Saturday, September 6, 2003

Microsoft: Asia not playing fair... A plan by Japan, China and South Korea to develop an operating system alternative to Microsoft's Windows software could raise concerns over fair competition, Microsoft said Friday. Japan, the world's second-largest economy, made a proposal at an Asian economic summit this week to build an inexpensive and trustworthy open-source operating system that would be based on a system such as Linux, which can be copied and modified freely. "We'd like to see the market decide who the winners are in the software industry," said Tom Robertson, Microsoft's Tokyo-based director for government affairs in Asia...more [CNET News] No I am not making this stuff up. This is from the worst predatory monopolist of our age. Hey, if your OS works so much better then this should be no problem. Perhaps M$ should think about putting some of that 45+ billion dollars (in monopoly money) they have in the bank, towards improving their code base. Oh, and Tom, this is the market deciding who the winners are...mj 10:46:01 AM

Microsoft settles Be suit for $23 mil Microsoft announced late Friday that it will pay more than $23 million to settle an antitrust suit filed by onetime operating system rival Be. Microsoft did not admit wrongdoing in the settlement, in which Be will receive $23.2 million after attorneys' fees. The total amount Microsoft will pay was not immediately clear from a joint statement by the two companies...more [CNET News] HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA pathetic...mj 10:38:01 AM

Poor George... Curious George; who has never had to hunt for a job, can't get the bad man, and now the economy just won't do what his rich friends told him it would do. They said that tax breaks would fix it all. As we can see the tax breaks are really picking things up. Unemployment went down, but joblessness went up. The reason is that when your unemployment runs out you become one of the 'gave up looking'. Isn't that an interesting concept. The real answer is that your search gets only more intense. While I am no fan of Lieberman, I loved his remark: "At this rate, there will be only one job left to cut by November 2004: George Bush's."...mj 10:32:15 AM

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