Microsoft is not evil because they are Microsoft

Microsoft is not evil because they are Microsoft

Posted Jun 29, 2004 16:39 UTC (Tue) by Baylink (subscriber, #755)
In reply to: Microsoft is not eveil because they are Microsoft by Ross
Parent article: On dealing with Microsoft

No, they're not evil.

They're amoral.

It'a the natural result of being a public company.

But, from our viewpoint, we have to *treat* it as evil, since it has the same results. Micros~1's goal is the same as any other public company: maximize shareholder value. In any necessary fashion, lest the officers get canned and the directors sued.

And since the only practical way they can see to stay in business (going out of business tends to minimize shareholder value in the extreme) is to put F/OSS out of business, whether by competition, by legislation, or by painting us as terrorist-helpers and letting Justice do it, then yes, I agree with those who assert that it's a war.

Our not wanting to be in a war has little to nothing to do with whether it is one.

But, of course, it may just be me.

(Say it with me now :-) So many things are just me.

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