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Microsoft doet veel

Kom zojuist een leuk bericht tegen op slashdot. MICROSOFT DEFEATS DR-DOS BY:
- Fraud: Windows issues a warning about DR-DOS that MS knows is false.
- FUD: The DR-DOS evidence includes Microsoft memos planning the FUD campaign.
- Sabotage: Windows 95 has secret calls to prevent it from running on DR-DOS.
- Sabotage: MS purposely keeps DR-DOS out of the Windows Beta-test program (also documented by evidence).


MICROSOFT DEFEATS GEOWORKS BY:

- Sabotage: New MS-DOS release causes Geoworks to fail.

MICROSOFT DEFEATS WORDPERFECT BY:

- Fraud: MS publicly announces that OS/2 is the future direction.
- Sabotage: MS provides WordPerfect with faulty Windows APIs.

MICROSOFT DEFEATS OS/2 BY:

- Fraud: Microsoft pretends to support OS/2, then abandons it.
- FUD: Microsoft pays people to disparage OS/2 in posts in forums, letters to the editor, etc.
- Suspected Theft: Microsoft is believed to have borrowed OS/2 IP to use in Windows 3.1.
- Suspected Sabotage: Microsoft is believed to have provided less than their best code for OS/2.

MICROSOFT DEFEATS AMIPRO BY:

- Sabotage: Windows 95 causes AmiPro function-keys to break.

MICROSOFT DEFEATS NETSCAPE BY:

- Contract Interference: Microsoft pays sites to stop using Netscape (thus "cutting off Netscape's air supply").
- Extortion: Microsoft threatens VARs who preload Netscape.
- Extortion: Microsoft threatens Apple with the cancellation of MS Office for the Mac, unless Apple drops Netscape.

MICROSOFT ATTEMPTS TO DEFEAT JAVA BY:

- Sabotage: Microsoft tries to "kill cross-platform Java by growing the polluted [J++] Java market." - Fraud: Microsoft memo shows plan to keep quiet about the incompatibilities so that J++ users will unintentionally create Windows-only code.

AND NOW MICROSOFT IS ATTEMPTING TO DEFEAT LINUX BY:

- Fud: Obviously.

- Fraud: False claims, planted by partners like Toqueville.

- Legal Attacks: Microsoft funded the SCO attack.

- Patents: Future.

- Legislation: DRM, etc.

- Proprietary Internet Protocols: MS Multimedia formats, .Net authentication protocols, DRM.

- Secret Hardware Protocols: Working with partners like NVidia (closed source drivers), ATI (closed source drivers), and AMD (the unpublished memory-access fix).

- Locking-in Linux: Working with partners like NVidia and ATI (closed source drivers), possibly Trolltech (the proprietary version of Qt, Qt support for .Net), possibly CodeWeavers (promoting MS Office on Linux, and ActiveX on the Internet), possibly Xandros and a couple of other Linux distributers (proprietary Linux admin tools, Qt-only desktop environment, promoting MS Office on Linux, etc.), possibly Macromedia (Flash), and who knows who else.

- Infiltration: MS plants joining Open Source projects to cause interference, wearing out the leaders through constant complaining, driving away other developers by acting like jerks, pushing the project in bad directions, etc.

- Infiltration: MS plants joining Open Source projects and pretending to be die-hard supporters, then pushing for overly-tight licensing, convincing others to add special restrictions that limit the software's use (possible examples: DotGNU, XFree86), using LGPL for what should be BSD (CodeWeaver's Wine), using GPL for what should be LGPL (MySQL), and so on.

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