I am not a Microsoft hater zdnet.com
Too much other good stuff to post to repeat myself, YuanQuing. This is John Dodge, in PC Week.
Here's an organization with more corporate and personal wealth than the national treasury, and it doesn't have the courage to confront its adversaries directly. Steve Ballmer and Bill Gates could go toe-to-toe with Ralph Nader all day. Instead, Microsoft tiptoes--some would say sneaks--around "educating" other consumer groups about all the good it has done for the software industry and the dangers of Nader's position. Wimpy. Very wimpy!
Or, we have Nathan Myrvold's "It's Nixon era dirty tricks!". Or, we have Bill himself saying, "We'll fold if we can't do our stupid OS/browser integration to kill Netscape!". What a bunch of weiners.
PC companies feel the same way. They fear Microsoft, but when is that outside the norm of ethical business practices? People fear lots of things--bosses, competitors, spouses, cops and columnists.
A Microsoft official sent me E-mail expressing surprise that I would speak at a conference of "Microsoft haters." I'm more surprised and disappointed that Microsoft, hardened by a mounting persecution complex and appetite for defiance, is not speaking, too. Answer your critics. Be forthright.
Microsoft be forthright? Isn't that against company policy? Like, it's unethical to be ethical in business and all that? Microsoft just has to embrace and demolish Java too, right?
Cheers, Dan. |
