[dba-Tech] Microsoft and Oracle attacking Android for being free

Jim Lawrence accessd at shaw.ca
Fri Apr 12 12:00:50 CDT 2013


Hi Hans:

That truly is laughable but it also reeks a little of desperation.

Microsoft, in Europe, has been hammered form every direction, on anti-trust
practices and I hardly blame them for trying to divert attention. 

That said, Google is the master of the business practice called "Scorched
Earth Policy", in which they fill a product niche with free alternative
effectively wiping out the competition. After their competition has given
up, Google is then free to withdraw their free product and maybe even
introduce a paid for application replacement.

The truth be known, that Google has been instrumental at stalling the
aspiration of Microsoft, Oracle and many other companies. With Google's use
of SEP, friends may come and go but enemies accumulate. 

Jim 

-----Original Message-----
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[mailto:dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Hans-Christian
Andersen
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Subject: [dba-Tech] Microsoft and Oracle attacking Android for being free

For Microsoft and Oracle, irony knows no bounds.

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2013/04/opinion-antitrust-complaint-again
st-android-is-an-attack-on-open-source/

As they say, a tiger never changes its stripes.

- Hans
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