a few days ago and we have readers provide us with more evidence that includes:
The BJP’s awkward embrace of Free Software
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The IT manifesto of the Bharatiya Janata Party has created ripples among software circles with its support for Free and Open Source Software (FOSS), and its opposition to “digital standards.” While the Kerala government has a policy that makes the use of FOSS in government and education mandatory, Tamil Nadu has implemented it in a few departments. Left parties have for long backed the Free Software movement politically. It is surprising that the BJP, with its strong pro-corporate and pro-patent leanings, should back this cause.
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Consider this. As late as January 2009, the BJP government in Gujarat, led by Chief Minister Narendra Modi, inked a deal with the global proprietary software giant Microsoft that includes a Microsoft-developed IT curriculum for high school students, teacher training, certification programmes, and offers free Microsoft software development tools to universities.
This seems like a very easy target for Indian EDGI [1, 2].
Portugal
We’ve just learned that the exclusive benefits to Microsoft are inquired by MPs at the Portuguese Parliament, despite existing complaints about Microsoft corruption in the country. Microsoft also mocks GNU/Linux and publicly frowns upon Free software advocates over there.
South Africa
Speaking of government affairs with Microsoft, Tectonic reports that one of Microsoft’s nightmares in South African has just departed.
SA government loses key OSS advocate
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Besides being the chairperson of the government’s open source workgroup Raffee was also a prime advocate of open source software and standards in government circles as well as more widely in South Africa and the world. Over the past two years he and his department played a key role in the opposition to the OOXML standards process at the International Standards Organisation, hosted the second OpenDocument Format workshop in South Africa and led the battle for South Africa’s Independent Electoral Commission to open up its website to all South African citizens.
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The South African government is still home to many staunch open source advocates but losing Raffee will undoubtedly leave a noticeable hole in its ranks.
We already know what Microsoft did in South Africa [1, 2, 3], which it treated in its fashionable cult-like approach. It even insulted South African people and did everything within its power to derail ODF and GNU/Linux [1, 2, 3] in this strong, stubborn nation which understands the detrimental impact of colonialism.
Knowing what Microsoft did in India and in Massachusetts, namely the overthrow of opposition [1, 2, 3], we decided to check why the man above left the government and asked the author about it. Publicly he replied: “I don’t think he was pushed. But never say never.” Who will replace the guy? That may be the key question. █
“No other large companies as far as I know use their employees as attack dogs to silen[ce] dissent. It’s time for Microsoft to stop this nonsense.”
–The Prickly Prince From Microsoft Strikes Again
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04.12.09
Posted in Formats, ISO, Microsoft, Open XML, OpenDocument, Standard at 8:43 am by Roy Schestowitz
Or both
“Moox is da bomb!”
Summary: Spin watch is required as attempts to rewrite past events get noticed
ALEX Brown is pretending that all is fine and dandy with OOXML (he even shows a picture of a smiling face), despite all the OOXML corruption which had people protest out in the streets. André has already replied to end this posturing:
“Over at Rick Jelliffe’s blog Rick has been carrying out something of an exposé of the unfortunate imbalance in the stakeholders represented in the maintenance of ODF at OASIS (something which will become even more acute if Sun is, in the end, snapped-up by IBM). Personally I think Rick is right that it is vitally important to have a good mix of voices at the standardisation table: big vendors, small vendors, altruistic experts, users, government representatives, etc. WG 4 is getting there, but it too has some way to go.”
–> Like in your ISO Committee? I see.
“It is disappointing to see the poor rate of progress on meaningful interoperability and harmonisation work. Of course these things are motherhood and apple pie in discussion – but when the time comes to find volunteers to actually help, few hands go up. In my view, the only hope of achieving any meaningful harmonisation work is to get Another Big Vendor interested in backing it, and I know some behind-the-scenes work will be taking place to beat the undergrowth and see if just such a vendor can be found.”
–> No idea: “Another Big Vendor”. Get me a hint please.
From my perspective the best involvement would emerge from government users who understand that control over document formats is a matter of national security and soverenity. An involvement would usually come from those who have massive free and sustainable capacity, for instance the army, NATO etc. or the foreign office. However, these users would naturally show very little interest in a takeoff of Open XML. Their involvement would guarantee that we move towards an open situation, not an opec one.
