re: Get your copy of M$ Word while you still can
Wednesday, August 19, 2009 at 11:30 pm
Windows 98 Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by gewg_
(3938 messages posted)
Arminius wrote:
|||It makes me wonder what the people running Microsoft are thinking.
gewg_ wrote:
||As always: "Money, money, money..." and "We can game the system".
Arminius wrote:
|Yeah sure, but surely they must have consulted their legal team
|before they went ahead with infringing on i4i's patent.
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Without a doubt.
|The lawyers should have pointed out to Microsoft execs they were in the wrong
|and could not win this case.
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I'm sure the lawyers pointed out every angle they could imagine.
...then there are the corporate officers.
http://google.com/search?q=define:hubris
When you get away with criminal behavior for a long time,
you start to think you're bulletproof.
The bureaucrats carry significant blame here. Thanks, Dubya. Thanks, Congress.
...and as I mentioned, it's less than 2 day's income for M$.
Whippings that don't actually sting are worse than useless:
cache
of http://www.pbs.org/cringely/pulpit/2004/pulpit_20040401_000807.html
...and maybe Ballmer & Co. find this stuff more stimulating than Las Vegas.
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