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conspiracy:
I emailed a full account of this to the webmaster of fuckmicrosoft. The webmaster may post it on the site. This is just a thought by the way. In brief:

Microsoft may have been bribing companies like Adobe, Newtek and Discreet not to release for linux. Everyone knows how well these apps would run under linux, after all Shrek was completed under it and Lord of the Rings had considerable help from Linux. However, any windows user can easily install linux on their computers, so releasing for linux would be a serious threat to microsoft.
So MS may have paid them. They cannot easily or cost-effectively switch to Macs though, so releasing for Macs is not much of a problem. Besides, using macs is less cost-effective.
Software like Mozilla, Wordperfect and Opera were not paid, as they were going to be crushed by microsoft anyway, so they released for linux.

This certainly sounds paranoid and/or stupid, but with a company with over $1B profit, it's at least a bit likely.....

If any developers are reading this, why not open up to linux?

HPC GUY:
of course this is all old news. in more extreame cases m$ outright bought thier competitors and closed down operations. M$ assimilation tactics are unscrupulous, if they cannot quiet thier competitors they will aquire them just to have control. M$ controls Intel, Compaq, and until recently Aol and Dell. Aol started going with Netscape and in retaliation Aol is no longer included with Windows XP, big surprize. also dell creatively fucked M$ by releasing machines with FreeDOs on it so people can install linux to get around the M$ "systems MUST ship with an OS" clause.

[ August 26, 2002: Message edited by: HPC GUY ]

lazygamer:
How does "Buying out" work? Can't they just say "fuk u, go suck it MS!" when MS offers to directly buy out a company?

AlexMax:
Adobe?

This is news to me.  Unless I am mistaken, Adobe software is native to Macs....and I doubt that Adobe would be so easily swayed by M$.  Perhaps I'm wrong, though....

But also, I think they also know that they have serious ...free... competition in the Linux world as well.  Whats the use of porting Photoshop to Linux if noone will buy it and end up with GIMP and the like...

sporkme:
i can't say that i am surprised.

i don't think this is necessarily OLD news, because if there is a suit maybe we can WIN AT LAST WOOOO HOOOO

looking forward to seeing the evidence

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