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Microsoft sues Barnes and Noble over Android

Microsoft sues Barnes and Noble over Android

Posted Mar 23, 2011 9:16 UTC (Wed) by oldtomas (guest, #72579)
In reply to: Microsoft sues Barnes and Noble over Android by klbrun
Parent article: Microsoft sues Barnes and Noble over Android

> Have you checked the price of a browser recently?

Have you checked the price of malware recently?

Sad as it sounds: browsers are taking the place of malware more and more. "Loss leaders" is the technical term, AFAIR.

Yes, the intentions of the Mozilla Foundation may be laudable (and they are buying us a couple of years: hadn't Microsoft busted it by killing Netscape off too early, in its unlimited greed, we'd possibly be at that point by now), but the vulnerability of this whole construction to corporate greed is just mind-numbing:

Users are not the clients. Users are the wares.


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