 KrKHeavy Artillery For The Little GuyPremium
join:2000-01-17
Tulsa, OK | Interesting.... Feel free.... but you have to wonder who's lobbying for this action.
Still it helps keep 'em honest. |
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 DogfatherPremium
join:2007-12-26
Laguna Hills, CA | Doesn't keep them honest. It just keeps them spending money in Washington. |
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KrKHeavy Artillery For The Little GuyPremium
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| said by Dogfather:Doesn't keep them honest. It just keeps them spending money in Washington. Ah, valid point there.
However, I wonder who's spending money is Washington right now to make this happen 
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DogfatherPremium
join:2007-12-26
Laguna Hills, CA
2 edits | Microsoft. It's classic strategy. Attack on 2 fronts. Get them from the gov't side through lobbying and from the market side through IE8's porn-mode. |
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 tiger72SexaT duorPPremium
join:2001-03-28
Saint Louis, MO
kudos:1 | precisely. This isn't an issue of Google making enemies in Washington. It's about them not making enough friends yet. They're late to the lobbying game that MS has been playing since the DoJ last investigated MS. |
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KearnstdElf WizardPremium
join:2002-01-22
Mullica Hill, NJ | reply to KrK
it seems to me that Google is one of the few companies that dreadfully scares Microsoft.
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KrKHeavy Artillery For The Little GuyPremium
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| said by Kearnstd:it seems to me that Google is one of the few companies that dreadfully scares Microsoft. Yeah, and releasing their own new free Browser sure didn't help allay Microsoft's fears any, did it...
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RayWPremium
join:2001-09-01
Layton, UT
kudos:1 | reply to tiger72
said by tiger72:precisely. This isn't an issue of Google making enemies in Washington. It's about them not making enough friends yet. They're late to the lobbying game that MS has been playing since the DoJ last investigated MS. Yup, Bill Clinton (and GB Jr) taught Microsoft the value of helping your friends in DC. Now we (a US government site) have the requirement to use MS products no matter how poorly they perform, unless there is no way that Microsoft has that tool available. I still keep FF on my PC and have less problems than the folks who are pure IE, even with our ton of security garbage. The only time I use IE is when I have to use flash or have to access a MS specific site (which is required by our network Nazis - all web sites on the work system must only be usable by IE, all others get removed).
Your Tax Payer dollars at work, protecting a valued company and thus the nation's security.
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 TechieZeroTools Are Using MePremium
join:2002-01-25
Gibsonton, FL | reply to KrK
You know my stance on this already.  |
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join:2005-12-31
Raleigh, NC | reply to Dogfather
said by Dogfather:It just keeps them spending money in Washington. A nice make work program for all those lobbyists out of work for Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac.  |
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