[NTLUG:Discuss] Microsoft takes on the free world

[. Daniel]

At some point the public expects a threat to be carried out or a company 
will lose the public's respect.  (Try to see this from the public 
perspective, not as a Linux user.)

I think this is more than just saber rattling.  Microsoft has been testing 
these waters for quite some time and many, including myself, have been 
speculating that the whole SCO issue was simply a means of testing the 
waters to see how things would work out.

But recently, the Japanese government issued a new edict: Dump Microsoft!  
They are switching to Linux on the back end.  It doesn't mean they are 
going to Linux on the desktop... not yet anyway.  But there is one thing 
about the Japanese.  They are slow to make a decision, but when they do, 
it's not up for discussion or negotiation.  If Microsoft tries to send 
someone out to change their mind as they have with other governments making 
similar decisions, the Japanese will take it as an insult... so I kinda 
hope they do. :)

But the world is changing around Microsoft and Microsoft is getting 
scared... as well they should.


>I think it's more FUD and Microsoft is unwilling to try initiating
>full-blown patent war with the rest of the industry - the downsides
>appear to vastly outweigh the upsides for them, but I'm not a Microsoft
>shareholder or anything, so my pov is probably biased.
>
>It just strikes me as more bluster like Ballmer has spewed in the past.
>
>-Dustin
>
>On 07:39 Mon 14 May     , terry wrote:
> > On 5/14/07, Peter Koren <p.koren at worldnet.att.net> wrote:
> > > Microsoft's sock puppet SCO didn't get the job done, so the puppet
> > > master is taking over the job of suing the Open Source community.
> > >
> > > -- Pete
> > >
> > >
> >
> >
> >
> > "they state that FOSS infringes on no fewer than 235 Microsoft 
patents."
> >
> > 
http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/2007/05/28/100033867/

> >
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