____/ nessuno@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx on Sunday 16 December 2007 23:13 : \____
>
>> Just another limp lamer with a tortured interpretation of events and a
>> thesis that Microsoft stole the cheese out of the community rat trap and
>> owes it success to nothing more than being a poor sport. One wonders why
>> others have had such limited success, though.
>
> <Quote>
> By the end of the 90s, reality reigned in on Microsoft and it began
> racking up a series of settlement obligations it was forced to pay to
> other victims of its copy-killing efforts and related anti-trust
> actions:
>
> * Microsoft paid Caldera $275 million for its antitrust actions
> against DR-DOS.
> * Microsoft recently settled with IBM in an antitrust suit
> involving OS/2 and IBM's Lotus SmartSuite applications to the tune of
> $775 million.
> * Microsoft paid Novell $539 million to settle its antitrust suit
> over the NetWare operating system, and Microsoft is still being sued
> by Novell over claims related to WordPerfect.
> * Microsoft paid Palm over $23 million to settle an antitrust suit
> over the unfinished BeOS.
> * Microsoft settled with Sun in an agreement that included $700
> million in antitrust and $900 million in patent infringements, both
> related to Java.
> * Microsoft paid AOL $750 million to settle the antitrust suit
> over Netscape.
> </Quote>
>
> Just which part of this is a "tortured interpretation of events?"
nessuno, don't bother with Weisgerber. He is a shill, a troll (provoking in
groups he has nothing to do with), and a total waste of time. He also has
something to do with Microsoft's PR, so you're talking about an agent here.
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