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Wayne Schlitt wrote:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/07/02/AR2005070201360.html
The article is biased towards Microsoft as it doesn't portray the facts
correctly. The Sender-ID patent license may be acceptable to BigFoot
Interactive, but it still isn't open-source compatible. The flak MS has
received wasn't due to their "past practices" but due to their _current_
ones.
| "I don't think the world realizes that Microsoft realizes that this is
| different from what they usually do," Allman said.
So what? As if that meant a thing.
William Leibzon wrote:
And it ends with:
"At some point I had to stop being a programmer and turn into a
politician," Wong said. "I can only imagine what it's like for
politicians to try to do something that not everybody wants to do."
Not at all surprising confession to me, the technological excellence is
obviously not a concern once you're on that road and politicians have to
go where big money is taking them...
I seriously doubt Meng has (or had) any hard financial interest in the deal
with Microsoft.
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