I've got a little list...
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| AnonymousCoward Nov 06, 2005 2:46 PM EDT |
Not "have done," but "are doing". * Lying to their customers, the media, everyone handy. * Misrepresenting and generally pissing all over every competitor, including FOSS products (although in some cases this has already backfired big time). * Actively hunting down and destroying competitors by fair means and/or foul instead of improving their own products and services (think OS/2, "DOS ain't done 'til Lotus won't run", the encrypted anti-DRDOS code, etc). * Locking people into their stuff; sacrificing features, stability, utility etc to do so. * Focussing on marketable features rather than robustness or consistency. Or standards, interoperability, security, any of a dozen or so more worthy objectives. * Doling out dribs and drabs of software with Scrooge-like reluctance instead of addressing customer needs. * Dumbing everything down instead of simply streamlining it. * Blackbird. * Oh, yeah, making and maintaining a virus paradise. * Suing everyone who disagrees with them. * Back-dooring everyone they can't sue (e.g. MA's ITD) * TFPC. And its asinine friend, the yellow dog (look up "Yellow Dog contract" on Wikipedia). * Give-with-one-hand take-with-the-other "charitable" tax rorts. * Putting OEMs over a barrel. * Firing their MVPs. * Hmm, don't want to be here all day... |
| tadelste Nov 06, 2005 2:54 PM EDT |
AC: Specifics? |
| AnonymousCoward Nov 06, 2005 3:37 PM EDT |
Tom: for a particular point? E.g. dredging up the records of Microsoft temporarily dismissing all of their MVPs would take 10-20mins, multiply that by the number of points... |
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