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From: Chris Ahlstrom <OFeem1987@teleworm.us>
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Subject: Re: This FOSS Thang :-)
Date: Mon, 18 Mar 2024 18:09:48 -0400
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Nuxxie wrote this copyrighted missive and expects royalties:

> On Mon, 18 Mar 2024 15:40:08 +0000, candycanearter07 wrote:
>
>> 
>> So all/most Windows apps are secretly Java?
>>
>
> It's no secret.
>
> Microslop, as they have done with many other things, stole Java
> snd turned it into their own language called .NET.
>
> Microslop doesn't want to embrace and use standards.  They want
> to steal the ideas of standards and then make new standards which
> they then own, control, and license.
>
> I'm surprised that Microslop hasn't tried to "invent" it's
> own Internet, called MicroNet or something.

    From 1996:

    https://archive.nytimes.com/www.nytimes.com/library/cyber/week/0716microsoft.html

    Lately, there has been much publicity for Microsoft's new-found focus on
    the Internet, starting with a celebrated speech last December in which
    Gates said his company would cooperatively "embrace and extend"
    industrywide Internet technical standards. 

    . . .

    Rather than merely embrace and extend the Internet, the company's critics
    now fear, Microsoft intends to engulf it.

    Microsoft executives insist that the company intends to cooperate with
    Internet standards groups. But according to industry executives who have
    observed Microsoft's activities in these standards sessions, there is
    evidence that the company is attempting to employ the same sort of business
    practices that helped it rise to dominance in the personal computing
    industry -- and that have repeatedly drawn the scrutiny of federal
    antitrust investigators. 

Crimosoft had some success, and some failures. They tried the same thing
with "word processor" standards, with perhaps more success. Microsoft Office si
embedded like a tick in the corporate world. Along with their pals Cisco and
Adobe.

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