[Am-info] Ballmer's
Geoffrey
esoteric@3times25.net
Tue, 11 Jun 2002 19:41:26 -0400
Roy Bixler wrote:
> On Tuesday 11 June 2002 11:06, Gene Gaines wrote:
>>To rivals, making Microsoft kinder and gentler is like getting a
>>tiger to not only change its stripes but become vegetarian, too.
>>Indeed, in spite of the tentative settlement Microsoft reached
>>with the Justice Dept., which is being contested by nine states,
>>Ballmer doesn't plan to handcuff the software giant. Microsoft
>>will continue to enter new businesses. Recent forays already have
>>made it a competitive threat to a new set of companies, such as
>>Sony (SNE ) in the game-console business and SAP (SAP ) in the
>>accounting-software market. "The dialogue with us from the
>>industry has always been, tell us what you're not going to do. If
>>you ask me today, I'll tell you there's nothing I'm not going to
>>do," Ballmer says.
>>
> <snip>
>
> That says it all, doesn't it? He has just "honestly, openly and
> respectfully" told all that he wants to put everyone out of business, take
> their money and own their data. Anyway, it's good to hear it from the
> horse's mouth.
I think you're mistaken, I'm sure it's coming from the other end of the
horse...
>
> R.
> _______________________________________________
> Am-info mailing list
> Am-info@lists.essential.org
> http://lists.essential.org/mailman/listinfo/am-info
>
>
>
--
Until later: Geoffrey esoteric@3times25.net
I didn't have to buy my radio from a specific company to listen
to FM, why doesn't that apply to the Internet (anymore...)?