__/ [ yttrx ] on Sunday 04 February 2007 18:37 \__
> http://www.iowaconsumercase.org/011107/PX_2768.pdf
>
>
> "Screw Sun, cross-platform will never work. Let's move
> on and steal the Java Language."
>
> Eric? Comments?
We already know that Microsoft has a criminal mind. It's just another exhibit
in a big pile, e.g.:
Expert Testimony of Ronald Alepin in Comes v. Microsoft - Embrace, Extend,
Extinguish
,----[ Quote ]
| You'll hear some emails read aloud, one of Bill Gates's, an email from
| 1996 about Java, where he says he was losing sleep over how great
| Java was, and you'll see a strategy he suggested -- "fully
| supporting Java and extending it in a Windows/Microsoft way".
|
| [...]
|
| Well, when applets are cross-platform, it expands the number of
| applications that are available to you so you can go to a website.
| And if you have a Linux computer or a Macintosh computer or a Windows 3.1
| computer, you can get an application and it will run.
|
| You don't have to either select a specific application or hope that the
| independent software vendor or the website created the application for your
| platform. So it would increase the number of applications available to you.
`----
http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20070108020408557
Here is a more shocking quote:
http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=2006120516224886
' ...In Monday's opening statement, Conlin read from a Jim Allchin memo, from
the DRI-Novell story. Here's part of what Allchin said about how to deal
with the competitive threat from Novell then:
"We need to slaughter Novell before they get stronger....If you're going to
kill someone, there isn't much reason to get all worked up about it and
angry. You just pull the trigger. Any discussions beforehand are a waste of
time. We need to smile at Novell while we pull the trigger."
Similar to:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ballmer
'Lucovsky said Ballmer threw a chair across the room and shouted: "Fucking
Eric Schmidt is a fucking pussy. I'm going to fucking bury that guy, I have
done it before, and I will do it again. I'm going to fucking kill Google."'
Microsoft is clearly a gentle and kind company whose executives are admirably
humble.
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