The sad truth is that Google and Microsoft care less about making cool products than they do about hurting each other,' concludes Lyons. 'Their fighting has little to do with helping customers and a lot to do with helping themselves to a bigger slice of the money we all spend to buy computers and surf the Internet.
For anyone else joining the real world, enjoy your stay. A business making money? This is madness!
This seem to be just an another story of a Google fanboy in his basement discovering that their do-no-evil "friend" is a normal company, a normal business which purpose is to generate revenue. He hasn't yet understood that money doesn't grow in trees and this is how our economy works. For him Microsoft seems like a bad guy because they dare to sell products at a price. Google is the 'cool and hippy' friend who
For him Microsoft seems like a bad guy because they dare to sell products at a price
And nothing at all to do with being a convicted predatory monopoly that has repeatedly broken the law in order to cement an undeserved position in the marketplace. A reading of some of the anti-trust rulings against them would improve your lack of knowledge here.
Microsoft would like us to all forget [wikipedia.org]
history [wikipedia.org], and instead regurgitate their revisionist view. He who forgets the past is condemned to relive it! Thank you for providing us with the historical perspective on this. It appears there are many younger people in IT these days who know little of this.
"Corruption? Corruption is government intrusion into market efficiencies in the form of regulations. That's Milton Friedman. He got a goddamn Nobel Prize. We have laws against it precisely so we can get away with it. Corruption is our protection. Corruption keeps us safe and warm. Corruption is why you and I are prancing around in here instead of fighting over scraps of meat out in the streets. Corruption is why we win." Robert Baer / Stephen Gaghan - Syriana
Do you honestly think the lawsuits that make headlines are the only instances of corruption? The only reason Microsoft's unscrupulous business practices make headlines is because they're Microsoft, and not because it isn't standard practice for each and every corporation with over $1M legal budget.
If you want a reason to dislike Microsoft, start by looking at how they employ more lawyers than programmers. But unfortunately it's just more profitable that way. Much more. They have a responsibility to their stockholders to exploit it.
Intel's illegal business practices have also made headlines, as have Volkswagen's and the various chip manufacturers' as have so many others. The real fact of the matter is that people don't like criminals to get away with crimes, especially when those criminals are rich and powerful habitual criminals.
In particular you should hate the quarterly earning game. In fact you should hate shareholder value and agency theory in general. But it is not why MS became evil.
Business as usual (Score:5, Insightful)
The sad truth is that Google and Microsoft care less about making cool products than they do about hurting each other,' concludes Lyons. 'Their fighting has little to do with helping customers and a lot to do with helping themselves to a bigger slice of the money we all spend to buy computers and surf the Internet.
For anyone else joining the real world, enjoy your stay. A business making money? This is madness!
This seem to be just an another story of a Google fanboy in his basement discovering that their do-no-evil "friend" is a normal company, a normal business which purpose is to generate revenue. He hasn't yet understood that money doesn't grow in trees and this is how our economy works. For him Microsoft seems like a bad guy because they dare to sell products at a price. Google is the 'cool and hippy' friend who
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For him Microsoft seems like a bad guy because they dare to sell products at a price
And nothing at all to do with being a convicted predatory monopoly that has repeatedly broken the law in order to cement an undeserved position in the marketplace. A reading of some of the anti-trust rulings against them would improve your lack of knowledge here.
Who marked this guy a troll?? (Score:2)
Microsoft would like us to all forget [wikipedia.org] history [wikipedia.org], and instead regurgitate their revisionist view. He who forgets the past is condemned to relive it! Thank you for providing us with the historical perspective on this. It appears there are many younger people in IT these days who know little of this.
Re:Who marked this guy a troll?? (Score:4, Insightful)
"Corruption? Corruption is government intrusion into market efficiencies in the form of regulations. That's Milton Friedman. He got a goddamn Nobel Prize. We have laws against it precisely so we can get away with it. Corruption is our protection. Corruption keeps us safe and warm. Corruption is why you and I are prancing around in here instead of fighting over scraps of meat out in the streets. Corruption is why we win." Robert Baer / Stephen Gaghan - Syriana
Do you honestly think the lawsuits that make headlines are the only instances of corruption? The only reason Microsoft's unscrupulous business practices make headlines is because they're Microsoft, and not because it isn't standard practice for each and every corporation with over $1M legal budget.
If you want a reason to dislike Microsoft, start by looking at how they employ more lawyers than programmers. But unfortunately it's just more profitable that way. Much more. They have a responsibility to their stockholders to exploit it.
Don't hate the players, hate the game.
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Friedman doesn't have a Nobel Prize.
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That's because he's dead. Until his death in 2006 he had a Nobel Prize for economics, which he was awarded in 1976.
No Google in your hood?
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There is no such thing as a Nobel Prize in economics.
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Intel's illegal business practices have also made headlines, as have Volkswagen's and the various chip manufacturers' as have so many others. The real fact of the matter is that people don't like criminals to get away with crimes, especially when those criminals are rich and powerful habitual criminals.
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"Don't hate the players, hate the game."
In particular you should hate the quarterly earning game. In fact you should hate shareholder value and agency theory in general. But it is not why MS became evil.
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Call me an Idealist but "It's not whether you win or lose its how you play the game." and Google not MS plays that game really well (and is winning).