Karma is a bitch, isn't it Microsoft? Remember when you were the dominant player back in the mid 90s? Does the term 'Halloween Documents' ring a bell? http:/

Karma is a bitch, isn't it Microsoft? Remember when you were the dominant player back in the mid 90s? Does the term 'Halloween Documents' ring a bell? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halloween_Documents http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halloween_Documents > ... Document I suggests that one reason that open source projects have been > able to enter the market for servers is the use of standardized protocols. > It then suggests that this can be stopped by "extending these protocols and > developing new protocols" and "de-commoditize protocols & applications." > This policy has been nicknamed "embrace, extend, extinguish". Now all of a sudden Microsoft is the underdog, and you're whinging in public when the dominant player locks you out? Cry me a river. (Not that this is a defense of Google, mind you: I think MS is right on the money w.r.t. to their behaviour. Just saying that Google's tactics couldn't be employed against a more deserving target).