____/ Mark Kent on Wednesday 23 April 2008 11:39 : \____
> Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> espoused:
>> Quoted indirectly to highlight a response:
>>
>> ,----[ Quote ]
>>| [Carmoney [sic]:] "Many disagreed with the MS partnership, but it brought
>>| [us
>>| millions in new sources of revenue, all without having any of the negative
>>| effects on the desktop Linux space that some predicted the MS/Linux deals
>>| would. I reduced our losses by millions in my first year as CEO, and made
>>| millions in profits my second year."
>>|
>>| He made millions in profit in the short term, by destroying a GNU/Linux
>>| company's reputation. It doesn't take a rocket scientist to sell out to
>>| Microsoft. Any GNU/Linux distro which has a significant community could
>>| pull millions or more by selling out to Microsoft.
>> `----
>>
>>
http://www.fsdaily.com/Business/Truth_is_Treason_in_the_Empire_of_Lies_Linspire_Fact_Sheet_Coming_Soon
>>
>> Antitrust regulators hopefully watch how Microsoft bribes its competitors to
>> stop competing and join the Trust.
>>
>
> I'm sure that, because of the millions in "profits" he made, he was able
> to give himself a fantastic bonus that year...
Yes, there are always the possible motives nobody will tell you about (no
disclosure either). Did you know (or remember) that Hovsepian received very
generous bonuses just shortly after signing the deal with Microsoft. Shane, my
co-editor at BN, noticed this incidentally in the Yahoo Finance forms (dull
financial obligatory stuff is mirrored there).
By the way, I wonder why MySQL didn't go ahead with the IPO. I had long E-mail
exchanges with MySQL's CEO over the night and he insists on justifying what he
did (getting devoured by Sun and its patent policy, ambition of closing some
source code).
These things are complex...
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