The funny thing is that Alex Brown makes it glaringly obvious who he’s with [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21]. A couple of days ago he said this to his colleague, Microsoft partner, and friend whom he attributes in his Web site: “@jlundstocholm Now groklaw has bitten on my ODF/OOXML tweet; true to form, omits to quote the ODF bit when reporting it.” In case it’s not obvious, “jlundstocholm” is Jesper Lund Stocholm [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9], who is lurking in the ODF lists while slagging ODF off and bragging about all the traffic he gets for it from Microsoft employees (he wrote about this in Twitter last week).
Need it be added that Brown is among the minority which chooses Microsoft software for Web hosting? █
“If this unethical behaviour by Microsoft was not sufficiently despicable, they did the unthinkable by involving politics in what should have been a technical evaluation of the standard by writing to the head of the Malaysian standards organization and getting its business partners to engage in a negative letter writing campaign to indicate lack of support of ODF in the Malaysian market. Every single negative letter on ODF received by the Malaysian standards organization was written either by Microsoft, or a Microsoft business partner or a Microsoft affiliated organization (Initiative for Software Choice and IASA).“
A Memo to Patrick Durusau
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04.10.09
Posted in America, Formats, Fraud, ISO, Microsoft, Office Suites, Open XML, OpenDocument, Standard at 7:48 pm by Roy Schestowitz
Microsoft’s “Mission Lock-in” is Accomplished
Summary: Further to this week's Microsoft Office crimes (and conviction) in Germany, the return on investment in OOXML corruption is debated
ONE YEAR after the climatic peak of the OOXML corruption, a person who attended the BRM reveals that Microsoft has no intention to even properly maintain OOXML. It’s just a proprietary format that Microsoft needed an ISO stamp for; it’s not intended for actual use and it remains awfully buggy, by admission that is made openly (it bears repeating that Microsoft will never ever implement OOXML). This would be truly amazing to an outsider but hardly surprising to those who watched how Microsoft bullied, lied, blackmailed, and bribed to pass OOXML past ISO. it’s all documented. Here is where things stand today:
The document N1101/N1168 contains for example, several items in which they recognize that there are decisions made in the BRM (BRM resolutions) which were not incorporated into the final published text of the standard. In other words, even taking almost a year after the aproval of the standard to publish the text (yes, approved without reading), there wasn’t time/attention or anything else necessary to assure that the changes were published in the text (most of those changes, “conditioned” the approval). What makes me much more angry about this is that during the BRM I asked about who would be responsible for verifying that all these changes would be part of the final text and the answer was ITTF (kind of joint ISO/IEC secretariat). When I asked if the ITTF would really make this work, I received as a reply the intimidating: “You are doubting the ITTF, kid ?”…
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I saved the best for the end: document N1187. This one says that OpenXML “as is” contains unintentional errors that may prevent existing documents to be fully represented in this new format. It is amazing because the legacy support was alleged as the main reason for OpenXML development and approval at ISO, and also the reason why several countries supported the development and approval of the standard. In this document, they also explain the criteria that will be used to specify the changes that will be developed, so that they can do it all really quickly (in other words, they go trough the breaches of the JTC1 directives to get these changes incorporated into standard already approved without making much noise about it).
Unfortunately I can not put all these documents here, to allow access trough the blog, because they should be restricted SC34 documents (yep, zero transparency), but I believe that sooner or later they will be published somewhere (and of course, NB members should already received those).
Speaking of OOXML, which can be seen as almost synonymous with white-collar crime, here is a good new article about — and against — lobbying, where Microsoft is the shamed industry leader (meaning that it manipulates governments the most, primarily in the United States [1, 2, 3, 4]).
There’s a reason why lobbying has boomed so much over the last decade. The potential return on investment is just too lucrative to pass up. Some things are easy to quantify, a contract, an earmark, or a direct payment for services. But other things, like tax breaks, can take a little bit more time to figure out (at least for now). For example, a University of Kansas study, to be released today, will show that firms pushing for a “tax holiday” in 2004 received a 22,000% return on their lobbying investment. I’ll write that number again: 22,000%.
The cost of breaking ISO, breaking the law, and making more enemies is perhaps belittled by the high margins of Microsoft’s most profitable product, Microsoft Office. So again, to Microsoft, all this crime was a case study or a textbook example in RoI (return on investment). It’s the economics of crime.
When it comes to the OOXML fiasco, the regret is not to do with the misbehaviour; it’s probably to do with getting caught. █
“I have lost my sleep and peace of mind for last two months over these distasteful activities by Microsoft.”
