Re: [libreoffice-users] [libreoffice-marketing] MS plans to force OEMs to add boot feature that blocks use of Linux and free software.

Tanstaafl <tanstaafl -AT- libertytrek.org>

Thu, 20 Oct 2011 08:21:34 -0400

On 2011-10-20 5:52 AM, Mark Stanton <mark@vowleyfarm.co.uk> wrote:

I've heard it said that Microsoft is the evil
>  empire of the corporate world.

Only currently.  Before them it was IBM.
It seems whenever any company gets very big the obvious tactic becomes
"bend/break any rules required to increase income".

There are lots of evil corporations - Monsanto, pretty much every

Pharmaceutical Company out there, most every Government Agency (they are

essentially Corporations too), etc etc...

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