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Re: [LUG] MS Locks in UK Schools

 

On Fri, 11 Mar 2005 22:37:04 +0000, Adrian Midgley <amidgley2@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Fri, 2005-03-11 at 19:35, Ben Goodger wrote:
It looks corrupt.

Yeeesss... Isn't everything M$ does corrupt?

No.  Let us not exaggerate.

True - not everything Microsoft does is dodgy, illegal, corupt,
immoral or all of the above. However on any given day any given
department is almost certainly acting in at least one of the above
manners and can give this impression.

Perhaps it would be better to say that Microsoft is totally corrupt.
Which is pretty much true by most people's definition : it uses
bribery, political lobbying, dodgy dealing (politely referred to as
'sharp business practice') and illegal abuse of its monopoly and
general evil badness to acheive its goals. The only difference between
enron and Microsoft is that MS actually makes a profit (and has an
illegal monopoly and regularly steals ideas, personnel, money, etc
from other businesses).

A.

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