____/ Mark Kent on Thursday 06 December 2007 08:45 : \____
> Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> espoused:
>> ____/ Mark Kent on Wednesday 05 December 2007 12:35 : \____
>>
>>> Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> espoused:
>>>> Director: Microsoft fueling HD wars
>>>>
>>>> ,----[ Quote ]
>>>>| Microsoft is deliberately feeding into the HD disc format wars to ensure
>>>>| that its own downloads succeed where physical copies fail, says movie
>>>>| director Michael Bay in a response to a question posed through his
>>>>| official forums. The producer contends that Microsoft is writing "$100
>>>>| million dollar checks" to movie studios to ensure HD DVD exclusives that
>>>>| hurt the overall market regardless of the format's actual merit or its
>>>>| popularity, preventing any one format from gaining a clear upper hand.
>>>>| Bay's own Transformers is available on disc only in the less popular HD
>>>>| DVD format despite his stated preference for Blu-ray. To the director,
>>>>| this is primarily a stalling tactic while Microsoft refines its own
>>>>| online-only technology.
>>>> `----
>>>>
>>>> http://www.electronista.com/articles/07/12/04/bay.on.microsoft.hd/
>>>>
>>>
>>> MS know only about monopolies.
>>
>> That's just vicious. From /. [1], I've just realised that this is a director
>> of Transformers or something, so you're not looking at some arbitrary guy
>> making this claim. I added the Cringely reference at the bottom of the OP.
>>
>> Also...
>>
>> Scott M. Fulton, III:
>>
>> "What did happen that day in 1994 is an example of how Microsoft
>> approaches its everyday business: not by applying itself to the truths
>> and principles and operating parameters of its chosen industry, and
>> not by solving the arguably solvable problems put before it, but
>> instead by concocting a fantasy world where Microsoft is the world's
>> great benefactor, the great multitude is the recipient of its mercy
>> and grace, and all other entities in the computing industry are
>> either--to borrow a recently reborn phrase--"with us or against us."
>> This is a world where media entities such as Newsweek, and
>> professional observers such as myself, should stand in awe of that
>> company's "accomplishments," as if its role-playing conquests held
>> tangible value in any currency in which common people trade."
>>
>>
>>
>> [1] Slashdot also made me realise that one site is not prepared to handle
>> [high
>> loads, so I'm receiving E-mails now about it being temporarily offline. It's
>> weird because last December it could cope with Digg and Slashdot effect
>> simultaneously. By the way, Novell delayed its financial reports (looking
>> grim).
>>
>
> Novell are in extremely big trouble, I'm sure. The reason why they're
> cuddling up to Microsoft so much is that they're hoping that Microsoft
> will rescue them by some means. I think that they'd've had more luck
> with IBM.
>
> The concern I still have with Novell is, like Dell and their Linux PCs,
> they're hoping that going "open" will be a lifeline in an otherwise
> collapsing business. Unfortunately, new business models take a long
> time to develop, and they're rather late into the game. I suspect that
> the net result of Novell's acquisition of SuSE will be the death of
> SuSE.
With the GPL, you'll still have the code. But Novell opened a can of worms that
hurts not only SUSE, but everyone else too -- software patents. Then there's
Microsoft's 'pledge' (READ: shackles) for OpenSUSE developers.
The Novell martionette will dance to the Microsoft music as long as it has
impact in the community. Many SUSE developers have left and Novell seems more
fascinated with .NET. It has to.
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