[not_apathetic_anymore]

Well we've recently seen the hard-nosed approach of MS when approaching Mike Roe Soft (the Canadian kid who bought that domain or some such). Instead of making a pleasant request they came with threats and then had to do some backtracking when they got a ton of negative PR. I reconize MS isn' Corbis...but given teh same owner perhaps the operating philosophy is the same.

As an aside MS seems to operate under the "it's better to ask forgiveness the ask permission" philosophy when making their software. Somehow it's not OK for others to operate under the same philosophy?

[dennisw]

Every division of Microsoft is headed up by a mini me Bill Gates with his "crush the enemy" attitude. Gates and Balmer like it that way. Gates so he can relax into being a philosopher king, philanthropist.


Good news per today's Wall Street Journal is that key players in the computer/digital entertainment convergence are shutting out the Windows operating system They don't want to end up like PC makers, slaves to paying the Windows tax. Examples being the Apple Itunes and Ipod. M$ gets no cut out of these devices and services.