M$- Fascism
Headline from Business Week:
Microsoft critic dismissed by @Stake
A computer security expert who contributed to a paper deeply critical of Microsoft has been dismissed by his employer, a consulting company that works closely with the software giant.
Link:http://www.businessweek.com/technolo...es/5082649.htm
Hey guys! Any of you work at companies with "ties" to M$? Gotta watch out!
Microsoft critic dismissed by @Stake
A computer security expert who contributed to a paper deeply critical of Microsoft has been dismissed by his employer, a consulting company that works closely with the software giant.
Link:http://www.businessweek.com/technolo...es/5082649.htm
Hey guys! Any of you work at companies with "ties" to M$? Gotta watch out!
Comments
Congratulations @Stake, your company now represents everything thats wrong with America. Another wimpy-jump-on-the-bandwaggon-to-get-money-despite-the-morality-of-it-or-lack-thereof company (A wjotbtgmdtmoiolt Company)....
I'm so happy
We never have problems
We never discover horrorific problems in core system components
MS never tells us that they consider us to be an obsolete market player
Despite the fact that we are the dominant market player
How kind of them to want to partner with us so that they can pimp their own solutions
MS is almost as nice as Oracle who tries to get our customers to switch over to their soultions even though we encourage our clients to buy Oracle for their large DB needs
How kind of Oracle and MS to tell us that we are obsolete and to try to get our users to dump us
Of course our users tell them that they would dump them before us (and switch to Sun/AIX/DB2). In the end, I think that MS and Oracle are just jealous that they can't buy us out even though we are a much smaller company than both of them. When you have been in business longer than Oracle and MS, you just kind of laugh at their really cheasy attempts at FUD.
This kind of underhanded dirty tactics stuff is just how the industry works. It is kind of a kindler gentler robber baron train monopolist thing (in the old days, you wound up dead). Working for one of the companies that actually gives a damn about its users (and receives undying user loyalty) is actually a very nice thing. When MS threatens us, we counter that we have a good reselling plan with Sun and IBM and a forthcoming Linux version. When Oracle gets moody, we talk about how we work on DB2/Informix/SQL server. You get used to it and you move on. It isn't as if Apple doesn't do the same thing. Apple goes after rumor sites and companies that leak the story on their releases (ATI). It just happens and this kind of stuff is prevalent. In the end, you make sure that you have something to fight back with if they really go to war with you.
Sounds about right, though. Except that it puts people who don't offer tangible products (like reporters and researchers) in rather perilous positions.
Where are you finding critical flaws in MS system components?! There aren't any of those!
Originally posted by Amorph
It took me two blinks to realize that wasn't a pscates post.
Sounds about right, though. Except that it puts people who don't offer tangible products (like reporters and researchers) in rather perilous positions.
Where are you finding critical flaws in MS system components?! There aren't any of those!
The DirectX bug comes to mind. Total MS bug that prevented a product launch on our part (and no, we don't make video games). Don't worry, it was fixed in 8.1 (or was it 8.2). If anyone has DirectX 9.0, then they have the fix for sure.
Well, this is why reporters and researchers are in a bad spot. Researchers aren't in such a bad spot because usually their institution protects them and because in the CS world, it is a very very bad thing to beat up on researchers.
If you are a large company, it is good to have either options or to be fully wedded to the other company so that they don't want you to fail. We have options and have many companies that we are "getting close" to.
Originally posted by Yevgeny
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We never discover horrorific problems in core system components
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That's not a flaw, just an undocumented "feature".
Originally posted by PBG4 Dude
That's not a flaw, just an undocumented "feature".
This one was a flaw. A somewhat understandable flaw, but still a total flaw. This kind of stuff happnes and MS patched it. My problem with MS would be the way in which they try to look down on us an to marginilize us.