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Novell Settles One Antitrust Claim with Microsoft for $536 Million
Novell Settles One Antitrust Claim with Microsoft for $536 Million
Posted Nov 9, 2004 8:05 UTC (Tue) by Wol (guest, #4433)In reply to: Novell Settles One Antitrust Claim with Microsoft for $536 Million by AnswerGuy
Parent article: Novell Settles One Antitrust Claim with Microsoft for $536 Million
We have loads of evidence that MS engages in dirty tricks. What's wrong with calling them on it? If MS fought fair, then they might have a fair claim that Novell are playing foul. But as I see it, Novell are simply fighting back with exactly the same sort of trick that MS would have used in their position. Sauce for the goose is sauce for the gander.
And it's my firm belief that, just as many other programs were harmed, WordPerfect were destroyed by MS's "dirty tricks" department. I know people say WP5.2Win was a dog - we used it extensively and never had much trouble. But we had nightmares with WP6.
Somewhat "by coincidence", we ran 5.2 on Win3.1, and 6.0 on WFWG ... when we ran 6.0 on Win3.1 it was fine ... I think you can lay pretty much all the trouble with both 5.2 and 6.0 at the feet of WFWG.
And what about 6.1 with MS Office 95? If you installed Office 95 over 6.1, WordPerfect just stopped working. The only way I ever found to get it working again was to "treedel c:\windows" and re-install. Do you *really* believe MS would not have spotted something like that in QA?
Cheers,
Wol
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Novell Settles One Antitrust Claim with Microsoft for $536 Million
Posted Nov 9, 2004 11:21 UTC (Tue) by petegn (guest, #847) [Link]
Do you *really* believe MS would not have spotted something like that in QA?
Almost certainly do there aint a bug in windBloZe that thry are not aware of
and if there is they are few and far between it is all engineered to continue the extraction of moneys from the gullable masses of the computer using world .
That is why the ones that have gotten in touch with there brains are all dumping windBloZe and switching to Linux .
The more cases that can be built against M$ Corp the better if they are in the courts 24/7 all the better they will be broke one way or another and if people dont like the idea then basically tough ..
Pete .
Novell Settles One Antitrust Claim with Microsoft for $536 Million
Posted Nov 9, 2004 14:25 UTC (Tue) by nix (subscriber, #2304) [Link]
Almost certainly do there aint a bug in windBloZe that thry are not aware ofSo what you're saying is that MS's software developers are all-knowing ultra-brilliant programmers?
Sorry, but the generally low quality of MS's software indicates strongly that this argument is hogwash. :)