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Posted in Courtroom, GNU/Linux, Microsoft, Open XML, Patents, Samba, Windows at 2:46 pm by Dr. Roy Schestowitz
Summary: Latest warnings about Microsoft’s ruthless and sometimes criminal behaviour comes from Samba Supreme, Jeremy Allison
THE TITLE is of course spinning the words of Linus Torvalds, who is not paying attention to what Microsoft has been up to. Yesterday we wrote about Jeremy Allison's latest warning that Mono should not be used (he said this last year as well [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6]) and that Microsoft intends to harass its competition with the help of software patents.
=> Jeremy Allison's latest warning | ↺ Mono | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6
Microsoft is already suing Linux over filesystems and the president of the FFII has just said that “Microsoft has a new license for exFAT, charging a flat $300,000 fee to manufacturers who want to use it in their products”; here is the news article he cites. We wrote about this subject before because it’s an attack on Free software.
=> ↺ already suing Linux | ↺ the news article he cites | ↺ wrote about this subject before
Anyway, Allison has more to say right now and he is warning about Microsoft: [via Slashdot]
=> ↺ warning about Microsoft | ↺ via Slashdot
Jeremy Allison Calls Microsoft Dangerous Elephant[...]Allison contends the OOXML case shows the lengths Microsoft will go to in order to create lock-in, where consumers are forced to buy software or hardware from one vendor or its partners and freedom of choice is restricted.“One of the worst things that happened out of that, [is that the ISO] which was previously respected by people that didn’t know it so well, became absolutely despised,” he said. “There are some countries now thinking of pulling out [of ISO] because it is simply not worth participating in a process that is so obviously corrupted.”However, the result was followed by two European Commission anti-trust probes into Microsoft’s behaviour which led to a settlement where the software giant had to offer customers a choice of internet browsers.The second probe into Microsoft’s limiting of file format choices in its Office productivity suite also led to the vendor changing track. In the end, the ODF and other non-proprietary formats were offered to consumers to fend off European Union (EU) antitrust regulators and block massive fines.
The OOXML corruption was undeniable proof that Microsoft is a criminal corporation that would not be allowed to operate unless the legal system remained dysfunctional and fearful of the corporation. Microsoft can get away with everything and here is another new example:
=> ↺ OOXML corruption | ↺ another new example
A federal judge has killed class-action allegations in a lawsuit that accused Microsoft of misleading consumers when it fed them anti-piracy software under the auspices of a critical security update, according to court documents.The move means that Microsoft will not be faced with millions in potential damages. Last fall, Microsoft’s lawyers argued that a class-action lawsuit could involve “tens of millions” of customers who might be owed “hundreds of millions of dollars” if the company lost the case.A class-action would have let virtually anyone who owned a Windows XP PC in mid-2006 to join the case without having to hire an attorney.
Without accountability for misbehaving corporations, the market is truly in trouble. We saw this with the banks when the economy collapsed, but no lessons were learned. When criticism of outlaw operations is suddenly frowned upon, what hope is there? █
=> criticism of outlaw operations is suddenly frowned upon
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