Comments on: Microsoft Tries to Change Its Spots: Skipping the Call Since I’ve Heard This One Before http://profy.com/2008/02/21/microsoft-interoperability-announcement/ Internet news and commentary Sun, 12 Oct 2008 04:40:32 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 By: Grendel http://profy.com/2008/02/21/microsoft-interoperability-announcement/#comment-295541 Grendel Thu, 21 Feb 2008 21:07:04 +0000 http://profy.com/2008/02/21/microsoft-interoperability-announcement/#comment-295541 Robert, it's good to see you've embraced your role as a tool of Satan. This is as much a threat to open source projects that choose not to play the way Microsoft wants them to as it is any indication of openness from Microsoft. Yipee! They won't sue over something they had no right to sue over! Oh, wait... they won't sue if you do it their way... Robert, it’s good to see you’ve embraced your role as a tool of Satan.

This is as much a threat to open source projects that choose not to play the way Microsoft wants them to as it is any indication of openness from Microsoft. Yipee! They won’t sue over something they had no right to sue over! Oh, wait… they won’t sue if you do it their way…

]]> By: Cyndy Aleo-Carreira http://profy.com/2008/02/21/microsoft-interoperability-announcement/#comment-295531 Cyndy Aleo-Carreira Thu, 21 Feb 2008 21:04:40 +0000 http://profy.com/2008/02/21/microsoft-interoperability-announcement/#comment-295531 Robert, I'm not the only one who noticed that anyone who bought the whole spiel today is in need of a shovel and waders: http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2008/02/21/business/EU-FIN-EU-Microsoft.php They didn't say anything today that they haven't said before in various forms, hence the buzzword-heavy call and press release. As for the crack about subtlety, that was sarcasm. And where does whining come into play? Robert, I’m not the only one who noticed that anyone who bought the whole spiel today is in need of a shovel and waders:

http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2008/02/21/business/EU-FIN-EU-Microsoft.php

They didn’t say anything today that they haven’t said before in various forms, hence the buzzword-heavy call and press release.

As for the crack about subtlety, that was sarcasm. And where does whining come into play?

]]> By: Robert http://profy.com/2008/02/21/microsoft-interoperability-announcement/#comment-295501 Robert Thu, 21 Feb 2008 20:54:31 +0000 http://profy.com/2008/02/21/microsoft-interoperability-announcement/#comment-295501 If the shoe were on the other foot you would call it out in the open , or up front. With MS you say blatant. "Maybe next time, they could make their move a little more in advance and try for some subtlety. " Why? You will then just whine and switch "some subtlety" with sneaky, devious, cowardly, deceitful, dishonest, guileful, secretive, shifty, & evil" Whining makes my butt clench. If the shoe were on the other foot you would call it out in the open , or up front. With MS you say blatant.

“Maybe next time, they could make their move a little more in advance and try for some subtlety. ”

Why?

You will then just whine and switch “some subtlety” with sneaky, devious, cowardly, deceitful, dishonest, guileful, secretive, shifty, & evil”

Whining makes my butt clench.

]]> By: Grendel http://profy.com/2008/02/21/microsoft-interoperability-announcement/#comment-295191 Grendel Thu, 21 Feb 2008 17:21:14 +0000 http://profy.com/2008/02/21/microsoft-interoperability-announcement/#comment-295191 This just in, Microsoft pledges not to rape your dog! Nobel Prize! Nobel Prize! Nobel Prize! This just in, Microsoft pledges not to rape your dog!

Nobel Prize! Nobel Prize! Nobel Prize!

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