How the Mighty Have Fallen...

[Jeffrey A. McCright]

Two books come to mind... "Hard Drive" and "Overdrive".

-----Original Message-----
From: owner-kclug at marauder.illiana.net
[mailto:owner-kclug at marauder.illiana.net]On Behalf Of Marvin Bellamy
Sent: Thursday, January 10, 2002 10:40 AM
Cc: Kclug
Subject: Re: How the Mighty Have Fallen...

There are tons of these stories out there on M$.  Does anyone know of 
one good source for finding all of them?

Brian Densmore wrote:

>>This is a Register article about M$ stuffing the ballot box 
>>for an online
>>survey about .Net vs Java.  Somehow, I'm not all that surprised...
>>
>>http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/4/23612.html
>>
><RANT>
>It's hard to fall if you already a bottom feeder. Which M$ always was.
>after all this is a company that out and out stole software through
>reverse engineering and removing the copyright and ownership info and
>recompiled and sold as there own. One prime example was stacker, which a
>judge rightly figured amounted to copyright infringement and awarded
>some measly millions and a product recall against M$. No, if your
>willing to steal and cheat (ex: $5000 purchase of DOS from it's creator
>to license for sh**loads to IBM, he also was later awarded some measly
>millions), there's not much your not willing to do. 
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>Actually come to think of it, it does resemble the beginnings of an evil
>empire. After all thieves, liars, cheats, and frauds all considered
>evil, or at least bad people.
></RANT>
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>Ok I won't rant anymore today. It's just that M$ really pushes my
>button! AND GOSH DARNIT, I got to get it out!
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