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Microsoft goalsMicrosoft goalsPosted Jan 10, 2008 23:48 UTC (Thu) by BrucePerens (subscriber, #2510)In reply to: Microsoft goals by man_ls Parent article: Why Microsoft Must Control One Laptop Per Child (Technocrat.net) I'd be happy if that's all they were doing. We've no problem if they fight fair. But the gaming of standards organizations is only the most recent example of their not doing so.
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Microsoft goals Posted Jan 11, 2008 0:25 UTC (Fri) by man_ls (subscriber, #15091) [Link] You are of course right. But it is not even clear that they need those unfair practices. Cusumano argues in "The business of software" that this is what happened in the browser wars during the late nineties: Microsoft played dirty with Netscape and won, but they would have won regardless. Netscape just had a lousy strategy.I just say: let us make it more interesting this time.
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