Korean Web Portal seeks to block XP release in Korea

Post #7,802 by brettj 9/6/01 10:52:02 AM Reply	Korean Web Portal seeks to block XP release in Korea Microsoft may get XP released on-time but they sure are making a lot of enemies. That doesn't bode well for a company that will need a lot of partners in order to make .NET a success. They can't just keep bundling competitors software into their OS forever and still have friends left, can they? What would happen if people finally got tired of Microsoft's bullying ways and decided to fight back? Linux would happen, that's what. The rest is history, and it's unfolding in front of us in internet time. Enjoy the rest of the show. It's been a real thiller so far! It's started out with a gang of rebel programmers and is turning into a world-wide social revolution committed to excellence through cooperation. Anyone else care to summarize the action to date? :) [link\|http://www.newsbytes.com/news/01/169750.html\| Korean Web Portal To Sue Microsoft - Report] .... Daum's claim, according to the report, is one familiar to Microsoft and regulators in the U.S. - that the software giant is using its domination of the desktop to unfairly compete in other areas. The portal alleges Microsoft's bundling of all sorts of software with Windows XP, including instant messaging, and forcing PC makers to include them is an unfair business practice. It is seeking to block the release of Windows XP in Korea.
Post #7,827 by hnick 9/6/01 12:44:42 PM Reply	Summary to date: Nothing changes. They are in a place where they can buy their way out of anything. And pass the cost on to the end users. I am totally unsuprised. But still depressed. I am watching the entire industry going down monolithic crappers. Did all the industry executives all see "Highlander" at the same time? Bah, Hugh
Post #7,854 by Ashton 9/6/01 3:49:22 PM Reply	Maybe M$ can write off Korea; but Europe too? As to the states.. well, one AG took the money and ran. Divide and conquer. And nobody (state) wants to be seen as the Last.. deserting a sinking ship [USS Justice?]. Perhaps it shall fall to Euro to face what our corrupt Repo-dominated system simply lacks the balls to face: renegade Corporations (of any kind). Judges may be less directly susceptible of PAC influence, but cronyism is simply, human - and those who propose judicial appointments must have reached the standard level of accommodation, and especially - euphemism. (er "judicial restraint" = don't change Anything = we want to 'conserve' status quo. You had better want that, too..) Seems to come down to the character and techno- perseverence of: this one randomly-selected new judge. Out of near 300M Muricans. Now if.. some whistle-blower should imagine that perhaps, that department (where she works) may? have exceeded their licenses for installed copies of Word-bloat7.. and turn-in to the S/ware Cops... Nahhh... not even Bally could be THAT stupid (but mightn't one of the cops get carried away and send the usual "notice of impending investigation"?) In Murica - we have to rely on the Law of Accident, in the absence of anything like rampant Honesty. A. It took Welch (atty. at Army-McC hearings), followed by Ed Murrow's gutsy broadcast* - to finally bring down Joe McCarthy; this after years of tyranny by HUAC, countless lives destroyed, several deaths, etc. (and - a few who told the committee to fuck themselves, like William Mandel) * famous quote from Murrow to the members of the See It Now staff, on the eve of this broadcast: ...the terror is in this room, right now. XP is almost.. in this room right now.

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