–Professor Deepak Phatak
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04.09.09
Posted in FOSS, FUD, Fraud, GNU/Linux, ISO, Interoperability, Microsoft, Open XML, Red Hat, Standard, Steve Ballmer, Ubuntu at 4:46 am by Roy Schestowitz
‘We recommend that we *informally* plant the bug of FUD in their ears. “Have you heard about problems with DR DOS?”‘
–Microsoft (internal correspondence)
Summary: Facing sheer pressure, Microsoft goes out of its way to harm its competition
Slandering GNU/Linux
Microsoft is again using NPD, as well as its turncoat reporters, to spread disinformation about GNU/Linux in sub-notebooks. The level of FUD is so appalling that even Canonical has had to issue a response which it labeled “Microsoft, FUD and the netbook market.”
Brandon Le Blanc from Microsoft posted an interesting post about Netbooks and Linux last week. While we agreed with his comments about customers wanting choice and looking for outstanding hardware options, we disagree with much of his analysis and unsurprisingly the overall ’spin’ of the post.
Read on for the factual defence.
Hijacking “Open Source”
CMSWire has been repeatedly selling out to Microsoft quite recently by giving them a voice every now again — a platform on which to pose as an open source player. In the latest example of this, CMSWire at least appends a criticism section where it states:
More and more governments at all levels, such as the entire UK government and the French Gendarmerie, are committing to open source and open standards on a broad level. Many businesses and other organizations are moving more to free and open source solutions as they try to stretch shrinking budgets.
What may be happening is that Microsoft is simply seeing the writing on the wall: play ball and make sure your software works with other solutions, or you will become irrelevant.
Then they’ll shout: “we’re open! … we’re interoperable.”
It would be wrong to buy this. They try to ram abuse and proprietary technology down people’s throats, relying on a company that routinely commits offences (example from yesterday) while assimilating itself to the competition and making it indistinguishable that way. Pure evil, but proving effective so far. Can they sue companies like TomTom for using open source and then pretend nothing is amiss?
Mocking ODF and Downplaying OOXML Crimes
Corruption surrounding OOXML is a well-documented fact. The person who eventually organised some of this process (his predecessor ran away at sight of abuse) is a Microsoft crony [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21] and it still shows, even months later. Here is Alex Brown flirting with Microsoft employees and blaming rules rather than Microsoft corruption. How convenient a revisionism.
Bluehost’s CEO… AGAIN…
In his latest blog post which he titled “Microsoft… AGAIN…” the CEO of Bluehost gives a piece of his mind regarding Microsoft, and not for the first time. This time there is less cursing [1, 2].
I guess I just don’t have much self control. It seems I can’t go six months without writing something negative about Microsoft. I don’t think its my fault. Microsoft just makes it so easy sometimes. Lets examine a couple of quotes by Microsoft management and then you tell me if I’m wrong or not (Have I ever been wrong 
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Here is the man himself - Steve Ballmer
Yes, “the man himself.” The man who said “people that use Red Hat, at least with respect to our intellectual property, in a sense have an obligation to compensate us” and “we believe every Linux customer basically has an undisclosed balance-sheet liability.”
Microsoft is too desperate to make revenue from taxation of its competitors because Free software and GNU/Linux forced its pricing tariffs down (Windows is now as cheap as $5). █
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03.31.09
Posted in FOSS, GNU/Linux, Google, IBM, ISO, Microsoft at 7:35 am by Roy Schestowitz
But Microsoft was not even excluded
THERE is some outrageous coverage in the press which not only misses the point that Microsoft was kept inside the “Open Cloud Manifesto” loop; it also falls for Microsoft’s PR stunt, which almost characterises the company as a proponent of openness.
Having witnessed how Microsoft has already subverted ISO, the OSI, ODF, and even the W3C, only one who was born yesterday would allow Microsoft to participate in such a forum or consortium. This is the company whose CEO overrules the judgment of his developers in order to break standards and injure the market. To quote one example:
“In one piece of mail people were suggesting that Office had to work equally well with all browsers and that we shouldn’t force Office users to use our browser. This Is wrong and I wanted to correct this.
“Another suggestion In this mail was that we can’t make our own unilateral extensions to HTML I was going to say this was wrong and correct this also.”
–Bill Gates, Microsoft [PDF]
What sane person would allow such a company to participate in the formation of standards?
