Steven D'Aprano <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, 17 Oct 2005 21:42:09 +0000, John Bokma wrote: > >>> When did Netscape executives perjure themselves in court? >>> >>> When did Netscape commit fraud? Astro-turfing? Patent infringement? >>> Theft of code? >> >> They got killed too soon. > > Neither the Netscape executives nor Netscape the company have been > killed.
They were in one race, and they lost it. >>> that was then, this is now, and unlike IBM, Microsoft hasn't yet >>> learnt about karma. >> >> Which is a good thing, since MS is not a human being. It's a company, >> a thing to make money, so it can make more money. > > Microsoft is a collection of human beings. They don't get to excuse > anti-social behaviour on the basis that they're only trying to make > money. I see little difference with other big companies. You're right that there is no excuse for such behaviour, but if MS isn't doing it, another company will take their place. -- John Small Perl scripts: http://johnbokma.com/perl/ Perl programmer available: http://castleamber.com/ I ploink googlegroups.com :-) -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
