Microsoft released late yesterday a paper entitled “Setting the
record straight: Microsoft’s statement on government lawsuit”. Even
those with neutral feelings about the case will find it hard to
accept the disingenuousness of Microsoft’s arguments.
Ray Noorda, the former Novell CEO who invented the term
co-opetition’ (the FT on Saturday didn’t know the source, and got
it wrong), will be appalled…
In discussing the “very low” cost of market entry for a new
operating system to compete with Windows, Microsoft writes about
“Linux, a new version of Unix developed by a single
individual”.