PJ's comment when she posted this story in newspicks
PJ's comment when she posted this story in newspicks
Posted Feb 7, 2010 20:58 UTC (Sun) by lacostej (guest, #2760)In reply to: PJ's comment when she posted this story in newspicks by coriordan
Parent article: Matt Asay becomes Canonical's COO
You could answer him that:
Here's a list of some of the things they've done
* patents abuse (e.g. fat)
* monopole abuse
* OS bundling (how many times was I forced to give them money ?)
* IE 6 dominance abuse. Stalled the web for years
* closed de facto "standards" (NTFS, SMB, MSN, WMV, Office Open XML, ...)
* ISO fast track standardization abuse
* stance against open source and GPL
* trusted computing and DRM. Lucky we didn't get that...
Should I go on ?
On the contrary, name things that Microsoft has done with regard to open
standards and open software ? Apart from interoperability with the samba
project (which they were forced to [1]), I don't see much...