One important point to be made is that Amazon, which now has several Microsoft employees among its top ranks, is a proponent of lock-in as well. It’s not just the troublesome DRM in Swindle. Here is some more information about it:
Can you have an Open Cloud Manifesto without Amazon, Google, Salesforce and Microsoft?
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The principles and document overall are cast in an open source light: If you have APIs that are proprietary—or may be—this document could look pretty rigid…. All of that sounds fine on the surface and customers should be able to cloud hop. But what if you have proprietary APIs like Microsoft’s Azure effort.
As Groklaw (PJ) put it, “it’s all about the APIs. The proprietary dudes want to stay that way and keep customers locked into their cloud. Happily, they were unable to block the Internet’s openness, but they are doing what they can to chop it up now into proprietary bits.”
“So, it turns out that Microsoft made a storm in a teacup, essentially crying about nothing, making drama..”In another article, O’Grady points out that Microsoft’s exclusion was perhaps deliberate when he says that “they may see Microsoft as a threat or impediment, or may not align with what they perceive to see as Microsoft’s ambitions in the space.” In response, wrote Groklaw: “You think? Maybe they watched the “openness” and resulting “standards” and “interoperability” a la Microsoft during the OOXML process at ISO? Maybe when you are drafting a document about openness, Microsoft is the last company that pops into your head? Or maybe, according to this article, the author of the manifesto says Microsoft’s story is surprising since it was one of the first companies shown the document? Ah, the rest of the story. Sadly, one of the authors is now doing some significant back pedaling in a NW direction.”
So, it turns out that Microsoft made a storm in a teacup, essentially crying about nothing, making drama, and hiding intent which is well characterised by the story about its total destruction of ISO’s reputation due to blackmail, bribes, smear campaigns, obstruction of justice and so on.
Speaking of OOXML, here is the latest disgrace:
Portuguese Public Administration forced to use Microsoft Office 2003/7
The Court of Accounts’s Counsil for Corruption Prevention is making a mandatory survey on corruption risks in public procurement, which all public administrators must reply, by law. However, not only the survey is available only in Microsoft’s binary format, but they also demand that it is returned in Microsoft Office 2003/7 XML format (MS-OOXML).
Microsoft is colluding with the Portuguese authorities, then abusing Portuguese taxpayers and AstroTurfing in Twitter for Microsoft Windows in Magalhães. All of this misuse of power has led to a formal complaint, which was filed with the European Commission. What happens next remains to be seen. █
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03.02.09
Posted in Antitrust, Europe, FOSS, Fraud, Google, ISO, Microsoft at 6:56 am by Roy Schestowitz
Summary: Another new revelation about Microsoft’s political battles against Google; Yahoo-Microsoft news; Web browsers initiative to restore some justice
Lies to Attack Competitor
GOOGLE HAS SUFFERED from a political fight against it. This was done single-handedly and thoroughly orchestrated by Microsoft [1, 2]. Wired Magazine has found out that in order to garner support for action against Google, Microsoft did its usual routine of rigging surveys or polls.
Is Microsoft Guilty of Bogus* Polling? Yes.
[..].
That is classic push polling. If you want people to respond one way, ask them leading questions or feed them information that represents just one side in the debate. And it worked here: after hearing the statement about Barnett respondents (who, again, were not very familiar with the deal) claimed, by a score of 80-20 that government regulators did the right thing.
Barnett himself is a Microsoft lackey [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7], so how much more ridiculous can this become?
For Microsoft to rely on such gaming of polls or surveys is not unusual. Microsoft was caught stacking Java and GNU/Linux polls, it used IDC for bogus GNU/Linux surveys (IDC decided to ask only Microsoft customers about GNU/Linux), and a customers survey about the Microsoft/Novell deal was tainted as well. Then, there is ISO's sheer corruption, which relates to the fact that ISO pegged its own vote in order to defend Microsoft (and itself).
Yahoo Agitated into Submission
A couple of days ago we wrote about Yahoo’s CFO letting Microsoft have some kind of an open door. There is further related coverage about it in the news. For example:
Yahoo has openly complained about Microsoft’s harassment. If Yahoo can be crushed through constant pressure, then it becomes more fragile and submissive. Even its management changes over time (characters who are resistant to Microsoft expelled).
