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Microsoft threatens Korea
Never mind Pyongyang, the biggest threat the South Korea appears to be
Microsoft. It's threatening Korea with Windows withdrawal if it dares to insist on having Microsoft remove Media Player from Windows just like the Europeans are. However it doesn't seem like it's threatening Europe though. Maybe Europe is a bit more than it can handle? And what would happen if these countries actually took up Microsoft's offer and removed Windows from being distributed in their countries? Microsoft threatens to withdraw Windows in S.Korea - Yahoo! News http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20051028/...osoft_korea_dc Yousuf Khan |
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Microsoft threatens Korea
YKhan wrote:
Never mind Pyongyang, the biggest threat the South Korea appears to be Microsoft. It's threatening Korea with Windows withdrawal if it dares to insist on having Microsoft remove Media Player from Windows just like the Europeans are. However it doesn't seem like it's threatening Europe though. Maybe Europe is a bit more than it can handle? And what would happen if these countries actually took up Microsoft's offer and removed Windows from being distributed in their countries? Microsoft threatens to withdraw Windows in S.Korea - Yahoo! News http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20051028/...osoft_korea_dc This is unbelieveable! Yet it is in MS's own words. Now everyone who believes they have no control over MS will be more-or-less compelled to draft contingency plans for the possibility of MS withdrawing product. This includes especially Euros & Asians, but may also include US corporations. MS has said what they can and are willing to do. I can think of no bigger boost for Linux. -- Robert |
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Microsoft threatens Korea
On Fri, 28 Oct 2005 20:33:12 GMT, Robert Redelmeier
wrote: YKhan wrote: Never mind Pyongyang, the biggest threat the South Korea appears to be Microsoft. It's threatening Korea with Windows withdrawal if it dares to insist on having Microsoft remove Media Player from Windows just like the Europeans are. However it doesn't seem like it's threatening Europe though. Maybe Europe is a bit more than it can handle? And what would happen if these countries actually took up Microsoft's offer and removed Windows from being distributed in their countries? Microsoft threatens to withdraw Windows in S.Korea - Yahoo! News http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20051028/...osoft_korea_dc This is unbelieveable! Yet it is in MS's own words. Now everyone who believes they have no control over MS will be more-or-less compelled to draft contingency plans for the possibility of MS withdrawing product. This includes especially Euros & Asians, but may also include US corporations. MS has said what they can and are willing to do. I can think of no bigger boost for Linux. -- Robert If IBM decided to withdraw PCs from certain markets back then in XT era, these markets would have stuck with Commodore and Apple, which means - incompatible with the rest of the world. Besides, all their investments in PC software and periferials would've gone down the toilet. Same here - govts and corporations invested so much in MS-based infrastructure that the switch would be really painful, if feasible at all. So take the threat seriously - it is on the same scale as the threat of OPEC to withdraw oil - electric/hydrogen cars will not come to blossoming overnight. NNN |
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Microsoft threatens Korea
On Fri, 28 Oct 2005 22:14:15 +0200, YKhan wrote:
Microsoft threatens to withdraw Windows in S.Korea - Yahoo! News Dont worry, it was only a newly hired, "lower-level business person". Like always. -- I really have no idea what this means. And since I can't install linux on it, I'm gonna go back to surfing pr0n. the penguins are psychotic / just smile and wave |
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Microsoft threatens Korea
On Fri, 28 Oct 2005 20:33:12 +0000, Robert Redelmeier wrote:
YKhan wrote: Never mind Pyongyang, the biggest threat the South Korea appears to be Microsoft. It's threatening Korea with Windows withdrawal if it dares to insist on having Microsoft remove Media Player from Windows just like the Europeans are. However it doesn't seem like it's threatening Europe though. Maybe Europe is a bit more than it can handle? And what would happen if these countries actually took up Microsoft's offer and removed Windows from being distributed in their countries? Microsoft threatens to withdraw Windows in S.Korea - Yahoo! News http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20051028/...osoft_korea_dc This is unbelieveable! Yet it is in MS's own words. Now everyone who believes they have no control over MS will be more-or-less compelled to draft contingency plans for the possibility of MS withdrawing product. This includes especially Euros & Asians, but may also include US corporations. MS has said what they can and are willing to do. At least it'll make corporations think about the data they've entrusted to Microsoft's "corporate vision". ...one hopes! Nah... I can think of no bigger boost for Linux. Don't take that to the bank. :-( -- Keith |
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Microsoft threatens Korea
YKhan wrote:
Never mind Pyongyang, the biggest threat the South Korea appears to be Microsoft. It's threatening Korea with Windows withdrawal if it dares to insist on having Microsoft remove Media Player from Windows just like the Europeans are. However it doesn't seem like it's threatening Europe though. Maybe Europe is a bit more than it can handle? And what would happen if these countries actually took up Microsoft's offer and removed Windows from being distributed in their countries? If Microsoft chose to withdraw from some European country, then that country's government might declare Windows in the public domain, the Berne convention be damned. |
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Microsoft threatens Korea
Grumble writes:
YKhan wrote: Never mind Pyongyang, the biggest threat the South Korea appears to be Microsoft. It's threatening Korea with Windows withdrawal if it dares to insist on having Microsoft remove Media Player from Windows just like the Europeans are. However it doesn't seem like it's threatening Europe though. Maybe Europe is a bit more than it can handle? And what would happen if these countries actually took up Microsoft's offer and removed Windows from being distributed in their countries? If Microsoft chose to withdraw from some European country, then that country's government might declare Windows in the public domain, the Berne convention be damned. I doubt an Asian country would be less likely to do that than a European country. -- Joseph J. Pfeiffer, Jr., Ph.D. Phone -- (505) 646-1605 Department of Computer Science FAX -- (505) 646-1002 New Mexico State University http://www.cs.nmsu.edu/~pfeiffer skype: jjpfeifferjr |
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