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Comment: Googles thinks Microsoft is sending proxies (Score 1) 230

by Michalson (#40179531) Attached to: Google Files Antitrust Complaint Against Microsoft, Nokia
Googles thinks Microsoft is sending proxies to do its legal work, or at the least is trying to convince someone of that fantasy?

Microsoft hasn't shown any problems going after Android makers openly and directly. Sure it doesn't always make the front page but that's because Microsoft wants to licence the technology, not use the patents to block companies from the market entirely like Apple. This has always been Microsoft's business stategy from all the back in the days when it was Bill writing BASIC interpreters - find a place in the middle of the supply or technology chain so that no matter what company or product consumers are wild about this day of the week, Microsoft is getting paid somehow. A 'horizontal' instead of vertical market integration. That Android phone in your hand? Microsoft got paid a cut of it. I believe the slashdotter term is 'the Microsoft tax'.

Either Google is on a conspiracy bent to try and explain why so many companies have dirt on them without considering that maybe it's because they copied from all of them to assemble Android, or they're just cooking up so they can get Microsoft beat up by the EU bigwigs the way Opera did.

Comment: The root cause of this problem is the *admins* (Score 4, Insightful) 196

by Michalson (#39981577) Attached to: Bitcoinica Breach Nets Hackers $87,000 In Bitcoins
"The root cause of this problem is an email server compromise. The email server belongs to one of our team members."

A poorly secured email server is not the failure in this statement.

The failure is what was a non-essential piece of software, what sounds like someone's personal software, doing on this server or even on the same firewalled subnet?

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