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Re: [News] Microsoft's Gangsters Pressure Free/Open Source Software Out of Events

  • Subject: Re: [News] Microsoft's Gangsters Pressure Free/Open Source Software Out of Events
  • From: Homer <usenet@xxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Mon, 10 Nov 2008 04:16:48 +0000
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Verily I say unto thee, that Roy Schestowitz spake thusly:

> Microsoft and Salesforce bounce open-source competitors from events
> 
> ,----[ Quote ]
> | At last year's EduCause conference, an inside source tells me,
> | Microsoft refused to sponsor the conference unless the conference
> | organizers denied Zimbra the opportunity to take a big, prominent
> | booth at the event.
> `----
> 
> http://news.cnet.com/8301-13505_3-10083672-16.html

Is this one of those many; many disreputable things Microsoft does that
the trolls will just ignore; cough a few times; bury their heads in the
sand; promptly forget about; later deny, then claim we're "zealots" for
lying or exaggerating when we call Microsoft gangsters?

-- 
K.
http://slated.org

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