Verily I say unto thee, that Linonut spake thusly:
> Unlike Borland, where Microsoft paid a PR penalty (and later scored a
> lawsuit) for sending limos to the parking lot and interviewing
> anybody who would get in, by entering a formal due diligence period
> with Intuit, Microsoft got access to many details, including Intuit's
> product plans and employee records. By the time they bailed on the
> deal, Microsoft had a very good idea exactly which Intuit employees
> to recruit to both improve Microsoft Money and to hurt Quicken,
> QuickBooks, and TurboTax.
Microsoft's Mafia tactics are well know. This is just one of many.
> (Wonder what tack they took to get to Miquel?)
They offered him a job, then he got "very interested"[1] in Microsoft's
chronically insecure[2] ActiveX. He's had a woody for the Vole's garbage
ever since, including the blob-infested[3] OOXML, which he describes as
"a superb standard"[4]; and Microsoft's anti-Cross-Platform[5] answer to
Flash called Silverlight, which he describes as "a fantastic development
platform"[6].
Yes indeed, he's quite the Microsoft Evangelist. His other two hobbies
include poisoning Gnome[7] with Microsoft's proprietary junk, and
attending Microsoft Professional Developers conferences[8].
[1] http://primates.ximian.com/~miguel/gnome-history.html
[2] http://www.securityfocus.com/news/11403
[3] http://www.arstdesign.com/articles/office2007bin.html
[4] http://tinyurl.com/3bgojl (Google Groups)
[5] http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/05/01/microsoft_open_source_mix/
[6] http://tirania.org/blog/archive/2007/Jun-21.html
[7] http://boycottnovell.com/2008/02/15/mono-contamination-in-ubuntu/
[8] http://blog.seattlepi.nwsource.com/microsoft/archives/108383.asp
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