Comments on: Microsoft to Declare War on Firefox, Linux, et al.

By: Andrew Katasonov

Andrew Katasonov — Sun, 01 Feb 2009 14:27:38 +0000

Microsoft marketing tactics have always been dirty.. They abuse their monopoly as they wish. I'm happy to see Euro Comission has finnaly seen this and now wants Microsoft to ship Windows without Internet Explorer installed by default which is a total crap. Andrew Katasonov's last blog post..Caveats About Restoring Linux Root Partition From TAR Archive

By: okinawa

okinawa — Fri, 23 Nov 2007 21:57:26 +0000

Microsoft declares war on anyone who doesn’t buy their software

By: Calvin Warr

Calvin Warr — Thu, 17 May 2007 14:49:40 +0000

It will be a sad day when big enterprise wins over small freedom. Sure, big companies have more money, more weapons. But Open Source has lots of people and those numbers will weigh in heavily if it comes to an open confrontation. How we all react to the “posturing” today will surely have an effect on how things will turn out.

By: Jordan McCollum

Jordan McCollum — Wed, 16 May 2007 19:41:19 +0000

Thanks!

By: mark

mark — Wed, 16 May 2007 19:36:10 +0000

It’s Richard Stallman not Stillman

By: Jon Macgregor

Jon Macgregor — Wed, 16 May 2007 16:05:43 +0000

More evidence of the last desparate death throws of a giant. If they (Microsoft) do intend to pursue the open software sphere, they can expect untold bad press. Not the regular type of press â€” open source projects are incredibly social and network people from all walks of life. The collective community is far more powerful and influential than any company, courtroom or patent.

The sabre rattling is outrageous when you consider this company’s track record of anti-competitive behaviour, dirty tricks campaigns and blatant ripoffs from for example Apple. In this case patents are indeed a threat to innovation. Who invented the word innovation? (perhaps I should patent it).

Let the games begin, if Microsoft dares … as it will indeed herald the beginnings of Microsoft’s death knell.

Bring it on.

By: Terry Reeves

Terry Reeves — Wed, 16 May 2007 15:03:42 +0000

As Vista fails as a cutting edge must have product, it is only natural for people to search for better, cheaper alternatives.

Microsoft must be seeing revenue bleed from the inside. They are practically giving operating systems away in China and are back to the big bully threats that kept them on top in the past.

Looks like a desperation move to me.

By: bezalel

bezalel — Wed, 16 May 2007 14:14:06 +0000

Hi from Greece! Like Linus Torvalds says in responce: “they’re probably happier with the FUD [fear, uncertainty, doubt] than with any lawsuit”. The GNU General Public License (GPL) and the Lesser General Public License (LGPL) have proven to be a powerful legal stand for open-source applications in the recent history of software development. Microsoft should name the patents that it claims have been violated.

By: Jordan McCollum

Jordan McCollum — Wed, 16 May 2007 14:11:26 +0000

I think it’s all talk right now.

@dnn–open source kills big companies’ (like Microsoft’s) R&D dept, but it fosters a spirit of open development around the world. There are hundreds of open source programs. How many plugins are there for WordPress? Mozilla? (I agree, though, that you usually have more incentive to invent something when you’re getting paid.)

By: Mark Barrera

Mark Barrera — Wed, 16 May 2007 14:02:50 +0000

I wonder how this will end up affecting Microsoft’s brand image. I think they are getting a little too brash and are going to suffer from their attempt to
“take over the free world”.

By: HDR

HDR — Wed, 16 May 2007 10:54:59 +0000

Microsoft is at the end of its growth as a company, so they look to using RIAA’ish tactics.

By: maon

maon — Wed, 16 May 2007 07:58:44 +0000

hmm..I think that open source team will win..yeahh…just my sense..

By: dnn

dnn — Wed, 16 May 2007 07:17:47 +0000

Well we will see a lot wars in near feature. I want to be objective, people trying to build some work with their experince, knowledge. But open source kills development. If Microsoft and other companies decreases their prices, it would be good to go with. Currently people does not like Microsoft. Why? Because they are not cheap.

In Turkey %90 of visitors comes from Google generally, this means Yahoo and MSN means nothing for Turks.

Yahoo and MSN should do some unique projects to fight with Google’s monopoly.

By: Too Bad Cavemen didn’t have Patents! | The Marketing Technology Blog

Too Bad Cavemen didn’t have Patents! | The Marketing Technology Blog — Wed, 16 May 2007 01:06:02 +0000

[...] Read about their upcoming patent war on Firefox and Linux here. [...]

By: Mike

Mike — Wed, 16 May 2007 00:01:32 +0000

I wonder how many of those patents where created while they were illegally using their monopoly power to grow their business big enough that they could afford all the research that lead to those patents.

By: Brian Chappell

Brian Chappell — Tue, 15 May 2007 23:00:03 +0000

Yea… This is going to go over great with the online community!

This is like Google sueing MSN, Yahoo and Ask.com, stating that they are infringing on their rights because they are displaying websites in search results in a format similar to there’s.

Good job Microsoft, good job.