TechWorld: Microsoft Sees Linux Kettle, Calls It Black

“In a remarkable pot-calling-the-kettle-black incident,
Microsoft has attacked Asian plans to build an open-source
operating system as anti-competitive.

“In response to the multi-million-pound development and
promotion deal signed by the Japanese, Chinese and South Korean
governments, Microsoft’s director of government affairs in Asia,
Tom Robertson, told Reuters: ‘We’d like to see the market decide
who the winners are in the software industry. Governments should
not be in the position to decide who the winners are…’

“This sounds to us remarkably as if Microsoft is arguing that to
support anything other than its own software would be
anti-competitive…”

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