Crimes Against Netscape Revisited
On the Internet, Microsoft continues to play dirty. It always has. As a reminder of this, here are some articles which speak about the consequences of crimes that we will cover one day (using Comes court exhibits):
1. E.U. mulling ordering Microsoft to carry rival web browsers
In its regulatory filing in the U.S. submitted late January, Microsoft said that the commission is considering ordering Microsoft and computer makers to “obligate users to choose a particular browser when setting up a new PC.” That might include a requirement that computer manufacturers “distribute multiple browsers on new Windows-based PCs,” Microsoft said in the SEC filing.
2. EC to Microsoft: We may still fine you
In a statement earlier today, European Commission spokesperson Jonathan Todd is quoted by two sources, the International Herald-Tribune and the AFP, as having publicly renewed the EC’s warning to Microsoft that it could impose more fines and force the company to offer competing Web browsers as an alternative to Internet Explorer, for the company’s European edition of Windows 7.
More coverage can be found in:
Dirty and illegal tricks were the dominant pattern of Microsoft’s spiel, so why are some people whining about attempts to restore some justice, never mind if it's belated? █
“What the [user] is supposed to do is feel uncomfortable, and when he has bugs, suspect that the problem is DR-DOS and then go out to buy MS-DOS”
–Brad Silverberg, Microsoft
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02.08.09
Posted in Antitrust, Asia, Courtroom, Finance, Fraud, GNU/Linux, Google, ISO, Intellectual Property, Microsoft, OLPC at 10:31 pm by Roy Schestowitz
- Illegally shooting antelope.
- Throwing chairs and profanities at employees who leave for Google.
- Selling towels and soda machines to survive a financial crisis.
- Making false accusations.
- Bleeding their victims dry in litigation.
- Tax evasion.
- Harvesting other companies’ products, then transforming them into slop in an inept attempt to “integrate” them with all their other assimilated warez.
- Burning people’s houses down, and killing babies, with faulty electrical components, then blaming the victims for not knowing about the recall notice, and demanding they pay the legal fees, whilst challenging the validity of claiming a dead baby represents any kind of “loss”.
- Scratching Xbox games discs, then denying liability, whilst secretly acknowledging it.
- Sabotaging charities for fun and profit.
- Bricking Xboxes with poor ventilation, resulting in a Red Ring of Death, then denying warranty repairs to the victims.
- Shrugging their shoulders as Xbox Live accounts get stolen.
- Pretending to be the police by demanding to audit other companies’ books, if they dare to refuse to renew Windows/Office licenses.
- Infecting the world with a million+ viruses.
- Missing the boat on essential technologies, declaring them to be insignificant, then running around like headless chickens trying to catch up after everyone else has adopted those technologies, whilst claiming that was the plan all along, pretending to have invented that technology, applying for patents on it, assimilating it, perverting it into something proprietary and/or encumbered to Microsoft, then denying everyone else access to that technology.
- Dumping products at a loss in order to destroy competition.
- Getting letters of support from dead bodies.
- Inextricably integrating a Web browser into their OS, in order to try to win the browser standards war.
- Bribing ISO delegates to vote in their favour.
- Bribing Nigerian education suppliers to wipe Linux from schoolkids’ laptops.
- Bribing bloggers with laptops to provide favourable reviews for Vista.
- Talking and behaving like drug dealers.
- Blackmailing OEMs to exclude competing products.
- Running smear campaigns against ISO chairmen who don’t support them.
- Hiring proxies to attack critics.
- Hiring Munchkins to discredit competing products.
- Hiring astroturfers to do damage limitations for Microsoft by proxy.
- Hiring analysts to lie in Microsoft’s favour.
- Creating fake grass-roots organisations to support Microsoft’s agenda.
- Creating shell companies to litigate against their competition by proxy.
- Trying to compete with the world’s most beautifully designed digital media player, by producing something which looks and behaves like a rectangular turd, even to the point of actually being coloured brown (initially).
- Producing a spreadsheet application which can’t actually calculate anything accurately, but which subsequently forms the basis of nearly every business’ office in the world, thus dooming mankind to years of worthless and untrustworthy accounts.
- Hypocritically claiming “IP” infringement, whilst basing their entire business empire on stolen property.
- Breeding an entire generation of toner-monkeys, due to them being taught “Microsoft” instead of “computing” at school.
- Destroying American jobs with cheap, foreign labour, by bribing politicians to extend the H1-B visa program, then making their indigenous workforce redundant instead if immigrant workers, at the first sign of financial trouble.
- Using India as a software engineering sweat-shop.
- Poisoning Free Software with patent-encumbered garbage, with the eager help of FOSS traitors.
Credit: Slated
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