Comments on: Microsoft stabs at Mandriva; Mandriva responds http://www.crunchgear.com/2007/11/01/microsoft-stabs-at-mandriva-mandriva-responds/ Gadgets, gear and computer hardware. Sat, 05 Dec 2009 05:00:35 -0500 hourly 1 By: Aaron http://www.crunchgear.com/2007/11/01/microsoft-stabs-at-mandriva-mandriva-responds/comment-page-1/#comment-1031020 Aaron Thu, 04 Jun 2009 06:06:19 +0000 http://crunchgear.com/2007/11/01/microsoft-stabs-at-mandriva-mandriva-responds/#comment-1031020 Wow, you're heartless. Uncaring. And yet you're right, that's how the business world is. Good job for Steve? No, fuck Steve. And, no offense, but fuck you for defending these age old business practices that stem from greed and pity competition. Wow, you’re heartless. Uncaring. And yet you’re right, that’s how the business world is. Good job for Steve? No, fuck Steve. And, no offense, but fuck you for defending these age old business practices that stem from greed and pity competition.

]]> By: Sascha http://www.crunchgear.com/2007/11/01/microsoft-stabs-at-mandriva-mandriva-responds/comment-page-1/#comment-506782 Sascha Fri, 02 Nov 2007 01:21:19 +0000 http://crunchgear.com/2007/11/01/microsoft-stabs-at-mandriva-mandriva-responds/#comment-506782 What a whiner! That Francois guy obviously is not aware of how business works in the REAL world. He should be glad he is still getting paid for his Mandriva boxes and that Nigeria didn't pull the whole deal out from under his feet completely! Also, they could have just done it without telling him, the boxes are their property and they can install whatever they want, Windows, Ubuntu, or some patched Mac OS X Leopard! Competition and business like this is not unusual and MOST CERTAINLY not limited to companies such as Microsoft. Sure, it's easy to always blame the big guy, especially with people from the Linux community who love to hate Microsoft and who read this story and drink the Koolaid and feel bad for poor little Francois who got his 17,000 Mandriva boxes reformatted with Windows. Boohoo. What a whiner! That Francois guy obviously is not aware of how business works in the REAL world. He should be glad he is still getting paid for his Mandriva boxes and that Nigeria didn’t pull the whole deal out from under his feet completely! Also, they could have just done it without telling him, the boxes are their property and they can install whatever they want, Windows, Ubuntu, or some patched Mac OS X Leopard!

Competition and business like this is not unusual and MOST CERTAINLY not limited to companies such as Microsoft. Sure, it’s easy to always blame the big guy, especially with people from the Linux community who love to hate Microsoft and who read this story and drink the Koolaid and feel bad for poor little Francois who got his 17,000 Mandriva boxes reformatted with Windows. Boohoo.

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