In the very least, i feel i needed to catalog Microsquish the heinous actions. There are just so many, it's difficult to remember them all.
Wed May 15 08:02:13 EDT 2002
So Micrsquish's claims that the charity didn't purchases license is bogus. Microquish simply extorts all of the money they possible can, squeezing anyone and everyone in their insatiable lust for money and power. Apparently, they don't even care that in this case, they are extorting money from some of the poorest people on the planet. What a bunch of heartless Bastards!
Of course, they've since tried to make ammends and counter the significant backlash inthe media. But they didn't even do that properly. A company with any sense of moral decency would just have told the non-profit it could use older versions of the software all it wanted. But not Microsquish. They tried to donate a finite number of license for versions of Windoze that the charity couldn't really use.
Oh, and this wasn'tthe first charity they attacked. When they started threatening "The Ark," a Kiwi charity with the same benefactors, it simply shut down, unable to fight the world richest multinational corporation.
Wed May 15 08:02:13 EDT 2002
Tue May 7 22:33:18 EDT 2002
Tue May 7 22:40:25 EDT 2002
[Thu Aug 23 18:50:39 2001] [error] [client 205.238.239.195] File does not exist: /var/httpd/htdocs/default.ida
Why? Because Microsoft configured their BUGGY web server ("Internet Information Server") to unnecessarily run with many Windoze disributions, and the Code Red (and variants) Worm has infected hundreds of thousands of those machines. 1/2 a year after the first evidence of the secutiry hole was reported, and over a month after the first incranation of the worm was detected, the worm continue to spread, wasting resources in the process. 116 attempts alone on 23 Aug 2001.
If you want to have crappy, buggy insecure software rammed down your throat by a multi-national monopoly, whose primary goal is to takeover the market (not to offer good software and support), then by all means continue to buy or use Microsoft software and help them crush the dwindling minority of independepent companies and Free projects.
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