● 06.22.10

●● Serena Denies Allegation That Microsoft Paid it to Stage Ditching of Google

Posted in GNU/Linux, Google, Microsoft, Rumour at 3:03 pm by Dr. Roy Schestowitz

Summary: Despite Microsoft’s habit of paying companies to ditch Microsoft’s competition (be it GNU/Linux or Google), Serena says that rumours about it are wrong

MICROSOFT loves to suppress fair competition. A good example of that would be sub-notebooks. We wrote about that subject in:

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According to this report, Microsoft may be dumping ‘free’ (gratis) software on companies (sometimes it bribes users) which it then uses as “case studies” for abandonment of Google. It’s a form of bounty. [via]

I heard that Microsoft gave Serena BPOS for free for three years, a claim Serena disputes.

The truth might be close to it. The exact phrasing of this dispute would matter a lot because there is wiggling room in plausible denial and this was done before. Microsoft is making some cases against the competition, often by paying to manufacture these cases. A good example might be LSE, which failed badly [1, 2, 3, 4, 5] and ran away from Microsoft to GNU/Linux. █

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