Re:Microsoft Becomes Sponsor of Open Source Initiative
by bitmapbrother on Wednesday September 27, 2017 @02:54PM
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I can't help but think of the irony of mentioning IBM in your comparison to Microsoft considering Microsoft indirectly bankrolled, via BayStar, the SCO lawsuit against IBM for the alleged violations of IBM's Unix licenses in the development of Linux code at IBM.
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Re:Microsoft Becomes Sponsor of Open Source Initiative
by Fnoord on Wednesday September 27, 2017 @03:40PM
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Yeah, that's irony. There's more.
A former monopolist getting flak from a current monopolist who tricked IBM with MS-DOS [1].
If you want to be pedantic on the history of Microsoft, however, I'd like to remind you of the history of IBM [2]. Of particular relevance are the parts "IBM in Germany and Nazi Occupied Europe" and "1969: Antitrust, the Unbundling of software and services".
Do we still (respectively ~75 and ~50 years later) hold this against IBM? No, we don't. Its longer ago than Microsoft's practices, so I understand people still hold a grudge (heck, I'm one of them, I still tend to avoid Microsoft products). It'll take some time. But that doesn't mean my grudge is still rational.
[1] http://thisdayintechhistory.com/11/06/ibm-signs-a-deal-with-...