[News] [Rival] Microsoft Attacks People Who Spread Windows
Roy Schestowitz
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Microsoft steps up UAE anti-piracy raids
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| Complaints filed by Microsoft Gulf led to
| raids on resellers in the UAE and the
| confiscation of pirated software, the company
| said.
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| During the last month, five anti-piracy raids
| took place in Dubai and Sharjah and resulted
| in the confiscating of software CDs and
| personal computers and laptops loaded with
| pirated copies of Microsoft software.
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http://www.arabianbusiness.com/574227-microsoft-steps-up-uae-anti-piracy-raids
"It's easier for our software to
compete with Linux when there's piracy than when there's not."
--Bill Gates
Recent:
Microsoft Releases GPL'd Software (Again): Does This Change Anything?
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| Microsoft has received much undeserved press about their recent release of
| Linux drivers for their virtualization technology under GPLv2. I
| say “undeserved” because I don't particularly see why Microsoft should be
| lauded merely for doing something that is in their own interest that they've
| done before.
|
| [...]
|
| Someday, perhaps, Microsoft will take a proper place among other large
| companies that actually contribute code that improves the general
| infrastructure of Free Software. Many companies give generally useful
| improvements back to Linux, GCC, and various other parts of the GNU/Linux
| system. Microsoft has never done this: they only contribute code when it
| improves Free Software interoperability with their proprietary technology.
| The day that Microsoft actually changes its attitude toward Free Software did
| not occur last week. Microsoft's old strategy stays the same: try to kill
| Free Software with patents, and in the meantime, convince as many Free
| Software users as possible to begin relying on Microsoft proprietary
| technology.
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http://www.softwarefreedom.org/blog/2009/jul/29/microsoft-gpl/
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