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Re: [News] [Rival] Microsoft Shoves XAML/WPF Infection into Startups, Uses "Charity" Guise

  • Subject: Re: [News] [Rival] Microsoft Shoves XAML/WPF Infection into Startups, Uses "Charity" Guise
  • From: "[H]omer" <spam@xxxxxxx>
  • Date: Fri, 05 Oct 2007 03:33:30 +0100
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Verily I say unto thee, that Roy Schestowitz spake thusly:

> Will Microsoft's Katrina Goodwill Go Bad?
> 
> ,----[ Quote
> | The first benefit really goes to Microsoft and its reseller partners rather 
> | than to the larger group of small businesses seeking aid. What kind of 
> | hurricane relief is that?  
> `----
> 
> http://www.microsoft-watch.com/content/business_applications/will_microsofts_katrina_goodwill_go_bad.html?kc=MWRSS02129TX1K0000535
> http://tinyurl.com/2neepw

.----
| To get the one year of free licensing, small businesses must make a
| three-year commitment to subscribe to Microsoft's Open Value
| volume-licensing program. Small businesses generally don't purchase
| software through volume licensing, and Open Value has a rocky
| record wooing small business subscribers. One way to look at this:
| Microsoft is using the one-year license giveaway to increase Open
| Value adoption among small businesses ravaged by the hurricanes.
| That's goodwill?
`----

Only a company like Microsoft could exploit human suffering of for
money. How can anyone, in good conscience, stand by such a company?

-- 
K.
http://slated.org

.----
| "OOXML is a superb standard"
| - GNU/Linux traitor, Miguel de Icaza.
`----

Fedora release 7 (Moonshine) on sky, running kernel 2.6.22.1-41.fc7
 03:30:11 up 57 days,  2:25,  2 users,  load average: 0.03, 0.06, 0.06

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