Interesting documents about the monopoly of Microsoft
In the court of Polk County, Iowa, for nearly seven years, the antimonopoly process has been pursued in a collective action of consumers against Microsoft. This is a “fragment” of a large antimonopoly process of the past years, according to which the corporation was able to conclude an amicable settlement with the majority of states. However, some states, including Iowa, refused to accept the terms of Microsoft and continued the struggle.
Iowa residents are demanding compensation from Microsoft, which will pay damages for antitrust violations and high prices for MS Windows, MS Office and other products.
Just a couple of months ago, the judge allowed me to post on the Internet some confidential documents that appear in the framework of the judicial process. Basically, this is the correspondence of Microsoft employees over the past twenty years, including Bill Gates and other top managers. Sometimes she is just shocked by her frankness and cynicism.
On the website Linux.org.ru published a selection of the most egregious texts. Links to some of them we post here with comments.
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The effectiveness of the Open Source Software (OSS) model and the free exchange of ideas, and what to oppose, is intelligibly analyzed. Analysis of the threat from Linux and OSS in 1998. Conclusions: “in the short term, it is not very dangerous, but then it may become worse” ( PDF ).
Why installing Linux is beneficial to Dell and how it threatens Microsoft. What action to take against Dell. One solution is not to punish, but to invest in Dell ( PDF ).
The details of the study made it the basis of the notorious “Get the Facts” advertisement (that Linux costs more than Windows at the total cost of ownership) - only one company agreed to hold it, the rest honestly admitted that they could not reliably estimate the “total cost of ownership” ( PDF ).
Gates: “POSIX and X are worse than Win32 because they are not monopolies” ( PDF ).
Gates explains why the browser should be integrated, and HTML - incompatible with the standard. Otherwise, “middleware will capture the operating system” ( PDF ).
Some quotes from published correspondence may shock a person unfamiliar with modern business methods.
Gates: “My partners and I worked so much on ACPI, but Linux didn’t have a finger, but everything works great for them. We must take action. For example, to patent something ”( PDF ).
Gates: “Office documents are too well displayed in other browsers. They need to be tied to IE. Something equivalent to suicide ”( PDF ).
After Novell's merger with Digital Research, Microsoft began merging negotiations. The negotiations dragged on for a long time and to no avail. Their goal was to prevent DR-DOS from developing at a critical time ( PDF ).
Undocumented API functions that have long been hidden from everyone except the MS Office team that implemented them ( PDF , PDF , PDF ).
There are many other interesting things in the list of published documents . For example, the proposal to flash Windows 2.0 in the BIOS; failure to start on DR-DOS; “Blacklists” of companies and people; preparation for the transition to RISC in 1992; fighting third-party add-ons over Windows.
Iowa residents are demanding compensation from Microsoft, which will pay damages for antitrust violations and high prices for MS Windows, MS Office and other products.
Just a couple of months ago, the judge allowed me to post on the Internet some confidential documents that appear in the framework of the judicial process. Basically, this is the correspondence of Microsoft employees over the past twenty years, including Bill Gates and other top managers. Sometimes she is just shocked by her frankness and cynicism.
On the website Linux.org.ru published a selection of the most egregious texts. Links to some of them we post here with comments.
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The effectiveness of the Open Source Software (OSS) model and the free exchange of ideas, and what to oppose, is intelligibly analyzed. Analysis of the threat from Linux and OSS in 1998. Conclusions: “in the short term, it is not very dangerous, but then it may become worse” ( PDF ).
Why installing Linux is beneficial to Dell and how it threatens Microsoft. What action to take against Dell. One solution is not to punish, but to invest in Dell ( PDF ).
The details of the study made it the basis of the notorious “Get the Facts” advertisement (that Linux costs more than Windows at the total cost of ownership) - only one company agreed to hold it, the rest honestly admitted that they could not reliably estimate the “total cost of ownership” ( PDF ).
Gates: “POSIX and X are worse than Win32 because they are not monopolies” ( PDF ).
Gates explains why the browser should be integrated, and HTML - incompatible with the standard. Otherwise, “middleware will capture the operating system” ( PDF ).
Some quotes from published correspondence may shock a person unfamiliar with modern business methods.
Gates: “My partners and I worked so much on ACPI, but Linux didn’t have a finger, but everything works great for them. We must take action. For example, to patent something ”( PDF ).
Gates: “Office documents are too well displayed in other browsers. They need to be tied to IE. Something equivalent to suicide ”( PDF ).
After Novell's merger with Digital Research, Microsoft began merging negotiations. The negotiations dragged on for a long time and to no avail. Their goal was to prevent DR-DOS from developing at a critical time ( PDF ).
Undocumented API functions that have long been hidden from everyone except the MS Office team that implemented them ( PDF , PDF , PDF ).
There are many other interesting things in the list of published documents . For example, the proposal to flash Windows 2.0 in the BIOS; failure to start on DR-DOS; “Blacklists” of companies and people; preparation for the transition to RISC in 1992; fighting third-party add-ons over Windows.
Source: https://habr.com/ru/post/2629/
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