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
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